enchiladas

[Blake]

is it just me or has the quality of enchiladas in the SA area gone down a lot in the last 5-7 years?

I'm not even sure who has the best any more. Even Blanco Cafe has disappointed me lately.

Perico's is easily my favorite spot for Mexican food but Im getting burned out.

who's currently #1 for enchiladas?

[CosmicCowboy]

I know who has the best enchiladas and usually eat lunch there twice a week but there's no fucking way I'm publishing their name in here...it's hard enough to get in there as it is...

[Blake]

I know who has the best enchiladas and usually eat lunch there twice a week but there's no fucking way I'm publishing their name in here...it's hard enough to get in there as it is...

good for you. thanks for nothing.

[JudynTX]

Mi Tierra has decent enchiladas. :D

[Mixability]

I miss Alfonso's.............

I remember the restaurant on Southcross and New Braunfels with all the puppets hanging from the ceiling.

[JoeChalupa]

I know who has the best enchiladas and usually eat lunch there twice a week but there's no fucking way I'm publishing their name in here...it's hard enough to get in there as it is...

Where ever it is is probably out of my price range.


I make kick ass enchiladas at home but I don't want to toot my own horn.

[CosmicCowboy]

good for you. thanks for nothing.

Sorry, but when a great place only has 10 tables you gotta be careful who you tell about it.

[JoeChalupa]

I've been there but I wasn't that impressed.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Mi Tierra has decent enchiladas. :D

:lmao

thanks. i needed that.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

my guess is it's Mendez. i've never tried their enchiladas, but everything else i've tried is great. they have about 10 tables.

[desflood]

You can get great enchiladas in just about anyone of those little hole-in-the-wall places where the waitresses don't even speak English. Those places are too small to have a name half the time, but they always have the best food.

[mrsmaalox]

:lmao

thanks. i needed that.

You're laughing because you don't eat "real" enchiladas! You probably just eat those tex-mex meat sauce things they sell here :td

[Viva Las Espuelas]

You're laughing because you don't eat "real" enchiladas! You probably just eat those tex-mex meat sauce things they sell here :td
:rolleyes

[baseline bum]

mi tierra has overpriced enchiladas. :d

fify

[1369]

I'm still partial to Brown's.

[JoeChalupa]

You can get great enchiladas in just about anyone of those little hole-in-the-wall places where the waitresses don't even speak English. Those places are too small to have a name half the time, but they always have the best food.

Yeah, there is this little place off of West Ave near Bitters next to Boston Subworks that has great food.

[Blake]

Sorry, but when a great place only has 10 tables you gotta be careful who you tell about it.

I completely understand.

Were you the kid growing up that always said "hey check out my new bike. No, you can't ride it."

[Blake]

Yeah, there is this little place off of West Ave near Bitters next to Boston Subworks that has great food.

they have pretty good breakfast tacos.

[JudynTX]

:lmao

thanks. i needed that.

YW :lol


fify

It's not like we go there every weekend, but once in a while it's ok. :) But their pan dulce is :drool

[baseline bum]

You're laughing because you don't eat "real" enchiladas! You probably just eat those tex-mex meat sauce things they sell here :td

What's the difference? As far as I can tell, Tex-Mex enchiladas are different only in not having the red chile in the guisada. I like them both ways though.

[JoeChalupa]

they have pretty good breakfast tacos.

Yeah, that is where we get them from in the office.

[mrsmaalox]

:rolleyes

Didn't we just have this conversation a couple of weeks ago? You didn't have a clue what I was talking about !

[Blake]

You can get great enchiladas in just about anyone of those little hole-in-the-wall places where the waitresses don't even speak English. Those places are too small to have a name half the time, but they always have the best food.

name one.

[JudynTX]

My mom made the best enchiladas, no meat filled, just a plain red sauce. :(

[mrsmaalox]

What's the difference? As far as I can tell, Tex-Mex enchiladas are different only in not having the red chile in the guisada. I like them both ways though.

The guisada is the difference. That is what makes it tex mex. Real mexican enchiladas have only red chile sauce.

