

Here’s my little time saving trick: one spice mix to flavour both the beef filling AND the Enchilada Sauce. But it can be substituted with pork, chicken or turkey!
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Homemade Enchilada Sauce – made with either tomato passata or canned tomato sauce (US, I like Hunts), plus a good hit of Tex-Mex spices.īeef – This is a recipe for beef enchiladas so it’s made with ground beef. Diced vegetables are great to add too – especially red peppers / capsicum. I use this in my Chicken Enchiladas too – works a treat!īlack beans – to fill it out a bit and add a different texture to the filling.

Refried beans – the “secret ingredient” that really fills out the beef mixture so you can big, plump, generously stuffed enchiladas that are nice and juicy. The filling of these beef enchiladas have extra oomph with the addition a refried beans, a good hit of spices and splash of Enchilada sauce! Bean overload? Definitely not! The refried beans add bulk while keeping the filling nice and juicy so we can have nice, big, plump enchiladas! 🙂 It’s made with:Ī simple homemade Enchilada sauce which is quick to make and so, SO much better than store bought Ī flavour loaded beef and bean filling which is made with ground beef (mince), a load of Tex-Mex spices, refried beans AND black beans. Shredded beef enchiladas, short rib ones.Īnd today I’m sharing mine. Hidden vegetable versions (don’t ever try that on me, I can pick them a mile away). Fancy ones with the addition of chillies, beans, corn and even olives, sometimes even bacon.

Simple ones, filled with a plain cooked beef filling then topped with enchilada sauce and (lots of) cheese. I love that there are so many variations of Beef Enchiladas in this big-wide-world. This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Beef Enchiladas Ham lends itself effortlessly to sandwiches and snacking, but if you want to give it legs, this macaroni and cheese with ham recipe is the ticket.Beef Enchiladas with an extra tasty, saucy filling, smothered with a homemade Enchilada Sauce. My time saving trick is to use one base Enchilada spice mix for both the sauce and filling! This baked Camembert with garlic bread is a total winner when you’re too over it to actually cook. We’re not even sure if a spare wheel of Camembert sitting in your fridge even counts as leftover, but, what the heck, we’ll take it. Those leftover roasties needn’t flounder in the back of the fridge- mashed potato croquettes are a decadent day-after dish to use up your spuds. Win-win: This recipe can also be made with turkey.Īnd these turkey burritos by Nigella Lawson are crowd pleasers. The Hairy Biker’s goose risotto is a ‘fancy’ dish using rehashed bird meat. Leftover recipes need to not look like second-class meals. You have to give Nigel Slater’s Perky Turkey salad a run, if only because it has the best name ever. Case in point, this leftover turkey bahn mi by Jamie Oliver.Īnother classic leftovers recipe: this turkey sanga with maple mayonnaise is the best of the season, wedged between bread. Turkey is an easy meat to shred and use again, and its gentle flavour lends it to a myriad of delicious dishes. Mix your pork cuts up with a slaw for an on-trend pairing. Maybe not the most creative use for cold meats, but the leftovers-sandwich is a classic for a reason. A sweet potato and stuffing hash, crowned with a fried egg, drizzled with maple, is just the ticket to kick off your boxing day. How there can possibly be any remnants of the glory that is stuffing leftover from a meal boggles the mind, but if you do find yourself in the rare position of having stuffing to spare, this brunch dish will use it up nicely. We’ve put together 10 of our favourite leftovers recipes, from some of our favourite chefs, to keep your turkey/roast pork/ham working well past Christmas Day. While some may argue the only thing to be done with leftovers is eat them straight from the fridge with whichever sauce or condiment happens to be close at hand, there are those who prefer to get creative with their festive-season leftovers.
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You know you’re mad about leftovers when you actually eat less on the day of the main event, just to be sure you’ll be coming back to a fridge full of cold cuts tomorrow.
