Chicken Enchilada Lasagna - Dump and Go Dinner
This baked enchilada dish layers tortillas, a spicy cream sauce, chicken, and cheese together for a warm and bubbly meal you can't wait to dive into. Serve with black beans, tortilla chips, and plenty of salsa for a little dinnertime fiesta of flavor.
Ingredients
- 10 ½ ounces Cream of Chicken Soup
- 10 ½ ounces Cream of Celery Soup
- 1 ½ cups Sour Cream
- 4 ounces Mild Green Chiles, Diced, Canned
- 1 teaspoon Cumin
- 2 ⅔ cups cook and dice Chicken, Boneless Breasts
- 2 cups Mexican Cheese, Shredded
- 8 individual Flour Tortillas (8-inch/Med)
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Cooking Instructions
Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- In a bowl, mix soups, sour cream, chiles, and cumin.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.
- Thaw: In fridge
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- In a bowl, mix soups, sour cream, chilies, and cumin.
- In a baking dish, layer lasagna-style: soup mixture, chicken, cheese, tortilla. Repeat 2 times, ending with cheese.
- Bake uncovered, at 425F for 25-30 minutes or until cheese is bubbly and enchiladas are heated through.
Nutrition Facts
- Servings Per Recipe
- 6 Servings
- Serving Size
- 4"x4" piece Amount Per Serving
- Calories
- 659
- Total Fat
- 36g
- Saturated Fat
- 16g
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 138mg
- Sodium
- 1501mg
- Total Carbohydrates
- 46g
- Fiber
- 0g
- Sugar
- 5g
- Protein
- 35g
- WW Freestyle
- 20
34 Comments
Join the discussionI made this the other night, but we do not like cream soups (and they really are not very healthy) so I used just red enchilada sauce instead, ours were with corn tortillas in the crock pot. (I think it was a 24 oz can of sauce with 6 tortillas).
This looks great. What size baking dish do you recommend?
Either a 9×13, or two 8×8 pans would probably be best.
I just finished assembling mine. Can’t wait to try one tonight!
I used two pie pans. It made assembly super-easy, since they’re circular like the tortillas 🙂
That’s so smart! I always hate when the tortillas don’t line up correctly! 😉
Do the flour tortillas get soggy in this recipe? I tried a casserole with flour tortillas once (I substituted them for corn tortillas) and my husband was not a fan. Other than that this recipe sounds like one I’ll be bookmarking. I love chicken enchiladas and casseroles.
Yeah, they do get a bit soggy with all the sauce (although truthfully I’ve never had an unsoggy enchilada). I usually cook them until they get a bit crusty on top though.
YUM! Looking forward to making this 🙂
Hi, I’m totally new to this. How do you seal and freeze a pan of enchiladas?
Cover the pan with foil or put a lid on it (depending on what you are using) and then place it in the freezer.
I made this last night and everyone enjoyed it. And I loved how easy and quick it was. Also the tortillas weren’t soggy at all in ours, they actually turned out a little crisp in spots, which was great.
Do you think you could use low fat sour cream or do you have to use full fat?
Absolutely! I only buy fat free, so that’s what I use.
Sorry if this is a stupid question but I’m new at this. Is this recipe for one pan or is it for dinner tonight and 1 in the freezer? The reason I ask is because it calls for 8 tortillas but you only repeat the layering a few times. Thanks!
The amounts listed in this recipe are for just one casserole. If you want two (one for tonight and one for the freezer), double it.
No stupid questions here :).
Any idea what the nutritional information is on this one?
We only do that for the Diet menu but you can use resources like this one to figure it out: http://caloriecount.about.com/…
Just want to mention, my fiance has NEVER asked me to make the same meal two nights in a row, and he doesn’t eat leftovers, because I have a three-day limit on them.I have made this three times, in the past WEEK. Each time I assemble one for the freezer, he says, “Awesome, enchilada lasagna for dinner again!”But, I also used turkey instead of chicken, because we had a lot leftover from Thanksgiving, and didn’t have any green chilies on-hand, and he doesn’t like cream of celery, so I used a 26oz can of cream of chicken. (Yes, he’s a picky eater, I know!)And the first time I made it, I assembled it like in the picture, and just set my timer for 20minutes, not thinking about the cheese on top. It turned “crispy” but he loves cheese, so he ate it up no problem. The last two times, I waited until about five minutes before it was done heating, and added the cheese, and it looks SO great, and smells delicious! :)Thanks for this recipe, it’s so fast, easy, and my fiance happily ate the leftovers for breakfast this morning!
Wow, that sounds like success!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
My enchilada lasagna is in the oven right now, and I’m very excited to eat it! I used tomato and green chiles. I was curious as to why you cook the chicken before placing it in the oven. It seems the oven would cook it, but then I thought it could be a health concern with touching the soup mixture. Can you clarify this for me? Thanks!
When you cook these in the oven it mostly just warms them through and melts the cheese, so I recommend cooking the chicken first to make sure it gets cooked all the way through.
Do you know if the homemade cream soup mixes do well with this type of recipe once recipe has been frozen? I was wondering if it would seperate and look icky. By making the dry mix of the cream soup it cuts out alot of the additives and sodium. The dry mix consists of dry milk powder, cornstarch, onion flakes, dries basil, thyme and water along with what ever flavoring your looking for added when on stove top cooking to thicken to a soup. Thanks for your reply ahead of time.
They usually do just fine. . .we freeze them in dishes all the time or on their own.
mmmm, My parents make these as enchiladas so they make the mixture of soups and chicken (after cooking of course) and all that but instead of layering it they put some of the sauce and chicken and cheese mix into the tortilla and roll it. 10 burrito size flour tortillas fit into the pan, but I don’t recall if it’s a 9×13 or 11×15, but I think it might be the 11×15 one. Just roll them and line them up. Put any extra mix and some cheese over the top of them and bake!
This looks delicious but my husband doesn’t eat any meat and I’m not a big fan of cooking it either, so I was wondering if you have any ideas of what I could substitute the chicken for? I’m not sure if the ground beef substitute would taste right with this. Thank you! 🙂
Maybe mushrooms and cream of mushroom soup? Sometimes I add black beans, so that might be good instead. Or just leave the meat out.
I think the beans are a great suggestion for a vegetarian substitute! My best friend does Mex night a lot, and she usually does a pan of chicken enchiladas and a pan of bean enchiladas. You could use black beans or refried black or pinto. I also used to get spinach enchiladas and quesadillas at a little Mexican restaurant, so that would probably work, too.
I have been making these for years the only difference is that instead of cumin i just add taco seasoning to my cream soup mixture and some sour cream and a little milk to make it a little thinner!
ooops you do add sour cream.. soorry:D
My family doesn’t like chilies so I substituted some mild salsa. It was great!
No one in my house can agree on anything to eat, until I made this dish. It is now in regular rotation at least once every other week. The only difference I do is I boil my chicken in chicken broth and add the taco seasoning in the soup mixture. It taste delicious! Thanks for this family favorite!!
So glad to hear that! I love finding family favorites.
I make a dish simular. Like a lasanga but mexiacan. Instead of pasta noodles i use slightly fried corn tortillas.Enchilada sauce on bottom and layer corn tortillas like they would be the noodles, Meat mixture, beans, cheese.
Have made this about 5 times and everyone loves it! I do add a package of low sodium taco seasoning to the wet mixture. Tonight I am adding taco rice instead of chicken. Hope it turns out as good as the other 5 times!! My family loves it!!