President (Lady Bird) Johnson Enchiladas Recipe

"It says use chili of your choice. This was in Texas. It was a bean-less chili lol. I'm using canned but you could use leftover chili which is probably what happened. This is the recipe from 1989 Look Who's In The Kitchen with Methodist ladies and celebrities. I haven't seen this recipe anywhere else."

Original is 4 servings

Metric US

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Ingredients

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Chili
30 ounces bean-less chili (2 cans)
1/2 pound ground beef
Filling
1 cup onion, minced
8 ounces American cheese, grated

Tortillas
8 ounces corn tortillas
3 cups water, boiling
Topping
16 ounces American cheese, grated

Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (660.7 g)
Calories 952.7
Total Fat - 46.1 g
Saturated Fat - 25.2 g
Cholesterol - 161.7 mg
Sodium - 2578.2 mg
Total Carbohydrate - 62.5 g
Dietary Fiber - 8.2 g
Sugars - 11.3 g
Protein - 72.8 g
Calcium - 1657.6 mg
Iron - 5.3 mg
Vitamin C - 7.9 mg
Thiamin - 0.2 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

Make chili of your choice (cook ground beef and chili).

Step 2

Take some of the chili meat from the pot with a hand strainer.

Step 3

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Step 4

Chop one onion finely.

Step 5

Grate about 3 cups of American cheese and set aside.

Step 6

Fill a 2 quart pot about 3/4 full of water and let it come to a boil.

Step 7

With tongs place tortillas one at a time in boiling water for 1 second; keep water very hot!

Step 8

In 9x9 Pam sprayed Pyrex casserole put a thin layer of chili.

Step 9

In each tortilla as you pull out of water, place 1/4 teaspoon onion, 1 tablespoon chili and 1 tablespoon cheese on each tortilla, fold (roll and put in pan ) side by side unit pan is full. (I would add more stuff)