In this video we learn how to prepare tortillas for enchiladas.

Video Transcription

Hi! I’m April Gruszkowski and I’m showing you how to make enchiladas. Now, we’re going to prepare the tortillas in a healthier way. Instead of frying tortillas in oil which adds fat and calories, I’d like to just moisten them in a little bit of water and then layer them on a plate about four high. If you stack too many of them all at once, what’s going to happen is the ones toward the bottom are going to cool off and they are going to become a little stiff again and then you’ll just have to microwave them more. So just layer them with paper towels. And after you microwave them the first time, you’ll be able to reuse the paper towels once or twice without having to get the tortillas as moist because they’ll already be holding some water. There we go, that’s about four high and now we are just going to microwave these. I’m going to put them in for about 30 seconds. That could be a little more or a little less depending on your microwave’s power and settings. Next, we’re going to fill the tortillas with chicken and veggies.