Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, enchilada sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
My favorite recipe for homemade red enchilada sauce! It's surprisingly easy to make, and makes just about any enchiladas taste delish! Learn how to make enchilada sauce in this recipe video.
Enchilada Sauce is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Enchilada Sauce is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook enchilada sauce using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Enchilada Sauce:
- Make ready 4 large dried California pepper pods
- Get 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- Take 1 large onion
- Make ready 28 ounces tomatoes
- Prepare 1 teaspoon whole leaf dried oregano
- Make ready 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Make ready 1 teaspoon extra dark cocoa powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Take 4 cups water plus more for thinning if necessary
- Take As needed brown sugar if the peppers scorched during toasting
If you love enchiladas as much as I do, then making homemade enchilada sauce from scratch is a must! Although most people think of enchilada sauce as "red," they also come in white and green varieties. There are lots of different ways that you can make an enchilada sauce. This Homemade Enchilada Sauce (which I am actually surprised I hadn't posted yet) is the base recipe I use in more than half of my recipes.
Instructions to make Enchilada Sauce:
- Boil the water. Remove the skin from tomato. Dice the tomato and set aside.
- Heat a skillet dry. Toast the peppers till just fragrant. Set aside add the onion, tomatoes, and garlic to the skillet to toast also.
- Remove stems and seeds from the peppers. Add the peppers to the boiling water for 20-30 minutes covered. This will rehydrate and soften your peppers.
- Add the peppers and liquids in the peppers, to a blender. Now add the oregano, onion, salt, cumin, garlic, and tomatoes, to a blender. Liquidfy the ingredients.
- In a skillet heat the oil. Pour the ingredients from the blender into the hot skillet with the oil in it. Stir in the chocolate.
- Simmer uncovered for 30 minutes. It should be not thin, but just a bit thick, like a tomato ketchup.
- It may not be super delicious on its own. If it's too bitter add a little brown sugar at a time till the bitterness is toned down. It should taste good allowing the sauce and food you put it on compliment each other.
- Serve I hope you enjoy!!!
You haven't seen a lot of Mexican recipes on the blog to this. I've tried enchilada sauce with whole dried chilies and I've tried enchilada sauces with many different kinds of chili powder but I just keep coming back to the traditional chili powder and tomato sauce. Homemade Enchilada Sauce - You'll never want store-bought enchilada sauce after making this Now as much as I hate to admit it, I've been guilty of buying store-bought enchilada sauce on many. Enchilada sauce is one of my very favorite things, ever. I love when it soaks into tortillas while This EASY red enchilada sauce is not an authentic, from-dried-chile-peppers enchilada sauce that you'll.
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