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Enchilada sauce is the true star in enchiladas. Here’s 5 homemade enchilada sauce recipes — that are easier than you might think.
While I’ve made enchiladas many, many times for my family, it was only a few years ago that I tried making homemade enchilada sauce from scratch. I tried it out of desperation — our grocery store in Virginia only carried one brand and while it was ok, I figured I could make one better. I gave it a shot and it was better — even better than I had hoped for.
Today, I still make enchilada sauce from scratch, but sometimes I do still buy cans of it at the store. Now that we live in Las Vegas, I have several great brands available to me in our grocery stores, so I’m not just stuck with one brand that I’m not so crazy about. If I’m short on time or just don’t feel like making it fro scratch, I’ll pick up a can (and my family eats them just the same).
When it comes to making the actual enchiladas, I don’t usuallygo by a “recipe”.The enchilada sauce is the part I do rely on a recipe for — either one of my own or another one that sounds good to me. With a good enchilada sauce recipe,fillings (like shredded chicken, cheese, etc) and tortillas and I’m good to go.
I imagine that many of you make enchiladas too and perhaps you want to try some different sauces. Maybe you’ve never made homemade enchilada sauce and you want to give it a try. To help you out, I have selected 5 awesome enchilada sauce recipes from fellow food bloggers that I think rock. All of these sauces caught my eye and are on my immediate “got to try” list. As you’ll see from each one, they are all different — different ingredients and different techniques. Give them a visit — they’d love to meet you.
Ancho Chile Enchilada Sauce
byCooking on the Weekends
Chipotle Enchilada Sauce
by The Black Peppercorn
Red Enchilada Sauce
by Gimme Some Oven
Homemade Enchilada Sauce
by Cookie Monster Cooking
Green Enchilada Sauce
by Our Best Bites
Want more enchilada goodness? Be sure to check out my own enchilada posts:
Homemade Enchilada Sauce from Scratch
Creamy Chicken Enchiladas
Black Bean and Sausage Enchiladas
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Peg Nihil says
Trying to find a refrided bean mixed into a red enchilada sauce to smooth the sauce, can’t find one, do you know one?
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Jennifer says
The chipotle one and the black bean and sausage sound delicious! We live in Italy and my husband desperately misses his enchiladas. I successfully made red sauce chicken enchiladas recently, so maybe I’ll give these recipes a try to mix it up.
Miz Helen says
I just pinned your awesome Homemade Enchilada Sauce Recipes. Thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great day!
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Lisa Bertolini says
Glad I found this. I’ll be sure to visit the other gals and bookmark their recipes. I’ve always wanted to learn to make enchilada sauce. Thanks!
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I love making homemade sauces and these look great! This is an very timely post with Cinco de Mayo on the horizon and I’ve pinned it to my Cinco de Mayo board on Pinterest 🙂 Thank you for sharing these delicious ideas with us at the Hearth and Soul Hop.
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Thank you for sharing all these absolutely delicious looking enchilada sauce recipes! I’m pinning your post and am looking forward to trying a recipe or two soon! 😀
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Elizabeth says
I love making my enchilada sauce from scratch. It is funny because that has been one of my popular posts: http://balmtomysoul.com/2014/03/homeade-enchilada-sauce/
Thanks for a fun visit. Now I am going back to look at those yummy recipes and bookmark!!Reply
Kim Beaulieu says
Is it wrong that I want to do the backstroke in all of them. Yummers! Oddly I’ve never tried black beans in enchiladas. I need to open up my mind a little right. Bad foodie.
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Ashley says
Thanks for including me! Have a great weekend : )
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Valentina says
Thanks so much for including my Ancho sauce in this delicious looking collection of enchilada sauces!
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