🌮🧀 Creamy Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas ✨🐔

Ultra-Creamy Mexican-Inspired Comfort Food with Tender Chicken and Homemade White Sauce
These Creamy Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas are everything comfort food should be—warm, cheesy, rich, and incredibly satisfying. Tender shredded chicken is combined with zesty green chiles, juicy tomatoes, and savory seasonings, then wrapped in soft flour tortillas and smothered in a silky homemade sour cream sauce. Finished with a generous layer of melted Monterey Jack cheese, these enchiladas bake to bubbly perfection and deliver restaurant-quality flavor right from your own kitchen.

Perfect for family dinners, meal prep, potlucks, or special occasions, this crowd-pleasing recipe is guaranteed to become a favorite.

⏱️ Recipe Overview
Detail Time
🥣 Preparation Time 20 minutes
🔥 Cooking Time 20 minutes
⏰ Total Time 40 minutes
🍽️ Servings 10 enchiladas (approximately 10 servings)
📈 Skill Level Moderate
🌎 Cuisine Mexican-American
🍴 Category Main Course
🛒 Ingredients
🐔 Chicken Filling
1. 🐔 Cooked Chicken
1 pound cooked chicken, shredded into bite-sized pieces
2. 🍅 Diced Tomatoes
1 can (14.5 oz) diced tomatoes, well drained
3. 🌶️ Diced Green Chiles
1 can (4 oz) diced green chiles
4. 🌮 Taco Seasoning
1 tablespoon taco seasoning
5. 🧀 Monterey Jack Cheese
8 oz Monterey Jack cheese, freshly shredded
Reserve ¾ cup for the filling and the remainder for topping
🥣 Creamy Sour Cream Sauce
6. 🧈 Unsalted Butter
¼ cup unsalted butter
7. 🌾 All-Purpose Flour
¼ cup all-purpose flour
8. 🍲 Chicken Broth
14.5 oz chicken broth
9. 🥛 Sour Cream
1 cup sour cream
🌮 Assembly
10. 🫓 Flour Tortillas
10 large flour tortillas (10-inch size)
👩‍🍳 Step-by-Step Instructions
1️⃣ Prepare the Oven and Baking Dish
Preheat your oven to: