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Easy Stove Top Enchiladas with Cauliflower Rice

February 27, 2017 29 Comments 30 Minute Meals, Dairy Free, Dinner, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Vegan, Vegetarian

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These healthy stove top enchiladas are a perfect quick and easy weeknight vegetarian dinner!

Easy Stove Top Enchiladas with Cauliflower Rice - This delicious vegetarian dinner recipe is packed with vegetables making it a really healthy option that everyone will love!  Comes together in no time for a quick and easy weeknight dinner!  Vegan and gluten free!

So, technically these are more like a chopped enchilada than a real enchilada.  There’s no folding involved (which is why I love these!), but these Stove Top Enchiladas with Cauliflower Rice have exactly the same ingredients as I would put in my regular baked enchiladas, and exactly the same taste.  Except, they’re 1000 times easier and you only need about 30 minutes.

I’m a Mexican food lover through and through and enchiladas are one of my favorite dishes to eat.  But, I don’t really love to make them.  My corn tortillas always break when I try to fold them so I have to heat each one up, then load it with ingredients, fold it and stuff it in the pan.  By the time I’m finished with the process way too much time has gone by and I’ve usually made a huge mess.

Easy Stove Top Enchiladas with Cauliflower Rice - This delicious vegetarian dinner recipe is packed with vegetables making it a really healthy option that everyone will love!  Comes together in no time for a quick and easy weeknight dinner!  Vegan and gluten free!

Enter these Stove Top Enchiladas!  You just chop everything up, put it in a pan and mix it together.  Same amazing enchilada taste, but with much less work.  They’re enchiladas for the lazy person, which is exactly what I am most days 🙂  

Cauliflower rice is one of those things that is so easy to make, yet I’ve never made it before until now.  You just run some cauliflower through a food processor and viola, you have tiny bits that look like rice!  It’s a great way to add more veggies into your recipes without being too obvious about it. 

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Easy Stove Top Enchiladas with Cauliflower Rice


★★★★★ 4.9 from 7 reviews
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 4-6 1x
  • Category: Dinner, Gluten Free, Vegan
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Description

All the great taste of regular enchiladas but so much easier to make!


Ingredients

  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 1/2 small yellow onion, chopped
  • 1 small green pepper, chopped
  • 1 small red pepper, chopped
  • 2 cups cauliflower rice*
  • 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 cup sweet corn kernels
  • 8 corn tortillas, chopped into bite size pieces
  • 1 (19 ounce) can enchilada sauce
  • 1 cup grated cheese, I used non-dairy cheese
  • 2 teaspoons ground cumin
  • 2 teaspoons paprika
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • Cilantro for garnish, if desired

Instructions

  1. Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add olive oil and onion. Cook for 2 minutes and then add the peppers and cauliflower rice. Cook until vegetables are tender, 5-7 minutes.
  2. Next, add the beans, corn and all the spices. Stir well and then add the chopped tortillas and the enchilada sauce. Mix until everything is combined and cook until everything is heated through, 3-5 minutes. Add in the cheese and cook until melted, 1-2 minutes. Garnish with cilantro if desired.

Notes

*To make cauliflower rice, place about 1/2 a small head of cauliflower into a food processor and pulse until it resembles grains of rice, 5-10 seconds.

 

Easy Stove Top Enchiladas with Cauliflower Rice - This delicious vegetarian dinner recipe is packed with vegetables making it a really healthy option that everyone will love!  Comes together in no time for a quick and easy weeknight dinner!  Vegan and gluten free!

 

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29 Comments

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Comments

  1. Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says

    February 27, 2017 at 7:28 am

    I am a Mexican food lover too, and enchiladas just happen to be my favorite! Love this stove top version, Izzy! And even better that there’s no folding of the tortillas required. Such a gorgeous dish!

    Reply
  2. Katie @ Whole Nourishment says

    February 27, 2017 at 9:44 am

    Now this enchilada recipe I would actually make! And what a great way too use/disguise cauliflower rice, especially if you have skeptics eating. 😉 Thanks for the great inspiration Izzy.

    Reply
  3. Milena | craftbeering.com says

    February 27, 2017 at 5:50 pm

    I can see myself eating a lot more enchiladas this way:) But I love corn tortillas, especially charred on the stove top… So I might just take a few, char them and slice them into strips and top a bowl of these enchiladas.

    ★★★★★

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    • She Likes Food says

      March 1, 2017 at 9:08 pm

      That sounds so good! If you love enchiladas then you will definitely love these 😉

      Reply
  4. Casey the College Celiac says

    February 27, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    This has me drooling! I love how easy this will be to whip up on a busy weeknight!

