My family recently started buying whole grain corn tortillas at home and we may never go back to soft flour tortillas. I love the taste and the texture it adds. I found this recipe on one of my favorite clean eating blogs (100 days of real food). The original recipe calls for chicken but the first time I made it I used leftover pulled pork and the second time I made it I used leftover taco meat. Both were so delicious. The recipe as stated makes 2- Square pans of casserole but you could put it in a larger pan and make one. The second pan you freeze for later use. I love having something like this in the freezer so I can just thaw it out on a day I don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
Ingredients
- 12 whole grain corn tortillas
- 1 rotisserie chicken (shredded) or 1 1/2 pounds of ground beef (cooked)
- 1 cup cooked brown rice
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels
- 3 Tablespoons organic tomato paste
- 2 1/2 teaspoons chili powder (divided)
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 3 cups organic tomato sauce
- 1-2 teaspoons cayenne pepper (depending on spice level)
- 1/2 ground cinnamon
- 2 cups monterey jack cheese
- Toppings: Sour cream, cilantro, avocado or guacamole
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
- Wrap tortillas in foil and warm in the oven until you are ready for them.
- Place meat in large bowl with 3 tablespoons tomato paste, 1/2 cup grated cheese, rice, frozen corn kernels, 1 teaspoon chili powder, and 1 teaspoon ground cumin.
- For the sauce: combine 3 cups tomato sauce, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, 1 1/2 teaspoon chili powder and heat through keep warm until needed.
- Remove tortillas from oven and switch broiler to high.
- Using two separate square or round baking dishes layer ingredients in the following order: 1. Sauce (a little on the bottom of each pan), 2 tortilla layer (2 for each pan), 3: About a quarter of the meat for each dish, 4: sauce, 5: another tortilla layer, 6: divide remaining meat for each dish, 7: another tortilla layer, 8: the last of the sauce, 9: grated cheese on top.
- For the extra casserole, you can cover it, label and freeze until ready to eat. Defrost it when you are ready and start with the last step of broiling it.
- Put the casserole under the broiler and broil for about 5 minutes or until heated through.
- Serve with toppings.
This post is linked to Taste and Tell Thursdays, What’s Shakin’, Weekend Potluck, I’m Lovin’ It
This sounds delicious and I love that it can be frozen for later!!!
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Yummy. This sounds so good. Great casserole for a pot luck too. Thanks for shaing!
Linda
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Sounds like a wonderful casserole! I love enchiladas, and this sounds like a perfect comfort meal!