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Roasted Vegetable Enchiladas

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Roasted Vegetable Enchiladas

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  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Red Pepper Recipe
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  • A&M's Testing Notes: If you're tempted to change the recipe due to the simple list of ingredients, in a word—don't. The roasted red pepper, jalapeno and garlic make a good sauce and baking the enchiladas takes...

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    nannydeb's Notes:

    This is my version of an enchilada sauce that I've had at Mother's Cafe & Garden here in Austin. I love roasted vegetables of any kind and this dish was created out of leftovers. - nannydeb

Serves 4-6

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

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  2. Spread the cut vegetables out onto a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oi.

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  3. Roast vegetables for 25-30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes or so.

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  4. Remove the red bell peppers once the skins have browned and loosened from the pepper.

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  5. Place the red bell peppers in a brown paper sack to sweat for 10 minutes.

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  6. Keep an eye on the garlic too and remove it from the oven once softened. Set aside.

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  7. Remove the skins from the red bell peppers and the garlic.

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  8. Place the red bell peppers, jalapeno and garlic in a food processor.

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  9. Add sour cream, 1 tablespoon cilantro and cumin and puree until smooth. Add salt and pepper to taste.

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  10. Once the rest of the vegetables have roasted, set aside to cool slightly.

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  11. In an 8x8 baking dish, spread a large spoonful of the sauce on the bottom.

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  12. Roll about 1/4 cup of the vegetable mixture and a sprinkling of cheese into each corn tortilla in rows, enough to fill up the dish.

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  13. Spread the remaining enchilada sauce over the rolled enchiladas.

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  14. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until heated through.

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  15. Top with remaining cheese and cilantro and serve.

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I made these tonight for my volunteer group, and everyone loved them! Its difficult finding a recipe that works for someone that is vegetarian and another that is fructose intolerant (no tomatoes, no corn, no fruit etc.) but this was perfect! Thanks for sharing the recipe :)

Lobster_001 Reply

I'm so glad that you enjoyed these enchiladas!

Newliztoqueicon-2 Reply

I have extra peppers from recipe "auditions" - nice way for me to use them. My kind of recipe, very easy to play with ingredients - looks delicious!

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can't wait to try this!

Lobster_001 Reply

Thanks everybody!

Wedding_pictures_162 Reply

Yum, and I love that you used leftovers.

186003_1004761561_1198459_n Reply

Sounds and looks delicious!

Sagegr Reply

Ditto: Great!

Chocolate_peppermint_truffle_cookies_032 Reply

This looks GREAT!

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