Need a recipe for a low carb enchilada sauce!!!!

jamie31
jamie31 Posts: 568 Member
edited October 1 in Recipes
Hey all,
My sister is visiting from Las Vegas and we will be making an authentic mexican dinner tomorrow night. She wants to make a copy cat version of Chi Chi's Chicken Enchilada SUpremas ( they are made with a white sauce). I am on a eating plan where i can only have 15 carbs for dinner so i was planning on just eating the sauce and chicken ( no torilla) but yikes i plugged the sauce in and I will go WAY over my limit. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can make a low carb enchilada sauce for myself???

Any suggestions would be awesome. Thanks in advance

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  • jamie1888
    jamie1888 Posts: 1,704 Member
    If you make a green enchilada sauce, it's only peppers and stuff. (look up green enchilada sauce on the internet). Or just buy a canned green sauce.
  • chrissandra
    chrissandra Posts: 8 Member
    Can you just have red enchilada sauce instead? Or would it not go with the other ingredients? That would be my main recommendation. I'm not sure what's in the white sauce that makes it so high in carbs, but I'm sure you can find a recipe for it online that would fit into your eating plan better.
  • LATeagno
    LATeagno Posts: 620 Member
    Fellow low carber here!

    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/red-enchilada-sauce/detail.aspx


    This recipe looks carb friendly (maybe 4-5g per serving?) and has good reviews. Good luck!
  • LATeagno
    LATeagno Posts: 620 Member
    Maybe you could add some cream to make it creamier like the white sauce?
  • LATeagno
    LATeagno Posts: 620 Member
    Sorry for the multiple posts.

    http://www.food.com/recipe/chicken-enchiladas-white-sauce-rich-131628


    This is a white sauce that looks perfect minus the flour. Do you have Carbquik or Carbalose flour at home? You could sub it for the flour and it would only add 2 net carbs.
  • jamie31
    jamie31 Posts: 568 Member
    Maybe you could add some cream to make it creamier like the white sauce?

    Sounds like a good idea to me. Thanks!
  • jamie31
    jamie31 Posts: 568 Member
    Can you just have red enchilada sauce instead? Or would it not go with the other ingredients? That would be my main recommendation. I'm not sure what's in the white sauce that makes it so high in carbs, but I'm sure you can find a recipe for it online that would fit into your eating plan better.

    The white sauce has cream of mushroom, cream of chicken soups, cheese, cilantro, jalepenos, and sour cream.


    Maybe I will just try the enchilada sauce and make mine in a different pan.... or i just saw something for the philadelphia cooking creme in the santa fe flavor, maybe that would work, it seems pretty low carb

    thanks for the suggestion
  • BodyByBrusselSprouts
    BodyByBrusselSprouts Posts: 49 Member
    There's a recipe in the Primal Blueprint cookbook for enchiladas but instead of tortillas they make wraps using egg whites. If you don't have that cookbook there is a video here:
    http://www.thefitclubnetwork.com/2011/01/primal-blueprint-enchiladas-weight-los/

    Dave
  • kellieprindle
    kellieprindle Posts: 69 Member
    http://www.cooking-mexican-recipes.com/enchilada-sauce-recipe.html


    It's a red sauce but it is fabulous!





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