Queso fresco enchiladas are a quick and delicious weeknight meal that you can throw together in no time! Serve with rice or beans and you have a complete meal.
I recently posted my recipe for authentic enchilada sauce. It’s super easy to make and once you try it you’ll never go back to the canned variety.
Enchiladas are one of my favorite meals. They can be made with leftover shredded meat but I personally prefer cheese enchiladas.
Either mozzarella cheese or queso fresco is fine with me. However lately I’ve been eating a lot of queso fresco.
The mild tasting cheese really allows the flavor of the enchilada sauce to come through.
There are many different brands of queso fresco out there but my favorite will always be the Cacique brand.
I’ve tried others and I don’t know what it is but I don’t care for them. Cacique is the best!
Queso fresco Enchiladas Ingredient list
- Enchilada sauce
- 10 oz queso fresco
- 8 corn tortillas
- 1/4 diced onion
- vegetable oil for frying
Making enchiladas especially cheese enchiladas is pretty straightforward. But in case you’ve never made them before I’m going to do my best to explain the process in detail.
How to Make Enchiladas
Go ahead and have the queso fresco crumbled add the diced onion to the cheese and mix well.
Heat enough oil for frying in a skillet over medium heat. Once the oil is hot fry the tortillas quickly one at a time for a few seconds on each side.
Quickly frying the tortillas allows them to become pliable so that we can easily fold them without them breaking.
After frying transfer the tortillas to a paper towel lined plate to drain.
One at a time dip the tortillas into the enchilada sauce.
Place the tortilla on a plate and fill with the queso fresco and close it. Repeat with the remaining tortillas.
Queso Fresco Enchiladas Recipe
This is the prefect recipe to make for when you’re running low on time! Queso fresco enchiladas are so good and are really easy to whip up. Make them for a truly authentic Mexican dinner experience!
Rice and beans are great sides for this recipe.
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Queso Fresco Enchiladas
Queso fresco enchiladas are a very easy and quick authentic Mexican meal you can throw together in no time!
Ingredients
- 10 oz queso fresco crumbled
- 8 corn tortillas
- 1/4 white onion diced
- vegetable oil
- enchilada sauce
Instructions
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Mix the queso fresco and onion together.
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Heat up enough oil for frying in a skillet over medium heat. Once the oil is hot fry the tortillas quickly one at a time for a few seconds on each side.
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Transfer the tortillas to a paper towel lined plate to drain.
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One at a time dip the tortillas into the enchilada sauce.
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Place the tortilla on a plate and fill with the queso fresco and close it. Repeat with the remaining tortillas.
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Serve.
K a t h e r i n e. M o r r i s
Saturday 6th of November 2021
The queso fresco enchiladas were wonderful I've never made them before there's so much better than what you get in the restaurant so easy I thought they'd be hard and I love cheese enchiladas thank you
Molly
Monday 3rd of February 2020
Do you then bake the enchiladas in the oven?