Any Home Bakers Here?

I made sour cream turkey enchiladas for dinner last night and they were pretty good. Next time, I'll make a couple alterations in the recipe but here is the one I followed (I made a 1/2 recipe, we don't need 16 enchiladas sitting around!).

Sour Cream Turkey Enchiladas

3 1/2 Cups chicken or turkey broth
1 tsp. minced garlic
3 Tab. butter
3/4 Cup diced onion
5 Tab. flour
1 tsp. coriander
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 - 12 oz. can chopped green chilies, drained (or 3 of the 4 oz. cans)
2 Cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese, divided
1 1/2 Cups sour cream
6 Cups turkey, cubed
16 corn tortillas

* Preheat oven to 350*
* Grease a 9x13" baking dish and set aside.
* In a large skillet, melt the butter. Add the onion and cook until translucent. Add the flour coriander, cumin and pepper, stirring until the flour is incorporated in the butter and the mixture is thick.
* Slowly add the broth a bit at a time, stirring until thick and smooth.
* Add the green chilies; cook, stirring regularly, until thick and bubby (about 5-10 minutes)
* Remove from heat and add 1/2 Cup of cheese and the sour cream to the skillet mixture.
* In a bowl, mix the turkey and 3/4 Cup of the sauce.
* Place about 1/4 Cup of turkey mixture down the center of a corn tortilla, roll up and place, seam down in the pan. Repeat until filling is used.
* Pour remaining sauce over enchiladas.
* Bake, covered with aluminum foil, for 20 minutes. Remove foil, sprinkle with remaining cheese and bake for 10 minutes until cheese is melted.

Serve with chopped green onion, fresh cilantro, black olives or crushed red peppers if desired.
Serves 8

The alterations I will make next time is more cumin, maybe add a pinch of cayenne pepper...overall, the dish was pretty good but somewhat bland (for our tastes). I didn't have coriander on hand so need to pick some up. Also, the sauce seemed kind of thin to me, so I'll make it thicker in the future. I did use 2 Cups of shredded cheese with just 1/2 a recipe, I would definitely double that to 4 Cups if making the whole recipe.
 
@NorthFLChick

Sorry the recipe turned out bland.

It is surprising that a recipe sounds great but we find it needs some "punch". Even those you find online that get 5 stars in reviews.

But, we have several Mexican Restaurants here and IMO the menu items are bland, even for a chain store that used to have great food.
 
@NorthFLChick

Sorry the recipe turned out bland.

It is surprising that a recipe sounds great but we find it needs some "punch". Even those you find online that get 5 stars in reviews.

But, we have several Mexican Restaurants here and IMO the menu items are bland, even for a chain store that used to have great food.

DH and I have talked about the same issue. We don't want to burn our faces off but flavor is nice, flavor is a good thing to have in food.

A couple years ago when we were selling our garden produce at a farmer's market a lady at the booth next to us sold Greek food she made. She had lines of regular customers and would rake in a few hundred bucks every week. Sometimes she would give us samples and we'd just scratch our heads trying to figure out what people liked about her food...nothing had flavor. Of course she told us her "secret" to great Greek food was to use plenty of feta cheese and olive oil in everything. That could account why it all tasted the same.

Maybe people have become so accustomed to mediocre chain-style food, they aren't used to getting flavor?
 
Oh I disagree, Greek food has tons of flavor. Feta cheese ans olive oil is good, but the bitter of a grape leaf, the yummy meat they rotisserie, the tomatoes and onions, lemon juice, and then finish it off with a good wine.
 
Sunflour and NorthFlchick i agree with yall people seem not to want flavor or diversity. My husband when i met him wouldnt eat most things that had spices because of how he was raised. His grandparents food is very bland even their spaghetti has no flavor how they accomplished that i dont know. I am all about tasting my food and enjoying it. I have a recipe for enchiladas my mother makes they arent spicey but i dont think she meant for them to be.
Topping
One cup sour cream
Half a can of cream of mushroom soup
Cheddar cheese(up to you how much to use)
Filling
One cup sour cream
Half a can of cream of mushroom soup
Pre cooked (we do boiled)Chicken/ turkey ( depends on how meaty you want it)
One can of green chillies diced.
You just put the filling in the flour tortillas wrap them up put them in a baking pan the cover them with the topping (all but cheese and bake for twenty minutes the bake with cheese until melted.
Its a simple recipe my mother worked to much to have complicated recipes and with three of us (2 boys) she claims we ate to much lol. My husband wont eat this because of the sour cream and mushroom soup he doesnt like either really at all i can get him to eat stroganoff but thats it with sour cream and of course my two year old refuses most foods right now she become very picky recently. I havent made this in about two or three years. Maybe its because i grew up with it but its one of my favorites. As is my dads verson of cheese chicken. I miss that alot but my husband doesnt like cheese dip at all so i dont make that either he no fun. However i did get him to like my dads texmex wontons so that was a bonus but no luck on the avacodo dip however my daughter and i both devour that so that was a blessing .
 
When i met my husband his favorite food was the hamburger helped beef pasta for thoss how havent had it your lucky to me it taste like cardboard. Ifs very bland pretty much just noodles with hamburger meat unseasoned. He also survived off not eating more then one meal a day so that could so be a reason.
 
When i met my husband his favorite food was the hamburger helped beef pasta for thoss how havent had it your lucky to me it taste like cardboard. Ifs very bland pretty much just noodles with hamburger meat unseasoned. He also survived off not eating more then one meal a day so that could so be a reason.

LMAO! We married the same man! I will agree that hubby was not raised to enjoy all the good foods I was. I just figured he was the exception not the norm.
 
Lmao i thought the same until i meet his family lmao. His grandmother invites us over for dinner and i dread it some days lol. I love them but their food not so much lol. Thats just to funny, and my dads some what the same except he likes spicy food just dont try to get him to eat vegetables on thanksgiving my dad actually at corn which i havent seen him eat in several years simply because he only eats meat and potatoes. However put hot sauce in front of him and it's gone lol.
 
I think people who are used to fresh food taste subtle flavors. When people eat out a lot they get used to heavy salt. The more salt in something the more it tastes the same as everything else -to me anyway.
I can rarely eat out and enjoy it.
Same goes for things out of cans, boxes, and bags. Convenient food is not... well... like you said. it tastes like cardboard. salty cardboard.
 

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