Low Carb Enchiladas
Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas are an easy dinner that requires minimal ingredients. This easy chicken dish is loaded with shredded chicken, green chiles, sour cream, and cheese!
Why You’ll Love This Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas Recipe
- Versatile – This recipe works with all kinds of tortillas. Don’t want to use tortillas? No worries, deli sliced chicken works as a great tortilla substitute, too!
- Diet Friendly – I’ve tested this dish with low-fat and full-fat ingredients, low-carb substitutes, and gluten-free swaps. For a dish filled with cheese, you’ll be surprised at how well you can fit this into your dietary needs!
- Feeds a Crowd – While this does require some prep, you can easily serve a crowd with this dish in no time! You don’t need to babysit it as it bakes, so you can focus on company or the family while dinner cooks.
Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas Recipe Ingredients
- Chicken: shredded, rotisserie chicken or left over grilled chicken work great.
- Tortillas: any variety will do including corn tortillas, flour tortillas, or low carb tortillas.
- Cream cheese: full fat or reduced fat cream cheese will work in this recipe. I
- Shredded cheese: shredded cheddar, Monterey jack cheese Colby-jack or a blend. If you prefer a bit of spice pepper-jack is also a great option.
- Green Chilies: mild, canned green chiles. Be careful not to accidentally grab the spicy!
- Sour cream: full fat sour cream works best in this recipe.
- Green Enchilada Sauce: my favorite brand is Hatch, the flavor is amazing!
How to Make Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas
The complete recipe recipe is below in a printable format, just keep scrolling. This is a quick overview along with step by step photos.
- Make the filling: In a large bowl combine the shredded chicken, cream cheese, shredded cheese and green chiles. Set the bowl aside.
- Make the sauce: To make the enchilada sauce combine the green chile enchilada sauce and sour cream. Whisk until smooth to create a rich creamy white sauce.
- Prepare your dish: Next, grease a 7×11 casserole dish and pour about 1/2 cup of the enchilada sauce to the bottom of the pan. This will be a thin layer, just enough to lightly cover the bottom of the baking dish.
- Assemble the enchiladas: Spoon the chicken mixture into a tortilla and tightly roll. Lay the enchilada seam side down. Repeat until all the chicken mixture has been used. Top the rolls with the remaining sour cream sauce, sprinkle with the shredded cheese and bake 25 minutes until golden brown.
Tips For Making Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas
- Make sure you’ve combined your filling well so you get a mix of ingredients in every bite.
- When adding the enchilada sauce to the sour cream, be sure to whisk it. This ensures that everything is incorporated fully.
- If using corn tortillas warm them 10-15 seconds in a clean kitchen towel to make them more pliable.
- Don’t overfill. I know it’s tempting, but then you won’t be able to roll up your enchiladas enough that they hold in the ingredients when you go to remove them from the pan.
What to Serve With Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas
This is a great stand alone dish served with chips and salsa. It is also amazing with Mexican rice, black beans, or refried beans.
How to Store Keto Enchiladas
Allow the enchiladas to cool, then transfer to an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. The longer they sit in the sauce, the soggier they will get. To reheat, simply microwave at 50% power in 1-minute increments or warm in the oven at 350 degrees until reheated throughout. If you want to freeze these, it’s best to do it before they cook; simply assemble in the pan, cover tightly in plastic wrap, cover tightly in aluminum foil, and freeze. When ready to bake, uncover and bake 40-50 minutes.
How to Freeze Low Carb Enchiladas
This is an easy, family friendly meal to have on stand by. To freeze, simply cover tightly with plastic wrap and then add a layer of aluminum foil on top. When you’re ready to bake, just remove the coverings and bake for 40-50 minutes, or until completely cooked through.
Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas Recipe FAQs
If using a low carb tortilla they are keto-friendly. The nutrition is calculated based on using Mission Carb Balance Street Taco Tortillas and two loaded enchiladas is under 8 net carbs. The nutrition will vary based on the tortilla you use.
P.S. – Want to bring the Mexican restaurant to your own kitchen? Add a Keto Margarita–It only adds 1.4 net carbs!
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Get the Recipe: Keto Chicken Enchiladas
Ingredients
For the Chicken Filling
- 4 cups shredded chicken, cooked
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1 (4 ounce) can mild green chiles
- ¼ cup chopped green onions
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Green Chile Enchilada Sauce
- 1 (15 ounce) can Green Chile Enchilada Sauce
- 8 ounces sour cream
You will also need:
- Between 10-12 small tortillas, (corn, flour or low carb)
- 1 cup shredded cheddar for the topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a large bowl combine the shredded chicken, cream cheese, shredded cheese, green onions and green chiles. Set the bowl aside.
- To make the enchilada sauce combine the green chile enchilada sauce and sour cream. Whisk until smooth.
- Next, grease a 7×11 casserole dish and add about 1/2 cup of the enchilada sauce to the bottom of the pan. This will be a thin layer, just enough to lightly cover the bottom of the baking dish.
- To assemble the enchiladas, spoon the chicken mixture into a tortilla and tightly roll Lay the enchilada seam side down.
- Repeat until all the chicken mixture has been used.
- Top the rolls with the remaining enchilada sauce, top with the shredded cheese and bake 25 minutes until golden brown.
Oh. My. Lanta!!!!
I was the one craving sour cream chicken enchiladas. I’m not keto, my husband is. I made a pan of these, using the sliced deli chicken. That is a hack that will be used from now on! So good, and I used the low carb tortillas I WOULD have used to have chips and salsa! We’d both like to thank you for a delicious Mexican feast!
Thank you so much for this recipe. I was about ready to throw in the towel on keto because I was so sick of my usual grilled protein and grilled vegetables. But this recipe is what I would call keto comfort food. The creamy deliciousness of these chicken enchiladas has fed my soul. Not sure if I did something wrong but, I followed the measurement directions to a T and had enough filling and sauce for two 11 X 7 dishes (about 6 enchiladas per dish). One I made with low carb tortillas and the other with the chicken lunch meat hack. My husband (not keto) actually prefers the chicken lunch meat option.
I prefer red enchillada sauce. Would that work in this recipe? I don’t eat green chilis either.
This recipe may not be for you; I can only recommend it as written.
This is a great recipe. It makes enchiladas so quick and easy to make!! My family enjoyed them! It would work with red enchilada sauce, too! It just depends on what flavor you prefer! I love the green!
Made these last night, hubby and I both enjoyed them. Saving this recipe to make again!
Is this something you can prepare the night before and bake the next day?
I’vebeen keto for years and I’m making these right now. I see from the reviews that they must be delicious and I’m really looking forward to eating them. Thanks for the recipe
Absolutely delicious recipe Annie! I used Mission brand low carb flour tortillas, the wrap size between their taco & burrito size. I got 8 enchiladas in a 13×9 & plenty of sauce to cover. Made a few hours ahead but kept sauce off until baking so wouldn’t absorb or get soggy. I did add a pinch or salt & pepper to sauce & filling too, I felt it needed it. Thank you for a great recipe, my teenagers loved it, definitely a do-over.
I’ve made this multiple times and it’s a true crowd pleaser!!
I’ve made these multiple times and they always come out so well!
Love this one! I make it with regular tortillas for my family and a small dish for myself with keto tortillas. Yum! Thank you!
These are the best keto enchiladas I have ever made! I found some zero carb tortillas at sams club. They are a bit smaller but they work. They have these everywhere, they are just more cost effective at sams. I love your site, thank-you for sharing all your good ideas with us.
I just made these! Thank you for an easy low carb version that is amazing!!