Enchilada Sauce and Mexican Cooking Sauces

Enchilada Sauce and Mexican Cooking Sauces

Enchiladas are original from Mexico, dating all the way back to the Mayans, who practiced rolling tortillas around food. Enchiladas can be made with either corn or flour tortillas, rolled around any type of filling and covered in a sauce; most commonly red or green. As a street food, Enchiladas were tortillas dipped with sauce with no fillings. Through the years enchiladas have improved and there are now a lot of varieties in both sauces and fillings. Beef, pork, chicken, seafood, cheese, potatos, scrambled eggs, vegetables or any combination of these can be used as fillings for enchiladas. Make sure to garnish your enchiladas with sour cream, lettuce or cabbage, chopped onions, fresh cilantro and if you