Roasted Hatch Chile & Chicken Enchiladas

• From Confections of a Foodie Bride

• For the enchilada sauce:
• ~1.25 lbs tomatillos
• 3/4 lb roasted hatch chiles, stemmed and seeded
• 3 cloves garlic, unpeeled
• Juice of 1 lime
• Salt
• Pepper
• 2/3 cup plain yogurt (I use 0% Fage)
• To assemble:
• 12 tortillas (I prefer flour)
• 8 oz monterrey jack, shredded
• ~3/4 lb leftover shredded chicken

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 425.
2. Line a baking sheet with foil and very lighly spray with oil.
3. Remove the husks from the tomatillos and rinse off the stickiness.
4. Cut tomatillos in half (doesn't matter, but I do a verdical cut down the core) and place cut-side down on the foil along with the unpeeled garlic cloves.
5. Roast for ~20 minutes and remove from oven, leaving the oven on.
6. Set the garlic cloves aside and transfer the tomatillos to a food processor or blender - use a rubber spatula and the moisture from the softened tomatillos to get any browned bits into the blender.
7. Peel the garlic cloves when cool enough to handle and add to the blender along with hatch chiles, lime juice, yogurt, salt, and pepper.
8. Blend until completely smooth.
9. To assemble the enchiladas, place 1/2 cup of enchilada sauce into the pan and shake/spread it to completely cover the bottom.
10. Top each tortilla with a generous pinch of shredded chicken and shredded cheese.
11. Roll and place seam-down in the pan.
12. Pour enchilada sauce over top and then sprinkle over the remaining cheese.
13. Bake ~20 minutes, until the cheese is bubbly and browning.
14. Leftovers get even better the next 2 days.

Notes from Jill's Kitchen: THESE WERE SO HOT. Sam, obviously, loved them that way, but I should have tasted the chiles before adding them to the sauce to see just how hot they were. I was so excited to get actual Hatch Chiles from Wegmans that I didn't think- I just dumped them in. Whoops. Next time, TEST FOR HOTNESS. Also, don't nurse the baby while they are in the oven. He WILL take longer than usual and the enchiladas WILL burn beyond recognition. Other than that, fantastic!