Easy Enchilada Sauce
The best easy enchilada sauce recipe! Find out how to make red enchilada sauce at home with this simple recipe and you'll never use store bought again. 
"I am really into enchiladas right now. Could you make them for dinner?" Those were the first words my eldest daughter said after school the other day. It's so funny how we, especially kids it seems, go through food phases. I always love when the kid request specific things for dinner because it gives me a break from always thinking up things to make, and I know they will eat and enjoy those dinners the most. I've made many, many pans of enchiladas over the years, but always took a shortcut. Can you guess what it was? Yep, store bought enchilada sauce. I finally took a look at the ingredients on that can of sauce and found that enchilada sauce is really just a few simple ingredients, but the store bought versions I was using had additives like soybean oil and processed corn products. So I set that can back down on the store shelf and went to work making my own homemade enchilada sauce.
If you like making homemade sauces, be sure to also check out my Fresh Tomato Marinara Sauce and How to Make Salsa with Fresh Tomatoes posts! While researching red enchilada sauce recipes I came across a range of recipes. Most English recipes started by making a roux, which is flour and oil or butter. I suspected this is not the traditional method, so I headed to recipes that were written in Spanish. I typed in "receta de salsa de enchilada" and watched several videos, in Spanish, of authentic enchilada sauce recipes. This recipe was adapted to this one I saw on YouTube. CONTINUE READING THIS POST »
"I am really into enchiladas right now. Could you make them for dinner?" Those were the first words my eldest daughter said after school the other day. It's so funny how we, especially kids it seems, go through food phases. I always love when the kid request specific things for dinner because it gives me a break from always thinking up things to make, and I know they will eat and enjoy those dinners the most. I've made many, many pans of enchiladas over the years, but always took a shortcut. Can you guess what it was? Yep, store bought enchilada sauce. I finally took a look at the ingredients on that can of sauce and found that enchilada sauce is really just a few simple ingredients, but the store bought versions I was using had additives like soybean oil and processed corn products. So I set that can back down on the store shelf and went to work making my own homemade enchilada sauce.
If you like making homemade sauces, be sure to also check out my Fresh Tomato Marinara Sauce and How to Make Salsa with Fresh Tomatoes posts! While researching red enchilada sauce recipes I came across a range of recipes. Most English recipes started by making a roux, which is flour and oil or butter. I suspected this is not the traditional method, so I headed to recipes that were written in Spanish. I typed in "receta de salsa de enchilada" and watched several videos, in Spanish, of authentic enchilada sauce recipes. This recipe was adapted to this one I saw on YouTube. CONTINUE READING THIS POST »
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