I’ve read in a number of magazines and online that you should never prepare a new recipe for a dinner party. They all say, stick with a dish that you’ve made several times and don’t try making something new. I definitely understand the logic behind this advice—I mean, who wants to risk a kitchen disaster when you have guests coming over?
I guess I’m a little bit of a risk-taker though, because I always find myself making dishes that I’ve never made before when we have people over for dinner. Most of the time these dishes turn out pretty well, but sometimes I find myself wishing I had tested the dish out on Graham first before subjecting guests to it.
For our most recent dinner party, I made calabacitas enchiladas from a recipe posted on MJ’s Kitchen, and luckily they turned out just as tasty as she described. MJ just finished a fantastic series on “New Mexico Chile,” and her green chile sauce and calabacitas enchiladas sounded so delicious that I just had to try making them.
Since I tried to stick to her recipe as much as possible, I think it is best to send you to MJ’s site for the calabacitas enchiladas and green chile sauce recipes. Please check out all of her other great chile recipes while you are there too!
Tasty Easy Healthy Green Recipe Ratings:
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Tasty Rating Four Chefs (Delicious!) |
I’ll definitely make this tasty enchilada recipe and green chile sauce again, but next time I might try making the sauce with spicier chiles (the ones I used were pretty mild) and saving some of the sauce to pour over the enchiladas right before serving—we like our enchiladas saucy! |
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Easy Rating
Three Easy Chairs (Average Difficulty) |
Roasting the chiles and making the chile sauce takes some time, but assembling the enchiladas is pretty quick. If you use store-bought chile sauce, you’d cut down the prep time quite a bit, but of course it might not be as good as MJ’s green chile sauce… |
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Healthy Rating
Three Apples (Average Nutritional Quality) |
While these enchiladas are packed with vegetables, they have a fair amount of cheese in them. |
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Green Rating
Two Leaves (Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides Rock) |
The zucchini and squash that I used for the filling were local and organic, but most of the rest of the ingredients were neither local nor organic (unfortunately I didn’t make it to my normal earth-friendly grocery store this week). |
This is SO exciting!!! I’m flattered that you made these enchiladas for a dinner party no less and thrilled that you enjoyed it! Also glad to see that you made the green chile sauce. Your pictures are gorgeous and definitely show off this wonderful dish! A huge thanks for testing, posting and linking! Wish I could send you some of the roasted green chile that I get. Its HOT – so you’d love it!
This looks like a delicious dish! I’ve never heard of it before and now I’m excited to try it.
HA! I’m def a risk taker like you and have ended up ordering in for a dinner party…..
This looks super yummy and I’m glad it turned out well!
Sally, I never heard of this dish, but from the description and picture, it sure looks delicious, so tasty.
Hope you have a great week ahead and thanks for this “new” recipe
Looks amazing!! Glad you took the risk :), Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
I made this last night including the homemade chile sauce. YUM!
The sauce was different than I expected, more like a chile gravy. I used about 16 peppers, anaheim, red ancient (for the “Christmas” effect)and poblano which I blackened on the grill. It did take a long time to peel, chop and deseed them but the final result was worth it! I used my food processor to speed up the grating of the squash and cheese. Served with a little sour cream on the side. I will make this again. Thanks for sharing!
oh god ! I am like you .. i do that so many times and thankfully it was a success most of the times. The husbands get all panicky
I actually never follow this rule, though sometimes I wish I had! I can’t see how these calabacitas enchiladas could have turned out bad though. Everything about them exudes deliciousness!
I am always trying new recipes on guests too! It adds a fun challenging element to entertaining. This dish looks beautiful and tasty…any guest would be lucky to be served it!
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This looks great. Thanks for the recipe idea!
This looks SO GOOD!!!!
WHere is the actual recipe for the enchiladas? Did I miss it?
Hi Johanne! You can find the recipe at MJ’s Kitchen: http://mjskitchen.com/2011/10/calabacitas-enchiladas/.