Simple homemade Beef Enchiladas are full of Mexican comfort food flavors. This recipe includes a quick homemade red enchilada sauce and an easy ground beef filling that’s ready for the oven in 30 minutes.
Enchiladas originate in Mexico where people have been wrapping corn tortillas around fillings since Mayan times. You’ll find there are a wide variety of preparations, fillings, and sauces out there. This version uses corn tortillas that are filled with a mixture of ground beef, onion, chiles, and spices. Add in a little cheese and it’s smothered with a simple red chili powder enchilada sauce. This is a popular preparation that comes from Northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
Can I use store bought enchilada sauce?
This recipe calls for a quick homemade red enchilada sauce. It is super easy to make enchilada sauce at home and takes less than 10 minutes, but if you’d like, you can always use a store bought can. You’ll need one 15 ounce can, or about 2 cups.
Can I use flour tortillas instead of corn tortillas?
Traditionally, enchiladas are made with corn tortillas, but you can also use flour tortillas if you’d like. The texture will be softer than when prepared with corn tortillas. No heating of the tortillas will be necessary.
There is no tomato anything in ingredients. How is sauce red in pictures?
Chili powder is red and provides the color for the sauce.
I’m going to make these enchiladas today, I was just wondering about the corn tortillas, I know they are more tasty than flour tortillas, but the only ones I could find seem so small! Is that the size of most corn tortillas and is that the size you use?
You can use either as a matter of personal preference.
Excellent, thank you!
the best i have ever made!!! thank you!!!
Awesome recipe family Loved it
Superb! It had the flavors I was hoping for and it came together very nicely. Totally a keeper.
Enchilada sauce, ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS! Enchiladas, oh my God SCRUMPTIOUS!! Definitely my go to recipe going forward….?
Pretty much how I make mine. I add Mexican style chorizo to my ground beef mixture and small diced potatoes and sometimes a small amount of frozen peas to meat mixture. Good for tostadas also.
I made this dish, and my family loved it. However, I did have one problem. The sauce tasted so strongly of chili powder that it was almost inedible. I had to add an extra 2 cups of broth to balance it out. Did anyone else notice this?
There is a lot of variety out there in chili powders. Low end, cheap chili powder blends have a very different flavor than higher quality blends.
Could beef broth be substituted for the vegetable broth in the sauce?
Yes it can. The resulting flavor is much darker.