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Cheese and Green Chile Enchiladas

Corn tortillas rolled around three cheeses and green chiles, baked in red enchilada sauce.

Cheese and Green Chile Enchiladas, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
45 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$7.76

Ingredients

  • 12 corn tortillas
  • 20 oz canned red enchilada sauce
  • 8 oz shredded monterey jack
  • 6 oz shredded cheddar cheese
  • 8 oz canned diced green chiles
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1/2 cup sour cream(optional)
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro(optional)

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 375F and spread a thin layer of enchilada sauce in a baking dish.

  2. Cook the diced onion in 1 tablespoon oil until soft, 5 minutes, then stir in the green chiles and cumin.

  3. Warm the tortillas one at a time in the remaining oil for a few seconds per side so they roll without cracking.

  4. Fill each tortilla with the onion-chile mixture and most of the cheeses, roll, and set seam-side down in the dish.

  5. Pour the remaining sauce over the top and scatter with the reserved cheese.

  6. Bake 22 to 25 minutes until bubbling, then rest 5 minutes and top with sour cream and cilantro.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 8 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£16.92£4.238 of 8 ingredients
Australia$55.47$13.878 of 8 ingredients
Mexico$545.03$136.268 of 8 ingredients
United States$31.04$7.767 of 8 ingredients
New Zealand$54.92$13.737 of 8 ingredients
Germany26,45 €6,61 €7 of 8 ingredients
Greece15,61 €3,90 €6 of 8 ingredients
Egypt‏٥٢٤٫٦١ ج.م.‏‏١٣١٫١٥ ج.م.‏6 of 8 ingredients
Canada$52.50$13.136 of 8 ingredients
Spain14,95 €*3,74 €5 of 8 ingredients
Austria€ 25,70*€ 6,435 of 8 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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