Z'Tejas Green Chile Barbacoa Enchiladas - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    Green Chile Barbacoa
    4 -6 lbs beef chuck, cut 3-inch x 3-inch
    1/2 cup cilantro
    2 tablespoons kosher salt
    1/3 cup garlic, chopped
    2 ounces ancho chilies, stems removed
    3 cups yellow onions, quartered
    3 tablespoons green chili powder
    After cooled down
    diced green chilis
    Assembling Green Chile Barbacoa Enchiladas (4 ounces Barbacoa plus)
    2 corn tortillas
    2 ounces monterey jack cheese, shredded
    3 ounces green chili sauce
    2 ounces Cotija cheese, crumbled
    1 ounce iceberg lettuce, shredded
    sour cream
    pickled green chilies
Preparation
    Place all ingredients in a stainless bowl and mix well. Transfer to a roasting pan and top with a tight lid.
    Cook for 3 1/2 to 4 hours in a 325 degree oven.
    Let cool and shred using 2 forks.
    Strain juice that the meat was cooked in skim off fat.
    Add about 1 1/2 cups to shredded meat.
    Mix in green chilies as well.
    Assembling Green Chile Barbacoa Enchiladas:
    Fry tortillas to soften; place on oval plate.
    Put barbacoa in center.
    Put 1 oz. of jack cheese on each tortilla with 2 oz. of barbacoa and 1/2 oz. of green chile sauce.
    Roll tortillas and leave in center of plate.
    Ladle 2 oz. green chile sauce on top of enchiladas and sprinkle beans and enchiladas with cotija cheese.
    Put under broiler to melt cheese; when cheese melts top enchiladas with iceberg, dollop of sour cream and put pickled chiles in center.

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