A simple recipe for Quick Homemade 5 Minute Enchilada Sauce, using basic pantry ingredients and a blender. With no cooking required, this sauce comes together in five minutes flat!
Here’s a simple recipe for quick homemade 5 Minute Enchilada Sauce that requires no cooking, no chopping and can be made in five minutes flat using a blender! Full of flavor, this tasty healthy Enchilada Sauce is silky smooth and perfect for baked enchilada’s, smothered burritos, or Enchilada Pie.
Keep it mild for younger palates, or feel free to spice it up. Your call.
How to make 5 Minute Enchilada Sauce!
- Place ingredients in blender
- Blend until smooth
- it’s done!
It’s an untraditional Enchilada Sauce recipe in that it is uncooked, but comes in very handy when short on time. It’s also very similar in flavor to Trader Joe’s bottled Enchilada Sauce. What I love about it is that it’s made with ingredients I almost always have on hand, often saving me from the dreaded last minute trip to the grocery store.
If you like smoky flavor, feel free to add chipotle powder or canned chipotle.
During the summer months, I like to use fresh tomatoes, and during the colder months, diced canned tomatoes or tomato puree work well too.
Either way, just place all the ingredients in the blender and blend until silky smooth. Adjust heat to your particular liking.
This can be made ahead and refrigerated, or even frozen.
A fast and easy recipe, not lacking in flavor!
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5 Minute Enchilada Sauce
- Prep Time: 5
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 2 cups
- Category: sauce
- Method: blended
- Cuisine: mexican
Description
A quick and easy enchilada sauce that requires no cooking! Can be made in 5 minutes using a blender.
Ingredients
- 14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes (with juices) preferably fire-roasted tomatoes ( or tomato puree)
- ¼ cup water
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon granulated garlic ( or 2 garlic cloves)
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon chipotle powder (or smoked paprika for smoky flavor)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano (or 2 teaspoons fresh)
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a blender.
- Blend until smooth.
- The Enchilada sauce will cook as it bakes with enchiladas.
Notes
This is a very untraditional Enchilada Sauce, in that you dont cook it – you basically just blend, then cook it with what it is going on.
Quick and easy!
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Timesaving, foolproof, delicious. Thanks for this!
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Awesome Michele! Glad you like it!
This sauce was so easy to make and absolutely delicious!!!!
thanks Donna!
Delicioso! I added half a roasted red pepper I had in the fridge (just because I had it) and it was so, so good. Whenever I’m looking for a good tasting veggie meal, or need inspiration, I come to here. Thank you!!
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THanks Yolanda!
Needed a quick and easy enchilada sauce recipe that used the diced tomatoes I had on hand. This is so good, I’m eating it with a spoon before I can even assemble the enchiladas. Total win!!
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Awesome Leah- glad you liked it!
I have made it and my employer love it and would like to keep the recipe yummy😋,Yaiy!thanks so much
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I have made this several times now and LOVE it. So easily made with staple pantry ingredients. Simply delicious! Perfect!
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So good and so easy! I used a can of tomato sauce instead. After making it realized that using tomato sauce meant I could skip the blender (and blender clean up). Next time I make it I’ll use tomato sauce again and just shake up all the ingredients in a jar.
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I was craving some enchiladas after seeing someone eating them on TV. I didn’t have enchilada sauce but had some canned diced tomatoes so I googled and didn’t expect much from such a simple recipe thrown in the blender for a few minutes but I’m surprised! This recipe is a keeper-better than canned enchilada sauce!
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