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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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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This recipe was excellent! I usually buy enchilada sauce but I forgot and happened to have all these ingredients on hand. I did add some hot pepper sauce but the basic recipe tastes very good and love the tomatoes!
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I only have some watery (homemade) passata from the freezer. Could I still use it here? How could I then thicken the sauce, so it doesn’t turn the enchiladas into mush? Thank you, Sylvia!
You could blend in a couple tablespoons of flour. Or just use less sauce?
Trying now.
With chicken n veggies
Tasted pretty good I must say
WOW I was impressed by this recipe! so simple and tastes great and the best part is that I know what went into it! Love your veggie enchiladas (trying to eat more plant based foods) and will use this sauce when I make them this week! Thank you!
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I was wondering if you use Greek oregano or Mexican oregano in this recipe? Quite different flavours, as I’m sure you know. Thanks!
So easy and so good.
This is the bomb! I’ve only purchase enchilada sauce once. I had to buy a large can and I didn’t think it was very good.
This was fast, easy, and delicious even though I only had crushed tomatoes instead of the fire roasted. Much better than the canned sauce I purchase and less expensive. I used it on a black bean pizza.
Thanks so much for this and all of the sauces you’ve posted!
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loved this!
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Really easy, and my vegetarian 13 year old loved it. Saw the smoked paprika suggestion and added a few drops of liquid smoke. Both my wife and daughter raved at the smell while I was heating it up. Delicious, too.
Love it! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome and super easy.
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Awesome- glad you liked it! 🙌
I made this tonight in hopes that my mother will like it. She cannot tolerate spicy hot food. I must say I was surprised by how easy and tasty it is. I am hoping it gets the ok from mom!
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Great to hear and hope she likes it! 🙌
easiest enchilada recipe ever!
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Yay!!! Great to hear. Thanks for sharing! 🙌
I really love this recipe! I’ve been using it as a salsa rather than enchilada sauce, so since I haven’t baked it, I simmered it for a while before serving to cook off some of the canned tomato flavor.
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Thanks Holly!
Hi Sylvia! I came across this recipe because I unfortunately made another recipe that I was disappointed in so when I saw the.g.is was 5 minutes I thought what the heck! I made as written except the can of fire roasted tomatoes I had on hand had green chiles in it. It came out so good and my enchiladas were perfect! Your recipe saved my dinner & This will now be my go-to… thank you!! ❤
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Family loved this sauce! I doubled the recipe for 2 pans of enchiladas. Very good.
Love your website and knowledge of so many different foods. Thank you for taking the time to share so many excellent recipes.
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Thanks so much Dianne! Appreciate this!
Delicious! Ingredients we have around the house. Easy and awesome!
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I needed an emergency enchilada sauce recipe & made this last night- it turned out amazing! Thank you so much for the recipe 🙂 My family thanks you, too!
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Thanks Beth!
Loved this sauce! So delicious and is perfect with your veggie enchiladas. One thing I would do is cut the salt in half. I will make this again!
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Thanks so much, Christine! Appreciate this.
I made this for the first time last night and I couldn’t believe how easy it was to throw together and how tasty the enchiladas turned out! I made your veggie enchiladas with this sauce, and they were delicious – the smoked paprika is a genius addition. I topped them with avocado and sour cream, and had your Mexican Slaw as the perfect side. Can’t wait for leftovers for lunch today!
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Awww thanks Angie!
I made this sauce exactly as the recipe is written. It was so good and easy! Definitely use the fire-roasted tomatoes. This sauce goes terrific with the veggie enchiladas!
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Im so glad you enjoyed this! Thanks Candice!
Hi just made this and was wondering how long it lasts in the fridge not the freezer?
up to a week!
thanks!! was great
delicious enchilada sauce
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Simple and delicious!
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This simple Enchilada Sauce turned out so good. Happy that it is gluten-free too.
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This came out great and was so easy! Thanks for sharing!
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