Enchilada Recipe Ground Beef and Black Beans

Beef Enchiladas with an actress tasty, saucy filling, smothered with a homemade Enchilada Sauce. My time saving trick is to utilise ane base Enchilada spice mix for both the sauce and filling!

Beefiness Enchiladas

I love that in that location are so many variations of Beefiness Enchiladas in this large-wide-world.

Simple ones, filled with a plain cooked beef filling then topped with enchilada sauce and (lots of) cheese. Fancy ones with the addition of chillies, beans, corn and even olives, sometimes even bacon. Hidden vegetable versions (don't ever endeavour that on me, I can pick them a mile away).

Shredded beef enchiladas, short rib ones.

And today I'm sharing mine. 🙂 It's fabricated with:

A simple homemade Enchilada sauce which is quick to brand and so, SO much improve than store bought;
A flavour loadedbeef and bean filling which is made with ground beef (mince), a load of Tex-Mex spices, refried beans AND black beans. Bean overload? Definitely not! The refried beans add bulk while keeping the filling prissy and juicy and so we can have nice, big, plump enchiladas!

The filling of these beef enchiladas take actress oomph with the add-on a refried beans, a good hit of spices and splash of Enchilada sauce!

What yous need for Beef Enchiladas

Here's what goes in my beef enchiladas.

Just a note on a few of the ingredients:

Refried beans – the "secret ingredient" that really fills out the beefiness mixture so you lot tin can big, plump, generously blimp enchiladas that are prissy and juicy. I use this in my Chicken Enchiladas too – works a treat!
Blackness beans – to fill it out a bit and add a different texture to the filling. Diced vegetables are great to add too – especially red peppers / capsicum.
Homemade Enchilada Sauce – made with either tomato passata or canned tomato sauce (U.s.a., I like Hunts), plus a skillful hitting of Tex-Mex spices.
Beef – This is a recipe for beef enchiladas so it's made with basis beef. But it can be substituted with pork, chicken or turkey!

Hither's my niggling time saving play tricks: one spice mix to flavour both the beef filling AND the Enchilada Sauce.

How to make Beefiness Enchiladas

There'due south a good back of Tex-Mex spices in this! Some of it is used for the homemade Enchilada Sauce, and the balance is used to flavour the Beef and Bean Filling.

Effort these on the side

Corn Salad with Avocado
Grilled Corn or try this Mexican Corn
Everyday Cabbage Salad
Broccoli Salad
Pico de Gallo (Authentic Mexican Salsa)

Ahhh. These Beef Enchiladas. I really hate using the words "these are the BEST!" for any of my recipes considering we all take different palettes, and what I may think is the "best" might non be to someone elses' gustatory modality.

Merely truly, to me, to this mean solar day, fifty-fifty later having consumed more than my fair share of Enchiladas at Tex-Mex restaurants across America, I still think these are better. Way, Way better than the mainstream chain restaurants!

Hope you had a great weekend! – Nagi 10

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Servings 4

Recipe video to a higher place. Moreishly delish! These beefiness enchiladas are fabricated extra tasty with a juicy filling made with beef, refried beans and a bootleg Enchilada spice mix. The refried beans are excellent here - fills it out, makes the Filling juicy and adds flavour!

Spice Mix

▢ one tsp each onion & garlic powder (Notation 1)
▢ i tbsp each cumin pulverisation, paprika and stale oregano
▢ i/2 - 1 tsp cayenne pepper (optional, spiciness)

Enchilada Sauce

▢ 2 tbsp olive oil
▢ three tbsp flour , obviously/all purpose
▢ 2 cups (500ml) chicken stock / broth , depression sodium
▢ 1 1/two cups (375 ml) tomato passata OR US i can (8 oz) canned tomato sauce (eg Hunts) (Note 2)
▢ 1/4 tsp each salt and pepper

Beefiness

▢ 1 tbsp olive oil
▢ 2 garlic cloves , minced
▢ 1 onion , finely chopped (~i cup)
▢ 1 lb / 500g ground beef (mince)
▢ 400g / 14oz refried beans (1 can, I use Old El Paso)
▢ 400g / 14oz black beans, tuckered (one can, Notation three)

Enchiladas

▢ 8 tortillas (or burrito wraps)
▢ 1.five cups (150g) grated melting cheese, or more (I like Monterey Jack, tasty or cheddar cheese)
▢ Cilantro/coriander leaves , roughly chopped (optional garnish)

Mix together Spice Mix ingredients. Set bated.

