Dessin´s Enchiladas Verdes
Ingredients:
10-12 tomatillos
Fresh cilantro
2 Serrano Chiles raw
3 Garlic cloves
1 Tasty onion (purple or golden)
1 Chicken breast,with bones and skin.
12 Corn tortillas (the soft ones!)
Grated cheese (manchego, monterrey jack, or similar)
Sour Cream
Salt & pepper
Instructions:
1. The Salsa:
Boil with little water (like 2 cups) the tomatillos, 1/4 onion, 2 garlic cloves, 2 cilantro branches and the serrano chiles untill everything is soft (about 15min). Blend, add salt and pepper.
If you don´t like your salsa to be very hot, before cooking the chiles cut them in half and remove all the seeds and veins with a teaspoon.
Use gloves or be very carefull with your hands!
2. The Chicken:
Boil the chicken breast with bones and skin, adding salt, pepper, 2 cilantro branches, 1 garlic clove and 1/4 onion. Once cooked, shred the meat.
3. The Enchiladas:
Warm the corn tortillas, make slim tacos with the shredded chicken a
teaspoon of salsa, and arrange them in a baking dish. cover with the
rest of the green salsa, grated cheese and put them in the oven till
the cheese melts.
Serve every portion with a spoon of cream and a couple onion slices.
Optional: add refried beans on the side.
Recipe Provided by Dessin