Old El Paso Enchilada Kit Using Beef Instead of Chicken
A can of Old El Paso red enchilada sauce intrigued me with its Easy Beef Enchiladas recipe. Listing four ingredients and three steps supports the recipe's "easy" claim.
The No Budget Cooking Series is a big fan of easy, but it takes more than reading a recipe to judge its merits. To that end I'm adapting PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter to hold Old El Paso's accountable.
Welcome to RecipeFact TruthSayer: a test and rating of recipe claims to be easy, quick, delicious, etc. ("Biscuits on fire" will be used for the most egregious falsehoods.)
Let's just see how easy it is to make these beef enchiladas.
Easy Beef Enchiladas
Makes: 10 enchiladas
1 pound ground beef
2 cans (10 ounces each) enchilada sauce
1½ cups (6 ounces) shredded cheese
1 package (8.2 ounces) of 6-inch flour tortillas
Heat oven to 375 F. Lightly grease 13x9-inch glass baking dish.
Cook beef in 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally until thoroughly cooked. Drain fat. Stir ¾-cup sauce and 1 cup cheese into cooked beef.
Spoon enchilada mixture onto tortillas; roll up and place seam sides down in baking dish.
Pour remaining enchilada sauce over top. Sprinkle with remaining cheese.
Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until heated through.
(Recipe from Old El Paso)
TASTING NOTES: Playing to the tastes of the HigginsEats family, I chose the mild version of the enchilada sauce. It delivered as advertised. A teeny kick of heat with equally mild enchilada sauce flavor. Despite being short on tortillas and cheese (see Insights section), the enchiladas turned out fine and earned the coveted "make these again" request.
EQUIPMENT: Skillet, large serving spoon, two measuring cups, can opener and baking dish.
PRACTICALITY RATING: 3. Less hassle than tacos.
COST: $12-$15. If you're not feeding a pack of starving teens, there's enough to serve four people which works out to $3-$4 per plate. Reheating leftover rotisserie chicken in place of the ground beef would cut the cost.
HACKS/INSIGHTS: It's a good bet that nobody from Wisconsin would write a recipe that splits one pound of hamburger 10 ways. I only filled eight tortillas because a HigginsEats family member snagged two of the tortillas before I tested this recipe. I had no beef with the amount of beef in each enchilada and even if I'd made 10 I suspect it would have been just as satisfying.
If you make 10, roll them tight so they all fit in the baking dish.
I was about a half ounce short on the cheese. I used mild cheddar because that's what I had on hand, though a Mexican blend would be a nice touch.
Frying the beef, mixing in sauce and cheese, scooping into tortillas and baking are all steps that fully qualify for "easy" status. Achieving equal(ish) portions of filling in each enchilada is the biggest challenge, but that problem is solved by using a large serving spoon to dole out one scoop per tortilla.
Recipe gripe: using 6 ounces of cheese when shreds are sold in 8-ounce bags. It creates unnecessary measuring. Plus, it adds to the collection of open bags of leftover cheese piling up in the fridge. Recipe fix: just use all 8 ounces.
Making these enchiladas wasn't just easy, it was barely an inconvenience when compared to prepping, cleanup and storing of shredded lettuce, sliced black olives, diced tomatoes and other typical taco toppings.
RecipeFact TruthSayer says: Old El Paso's claim of Easy Beef Enchiladas is true.
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Source: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/life/food/2020/06/23/recipe-test-old-el-paso-easy-beef-enchiladas-indeed-easy-make/3198762001/
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