Honey Lime Chicken Enchiladas

I found this recipe several weeks ago, but I was hesitant to make it because combining honey and lime seemed super weird.... and not very good. Oh how wrong I was! This is one of my new favorite recipes!

Honey Lime Chicken Enchiladas

adapted from the Sister's Cafe

1/3 cup honey

1/4 cup lime juice

1 Tablespoon chili powder

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1 pound chicken, cooked and shredded
8-10 flour tortillas, (I use the soft taco tortillas because they fit perfectly in the pan)

1 pound monterey jack cheese, shredded

2 cups green enchilada sauce

1/2 cup heavy cream

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix the honey (their tip: spray your measuring spoon with cooking spray before measuring out the honey), lime juice, chili powder and garlic powder together and toss with the shredded chicken. Let it marinate for at least 1/2 hour (or toss together in aZiploc bag and let it sit in the fridge for a few hours).

Spray a 9X13 pan and a 9X9 pan with cooking spray. Pour enough enchilada sauce on the bottom of each baking pan to create a thin layer on the bottom. Fill flour tortillas with chicken and a generous amount of shredded cheese, saving about 1 cup of cheese to sprinkle on top of enchiladas.
Mix the remaining enchilada sauce with the cream and leftover chicken marinade (you might not need to use all of the enchilada sauce depending on how saucy you like yours). Pour sauce on top of the enchiladas and top with reserved cheese.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until brown and crispy on top. I served mine with sour cream, pico de gallo, cilantro lime rice and black beans.


One of the nice things about this recipe is that you can tweak it for your preference. There are a lot of versions of this recipe out there on cooking websites, and they all seem to get amazing reviews. You can change the type of cheese.... add more or less of the honey or lime, skip the heavy cream, (although I loved it with the cream) etc, etc. I cooked and shredded my chicken in the morning, and then let it marinate all afternoon. It was then easy to throw everything together at dinner time. I served them with rice. My husband loved them as much as I did. I will definitely make them again.