Z'tejas Green Chile Barbacoa Enchiladas

Total Time: 4 hrs 15 mins
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6


• 4 -6 lbs beef chuck, cut 3-inch x 3-inch


• 1/2 cup cilantro


• 2 tablespoons kosher salt


• 1/3 cup garlic, chopped


• 2 ounces ancho chilies, stems removed


• 3 cups yellow onions, quartered


• 3 tablespoons green chili powder


• diced green chilis


• 2 corn tortillas


• 2 ounces monterey jack cheese, shredded


• 3 ounces green chili sauce


• 2 ounces cotija cheese, crumbled


• 1 ounce iceberg lettuce, shredded


• sour cream


• pickled green chilies

Recipe

• 1 place all ingredients in a stainless bowl and mix well. transfer to a roasting pan and top with a tight lid.


• 2 cook for 3 1/2 to 4 hours in a 325 degree oven.


• 3 let cool and shred using 2 forks.


• 4 strain juice that the meat was cooked in skim off fat.


• 5 add about 1 1/2 cups to shredded meat.


• 6 mix in green chilies as well.


• 7 assembling green chile barbacoa enchiladas:.


• 8 fry tortillas to soften; place on oval plate.


• 9 put barbacoa in center.


• 10 put 1 oz. of jack cheese on each tortilla with 2 oz. of barbacoa and 1/2 oz. of green chile sauce.


• 11 roll tortillas and leave in center of plate.


• 12 ladle 2 oz. green chile sauce on top of enchiladas and sprinkle beans and enchiladas with cotija cheese.


• 13 put under broiler to melt cheese; when cheese melts top enchiladas with iceberg, dollop of sour cream and put pickled chiles in center.