Pizza Enchiladas
Pizza enchiladas – stuffed with your favourite pizza toppings, and topped with pizza sauce and cheese. A great vegetarian weeknight dinner!
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These pizza enchiladas were born entirely from my indecisiveness – I can never decide whether I prefer Italian or Mexican cuisine. Italian is obviously amazing (the word ‘pizza’ is the only explanation needed here), but Mexican offers up all things spicy, cheesy, beany… It’s a really tough call.
Instead of having to choose, I often do the elegant thing and just smoosh the two together to make one super cuisine. It always works well – I end up with recipes such as pizza quesadillas, chilli mac, and Italian-style tostadas. I like to call it ‘Itexican’ (I don’t really, I totally just made that up, but I kind of like it).
Fusion food
My latest foray into Itexican food (does it sound less weird yet?) was these pizza enchiladas. They’re unbelievably simple to make. Start by stuffing a few flour tortillas with your favourite pizza toppings. I loaded mine up with veggies – mushrooms, peppers, onions – but you could add pineapple, olives, tomatoes, or whatever else you like on your pizza. I also added a dollop of basil pesto to add to the Italian vibe.
Then just top your enchiladas with pizza sauce, and plenty of cheese. I used a tin of pizza sauce from Cirio. It’s so worth buying good quality tomato products, rather than just plumping for the cheapest option. You can really taste the difference in quality. The Cirio ‘pizzassimo’ pizza sauce is super thick and creamy, and is already flavoured with basil, oregano, and all sorts of other yummy stuff.
Smother it in grated cheese, and you’ve got the most irresistible sight known to man.
Pizza enchiladas
Now tell me you wouldn’t dive headfirst into that. Taking these photos without nibbling at that crispy cheese was a real struggle.
The end result is pretty awesome – it feels like you’re eating enchiladas, but the pizza flavours really come through too. It’s a bit confusing actually, in a wonderful way. I’ll definitely be making these pizza enchiladas again – they’re perfect for an easy weeknight dinner!
Pizza Enchiladas
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Ingredients
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 200 g mushrooms, diced (~ 2 1/2 cups when diced) – plus a few slices for topping, if desired
- 2 bell peppers, diced (I used red and orange)
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp basil pesto
- Salt
- Black pepper
- 4 large flour tortillas
- 300 g pizza sauce (~ 1 cup)
- 125 g grated cheese (~ 1 cup) – I used a mixture of mozzarella and cheddar
- Fresh basil, to serve (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190°C (Gas Mark 5 / 375°F).
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan, and add the onion, mushrooms, peppers, and garlic. Cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring regularly, until the vegetables are soft.
- Remove the vegetables from the heat, and add the basil pesto and a pinch of salt and pepper. Mix well.
- Spoon a quarter of the vegetable mixture along the centre of one of the large flour tortillas, and tightly roll. Place the tortilla seam side down in a baking dish, and repeat with the remaining vegetables and tortillas.
- Pour the pizza sauce over the enchiladas, and top with the grated cheese. Top with a few extra slices of mushroom.
- Bake for around 30 minutes, or until the cheese topping is crispy and golden brown. Serve topped with fresh basil if desired.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on your exact ingredients. Please calculate your own nutritional values if you require accuracy for health reasons.
That looks so yummy! Have been looking for inspiration for tonight’s dinner and may have to whip up an Itexican meal now ;)
Looks irresistible! Just found my next lunch idea!
Mal x
Itexican does it for me. This sounds wonderful. In fact I’m seriously contemplating camping out in your garden and sneaking in at meal times.
What a tough question! For me, it really depends on my mood – I absolutely love a good cheesy goey pizza, but on other days I need the heat of a curry. If I HAD to pick one, I would say Italian as I love pizza,pasta, risotto and we cook it a lot! I need to try a few more of these products too.
Love it! This is so going on my bookmark of things I just have to cook. I bet my son will love this too. Thanks for sharing
Ha you do make me smile! Not sure Itexican is ever going to make the big time but very kind of you to combine my 2 most favourite cuisines!
What an innovation , these look drool worthy, I am sure my family’s lay would eat these without any fuss.
Itexican could definitely catch on! I used to tell people that I was Spatalian or Itanish when I was younger haha! These sound so amazing though, Italian food is one of my favourites ;) I am also a massive lover of Mexican so mixing them up is genius x
Haha Spatalian, I like it :) All the best things are mixtures!
I love pizza and I love enchiladas so these are a winner all round for me x
this looks amazing becca; can’t wait to try a gfree version!
If you can get hold of some gf tortillas it would be so easy to adapt! :)