I’m not sure how I found this recipe, but it was so unusual that I just had to give it a try. Pumpkin Enchiladas? You usually don’t see those flavors working together. Sign me up!
I was lucky enough to find pumpkin in the store last time I went shopping. Apparently there’s a pumpkin shortage this year. So of course I stocked up while I could. Which means, we’ll probably be making this again soon, with some minor adjustments.
Over all, I really liked this recipe, which I did modify slightly from the original. The pumpkin blended in well with the other ingredients. I didn’t feel like I was eating pumpkin pie mashed in with an enchilada, which was a real fear. The flavors complemented each other well, and the pumpkin added a wonderful creaminess to the dish.
There are only two things that I would change next time. First, I’ll cook the onion first. The recipe didn’t specifically say that it should be cooked, so I just went ahead and chopped it up and added it to the chicken (which was already cooked), thinking that the oven would do it’s job and the onions would be fine. Wrong. Although it didn’t ruin the dish, the rawish onion did add and interesting crunch. Lesson learned, always, always cook onions.
The second thing I would change is to add a little more heat to the dish. Maybe the jalapeno that I bought just wasn’t as hot as it was supposed to be, but the dish definitely lacked the heat that Dad-oo and I like it all most of our meals. So, to spice things up a little, I’ll add more chili powder or possibly some cayenne pepper to the sauce.
I did test this dish out on the kiddo. I can’t say that it was completely a fail, because he did manage to eat two bites before he squinched up his face and turned away when I tried to airplane in the third. I think that if I tried it again, he would probably gobble it all down. We’ll see how he does with the next hotter version.
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Definitely NOT something I will be trying. lol While it looks really good it sounds absolutely disgusting!
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Interesting. It does sound gross but I think I am going to have to give it a try. I might not tell my husband what it is first though or he might not try it.
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@Junebug, If you don’t him, he won’t even know that pumpkin is in it. It just tastes creamy (and yummy). Let me know what he says if you try it.
I don’t see pumpkin working well with cheese. But this might be good as a vegetarian entree if you substituted squash for the chicken. Pumpkin and sour cream would work together. Interesting recipe, but don’t know that the SO would go for it
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