Chicken Enchilada Casserole
I tried out a new WW recipe that I made a few changes to, to lower the points and make it more to our liking! It has all the flavors of enchiladas in an easy casserole form!
How to Make This:
Ingredients:
Enchilada sauce mix (the recipe called for the packet, I used this recipe
6 oz Canned tomato paste
6 1/3 cups Water, divided
10 oz Cooked skinless boneless chicken breast, chopped
1 cup Yellow cornmeal
Canned black beans, 15oz, rinsed and drained
Canned yellow corn, 15oz, drained
1 1/2 cups shredded, reduced fat fiesta blend cheese (I used Great Value)
1 onion, chopped
1 med red pepper, chopped
1/2 medium Green pepper, chopped
1 tsp minced Garlic
1 Tbsp Olive oil
Cooking spray
Instructions:
Prepare enchilada sauce by adding 3 cups water, tomato paste, and enchilada mix and stir together in a small pan.
Stir and let come to a simmer.
Continue to simmer for about ten minutes.
In a large saucepan heat olive oil over medium heat.
Add onion, pepper and garlic.
Cook, stirring until translucent, about 5 minutes.
Remove roughly 2/3 of onion mixture and place in a large mixing bowl; set aside.
Stir 2 cups of water into remaining onion mixture in the pan, and let it come to a boil.
Add beans, corn and chicken into reserved onion mixture and mix together.
In another medium bowl, add cornmeal to remaining 1 1/3 cups of water and stir to combine.
Gradually add cornmeal mixture to boiling water-onion mixture.
Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until cornmeal is thickened, about 5 minutes.
Spray a 9 X 13 baking dish with cooking spray.
Spread cornmeal mixture evenly over bottom of dish.
Spread half of enchilada sauce over cornmeal layer.
Top with all of bean mixture and then remaining enchilada sauce.
Add the cheese evenly to the top.
Bake until heated through and cheese is melted, about 45 minutes.
Enjoy!
WW Points (Per Serving):
Makes 8 servings. WW Points per serving - 6 PTs. If you are a WW member click this link to take you to the recipe and Recipe builder, current plan points, and track it in the WW app.➡ WW Recipe (Must be logged into WW on a device with the app.)
Nutrition Facts:
Yield: 8 servings
CALORIES: 271 TOTAL FAT: 5 g SATURATED FAT: 2 g CHOLESTEROL: 29 mg SODIUM: 760 mg CARBOHYDRATES: 23 g FIBER: 5 g SUGAR: 7 g PROTEIN: 17 g
*Nutritional Information was calculated using myfitnesspal, values may vary based off ingredients selected.
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