It’s a miracle! A recipe that isn’t a baked good or a pancake or in some other way floury and sweet. I’m not normally big on spicy food, but cold weather is spicy food weather, right? Soup and spicy are my wintertime jams.
You know what else is my jam? Mexican food. I’ve been kicking myself for over a week after discovering how easy it is to make my own enchilada sauce, because I’ve probably purchased 10,000 mediocre cans of sauce in my life time. Not only is this WAY better, I can control exactly how spicy it is and a can of tomato sauce (the base for this) for some reason costs less than half than a can of enchilada sauce. Win! Plus, it comes together in about as much time as it takes you to pull together enchilada filling.
When I was researching what goes into enchilada sauce, a lot of recipes had flour (??) and chicken broth (????!). This sauce is already plenty thick so I had no idea what flour could bring to the table and with all these spices, you definitely wouldn’t be able to taste chicken broth, so why make something unnecessarily not vegetarian and GF friendly? I never understand the ingredient choices people make sometimes, so I started from square one with this recipe and I couldn’t be happier.
Tagged with: Dairy Free • Gluten Free • Nut Free • Soy Free • Vegan • Vegetarian
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Ever tried a Mexican gravy? It has less chili powder and thus, not as potent. As a semi-Mexican I prefer the chili gravy!
I’ve been on the hunt for an enchilada recipe my little one will like better than a Mexican restaurant one. I’m going to try this one.
I can always get excited about Mexican food! This enchilada sauce sounds pretty fabulous.
I have been using enchilada sauce often so what a great idea to make my own instead of buying it. Great for saving money – thank you!
Huh – never knew it could be so easy! Yep – I always just buy a can of it! No more!! I’ll make my own! 🙂
Mexican is my ultimate favorite, too! But I can eat it all year. Not just in the winter. All. Year. Mmmm – and now I’m gonna make this!! Perfect in an enchilada bake, or Mexican lasagna! YUM!! Thanks, Kelly!
Yum yum yum. Mexican food is my favorite. I love spice all year! That’s funny that the sauce recipes had flour in them. I bet that’s an Americanized way of doing it!
I had no idea enchilada sauce could be so easy to make. I should just start making my own instead of buying it.