Homemade Enchilada Sauce!

Don't forget to scroll down to see the recipe for Easy Chocolate Pudding! :)

A few weeks ago, Ryan and I wanted to make enchiladas. We got the meat browned and the beans mixed into it. We also had the mixture rolled up in the tortillas... Then we realized we didn't have any enchilada sauce! What are enchiladas without the sauce?!? This was on a Sunday, and we don't shop on Sundays. So what did we do? We looked online and found a recipe for homemade enchilada sauce! We only made it once, so I don't have any pictures. I was going to wait until we made it again and got it just how we like it, but we decided to try the packets of enchilada sauce from the store and we really like the flavor of them... so we might not make this homemade recipe for a while, but I thought I'd share it anyway! It was tasty!

Ten Minute Enchilada Sauce

What you will need:
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons self-rising flour (we just used all-purpose flour)
1/4 cup chili powder
1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
1 1/2 cups water
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon onion salt
salt to taste

Directions:
1. Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in flour and chili powder, reduce heat to medium, and cook until lightly brown, stirring constantly to prevent burning flour.
2. Gradually stir in tomato sauce, water, cumin, garlic powder, and onion salt into the flour and chili powder until smooth, and continue cooking over medium heat approximately 10 minutes, or until thickened slightly. Season to taste with salt.

I think we cooked it a little too long in step 1, so be careful about that! Also, we got the recipe HERE. If you go to the pictures, ours looked more like picture number 5. Ok, maybe I'll go and get it and post it here on the blog....

There it is! That's about what ours looked like. Maybe ours was a little darker because we might have cooked it too long. I would strongly suggest reading all the reviews about it, then experiment with it and see how you like it! It really does taste like a sauce you'd have at a Mexican restaurant. Much better than canned sauce! :)