Enchilada Sauce - Recipe

I found/tried this recipe last week and was really pleased with how it all turned out.

There were a few things that I did differently due to our likes/tastes.

I omitted the cumin that was called for in the original recipe due to the fact it makes me quite ill.

Red pepper was used in place of that spice and I do not like to use salt in my cooking so I used onion powder.

The biggest was done on error but gave me a wonderful result and that would be using tomato paste. You can use the tomato sauce if you would like just reduce done the amount of water to 1 1/2 cups.

Excellent results and I will be making my own from this point on.


* Exported from MasterCook *

Ten Minute Enchilada Sauce

Recipe By: Brandi T
Serving Size : 8
Categories : sauces

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons self rising flour
1/4 cup chili powder
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
6 ounces tomato paste
1 teaspoon red pepper
2 1/2 cups water
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon onion powder

• Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
• Stir in flour, chili power and red pepper reduce heat to medium, and cook until lightly brown, stirring constantly to prevent burning flour.
• Gradually stir in tomato paste, water, garlic powder and onion powder into the flour and chili powder until smooth - continue cooking over medium heat.
• Approx. 10 minutes or until thickened to your desire.
• Season to taste with salt and black pepper to taste.

Source:
"http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Ten-Minute-Enchilada-Sauce/Detail.aspx"
Yield:
"8 "
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Per Serving: 30 Calories; 1g Fat (18.1% calories from fat); 1g Protein; 6g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 208mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 1 Vegetable; 0 Fat.

NOTES :
You can use 1 - 8 ounce can of tomato sauce and this will reduce serving size to 6.

Great tasting sauce!

Easy to make and so much better than the canned stuff.

This is a bit on the thicker side but you can add more water to thin it down some.