[mrsmaalox]

My mom made the best enchiladas, no meat filled, just a plain red sauce. :(
Exactly.

[CuckingFunt]

The guisada is the difference. That is what makes it tex mex. Real mexican enchiladas have only red chile sauce.

Being a Californian, I don't know from Tex Mex, but the enchiladas at my favorite place use a combination of gravy and the sauce from Chili Colorado.

[baseline bum]

The guisada is the difference. That is what makes it tex mex. Real mexican enchiladas have only red chile sauce.

The best enchiladas I have ever had (in Mexico) didn't use red chile. It was an entirely different guisada from San Antonio style, but it definitely wasn't red. I don't know anything about moles though, so I can't tell you what kind.

[baseline bum]

My mom made the best enchiladas, no meat filled, just a plain red sauce. :(

Good shredded beef/chicken/pork are awesome in enchiladas. Especially if you fry it up on the grill for a minute or two after shredding it.

[florige]

I just use regular Salsa for mine.

[JudynTX]

I just use regular Salsa for mine.

Bottled salsa? yuck :lol Or homemade?


Good shredded beef/chicken/pork are awesome in enchiladas. Especially if you fry it up on the grill for a minute or two after shredding it.

Oh I agree, it's just that I miss my mom's cooking.

[mrsmaalox]

The best enchiladas I have ever had (in Mexico) didn't use red chile. It was an entirely different guisada from San Antonio style, but it definitely wasn't red. I don't know anything about moles though, so I can't tell you what kind.

See I've never had any kind of guisada/meat sauce enchiladas anywhere in Mexico or West Texas. The red enchiladas made with a pure red chile sauce. They do make mole enchiladas most places, and they are delicious, but that's an entirely different sauce (although it is red chile based).

[baseline bum]

Damn, now I want to make enchiladas. Don't have 8 hours to slow cook the meat in manteca first though. :lol

[BacktoBasics]

This is 65% why I married a mexican. Got a craving? Send her ass to the kitchen.

[florige]

Bottled salsa? yuck :lol Or homemade?

Nah,:lol the guy I used to work with wife used to make it homemade. They are from El-Salvador so she knew how to make it.


Oh I agree, it's just that I miss my mom's cooking.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

The best enchiladas I have ever had (in Mexico) didn't use red chile. It was an entirely different guisada from San Antonio style, but it definitely wasn't red. I don't know anything about moles though, so I can't tell you what kind.

you better check with the "real" police

[JoeChalupa]

My mom made the best enchiladas, no meat filled, just a plain red sauce. :(

That is how my mom makes them and I learned from her. Simple but tasty sauce although mine isn't really red.

[baseline bum]

I guess I'm confusing guisada and mole. Tells you how good my Spanish is. :lol

[JoeChalupa]

This is 65% why I married a mexican. Got a craving? Send her ass to the kitchen.

When I get a craving we head to the bedroom.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

This is 65% why I married a mexican. Got a craving? Send her ass to the kitchen.:lol
my grandfather was the most humblest gentleman i knew. all he had to to was sit at the kitchen table and my grandmother would just start cooking. it was a sight to be seen.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I guess I'm confusing guisada and mole. ......

you better check with the "real" police

[baseline bum]

you better check with the "real" police

If it was carne de burro, that's fine by me. Maybe that's also why the al pastor is so much better in Mexico than any place I have ever gotten it in the US.

[Blake]

my mother in law makes hers with the white queso from Mexico on top......the goat cheese I think......and a dark brown sauce....

very tasty.

[JudynTX]

I guess I'm confusing guisada and mole. Tells you how good my Spanish is. :lol

Mole = fail I hate that stuff! I guess because I got burned out eating it at all the wedding receptions my mom would take me too. :lmao

[CuckingFunt]

:lol
my grandfather was the most humblest gentleman i knew. all he had to to was sit at the kitchen table and my grandmother would just start cooking. it was a sight to be seen.

