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  • Red Enchiladas with Cream Cheese and Pecan Filling

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    Red Enchiladas with Cream Cheese and Pecan Filling
    Prep: 30 min Cook: 20 min Servings: 4
    by Marlin Rinehart
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    This is an interesting and delicious variation of traditional enchiladas.

    Ingredients

    • 8 ounces cream cheese
    • ¾ cup pecans, coarsely chopped
    • ¼ cup chopped green onion, tops and bottoms
    • I recipe red chili sauce with cream (Recipe follows)
    • 8 ounces (2 cups) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
    • 12 corn tortillas
    • Vegetable oil
    • RED CHILI SAUCE WITH CREAM:
    • 3 cups canned or homemade mild red enchilada sauce
    • ½ cup canned tomato sauce
    • ½ teaspoon ground cumin
    • Pinch of oregano
    • ½ cup heavy cream, unwhipped

    Directions

    1. TO MAKE SAUCE:
    2. In a shallow saucepan whose diameter is larger than a tortilla, combine the canned red enchilada sauce, cumin and oregano. Heat until it starts to boil, lower heat and simmer a minute or two. Stir in tomato sauce, then cream, and heat through. Remove from heat.
    3. TO ASSEMBLE ENCHILADAS:
    4. Cream the cream cheese and stir in green onions and pecans. Heat a small amount of cooking oil (about ¼-inch) in a small skillet, slightly larger than a tortilla. Place a tortilla in the hot oil, only long enough to soften, and remove to a plate. Proceed with remaining tortillas, stacking the tortillas to keep them warm and soft. Then dip a heated tortilla into the heated red chili sauce; remove the dipped tortilla to a plate and place a tablespoon or more of the cream cheese filling along the center portion of the tortilla, spreading along the diameter. Fold tortilla in half and roll up. Place enchilada in a buttered baking dish. Proceed with remaining tortillas. Pour red chili sauce over the enchiladas, top with grated cheese, and bake at 325° F., 10 to 15 minutes until heated through and Jack cheese is melted.

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