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    Home > Recipes > How-Tos

    Homemade Enchilada Sauce

    Published: Aug 8, 2014 · Modified: Feb 14, 2023 by Iosune · This post may contain affiliate links · 10 Comments

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    Homemade enchilada sauce | minimaleats.com #minimaleats #vegan #recipe

    I love Mexican food, I really do! It's so tasty, hot, delicious, fresh and it tastes better if you eat homemade dishes, like this homemade enchilada sauce. It's so healthy and it's also a super simple recipe.

    I've used homemade tomato sauce, but you can also use store bought, fresh tomatoes, crushed tomatoes or whatever. You can use water or vegetable broth, the sauce will have more flavor if you use the broth, but you need to cook them, so the recipe will be less simple. Avoid store bought vegetal broths with preservatives and additives. Sometimes they have MSG (monosodium glutamate) added, it's a flavor enhancer and it's so bad for your health.

    If you are on a diet or you want a light sauce, you can remove the oil and add onion and garlic powder. You can also remove the tomatoes and use only tomato sauce. No matter what you do, this sauce is always spectacular!

    Homemade enchilada sauce | minimaleats.com #minimaleats #vegan #recipe

    You can use this sauce to make another recipe, like pasta, pizza, rice or whatever you can imagine, but it's a hot sauce, keep that in mind! If you don't like hot food, you can remove the cayenne powder or add less. If you like it, you can also add more, of course.

    Homemade enchilada sauce | minimaleats.com #minimaleats #vegan #recipe

    You don't need to blend the sauce, but if you do it, the sauce will have a better texture. You can use a blender, a hand mixer or even a food mill, it depends on the texture you wanna get. I've used a hand blender instead of the Vitamix to get a chunky texture.

    Tomatoes are in season, they are tastier and also cheaper, so it's the best time of the year to make homemade enchilada sauce or tomato sauce. Canning your own salsa is a great way to have quality salsa through the winter. It's so easy to make homemade salsa and it's totally worth it!

    Homemade enchilada sauce | minimaleats.com #minimaleats #vegan #recipe

    Homemade enchilada sauce

    Homemade Enchilada Sauce

    Mexican food is so delicious, especially if you eat homemade dishes like this homemade enchilada sauce. It's so healthy and it's also a super simple recipe.
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    Course: Sauce
    Cuisine: Mexican
    Diet: Vegan
    Prep Time: 5 minutes
    Cook Time: 25 minutes
    Total Time: 30 minutes
    Servings: 2 cups (480 ml)
    Author: Iosune


    Ingredients 

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    • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
    • 4 cloves of garlic
    • 1 onion
    • 2 tomatoes
    • â…› teaspoon cayenne powder
    • 2 teaspoon oregano
    • 2 teaspoon cumin
    • 1 cup tomato sauce
    • ¾ cup water or vegetable broth
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    Instructions

    • Heat the oil in a saucepan and when it's hot, add the chopped garlic and onion. Cook them over medium heat for 5 minutes.
    • Add the chopped tomatoes, cayenne powder, oregano and cumin. Cook for another 5 minutes.
    • Add the tomato sauce and the water or vegetable broth and cook over medium heat for about 10 or 15 minutes or until the sauce thickens.
    • Blend the sauce if you wanna get a better texture.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1cup (240 ml) | Calories: 157kcal | Carbohydrates: 20.4g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 8.1g | Saturated Fat: 1.2g | Sodium: 866mg | Fiber: 5.5g | Sugar: 10.9g

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    Comments

    1. Lin Brahm says

      December 18, 2017 at 5:45 pm

      Can I substitue organic diced tomatoes?

      Reply
      • Iosune says

        December 19, 2017 at 8:49 am

        Hi Lin! Yes, I think it should work 🙂

        Reply
    2. Miche says

      February 27, 2017 at 7:25 am

      Can't wait to try this! Is the tomato sauce just blended tomatoes or tomato sauce as in ketchup? Thanks

      Reply
      • Iosune says

        February 28, 2017 at 1:09 pm

        Hi Miche! We used store-bought or homemade tomato sauce, this is the recipe we make: http://simpleveganblog.com/homemade-tomato-sauce/ Have a nice day!

        Reply
    3. Zarah says

      January 28, 2015 at 1:38 pm

      This I HAVE to try! The sauces from the stores are too full of weird stuff, and I never really found "The Perfect Recipe" but this looks like it could be it. 😀

      Reply
      • Iosune says

        February 02, 2015 at 11:49 am

        Hi Zarah! Store bought is always less healthy than any other homemade food 🙂 This sauce tastes AMAZING!!! You need to make it 😉

        Reply
    4. Geraldine | Green Valley Kitchen says

      August 10, 2014 at 6:53 am

      I have an overflow of tomatoes at the moment, so this is a perfect way to use them. Love how easy this is. Pinning! Lovely photos!

      Reply
      • Iosune says

        August 10, 2014 at 10:07 am

        Lucky you! I LOVE tomatoes! Thanks for your comment Geraldine 🙂

        Reply
    5. Thalia @ butter and brioche says

      August 10, 2014 at 4:20 am

      ooh looks delicious! i have always been super lazy and store bought my sauces when cooking mexican, but if the recipe is this easy i definitely will be trying it! anything tastes better home made...

      Reply
      • Iosune says

        August 10, 2014 at 10:05 am

        It's super easy! And it tastes amazing, you need to try it 🙂

        Reply

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