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Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole Recipe

Mexican food might be my favorite and this Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole is about as easy as Mexican food can be made.

Five ingredients and your on your way to a casserole that soothes the craving for the popular enchilada.

In their original form as Mexican street food, enchiladas were simply corn tortillas dipped in chili sauce and eaten without fillings.

While typical enchiladas are corn tortillas rolled around a filling and covered with a chili pepper sauce, this casserole requires none of that effort.

It still offers the flavors and textures of an enchilada but in a casserole form.

Fun Fact: Enchiladas date back to Mayan times.

Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole Recipe

 

Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole Ingredients:

  • 1.5 pounds boneless, skinless, chicken breasts
  • 28 ounce can Red Enchilada Sauce (use your favorite!)
  • 11.7-ounce bag of corn tortillas
  • 3 cups grated cheddar cheese, divided
  • 3.8 ounce can sliced black olives, divided
  • Sour Cream, optional

Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole Directions:

  • Place uncooked chicken breasts in bottom of slow cooker
  • Pour entire can of enchilada sauce over chicken breasts
  • Place lid on crockpot and cook on HIGH for 4-hours, or LOW for 8 hours

easy chicken enchilada casserole shred the chicken

  • Shred the chicken with two forks, or your hand mixer, right in the slow cooker (I took mine out to show you the steps.)

easy chicken enchilada casserole tortilla strips cut

  • Cut the tortillas into strips

easy chicken enchilada casserole add tortilla strips

  • Add tortillas into the sauce with the chicken
  • Stir
  • Add 1 cup of the cheese and 1/2 the olives to the sauce and chicken mixture.
  • Stir
  • Flatten the mixture slightly

easy chicken enchilada casserole add remaining cheese and olives

 

  • Add the rest of the cheese and olives to the top

easy chicken enchilada casserole in crockpot

  • Cover and cook on low for 40-60 minutes

easy chicken enchilada casserole ready to eat

  • Plate and top with sour cream, optional.

Dig in! My family thinks this Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole recipe is “the whole enchilada”!

easy chicken enchilada casserole in dish

Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole Recipe

Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole Recipe

Yield: 8
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 5 hours
Total Time: 5 hours 10 minutes

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Ingredients

  • 1.5 pounds boneless, skinless, chicken breasts
  • 28 ounce can Red Enchilada Sauce (use your favorite!)
  • 11.7-ounce bag of corn tortillas
  • 3 cups grated cheddar cheese, divided
  • 3.8 ounce can sliced black olives, divided
  • Sour Cream, optional

Instructions

  1. Place uncooked chicken breasts in bottom of slow cooker
  2. Pour entire can of enchilada sauce over chicken breasts
  3. Place lid on crockpot and cook on HIGH for 4-hours, or LOW for 8 hours
  4. Shred the chicken with two forks, or your hand mixer, right in the slow cooker (I took mine out to show you the steps.)
  5. Cut the tortillas into strips
  6. Add tortillas into the sauce with the chicken
  7. Stir
  8. Add 1 cup of the cheese and 1/2 the olives to the sauce and chicken mixture.
  9. Stir
  10. Flatten the mixture slightly
  11. Add the rest of the cheese and olives to the top
  12. Cover and cook on low for 40-60 minutes
  13. Plate and top with sour cream, optional.

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About Julee: Julee Morrison is an experienced author with 35 years of expertise in parenting and recipes. She is the author of four cookbooks: The Instant Pot College Cookbook, The How-To Cookbook for Teens, The Complete Cookbook for Teens, and The Complete College Cookbook. Julee is passionate about baking, crystals, reading, and family. Her writing has appeared in The LA Times (Bon Jovi Obsession Goes Global), Disney's Family Fun Magazine (August 2010, July 2009, September 2008), and My Family Gave Up Television (page 92, Disney Family Fun August 2010). Her great ideas have been featured in Disney's Family Fun (Page 80, September 2008) and the Write for Charity book From the Heart (May 2010). Julee's work has also been published in Weight Watchers Magazine, All You Magazine (Jan. 2011, February 2011, June 2013), Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine (Oct. 2011), Red River Family Magazine (Jan. 2011), BonAppetit.com, and more. Notably, her article "My Toddler Stood on Elvis' Grave and Scaled Over Boulders to Get to a Dinosaur" made AP News, and "The Sly Way I Cured My Child's Lying Habit" was featured on PopSugar. When she's not writing, Julee enjoys spending time with her family and exploring new baking recipes.
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