Belizean Enchiladas Recipe or “Enchilades”

Simple ingredients, easy recipe, no bake, delicious results. This Belizean Enchiladas Recipe is much different than other Central American enchiladas. The most obvious difference is that it is not baked. The ingredients are so simple and fresh, that they don’t need to be baked for their flavors to meld.

In Belize, enchiladas are a common lunchtime snack or meal typically sold by the dollar.

Ingredients for No-Bake Belizean Enchiladas:

• 4 medium-sized tomatoes
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1-2 tablespoons of chicken bouillon powder (“consume de pollo”)
• 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
• 4 cloves of garlic, minced
• 5 boiled eggs, minced after boiling
• Shredded cheese (options: Hard Back Dutch Cheese (Edam), Happy Cow Cheese, Cheddar, or Asiago)
• 20 corn tortillas

Belizean Enchilada Sauce Preparation

• Chop your tomatoes and onions roughly, doesn’t have to be pretty.
• Put some oil in a medium saucepan, add onions, tomatoes, and garlic, and fry together until they are well cooked.
• Then add your consume (chicken bouillon cubes work too) and a little bit of water to make it a little runny (maybe 1/3 cup), and then add your tomato paste.
• I like to add a whole habanero pepper at this point as well (I don’t break the habanero in the sauce so that I don’t burn my family, but enjoy the subtle flavor this provides and then later I devour it myself).
• Simmer slightly till you have a beautiful sauce. Allow the flavors to blend, if you have time let it cook longer.

Belizean Enchilada Assembly

• Warm your tortillas in the microwave for 1 min wrapped in a paper towel. Cold tortillas tend to crack.
• Then take one tortilla at a time and gently dip it in your tomato sauce, so that each side is coated with sauce
• Fill in the warm tortillas with your minced boiled eggs (I like to spoon in a little tomato sauce into the tortilla at this point, but you get to decide!)
• Roll each tortilla like a flute.
• Repeat till they are all wrapped up on a platter.
• Spoon the remaining sauce over the top.
• Finally, sprinkle as much cheese as looks delectable!