My Sicilian great-grandparents were hilarious. My great-grandfather didn't even have to do that much. If my great-grandmother was awake and not getting her hair done that day, you can bet something was cooking. I think I was only ever in that house twice as a kid without the stove being on and it was just too weird for me to handle.

Hell, their house had three huge stoves/ovens -- one in the kitchen for regular use, one in the back porch that she'd use for sauces and soups that had to cook all day, and one in the basement used mostly for canning.

[mrsmaalox]

you better check with the "real" police

You should take your own advice :D

[Blake]

Mole = fail I hate that stuff! I guess because I got burned out eating it at all the wedding receptions my mom would take me too. :lmao

I love mole when it's done right.

There has to be just the right amount of sweet and spicy in the sauce.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Mole = fail I hate that stuff! I guess because I got burned out eating it at all the wedding receptions my mom would take me too. :lmaomole tastes like hot liquid peanut butter.

[florige]

Okay, can someone here explain to me what mole is?

[JudynTX]

mole tastes like hot liquid peanut butter.

Took the words right out of my mouth. :D

[JoeChalupa]

Mole = fail I hate that stuff! I guess because I got burned out eating it at all the wedding receptions my mom would take me too. :lmao

:lmao I remember that. But I still like a good mole now and then. I like to eat my rice with the sauce.

[Mixability]

Taco Bell enchiladas are the shit...... or give you the shit........ something like that.

[ORION]

I don't know if its still good because I haven't been there in years but I used to like thousand oaks cafe.

[mrsmaalox]

I guess I'm confusing guisada and mole. Tells you how good my Spanish is. :lol

Yea, guisada and mole are 2 totally different things LOL. Dammit I wish I could cook for all of you, and get those silly "tex-mex" notions out of your heads!:lol

[Twisted_Dawg]

I know who has the best enchiladas and usually eat lunch there twice a week but there's no fucking way I'm publishing their name in here...it's hard enough to get in there as it is...

Why don't you PM the guy and tell him???


I'm still partial to Brown's.

Brown's Enchiladas on S. Hackberry!!!! But didn't they sell to new owners and sell their recipe off to another restaurant? They used to have the best enchiladas.

[JudynTX]

Okay, can someone here explain to me what mole is?

It looks like this -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/ladyspur/mole.jpg

And tastes like hot peanut butter

:D

[rolled up $20]

That mole is too dark.

[mrsmaalox]

Good mole does not taste at all like peanut butter or chocolate!! Plus there is also green mole...

[baseline bum]

And tastes like hot peanut butter


That's definitely not what I was thinking of then.

[mrsmaalox]

That's definitely not what I was thinking of then.

Look, just don't listen to anyone here except me okay?? :D

[Blake]

Good mole does not taste at all like peanut butter or chocolate!!


+1

a lot of people are apparently missing out.

[baseline bum]

Look, just don't listen to anyone here except me okay?? :D

:lol I still think you're rough on Tex-Mex though. It curbstomps Cali-Mex for sure.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

hmm. seems like a lot of people here aren't making or eating "real" mole. :wakeup


Types of mole


Mole Amarillo

Mole Amarillo uses Ancho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancho), Costeño (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coste%C3%B1o&action=edit&redlink=1), and Guajillo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guajillo) chiles, green tomatoes and tomatillos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatillo), onion, garlic, clove, cumin, black pepper, cilantro, chilcoxle (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chilcoxle&action=edit&redlink=1), and hoja santa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoja_santa) or pitiona (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pitiona&action=edit&redlink=1), depending on the type of mole vessel.

Mole de Cacahuate

Mole de cacahuete, or "Peanut Mole", made of ground peanuts and chiles, is typically served with chicken.

Mole Chichilo

Mole Chichilo is also one of the less common moles, with an odd ashy flavor. It has Chilguacle Negro, Mulatto, and Pasilla chiles, tomatillos and tomatoes, cloves, black pepper, and corn dough. Avocado leaves add a hint of anise.

Mole Coloradito

Mole coloradito has a brick red color and a simple taste. It uses Ancho and Pasilla or Guajillo chiles, almonds, sesame seeds, tomatoes, garlic, oregano, cinnamon, and sugar.