Enchilada Sauce

Oestrus oil in a big saucepan over medium oestrus. Add flour and mix to combine into a paste. Cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Add 1/two cup chicken broth, whisk straight abroad and so it will turn into a thick smoothen paste quite quickly.
Add remaining chicken broth, passata, salt, pepper and ii tablespoons of SPICE MIX. Whisk
Increase heat slightly to medium loftier. Cook for iii to five minutes, whisking regularly, until the sauce thickens to the consistency of thick syrup (see video). Remove from stove.

Filling

Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
Heat oil in a skillet over high estrus. Add garlic and onion, melt for two minutes.
Add beef and melt for two minutes, breaking it up as you go. Add together remaining Spice Mix. Cook for a further 2 minutes or until completely brownish.
Add refried beans, black beans, virtually 1/iv cup of Enchilada Sauce + common salt & pepper. Mix (Note 4) and melt for ii minutes then remove from stove (encounter video).

Enchiladas

Smear a flake of Sauce on the bottom of a baking dish (stops sliding).
Identify filling on the lower 3rd of a tortilla. Roll up then place in the blistering dish, seam side down. Repeat with remaining Filling & Tortillas.
Pour Sauce over the Enchiladas, top with cheese, bake for 10 minutes covered (Annotation 5) then 10 minutes uncovered. Serve hot!

1. You can just use all onion or garlic pulverization, if you only accept i of them. Fresh garlic is not the same, notwithstanding, equally a terminal resort commutation, y'all can use 3 garlic cloves, minced, instead of onion & garlic powder. Saute in the heated oil before proceeding with the recipe.

2. Love apple passata is pureed plain tomatoes that is not seasoned. Unlike crushed tomatoes, it is thick and shine, like a thick tomato soup. In Australia it can be purchased in a bottle in the pasta alley of major supermarkets (Coles, Woolworths). You can make your ain just by using a blender to puree canned tomatoes.

America: If you can't find passata in the US (it is available at Walmart, Costco), a great substitute is US canned love apple sauce eg Hunts (yes, I'chiliad such a food nerd I brought back cans to use for this recipe and it's a near perfect substitute).

3. Black beans are ordinarily used in Mexican & Tex Mex cooking. It's becoming more than widely available in Australia. It can exist purchased in the Mexican or canned beans aisle in virtually major supermarkets, every bit well equally Harris Farms and Thomas Dux. You can substitute with red kidney beans or another type of beans if you adopt.

four. The refried beans should loosen every bit it heats and stir through easily. If not, add together a splash of water.

5. To broil covered, I simply pop a baking tray on top on the baking dish. Otherwise, embrace with foil.

half-dozen. To make ahead, roll up enchiladas and place in goulash dish (can smear with sauce underneath). Keep sauce dissever and peak just before blistering.

vii. Nutrition per serving, assuming yous use lean beef mince (this is a corking recipe for using lean beef, you would never know!).

Beef Enchiladas_Nutrition

Serving: 608 yard Calories: 649 cal (32%) Carbohydrates: 55.three g (xviii%) Poly peptide: 45.six g (91%) Fatty: 28.6 m (44%) Saturated Fat: ten.3 g (64%) Cholesterol: 116 mg (39%) Sodium: 1237 mg (54%) Potassium: 1183 mg (34%) Fiber: xiii.4 g (56%) Sugar: 5.7 g (6%) Vitamin A: 1600 IU (32%) Vitamin C: 47.9 mg (58%) Calcium: 340 mg (34%) Iron: xx.5 mg (114%)

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Originally published June 2016. Updated August 2019 with new photos, new video, new process photos and refreshed writing – no change to recipe, I wouldn't dare!

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Enchilada Recipe Ground Beef and Black Beans

Beefiness Enchiladas

What yous need for Beef Enchiladas