Seafood enchiladas with cherry tomato salsa
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | tablespoon | Butter or margarine |
| 1 | pounds | Medium shrimp, peeled and |
| Deveined | ||
| 6 | ounces | Bay or calico scallops |
| 6 | ounces | Cooked crabmeat |
| 2 | tablespoons | Butter or margarine |
| ¼ | cup | Flour |
| ¾ | cup | Milk |
| ¾ | cup | Reduced fat sour cream |
| ⅓ | cup | Sliced scallions |
| ⅓ | cup | Minced cilantro |
| 1 | Can chopped green chilies | |
| 6 | ounces | Pepper Jack cheese, shredded |
| 6 | ounces | Cheddar cheese, shredded |
| 12 | 6 inch corn tortillas, | |
| Warmed according to package | ||
| Directions | ||
| Cherry Tomato Salsa or | ||
| Bottled red or green salsa | ||
| 1 | pint | Cherry tomatoes |
| ⅓ | cup | Red onion, chopped |
| ⅓ | cup | Minced cilantro |
| 2 | tablespoons | Fresh lime juice |
| 1 | tablespoon | Minced jalapeno pepper |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
Directions
SAUCE
CHERRY TOMATO SALSA
Very lightly grease a 13 x 9 inch baking dish. Melt butter in a 4-quart saucepan over medium heat. Stir in shrimp and scallops and cook, stirring often, 2 to 3 minutes until shrimp are pink and scallops appear opaque. Cover, remove from heat and let stand 3 minutes until shrimp and scallops are opaque at centers. Add crabmeat and stir to mix. Strain over a 2 cup measure to reserve liquid. (You should have about ⅔ cup.) Place seafood in a medium bowl.
SAUCE: In same saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Whisk in flour until blended. Cook, stirring with whisk, about 2 minutes. Add milt to reserved shellfish liquid, then whisk into saucepan. Cook, stirring often, 4 to 5 minutes until smooth and thick as pudding.
Remove from heat; whisk in sour cream. Stir 1 cup sauce into seafood, Stir in scallions, cilantro and chilies.
TO ASSEMBLE: Toss cheeses together. For each enchilada, spoon ⅓ cup seafood mixture down center of a warm tortilla and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons cheese mixture. Roll up tortilla and place seam side down in prepared baking dish, fitting enchiladas close together. Spoon on remaining sauce. Cover titgtly with foil. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Bake enchiladas, covered, 30 to 35 minutes until hot. Remove foil, sprinkle with remaining cheese and bake 5 minutes more or until cheese melts.
SALSA: Mix everything together and refrigerate up to 2 days typed by jessann :)