Chicken Enchiladas Suizas

These are my non-traditional, quick and easy, slightly healthier chicken enchiladas.  They have a lot in common with King Ranch Casserole in terms of prep and construction, but are different enough in taste and texture to warrant their own place in my recipe collection.

Hardware:
9x13 glassware baking dish
aluminum foil
mixing bowl

Software
1 lb cooked chicken, diced or shredded
1 small onion, diced
4 cups verde salsa
1 cup sour cream
24 corn tortillas
3 cups shredded cheese

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Combine 3 cups of the salsa, the sour cream, and approximately half the cheese in the mixing bowl.  Dice or shred your cooked chicken and add to the bowl.  Sweat the onion over low heat in a splash of oil and a pinch of salt and add (this step, and the onion for that matter, are optional) and add.

Place 6 tortillas in the bottom of your 9x13 baking dish.  Ladle on approximately 1/3rd of the filling mix, then top with another 6 tortillas.  Repeat this process until you have 4 layers of tortillas sandwiching 3 layers of filling.  Top the last layer with the remaining 1 cup salsa and the remaining cheese.

Cover with foil and bake approximately 1 hour or until cooked through.  Remove the foil and bake another 10 minutes to brown the top.

As with king ranch casserole, lots of possible alterations here.  You can use roasted chicken breast, rotisserie chicken, boiled picked chicken, leftover turkey, etc.  You can also experiment with different salsas (including homemade, although it's time consuming.)  Avoid 'homestyle' tortillas as they are too thick and will soak up all your salsa.

If you want traditional 'rolled' enchiladas you will need to add an extra step.  Heat a 1/4 cup of oil in a skillet over medium-low heat, and dip each tortilla in it for a few seconds.  This will soften the tortillas enough to allow you to roll them around a small amount of filling.  Personally, I don't think this tastes any different, and it is a lot more work (and slightly more calories) than the stacked method above.