I’ve been craving a lot of Mexican food lately and in particular, enchiladas. It all started when I went to our local Whole Foods during my lunch break and spotted their rotisserie chicken section. Our Whole Foods is pretty awesome in the fact that their rotisserie chicken selection is pretty epic. They have different flavors each day of the week but then they also have their regular naked, herbed, and smoked.
Our Whole Foods has an in-house smoker so that means they have pretty epic BBQ that you can buy AND they have an entire rotisserie chicken that you can buy SMOKED. The flavor is incredible!!!
Because of this smoked rotisserie chicken discovery, it inspired me to make smoked chicken enchiladas (recipe coming tomorrow)! And since with enchiladas, you must have enchilada sauce, I decided to share with you my homemade version of enchilada sauce!
It is so much better than store-bought and there is no ingredient in this easy homemade blender enchilada sauce that has you scratching your head and thinking, “whaaaaa?” – it’s all-natural ingredients that you probably have in your fridge, pantry, and spice cabinet! Throw it all in a blender and voila! Homemade enchilada sauce :)

Homemade Blender Enchilada Sauce
Ingredients
- 28 ounce (794 g) canned whole tomatoes, undrained
- 1 ½ tablespoon chili powder
- 1 ¼ teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 large yellow onion, quartered
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ jalapeno, deseeded
- 2 cloves garlic
- Salt, to taste
Equipment
Instructions
- Put everything in a blender and blend!
- Store leftovers in a jar and put in refrigerator for up to one month.
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Jenny Flake
Friday 9th of December 2016
What a great recipe to have for homemade enchiladas!!
Christine @ WRY TOAST
Tuesday 6th of December 2016
I SO need to freeze a batch of this!! will make winter enchiladas so much easier to deal with :)
Julie
Tuesday 6th of December 2016
Absolutely!!