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Baked Chicken Enchiritos by E.A.T. (Everyone Around the Table Blog)

Chicken Enchiritos

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My daughter asked if I’d make chicken enchiladas for her. Sure, I said, except that I only had white flour tortillas (not the traditional corn), and I wanted to add beans for a little more protein and bulk. They were going to be something of an enchilada and something of a burrito. Thus, Chicken Enchiritos were born – and were delicious!

Baked Chicken Enchiritos by E.A.T. (Everyone Around the Table Blog)

Chicken Enchiritos all baked and melty, ready to serve up.

Everyone Around the Table Chicken Enchiritos

Serves 6

Ingredients:

Approximately 1 cup cooked chicken, diced *
1 can refried beans (could be black refries too, per your preference)
Approximately 2 cups shredded Mexican Blend cheese or just cheddar or Monterrey Jack
1 can Enchilada Sauce
Small flour tortillas

Method:
Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees.

Apply non-stick cooking spray to a 9 X 11 glass baking dish, like Pyrex, bottom and sides.

Mix the diced chicken and refried beans together in a bowl.

Place a tortilla on a cutting board and place a large spoonful of the chicken and beans mixture lengthwise, toward one end of the tortilla. Note, this is not the typical enchilada method which has one heating the sauce in a skillet and dipping the corn tortilla in on both sides before filling. 

Sprinkle a little cheese over the mixture.

Roll the tortilla starting at the chicken/beans/cheese end and place it seam side down in the pan.

Continue filling and rolling the tortillas, placing them right next to each other in the pan. It’s okay to squish them in a little bit. And you may have to put a couple going the other direction depending on the size of your tortillas.

When the pan is filled, slowly drizzle the can of Enchilada sauce over the rolls, trying to cover them completely. If they didn’t get covered evenly, chances are, there’s some pooled between the rolls. Spoon that out and drizzle it over any bare parts.

Sprinkle cheese over the whole thing. Cover it loosely with aluminum foil.

Chicken Enchiritos sprinkled with cheese before baking.

Sprinkle the Chicken Enchiritos with cheese just before baking.

Bake with foil on for 20 minutes. Then remove the foil and rotate the pan, baking for another 20 minutes. The cheese on top should be melted and the Enchiritos should be heated through.

Serve them with sour cream and avocado. Do it up even more with diced tomatoes and red onion and cilantro.

*We’d made two baked chickens one Sunday and froze one, after taking it apart.

Serve Chicken Enchiritos with guac and sour cream.

Serve Chicken Enchiritos with guacamole and sour cream.


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Pizza in a Stick – An easy schoolnight meal By Edan Goode

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Pizza comes in various incarnations: the traditional round, square or rectangular, with stuffed crust, with deep crust, etc. It’s all good, am I right?

Recently, out of boredom though, and with a blob of dough staring at me from my cutting board, I decided to amuse myself and my

Grilled Pizza in a Stick. You can bake them in the oven too if you don’t want grill marks.

kids with another variation – pizza sticks. Just to go all crazy about it, I grilled them!

Because I made this up, I’m not going to give you an exact recipe. I’ll leave it up to you to add your own variations in toppings and sauces.

Step 1:
Roll out pizza dough into a big rectangle. Using a pizza cutter, cut long strips 3-4 inches wide.

Step 2:
Using a pastry brush or a small spoon, spread pizza sauce* on one half of the dough strip being careful to leave borders clear.

* When sauce and fillings are going to be hidden like this, it’s a great time to smuggle pureed spinach in the sauce or finely-diced veggies.

Step 3:
Add your toppings such as sausage or pepperoni (I took a clean kitchen scissors to cut stacks of pepperoni slices into quarters to fit better along the dough).

Add cheese. Again, be sure to keep boarders clear in preparation for the next step.

Step 4:
Fold the plain half of the dough over the filled part. Seal the edges.

Pizza in a stick, in the works. Not so pretty but really tasty!

Step 5:
Brush a little olive oil over the top of the pizza sticks, keeping some extra around for when you cook them.

Step 6:
Bake the pizza sticks on a sheet pan at 425 degrees for about 7-12 minutes or until the crust is golden brown. Or, you can grill the sticks, as I did to avoid heating up the already-hot house during the summer. If you do this, you get nifty grill marks (see photo). When grilling, turn the sticks over part-way through and brush more olive oil on the other side. Grill 5-8 minutes per side or until golden brown.

Step 7:
Serve them with or without pizza dipping sauce but beware, they are really hot inside.

Not only do these make an easy meal on a busy school night, but since kids love to take cold pizza to school, this is a space-saving way to give them what they want while providing a great conversation topic around the lunchroom table, such as, “Dude, your mom must have been really bored with pizza-making when she came up with those righteous sticks!” – or at least that’s what I’m hoping for.