These Healthy Green Enchiladas with Chicken are just 334 calories and packed with 30.5g of protein!
For this green chicken enchiladas recipe, I supplied you with a homemade salsa verde, homemade shredded chicken, and homemade taco sauce recipe. But you could easily get store-bought and pick up a rotisserie chicken from the store too.
This healthy enchiladas recipe is easy and impressive. And would make a great meal prep dinner as well!
I like to use leftover chicken to make these green enchiladas easy and inexpensive. But cooking up some chicken for it is also possible, as is picking up some precooked chicken from the store.
These healthy green enchiladas with chicken are just 334 calories and packed with 30.5g of protein!
Healthy Green Enchiladas with Chicken
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make green chicken enchiladas easy and fast.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a nutrition label, meal prepping tips and more in the sections below.
To make this green chicken enchiladas recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read though them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients in Chicken Verde Enchiladas (shopping list!)
- How to Make Healthy Enchiladas with Chicken
- Healthy Green Enchiladas with Chicken (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Chicken Enchiladas in Green Sauce
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this healthy recipe for green enchiladas to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for healthy chicken enchiladas with green sauce…
Ingredients in Chicken Verde Enchiladas
As I noted above, I’ve supplied you with several homemade recipes. You can use them, or get the store-bought equivalents.
Here they are, with store-bought swaps to make cooking these low calorie enchiladas easier.
Homemade vs. Store-bought:
- Taco Seasoning – get a store-bought packet, empty it into a bag or jar and use that instead.
- Shredded Chicken – get a rotisserie chicken at the store and shred it while you cook the onions
- Salsa Verde – get a jar of green salsa from the store
Shopping List for Green Enchiladas Recipe:
- Olive oil spray
- Sweet onion
- Garlic
- Taco Seasoning
- Diced green chiles
- Shredded Chicken
- Salsa Verde
- Fresh cilantro
- Salt and pepper
- Shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 8-inch flour tortillas
- Greek Yogurt
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this low calorie green enchilada sauce and green enchiladas you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for these healthier enchiladas can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make chicken enchiladas in green sauce…
How to Make Healthy Enchiladas with Chicken
You can easily meal prep this recipe for healthy enchiladas! Simply make the healthy enchilada sauce, assemble the chicken enchiladas, and cover. At this point you can even freeze them.
When you’re ready to cook the easy healthy enchiladas, defrost (if needed) and bake according to the directions.
How to Make Green Enchiladas:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees, and spray a 9×13 casserole dish with olive oil and set aside.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat, and spray with olive oil.
- Add onion, and cook for 3-5 minutes until translucent.
- Stir in garlic, and taco seasoning, cook for about 1 minute until fragrant. Then remove the skillet from the burner and stir in green chiles.
- Add the onions and green chilis to a large bowl. Add the chicken, 1/3 cup salsa verde, cilantro, salt, pepper, and 1/4 cup of Monterey Jack cheese.
- To assemble the enchiladas: Lay one tortilla on a flat surface and spoon 3/4 cup of the chicken mixture in the center. Roll the tortilla and place seam side down onto prepared baking dish. Repeat with remaining tortillas and chicken mixture. Once all the enchiladas are assembled, top with remaining salsa verde and remaining 1/2 cup Monterey Jack cheese.
- Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes, until the cheese is melted and the sauce is bubbling.
- Serve hot, topped with dollops of Greek Yogurt.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best low calorie green chicken enchiladas…
Healthy Green Enchiladas with Chicken
This healthy green enchiladas recipe is easy, and you can even meal prep the low calorie enchiladas! (directions above in the “How to Make section).
Be sure to see more healthy recipes for dinner below… keep scrolling!
Healthy Green Chicken Enchiladas
Ingredients
- Olive oil spray
- 1 sweet onion diced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons Taco Seasoning
- 2 4-ounce cans diced green chiles
- 4 cups Shredded Chicken
- 2 cups Salsa Verde divided
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese divided
- 8 8-inch flour tortillas
- 1/4 cup Greek Yogurt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees, and spray a 9×13 casserole dish with olive oil and set aside.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat, and spray with olive oil.
- Add onion, and cook for 3-5 minutes until translucent.
- Stir in garlic, and taco seasoning, cook for about 1 minute until fragrant. Then remove the skillet from the burner and stir in green chiles.
- Add the onions and green chilis to a large bowl. Add the chicken, 1/3 cup salsa verde, cilantro, salt, pepper, and 1/4 cup of Monterey Jack cheese.
- To assemble the enchiladas: Lay one tortilla on a flat surface and spoon 3/4 cup of the chicken mixture in the center. Roll the tortilla and place seam side down onto prepared baking dish. Repeat with remaining tortillas and chicken mixture. Once all the enchiladas are assembled, top with remaining salsa verde and remaining 1/2 cup Monterey Jack cheese.
- Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes, until the cheese is melted and the sauce is bubbling.
- Serve hot, topped with dollops of Greek Yogurt.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Chicken Enchiladas in Green Sauce
The nutrition and calorie below are based off 1 enchilada with 1/2 cup chicken inside.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating the goal is to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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