Steps to Make Homemade Enchilada Sauce

Enchilada Sauce
Enchilada Sauce

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, enchilada sauce. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

My favorite recipe for homemade red enchilada sauce! It's surprisingly easy to make, and makes just about any enchiladas taste delish! Learn how to make enchilada sauce in this recipe video. It's full of rich, authentic Mexican flavor and so easy to make!

Enchilada Sauce is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Enchilada Sauce is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook enchilada sauce using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Enchilada Sauce:
  1. Get large dried California pepper pods
  2. Take minced garlic
  3. Make ready large onion
  4. Get tomatoes
  5. Take whole leaf dried oregano
  6. Take kosher salt
  7. Make ready extra dark cocoa powder
  8. Take ground cumin
  9. Make ready water plus more for thinning if necessary
  10. Take brown sugar if the peppers scorched during toasting

This Homemade Enchilada Sauce (which I am actually surprised I hadn't posted yet) is the base recipe I use in more than half of my recipes. You haven't seen a lot of Mexican recipes on the blog to this. Once you try this enchilada sauce recipe, you'll never buy canned again! If you love enchiladas as much as I do, then making homemade enchilada sauce from scratch is a must!

Steps to make Enchilada Sauce:
  1. Boil the water. Remove the skin from tomato. Dice the tomato and set aside.
  2. Heat a skillet dry. Toast the peppers till just fragrant. Set aside add the onion, tomatoes, and garlic to the skillet to toast also.
  3. Remove stems and seeds from the peppers. Add the peppers to the boiling water for 20-30 minutes covered. This will rehydrate and soften your peppers.
  4. Add the peppers and liquids in the peppers, to a blender. Now add the oregano, onion, salt, cumin, garlic, and tomatoes, to a blender. Liquidfy the ingredients.
  5. In a skillet heat the oil. Pour the ingredients from the blender into the hot skillet with the oil in it. Stir in the chocolate.
  6. Simmer uncovered for 30 minutes. It should be not thin, but just a bit thick, like a tomato ketchup.
  7. It may not be super delicious on its own. If it's too bitter add a little brown sugar at a time till the bitterness is toned down. It should taste good allowing the sauce and food you put it on compliment each other.
  8. Serve I hope you enjoy!!!

Once you try this enchilada sauce recipe, you'll never buy canned again! If you love enchiladas as much as I do, then making homemade enchilada sauce from scratch is a must! For the best red enchilada sauce there are some important steps you need to take and several ingredients you need to use and avoid How to Make the BEST Enchilada Sauce! An enchilada (/ˌɛntʃɪˈlɑːdə/, Spanish: [entʃiˈlaða]) is a corn tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a savory sauce. Enchiladas can be filled with various ingredients, including meats, cheese, beans.

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