These Cheesy Beef Burrito Enchiladas take your Cheesy Beef Burritos and combines them with an Enchilada style Red Taco Sauce with the Enchilada Paste to create an Enchilada Sauce. With some Cheddar Cheese, either the regular Cheddar or the Old Fort White Cheddar Cheese, and Baked. Serve these Enchilada Burritos with some Mexican or Taco Rice for an amazing Taco Tuesday meal. While this version is a Cheese Beef & Bean Burrito Enchilada version, you can certainly use any kind of Burrito to make it just the same.

What are Enchiladas

Enchiladas, a classic Mexican dish, feature tortillas filled with various ingredients such as chicken, beef, pork, cheese, beans, or vegetables. Cooks typically use corn tortillas, filling them before rolling them up like a burrito. Afterward, they cover the rolled tortillas with a chili-based sauce—often red (roja) or green (verde)—and bake them until hot and bubbly. Cheese melts on top, while fresh herbs, sour cream, or sliced avocados sometimes add extra flavor. Serve enchiladas as a main course, pairing them with sides like rice, beans, or salad.

Burrito Enchiladas ingredients

Cheesy Beef & Bean Burritos (Ground Beef, Water, Old El Paso Taco Seasoning, Beef Bouillon Cube, Refried Beans, Lemon Juice, Cheddar Cheese, Large Tortillas.), Enchilada Sauce (Water, Tomato Paste, Ketchup, Taco Seasoning, Vinegar, Sugar, Enchilada Paste (Onion, Garlic, Tomato, Guajillo Chiles, Chiles de arbol, Pimento Paste, Neutral Oil)), Cheese.

Cheesy Beef & Bean Burritos

These Burritos are stuffed with Taco seasoned ground beef, Refried Beans and Cheese. I got a separate recipe for these all by themselves, “Cheesy Beef & Bean Burritos”. Before putting this dish together make sure you have these made up fresh or previously made, completely thawed and converting them into Beef Burrito Enchiladas with the premade Enchilada Sauce and more Cheese to top it off.

Enchilada Sauce

This Enchilada Sauce is based off of the Red Taco Sauce, with a few adjustments. Instead of going for a commercialized Red Taco Sauce. The Enchilada Sauce takes basic ingredients and combines them almost the same way for a more refined Enchilada style sauce that includes an Enchilada Paste to add more flavor, fill out the sauce, and give more body to it.

Enchilada Base Sauce

Combine the following ingredients into a sauce pot along with the Enchilada Paste to simmer for about 5–10 minutes, that’s it!

• 1 1/4 C Water
• 1 Cube Bouillon — Beef, Chicken, Pork, or Vegetable
• 1/2 C Tomato Paste
• 1 Tbl Taco Seasoning — or 1 tsp Oregano & Cumin, and Black Pepper to taste
• 1 Tbl Ketchup
• 1/2 Tbl White Vinegar — can use Lime or Lemon Juice, added to taste
• 1 tsp Sugar — Optional or more for sweeter
• To Taste Salt & Pepper

The base Sauce can be used just as is to make the Enchiladas, as pictured below. It does however taste better and is a bit thicker when the Enchilada Paste is added.

Enchilada Paste

Simply use an Enchilada Paste to derive even more flavor and create a bodied sauce that will coat the Enchiladas or Wet Burritos. Place all the ingredients into a glass jar with a mouth opening large enough to fit an immersion blender and purée. Empty it into the pot with the Enchilada Base Sauce, easy.

How to make Enchiladas

First, the Cheesy Beef & Bean Burritos and Enchilada Sauce need to be made in advance. If you’re doing this from scratch, then check out the recipes for Cheesy Beef & Bean Burritos and Enchilada Sauce in order to make these up before putting together. Previously made up and frozen Burritos that have been thawed overnight can be used as well.

Burrito Enchiladas Bowls

This is actually pretty cool because it lets you add a variety of extra ingredients to the bowl after cooking, making the meal more complete all in the same bowl, and the bowls can be served straight from the oven. The preparation stays the same, but each burrito or enchilada cooks in a single-serve au gratin dish or tin foil bowl.

Once it’s ready, you can top it with an assortment of foods like Pico de Gallo, Guacamole, Lettuce, Sour Cream, Rice, and more.

What Rice to serve with Enchiladas

A nice side of Rice with Cheesy Beef & Bean Burritos is very nice and fills out the meal. My go-to is either Taco Rice or Adobo Sazon Rice. But other varieties work too, such as Yellow Cumin Rice or Mexican Rice.