Printable Recipe: Apple Enchiladas Recipe for Mexican Dessert

Apple Enchiladas Recipe for Mexican Dessert

Enchiladas are usually made by wrapping a corn tortilla around a savory filling and covering it with a spicy sauce. But this version is sweet! When making this Mexican desserts recipe, you use a sweet for a filling, and your "enchilada sauce" might be a simple chocolate sauce with whipped cream. Or a caramel sauce. Either way, it's heaven.

This recipe has you make your own apple mixture to fill dessert enchiladas. But you can also buy canned pie filling, use preserves, and streamline the whole process. And think outside the box! Apple is great, but these sweet dessert enchiladas are also wonderful in peach, cherry, mango... you name it!

Okay, so apple enchiladas may not be the most authentic Mexican dessert recipe in the world... but they are a lot of fun to make an eat, and they do feel very Mexican!

Ingredients:
8 green apples
1/2 tbsp. lemon juice
6 (8") flour tortillas
1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon, divided
1/3 C. butter
1 1/2 C. white sugar, divided
1/2 C. packed brown sugar
1 1/2 C. water, divided

Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. Core, seed and chop apples, and place in a small saucepan. Add lemon juice, 1 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon. Cook fruit mixture until it is reduced by about half. Stir in 1 C. sugar and simmer thickened slightly.

3. Spoon fruit evenly onto all tortillas and sprinkle with another 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. Roll up the tortillas and place seam side down on a lightly greased 8x8 baking pan.

4. Melt the butter in a saucepan and add remaining white sugar, the brown sugar, and the 1/2 C. water.

5. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, stirring constantly, 3 minutes, until thickened. Stir in cinnamon and pour over enchiladas.

6. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

When you look at recipes like this, you really see how Mexican desserts recipes reflect the ingenuity of the people who created them!