Spicy Minced Beef Enchiladas. Ground beef enchiladas in flour tortillas topped with spicy red sauce, cheese and fresh cilantro is so flavorful! It takes time and effort, but well worth it! Serve with Mexican rice and beans for a complete Mexican meal.
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Spicy Beef Enchiladas - These simple enchiladas with homemade sauce are loaded with delicious spices, green chiles, and lots of cheese!
Stir in the green chillies, salt, chili powder, ground cumin and red pepper flakes.
You can cook Spicy Minced Beef Enchiladas using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Spicy Minced Beef Enchiladas
- Prepare 500 grams of beef mince.
- You need 1 of onion (chopped).
- Prepare 1 of green pepper (chopped).
- You need 1 clove of garlic (chopped).
- It's 3 tbsp of tomato puree.
- You need 1 tsp of smoked paprika.
- You need 1 tsp of marjoram or oregano.
- You need 1 tsp of ground cumin.
- You need 1 tsp of chilli powder.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of water.
- Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
- You need 400 grams of chopped tomatoes.
- Prepare 8 of corn tortillas.
- You need 55 grams of grated cheese.
The chili powder gives these enchiladas some spice, but if you want to raise the heat level, add a chopped jalapeno to the skillet when you cook the ground beef and onion, add a half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper to the sauce, or serve the enchiladas with sliced pickled jalapenos and Cholulu hot sauce. Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over medium high heat. While you could certainly make all of the ingredients from scratch, we use packaged Spanish rice and an envelope of taco seasoning as a shortcut. It's ground from lean sirloin, so it won't exude as much fat and grease as it cooks.
Spicy Minced Beef Enchiladas instructions
- Brown the mince with the onion and green pepper in a frying pan. Add the garlic and fry for 1 minute..
- In a small bowl or cup mix together the tomato puree, oregano, cumin, paprika, chilli powder, water and salt..
- Add the tomatoes and 2 tbsp the tomato sauce to the mince and simmer for 15 minutes. Add a little water to the remaining sauce to thin it a little..
- Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas 4..
- Cover and warm the tortillas in a microwave for 30 seconds. Spread a little mince in the centre of each tortilla, roll up and place in a lightly greased baking dish. Top with the remaining sauce and the grated cheese and bake for 10 minutes until golden..
- For extra spice add some chopped jalapenos to the cheese before baking..
Tex-Mex Enchiladas! 🛑I'm Stephanie and behind the camera, you have my sister Cloud. Yes (LOL) I pulled up a chair and my first choice was to fry an egg. I was hungry and that's all I have to say about that experience. I would like to say I'm completely self-taught in the kitchen, but I have the lovely women in my family to thank. With layers of corn tortillas, spicy ground beef, roasted tomato salsa, and cheese, it's a cross between traditional rolled enchiladas and lasagna — yet easier to make than both.