    Reply
  5. [email protected] says

    March 1, 2017 at 4:32 pm

    I love this idea for chopped enchiladas!! You know I am a mexican food lover as well and these sound fantastic! 🙂

    Reply
  6. Erin says

    April 22, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    These looks great! Curious which non-dairy cheese you used. I am diary free but have yet to find a cheese replacement I can stomach!

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    • She Likes Food says

      April 24, 2017 at 11:55 pm

      Thanks! I use Diaya shreds. Have you tried that one yet? It’s not so great raw, but I really enjoy it melted!

      Reply
  7. Sara says

    February 9, 2018 at 8:57 pm

    If you want rolled enchiladas, you need to use fresh corn tortillas. As they get old and stale they start to crack when bent.

    Reply
  8. Sarah says

    March 5, 2018 at 8:01 pm

    Super delicious! Thank you! I thought it was only a little mushy. Might you know where I went wrong? Perfect flavors!

    ★★★★

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    • She Likes Food says

      March 5, 2018 at 10:35 pm

      Hi Sarah, so glad you liked it! It is kind of a mushy meal, but you could try cooking it a little less so things don’t break down as much. I hope that helps!

      Reply
  9. Glenna says

    June 19, 2018 at 12:19 am

    My husband would not eat cauliflower- until now! He had two plates! Oh, by the way, I did not tell him it had cauliflower. Why spoil a good thing???? this is easy and so quick. I added chicken to mine so he had the protein and I left out the cut up tortillas for less carbs. This is a great base recipe to change up over and over! Thank you, I’m glad I came across it!

    ★★★★★

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    • She Likes Food says

      June 26, 2018 at 5:35 pm

      Haha, that’s awesome!! I’m so glad to hear you both liked it! 🙂

      Reply
  10. Sonia says

    February 26, 2019 at 8:20 pm

    What are the nutritional values to this recipe?

    Reply
    • She Likes Food says

      March 3, 2019 at 10:29 pm

      Hi Sonia, I don’t currently have that information but there are a few websites you can use to look it up. I usually use myfitnesspal.com

      Reply
  11. Jill says

    February 28, 2019 at 9:27 am

    I am so happy that this recipe came up first in a search. We all loved this recipe! I didn’t use any cheese, which made me wonder if we would like it, and we didn’t miss it at all. The flavors are all there! I will use half the amount of tortillas and double the beans in the future, but it was DELICIOUS!!! I am looking forward to trying more of your recipes!! Thank you!!

    ★★★★★

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    • She Likes Food says

      March 3, 2019 at 10:28 pm

      Yah!! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply
  12. Jenny says

    July 8, 2019 at 4:15 pm

    Perfect! Didn’t have the peppers on hand, added chicken for protein and minus tortillas to cut carbs, delicious! Will make again!

    ★★★★★

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  13. Unity says

    October 12, 2019 at 7:17 am

    Hi do you have a recipe for the enchilada sauce? Thanks

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    • She Likes Food says

      October 16, 2019 at 10:59 pm

      Hi, unfortunately I don’t have a regular one that I make, but my favorite canned sauce is the Hatch brand

      Reply
  14. Linda says

    March 27, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    Love this recipe and so easy! I did add chicken for my meat loving husband but it would have been delicious without it. Followed the recipe and liked the bite-sized corn tortillas in it. Wouldn’t change a thing. Not too spicy which was perfect for me. I used a can of mild enchilada sauce so if you like it a little spicier, a medium or hot enchilada sauce would fill the need. Thank you for a great, easy, and fast recipe. Definitively a keeper!

    ★★★★★

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    • She Likes Food says

      April 6, 2020 at 7:10 pm

      So glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply
  15. Yulca says

    April 19, 2020 at 2:38 pm

    This was excellent! I used millet instead of cauliflower rice and shredded tofu instead of cheese – can’t wait to make this again, thank you. Will also check out your other recipes, this was the first one I tried.

    ★★★★★

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    • She Likes Food says

      April 27, 2020 at 4:30 pm

      So glad you enjoyed it!!

      Reply
  16. Pamela deWaal says

    May 14, 2020 at 6:38 am

    Thank you thank you thank you. I am trying to add more veggie meals to our weekly menu and this recipe was a BIG hit. Did I mention, thank you?

    Reply
    • She Likes Food says

      June 3, 2020 at 11:58 am

      haha, you’re very welcome!

      Reply

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