Tex-Mex Enchilada Bake Recipe and Salsa Salad Dressing Recipe

Tex-Mex Food

If you are from Texas, you understand the difference in Tex-Mex and Mexican cuisine. Mexican cuisine is the food actually served in Mexico and therefore is authentic to the country.

Tex-Mex, however, is not authentic Mexican cuisine but is instead food cooked with Mexican flavors and tastes.

The Tex-Mex Enchilada Bake recipe is one I found in a magazine sometime in the mid-1980s.

My family loved it the first time I baked it, and it became a staple dish to take to family get-togethers and all other types of covered dish dinners, too. While it is not authentic Mexican cuisine, it is delicious!

Tex-Mex Enchilada Bake Recipe

Ingredients:

•  1 lb. hamburger meat
•  1-15 oz can tomato sauce
•  1 pkg taco mix
•  12 flour tortillas
•  1-4 oz can of chopped green chilies
•  1 can cream of mushroom soup
•  1 cup sour cream
•  2 cups grated sharp cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese
•  Canola baking oil spray

Instructions: 

1. Brown hamburger meat drain. 
2. Add tomato sauce and taco mix. Stir well and simmer to 15-20 minutes. 
3. Spray a 9"x13" pan with the canola oil. 
4. Place a small amount of meat mixture into a tortilla and roll. Repeat until you have filled the pan. 
5. Mix soup and chilies in a medium bowl. Pour over enchiladas. 
6. Top with grated cheese. 
7. Bake at 350° until cheese melts about 20 minutes.

 
This is wonderful served with a lettuce salad, Salsa Salad Dressing, and a pan of Jalapeño cornbread.

Note: The instructions have been rewritten to adhere to copyright law for recipes.

Salsa Salad Dressing

• 8 oz. Picante or Salsa (Medium or Hot depending on your family's taste for heat)
• 8 oz. Sour Cream

Mix the picante or salsa with the sour cream and serve over salad. Makes 1 pint of dressing. Refrigerate.


The salsa salad dressing is especially delicious on homemade taco salad!