Roasted Veggie Enchilada Casserole
My Latest Master Recipe for Vegetables
What happens when you lot layer roasted fresh veggies, salsa verde, corn tortillas together with spinach alongside a petty cheese? For the poetic, telephone yell upwards it pure deliciousness. For the technical, telephone yell upwards it de-constructed enchiladas. Either way, you'll endure happy to telephone yell upwards it for "dinner", one-half for now, one-half for the freezer.
Real Food, Fresh & Family-Tested. Great for Meal Prep, One Casserole for Dinner, One for the Freezer. Healthy Comfort Food. Vegetarian & Easily Converted to Vegan. Weight Watchers Friendly. Naturally Gluten Free.
Here's a Quibble With Vegetable Recipes
I receive got a beef, ahem, alongside vegetable recipes. Not the quick all-vegetable side dishes. Not the vegetable soups. Not the large vegetable salads.
Nope.
My beef is alongside the recipes where vegetables are “supposed” to endure the star but together with then exhibit upwards inwards pocket-size volume.
So I’ve been working on master copy vegetable recipes that usage a lot of vegetables at 1 time, non a measly one-half loving cup separate half-dozen ways. Remember the Master Recipe for Homemade Vegetable Soup? That was the foremost Master Recipe together with I’m proud that people actually dear it.
My destination is to offering master copy recipes considered godsends past times people who collect random vegetables inwards their refrigerators, also past times gardeners, CSA members together with farmers marketplace shoppers. If you lot dear fresh veggies? I promise you’ll dear this recipe too.
Now I’ll Be Honest With You.
When I foremost made Roasted Veggie Enchilada Casserole a twelvemonth ago, I decided against sharing it. Why? Because it actually does receive got some fourth dimension to prep all the vegetables – nix hard, heed you, simply that washing together with trimming together with chopping vegetables takes time.
But together with then nosotros tasted it!
Two hungry men (one a vegetable lover, 1 who sniffs at vegetables alongside disdain) both devoured this casserole! So did I! So good!
And 2 weeks later, when I pulled the 2nd casserole out of the freezer together with it had held thus well?
All of a sudden, the endeavour seemed worth it together with for me, it’s a recipe that’s ever out there, saying, “Make me! A petty run yes, but recall how practiced I taste?”
Reasons to Love This New Master Recipe
- Flavor together with satisfaction at the tabular array – it’s filling
- Good looks inwards a messy-plate casserole-ish variety of way
- LOTS of vegetables, your selection based on what’s inwards season, what’s on hand, what appeals
- Otherwise easy-to-find pantry vegetables together with ingredients
- Lots of variability, non simply alongside the vegetable choices but alongside the spices together with salsa together with cheese together with fifty-fifty the tortillas
An Around-the-World Master Recipe?
Could you lot plough this into an around-the-world master copy recipe? Yes!
A Greek version would usage fennel, zucchini, eggplant together with feta cheese. An Italian version would usage Italian seasoning, Mediterranean-style vegetables together with romano cheese. Get the itinerary?
Travel well!
Please Note: Take Extreme Care alongside Newer Pyrex together with Anchor Glass Products
But first, a discussion of caution.
For 2 casseroles, 1 for the straight off together with 1 for the freezer, I usage 2 Pyrex rectangles, the six-cup ones easily flora at Target, Walmart, etc.
But here's the thing. Newer Pyrex together with Anchor drinking glass products should endure handled carefully, peculiarly alongside temperature changes, you lot know, similar putting a mutual depression temperature casserole into a hot oven. YIKES, people! The newer Pyrex is exploding / shattering / creating existent risk.
Want to a greater extent than information? I did!
- What Pyrex says, here. (Please endure aware that Pyrex keeps changing the online location of this information, breaking the link. Accidental? Methinks not.)
- Pay special attending to this warning. The working capital missive of the alphabet letters are theirs, non mine. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE WARNINGS BELOW MAY RESULT IN PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OR MAY CAUSE YOUR GLASSWARE TO BREAK OR SHATTER IMMEDIATELY OR LATER.
