Chicken Enchiladas with Spinach

This is another recipe from Double Delicious, my second favorite cookbook!  This is such an easy, super healthy recipe, and I love that it gets Little Frances (and her Daddy) to eat such a large amount of spinach.  Plus, its delicious too.  This is one of my favorite things to cook (and eat)!
Ingredients:

• Nonstick cooking spray
• 1 T olive oil
• 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cubed (about ¾ lb)
• ½ t garlic powder
• ¼ t pepper
• ½ c sweet potato puree or carrot puree
• ¼ c sour cream
• 1 c shredded cheddar cheese
• 6 (9 inch) whole wheat tortillas
• ½ c spinach puree
• ½ c mild tomato salsa

Steps:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Coat a 9 x 12 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
3. Warm the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
4. Sprinkle the chicken with garlic powder and pepper.
5. Cook the chicken 4 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until it is cooked through and no longer pink in the center.
6. Off the heat, mix the sweet potato or carrot puree, sour cream, and half the cheese into the skillet.
7. Fill each tortilla with the chicken mixture and roll up. Place seam-side down in the prepared baking dish.
8. Dot the tops of the enchiladas with spinach puree. Spoon the salsa over the enchiladas and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
9. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake until the cheese melts and filling is hot, 35 to 40 minutes.

Tips:

• When I am in a hurry, I just buy rotisserie chicken at the grocery store and use the meat to skip steps 3-5.  Then I warm a skillet to melt the cheese mixture.
• To make a 1/2 cup spinach puree I steam 1 large back of baby spinach for 2 minutes and then puree.  This purees easier with an immersion blender (which I don’t have).

Yield: 6 enchiladas
Timing: Because this is a difficult food to chew, I recommend no earlier than 15 months or until your baby has at least 8 teeth. I would NOT think that this would puree well for smaller children.  This is definitely a toddler food.
Difficulty: 2 of 5… super easy, super delicious!
Epicutie Rating: Yummy in the Tummy! --See right side of page for descriptions
Little Frances LOVES these!  It is her favorite food next to hamburgers.
Little Joy gave this a YUMMY IN THE TUMMY as well!  She gobbled it up and asked for more!  We served this along side some Mexican rice.


But before she will eat it, we must first feed baby!

Ok, now Little Frances will eat them. Yum yum.