You're going to love this cheesy seafood enchiladas recipe! Corn tortillas lightly fried, then filled with shrimp, crab, and corn, then topped off with a creamy chipotle sauce. The ultimate dinner option perfect for Cinco de mayo or year-round.
2cupsshredded Mexican 4 cheese blend or your favorite cheese
1/2cuppico de gallooptional
2tbspMexican cream or sour cream optional
1/4cupqueso fresco optional
Instructions
Add some oil to a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat. Add the onions and jalapenos and cook for 3-4 minutes or until translucent. Stir in the spices and fresh garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Add the shrimp and cook the shrimp for 1-2 minutes or until the shrimp turn pink.
Fold in the corn and crab gently, add some fresh lime, and season with salt and pepper. In a separate skillet, add some butter and cook over medium-high heat. Once the butter melts, add the flour. Whisk the butter and flour and cook for 1-2 minutes.
Add the chipotle pepper and adobo sauce and cook for 20 seconds. Stir in the lobster stock and heavy cream. Mix well and reduce the heat to medium-low. Once the sauce thickens, season it with cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Add about 1/4 cup of sauce to a 9x13 casserole dish. Fry the corn tortillas in vegetable oil for 10 seconds on each side. Add about 2-3 tbsp of the shrimp and crab mixture to each tortilla and roll them up tightly. Place them seam side-down in the casserole and repeat with the remaining tortillas.
Place any left-over seafood on top of the rolled tortillas. Spoon chipotle cream sauce over the top of the rolled enchiladas and then cover with cheese. Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes.
Notes
Fry the corn tortillas in vegetable oil for 10 seconds on each side to prevent them from falling apart.