Mole Mancha Manteles

Mole Mancha Manteles has a strong Ancho chile flavor and is often used to dress plantains and pineapple.

Mole Negro

Mole negro is the most difficult to prepare, and therefore the most famous. Traditionally, black mole has six different kinds of chile peppers, Chilguacle Negro, Mulatto, Pasilla, Ancho, Guajillo, and Chilpotle, although many sauces that carry the name contain less. The ingredient list is very long, featuring many seeds, nuts, spices, herbs, and chocolate.

Mole Poblano

Mole poblano, whose name comes from the Mexican state of Puebla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puebla), is a popular sauce in Mexican cuisine and is the mole that most people in the U.S. think of when they think of mole. Mole poblano is prepared with dried chili peppers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_pepper) (commonly ancho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poblano), pasilla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilla), mulato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulato_pepper) and chipotle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipotle)), ground nuts and/or seeds (almonds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almonds), indigenous peanuts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut), and/or sesame (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame) seeds), spices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice), Mexican chocolate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate) (cacao (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacao) ground with sugar and cinnamon and occasionally nuts), salt, and a variety of other ingredients including charred avocado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado) leaves, onions, and garlic. Dried seasonings such as ground oregano are also used. In order to provide a rich thickness to the sauce, bread crumbs or crackers are added to the mix.

Mole Rojo

Mole rojo is lighter red and spicier than Coloradito. It uses Ancho and Guajillo chiles, onion, tomatoes, pecans, peanuts, sesame, garlic, oregano, chocolate.

Mole Verde

Mole verde achieves its distinctive green color from the toasted pumpkin seeds that form the sauce's base. As well as using ingredients such as Romaine Lettuce, cilantro, epazote, and tomatillos (also "tomate verde" in Spanish).

[mrsmaalox]

:lol I still think you're rough on Tex-Mex though. It curbstomps Cali-Mex for sure.

This is true.

[mrsmaalox]

No one ever said moles do not contain peanuts, peanut butter or chocolate. They just aren't the predominant flavors (unless you mean the cacahuate kind and I have never seen that anywhere).

[JudynTX]

Mole de Cacahuate

Mole de cacahuete, or "Peanut Mole", made of ground peanuts and chiles, is typically served with chicken.



Yep, that's the only mole recipe I've ever had. The rest no thanks. :lol

[Viva Las Espuelas]

No one ever said moles do not contain peanuts, peanut butter or chocolate. They just aren't the predominant flavors (unless you mean the cacahuate kind and I have never seen that anywhere).sure thing ms. bayless

[ashbeeigh]

I heart cheese Enchiladas.

[Ditty]

blanco cafe has the best enchilidas ever

piedras negras close to downtown is goodeven thought the orginal place burned down but they moved next door to teh old pizza hut

my best friend is a waiter at pericos and i live right down the street

its good but not the best

[marini martini]

Mole schmole!

[PuttPutt]

La Vina on W.W. White. has really good enchiladas & other food. Only open for breakfast & lunch. Go south of I-10 & it's on the right.

[PakiDan]

What's the difference? As far as I can tell, Tex-Mex enchiladas are different only in not having the red chile in the guisada. I like them both ways though.

HUGE Difference... real enchiladas are served flat and stacked. No meat in the chile and preferably with a fried egg on top.

[FaithInOne]

Cali-Mex? Amigo Please.


There's a place in Rockport, Puerto Vallarta something something. It's the bomb.

[Sausage]

Al Daco's has the best enchiladas ever.

The Enchilada Divorciadas are amazing. Two Chicken enchiladas with Ranchera sauce on one and Salsa Verde sauce on the other. It's amazing.

[SpursStalker]

the best enchiladas come out of my kitchen ...

:D

[PM5K]

Personally I like Jacala, and for those that don't you can eat a dick, I like them and that's all that matters...

[baseline bum]

Personally I like Jacala, and for those that don't you can eat a dick, I like them and that's all that matters...

Jacala was excellent like 15-20 years ago. Not so much now.