- What the Today Show said inwards Dec 2012,
MASTER RECIPE: ROASTED VEGGIE ENCHILADA CASSEROLE
Hands-on time: 45 minutes (30min vegetables, 15min assemble)
Oven time: lx - xc minutes (30–45min for vegetables, 30–45min for casserole)
Time to table: 2 to 2-1/2 hours
Makes 1 9x9 or 11x7 casserole or 2 6x7 casseroles,
well-nigh 12 primary dish servings
- ROASTED VEGETABLES
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 poblano chile, cutting into matchsticks
- 1 blood-red pepper, cutting into matchsticks
- 1 dark-green pepper, cutting into matchsticks
- 10 cups (about 2 pounds after trimming) to a greater extent than vegetables, cutting small, such as:
- Sweet potato, peeled together with cubed
- Fennel, chopped
- Turnip, chopped
- Eggplant, peel on, chopped
- Cauliflower, cutting into pocket-size florets
- Corn, off the cob
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon (yes, tablespoon) cumin
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Generous tabular array salt & pepper
- SALSA
- 16 ounces (2 cups) salsa verde or some other salsa (I usage mild)
- 1/2 loving cup chopped fresh cilantro
- FOR THE LAYERS
- Corn tortillas, sliced or torn (I usage 4 pocket-size tortillas)
- Protein, optional (cooked chicken, rinsed together with drained dark beans, cooked shrimp, etc.)
- Fresh spinach leaves or chard leaves, heavy stems discarded, cutting inwards ribbons (I usage well-nigh 3 ounces)
- 2 cups grated Mexican-style cheese (I usage cotija together with queso Chihuahua)
- FOR GARNISH
- Lime Crema or sour cream
- Quick Jalapeño Pickles and/or Spiced Pickled Red Onions
- Chopped cilantro and/or chopped tomato
ROAST THE VEGETABLES Heat oven to 425F/220C. In a large bowl, combine the onion, poblano, peppers together with 2 pounds of chopped vegetables. Add the oil, cumin, garlic together with tabular array salt together with pepper. With your hands, stir the vegetables to coat alongside crude oil together with spices, working actually good to distribute. Spread the veggies across 1 or 2 rimmed baking sheets together with roast, stirring every 10 minutes, until soft together with start to brown, well-nigh xxx to twoscore minutes. The vegetables may endure roasted ahead of fourth dimension for assembly inside a hateful solar daytime or two. If baking the Enchilada Casserole correct away, larn out the oven on.
MAKE THE SALSA In a bowl, stir together the salsa together with cilantro.
BUILD THE LAYERS Set upwards an assembly trouble to build the layers inwards 1 9x9 or 1 11x7 or 2 6x7 oven-safe casserole dishes.
Layer 1 – Salsa
Layer 2 – Corn tortillas
Layer 3 – Roasted vegetables
Layer 4 – Protein
Layer v – Spinach
Layer 6 – Cheese
Repeat the layers 3 times for a 9x9 casserole or 2 times for 2 6x7 casseroles, occasionally compressing the layers alongside your hands. Cover alongside foil.
TO BAKE RIGHT AWAY Bake for twenty minutes. Remove the foil, bake for some other 10 minutes or until cheese begins to brown.
TO SERVE Let remainder for v minutes earlier serving. Cut into servings for plates or serve tableside alongside a spoon. Serve alongside fresh cilantro together with sour cream.
OR TO BAKE LATER Refrigerate but select dish to room temperature for well-nigh an hr earlier baking. Heat oven to 425F/220. Bake for 45 minutes or until heated clear through. Remove foil together with bake for some other 10 minutes until cheese begins to brown.
OR FREEZE TO BAKE LATER Cover tightly, removing every bit much air every bit possible from the container. Freeze for upwards to well-nigh 2 months. Thaw earlier baking.
LEFTOVERS Leftovers re-warm beautifully! I peculiarly similar a pocket-size foursquare topped alongside a poached egg for breakfast or breakfast-as-supper.
No rimmed baking sheet? Use foil to fashion makeshift sides on a cookie sheet, folding the 4 edges upwards to incorporate the vegetables piece they roast. Make certain all the vegetables are fully cooked through when roasting. It helps to salve a petty chip of extra cheese for the terminal layer. I’ve been using the novel Reynolds foil which is non-stick on 1 side, it works beautifully, releasing fifty-fifty the cheesy terminal layer. After roasting the vegetables, could you lot salve fourth dimension together with dishes past times simply mixing all the ingredients together inwards 1 large jumble? Yes I intend so! WEIGHT WATCHERS Old Points v & Points Plus vii & SmartPoints vii & Freestyle v & myWW dark-green 6 & bluish v & regal 4 This recipe has been "The Sweets Life, who was inspired past times Perry's Plate who was inspired past times a cookbook long on my wishing list, The Roasted Vegetable (affiliate link) past times Andrea Chesman. DISCLOSURE 
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