Chicken and Spinach Enchiladas

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Ingredients:

  • 12 chicken breast halves (skinned)
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen chopped spinach
  • 1 cup diced onions
  • 1 Tbsp. butter or margarine (melted)
  • 1 can cream of chicken soup
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 3 (4 oz.) cans of diced green chiles (drained)
  • 3 (8 oz.) containers sour cream
  • 3 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
  • 16 flour tortillas

 

Preparation:

Place chicken in a Dutch oven; add salt and water to coveer. Bring to boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 40 minutes or until tender. Remove chicken; let cool slightly. Bone chicken; dice and set aside.

Cook spinach according to package directions; drain well and reserve 1 cup spinach broth. Set aside. Sauté onion in butter in Dutch oven until tender. Stir in spinach and chicken; set aside.

Cobmine soup, reserved spinach broth, milk, green chiles, sour cream and half cheese in a bowl; mix well. Stir half of sauce mixture into chicken mixture. Reserve remaining sauce.

Spoon chicken mixture evenly down center of each tortilla; roll up tortillas and plac,e, seam-side down, into 2 lightly greased 13x13x2 inch baking dishes. Spoon remaining sauce over tortillas. Bake, uncovered at 350° F (175º C) for 25 minutes. Sprinkle with remaining cheese; bake for an additional 5 minutes. Yields 4 to 6 servings per casserole.