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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)
$7.46

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 States$29.85$7.467 of 8 ingredients
Mexico$530.66$132.677 of 8 ingredients
United Kingdom£14.48£3.626 of 8 ingredients
Greece19,70 €4,93 €6 of 8 ingredients
Canada$80.88$20.226 of 8 ingredients
Australia$35.05*$8.765 of 8 ingredients
Spain13,56 €*3,39 €5 of 8 ingredients
Austria€ 24,04*€ 6,015 of 8 ingredients
New Zealand$18.69*$4.674 of 8 ingredients
Germany13,80 €*3,45 €4 of 8 ingredients
Egypt‏١٧٥٫٧٢ ج.م.‏*‏٤٣٫٩٣ ج.م.‏3 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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