noun
definition
A Mexican dish made by wrapping a filling in a tortilla, then baking in a sauce.
Examples of enchilada in a Sentence
It takes hours to download the whole enchilada using an analog connection.
Enchiladas are delicious and, when they are topped with a quick enchilada sauce, they make a great lunch, dinner, or late night snack.
After we figured out the enchilada recipe for the low fat cheese enchiladas, Chefette and I started to work out the sauce recipe to go with it.
Instead of thinking of the enchilada as the primary flavor, I worked off the theory that the enchilada was the finishing flavor and the sauce would be the primary flavor.
Allowing the sauce its own space to be its own taste and putting the enchilada in a supporting or finishing role drastically altered the way I approached this sauce.
I stopped by a couple of restaurants where I know the cooks and asked them what they put in their enchilada sauce when they are making it.
I decided that it would be better to base my quick enchilada sauce recipe on a product that I knew was readily available to everybody and went with a red enchilada sauce.
Armed with these ideas, I went back home to try my hand at creating my own quick enchilada sauce recipe.
So my quick enchilada sauce recipe was going to start like marinara with olive oil and sweated onions.
This should make enough enchilada sauce for enchiladas to serve four people.
It has multiple varieties of enchilada, taco and chalupa plates along with numerous combo platters.