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You will have for a holiday dinner, in Las Uvas, soup with meat balls and chile in it, chicken with chile, rice with chile, fried beans with more chile, enchilada, which is corn cake with the sauce of chile and tomatoes, onion, grated cheese, and olives, and for a relish chile tepines passed about in a dish, all of which is comfortable and corrective to the stomach.

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noun A tortilla rolled and stuffed usually with a mixture containing meat or cheese and served with a sauce spiced with chili.

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"I can taste roast beef An enchilada -- that's what I crave," Jaez said Baked potato with butter and sour cream and chives Or perhaps a tamale They'd rapidly exhausted the meager amount of water she'd been able to find. — F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 03 - September 1996
If you've lived in Chicago for years, not being able to find a good enchilada is a major problem. — Progressive Bloggers
My companion went straight for the Monterrey plate (LE 39.99), featuring a chicken mole enchilada, a spinach enchilada with a creamy white ranchera sauce and an Enchilada Veracruz with chicken, spinach, Monterey Jack cheese and covered with tomatillo sauce.
But pork pigs like myself up the ante and instead go for the Cemitas Atomica, a pure pork trifecta: pounded breaded pork Milanesa, carne enchilada (guajillo chile marinated butterflied pork chop) and sliced jamon.
"He hopes that while there may not be an opportunity for the whole enchilada, there may be some tacos coming Mexico's way." — Kentucky.com: Homepage