Chicken enchiladas are topped with a three-pepper cream sauce and served with a fresh tomato salad, just like the Canyon Cafe in San Antonio serves it!
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Mexican-Style Chicken

Take it south of the border with these Mexican-style chicken recipes. Mouthwatering recipes include chicken mole, family friendly fajitas and arroz con pollo
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Copycat Canyon Cafe's Pancho's Enchiladas
Copycat El Torito Chicken Enchiladas
This copycat recipe for the famous chicken enchiladas at El Torito uses cooked chicken and fire-roasted green chile enchilada sauce mixed with sour cream.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Buffalo Chicken Enchiladas with Creamy Ranch Sauce
Love buffalo wings with ranch dipping sauce? Try this version of chicken enchiladas that have the same great flavors.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Low-Fat Chicken Enchiladas
When you think of enchiladas, it's a gooey, cheesy, decidedly not low-fat picture that comes to mind, right? Doesn't have to be. Keep the cheesy and keep the gooey with this...
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Baked Chicken Cheese Enchiladas
Flour tortillas are filled with shredded chicken mixed with a creamy sauce made with cream cheese, sour cream, salsa, corn, and seasonings.
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
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Arroz con Pollo (Boneless Chicken Version)
Chicken and rice can be done a hundred ways, but if you'd never had arroz con pollo there's at least one more way you need to try.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Green Chile Enchiladas With White Queso
A little green enchilada sauce goes a long way! Gloriously cheesy thanks to plenty of queso blanco, this dish can be made with either chicken or beef.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Arroz Con Pollo Chapina (Guatemala Style Chicken and Rice)
Made with chicken pieces, corn oil, salt, black pepper, onion, garlic, tomato, rice, carrots, green olives
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Slow Cooker Chicken Enchiladas
Discover the ease of making delicious chicken enchiladas in a crock pot. This dish combines shredded chicken, corn tortillas, and a flavorful sauce, topped with melted...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Arroz Con Pollo (Brown & Wild Rice Version)
This version of arroz con pollo (rice with chicken) uses a blend of brown and wild rice instead of white rice
Method: stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Adobo
Made with onion, meat, soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaf, garlic
Method: crock pot, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Yellow Rice And Chicken (Arroz Con Pollo)
An impressive looking skillet meal you can make without impressive cooking skills. Browned chicken cooked with peas, corn, and yellow rice is perfect for a...
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Quick Chicken In Mole Sauce
Chicken mole is traditionally a slow cooked dish but this version speeds up the process without sacrificing flavor in the savory chocolate-tomato sauce.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Mexican Fried Chicken Enchiladas
The secret for great enchiladas? It's in the sauce. This piquant sauce goes great with the chicken, jalapeno, and cheese filled corn tortillas.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Healthy Chicken Enchiladas
A healthier take on chicken enchiladas made with ground chicken breast, onion, tomatoes, reduced fat cheese, your choice of red or green enchilada sauce and white corn...
Method: microwave, stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Chicken Enchiladas with Pasilla Chile Sauce
Pasilla is Spanish for "little raisin" and these peppers are named so because of their mild, chewy sweetness. If you can't find pasilla peppers use...
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Cuban-Style Arroz Con Pollo
This Cuban-style chicken and rice is positively packed with flavor. The secret twist? Tomato sauce, beer, and a pinch of saffron.
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Slow Cooker Pollo Mexicano
Made with process cheese product, cooking sherry, dried parsley flakes, taco seasoning mix, tomatoes with chiles, onion, bell pepper, olive oil, boneless, skinless chicken...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Slow Cooker Taco-Style Shredded Chicken
Slowly cooking chicken in an array of taco-style seasonings makes it tender and flavorful and perfect for use in a variety of recipes.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Chicken Mole
Holy (chicken) mole! Browned chicken simmered in a deeply flavored, spicy chocolate mole will be unlike any other chicken you've ever tried.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Creamy Chicken Enchiladas Verdes
Chicken enchiladas made from scratch using cooked chicken (great for using up leftovers), roasted red pepper, cream cheese, flour tortillas, and green enchilada sauce.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Chicken Enchilada Ring
Seasoned chicken, tomato, chiles, olives, and cheese are wrapped inside crescent roll dough in a festive starburst shape.
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Chicken Adobo with Coconut Milk
Made with water, vinegar, coconut milk, black peppercorns, garlic, annatto seeds, oil, bay leaves, fish sauce, black pepper
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Bill Clinton's Chicken Enchiladas
Made with oregano, green chiles, chicken, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, onion, oil, salt, corn tortillas
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Old Style Green Chile Enchiladas
Classic chicken enchiladas made with cooked chicken, green chiles, onion, sour cream, tortillas, and cheese. They are baked, then served topped with a fried egg.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
This iconic whiskey is a "Jack of all trades" when it comes to cooking. Toss it in some pasta, as a savory dipping sauce, and even bake it into something sweet.
Love buffalo wings? Get that same hot, zippy flavor in everything from deviled eggs to enchiladas. And of course: wings.
Love the spinach dip at restaurants like TGIFriday's and the Olive Garden? Make it at home with these easy-to-follow copycat recipes.
































