Creamy Chicken Enchilada Tortilla Cups
Forget serving traditional dips, chips, salsa, and guacamole for the big game, here is something your fans will cheer for the loudest. Heavenly crispy tortilla cups filled with creamy chicken enchilada mixture and more cheese.
Chicken Enchilada Cups
It’s been a year since we moved into our house. It’s still coming together with two rooms sitting being pretty much empty. Moving from a small apartment into a house leaves most of the house empty. Even though we’ve been furnishing and decorating the house for the past year, we remembered to get the important stuff first.
We made sure that out first purchases were a big dining room table and entertainment center so that we can now have our friends and family over.
Is it odd that when we got our house, we were most excited about finally being able to entertain? The first thing that my husband did after we closed on the house is tell our family that we will now be hosting all major holidays. Ouch…not like he has to cook it, right? But I was up for a challenge.
After hosting my first Thanksgiving and then Christmas, in addition to several barbecue parties and family dinners, I’ve realized that hosting parties is EXHAUSTING!
So here we are, coming up to another huge party of the year, the big game, and I’m glad that I had a break for a couple of months because it’s a big one. Super Bowl parties are big, loud, and filled with more food than a Thanksgiving table. It might be a very different food served at the football parties but you know what? I like it so much better. You can’t beat Dips, nachos, taquitos, and mini cheeseburgers.
And for, there is another addition to the big line-up. Move over guacamole, chips, and nachos, here come tortilla cups and they are rocking. Crispy baked and filled with creamy, cheesy chicken enchilada mixture, these tortilla cups are sure to be the highlight of the table.
Creamy Chicken Enchilada Tortilla Cups
Ingredients
- 9-12 medium raw flour tortillas
- 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 1.25 lbs chicken tenders
- 1/2 large yellow onion sliced thin
- 1 large tomato diced
- 3 garlic cloves pressed
- 1 cup enchilada sauce
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- Salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- 3/4 cup Mexican shredded cheese mix
- 2 Tbsp enchilada sauce
- Topping:
- 1 cup Mexican shredded cheese mix
- 1 tomato diced
- 3 green onion shoots diced
- 2 Tbsp minced cilantro
Instructions
- Preheat a medium cooking pan over medium heat. Add vegetable oil, sliced onion, and diced tomatoes. Cook for a few minutes, add enchilada sauce, salt, red pepper flakes and mix well.
- Nestle chicken tenders in the veggie mixture, cover and cook until done, stirring occasionally. Take off heat.
- Take out chicken tenders and shred the meat using two forks. Place shredded chicken into a mixing bowl.
- Using a slotted spoon, take out veggies and add them to the chicken.
- Add cream cheese and mix in until fully incorporated.
- Mix in shredded cheese and 2 Tbsp enchilada sauce. Add more salt if needed.
- Preheat oven to 375 and grease a muffin pan.
- Cut down the edge around each tortilla that’s a little less than an inch wide. (You can use the cut off pieces to make tortilla strips. Great for topping of soup and salad.)
- Gently fit tortillas into the muffin cups. Carefully poke some holes with a fork in the bottom and sides of tortilla.
- Scoop some chicken mixture into each tortilla, filling it about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way (depending on how much you like your guests, wink, wink.)
- Sprinkle some shredded cheese into each cup.
- Bake for 16-18 minutes.
- Top off with some diced tomatoes, green onions and cilantro.
Nutrition
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For Superbowl, I bet you have to make at least 5 dozen because those little bites will go fast!! We do use flour tortillas a lot although I’ve never tried the Costco brand — I’ll pick some up on my next Costco run. Great recipe and photos!
Hey Marisa 🙂
Definitely depending on how many other goodies you’re serving, lol. It’s actually not a Costco brand, it’s a TortillaLand. Make sure to enter the giveaway, dear, 😉 !
Thank you!