Pork Enchiladas Verde

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These restaurant style pork enchiladas verde are made with just 5 ingredients in less than an hour! They’re the perfect big batch dinner for feeding a crowd or making leftovers.

Pulled pork, salsa verde, and Mexican cheese all wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla. Sounds like something from a dream. But it’s true! You can enjoy this restaurant style Mexican dinner right at home with just a few simple ingredients.

Trust us, these pork enchiladas verde will quickly become your new favorite meal!

What This Recipe Entails

It’s easy to make pork enchiladas verde in less than an hour if you already have carnitas or pulled pork prepared. Simply make a fresh batch of verde sauce, combine the ingredients, roll the enchiladas, and bake!

• Make Ahead Time (optional): 8 to 10 hours, if you’re making our slow cooker carnitas or slow cooker pulled pork
• Prep Time: 25 minutes
• Cook Time: 25 minutes

We always recommend using fresh, homemade ingredients wherever you can. Try making our slow cooker carnitas recipe a day or two in advance, and use it for these enchiladas for the best flavor! 

Pork Enchiladas Verde Ingredients

Sometimes the best enchiladas are quite simple. And that’s the case with these pork enchiladas verde. Tender pork, Mexican cheese, and lots of fresh, citrusy sauce are pretty much all you need.

• Mexican verde sauce
• Pulled pork or carnitas
• Shredded Mexican cheese
• 10-inch flour tortillas
• Fresh cilantro for garnish

These pork verde enchiladas are easiest to make when you already have some pulled pork or carnitas made, or are planning on making some to stock your freezer with. Since pulled pork takes hours to make properly, you don’t want to be trying to make it right before dinner.

However, if you don’t have any pork made and don’t want to go through the effort, you can always use store-bought pulled pork for this recipe.

This recipe calls for a double batch of verde sauce. And while it is easy to make, you’ll want to make sure you have enough ingredients to make 3 cups of it. This will take you about 15 minutes.

You can find everything you need to know about our Mexican verde sauce here. Again, you can always use store-bought verde sauce if you want to simplify this recipe.

How To Make Pork Enchiladas Verde

Once all your ingredients are prepped, making carnitas enchiladas verde comes down to assembling and baking. Which gives you enough time to either start cleaning up or make yourself a cocktail! We know which one we’d choose.

Here’s how to make carnitas enchiladas with verde sauce:

1. First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 9 by 13 baking dish.
2. Next, combine the pulled pork with ¾ cup of verde sauce and ¾ cup of shredded Mexican cheese. Stir well until evenly mixed.
3. Then, fill the 8 tortillas evenly with the pork mixture and lay them down in the baking dish, seam side down.
4. Top the enchiladas with the remaining verde sauce and cheese.
5. Finally, cover the baking dish with foil and bake until they’re warm and the cheese is melty, about 25 minutes.
6. Garnish with fresh cilantro, and serve immediately!

These enchiladas are best served with sides such as rice, beans, and guacamole, but for more serving suggestions, continue on to the next section for our recommendations!

Serving Suggestions

Salsa verde enchiladas are the perfect main course for your Mexican dinner. These simple, saucy, and delicious enchiladas are mostly made with carnitas, so you’ll want to add your rice, beans, and other favorite add-ons on the side.

Here are some sides you’ll love paired with pork enchiladas verde:

• Cilantro lime rice and black beans
• Black bean corn salsa
• Homemade guacamole or fire roasted salsa and tortilla chips
• Sour cream or plain Greek yogurt (we love using Fage as a healthy sour cream substitute!)
• Cottage cheese queso
• Or go all out with some loaded sheet pan nachos

And of course, dinner wouldn’t be complete without a craft cocktail to go with it! Here are some of our favorites for Mexican night:

• Spicy mezcal margarita
• Tequila pina colada
• Mezcal old fashioned
• Mezcal sour

Storing and Reheating Leftovers

Since these enchiladas should be made in a 9 x 13 baking dish, we recommend storing them right in that. This 9 x 13 baking dish with a lid makes that super easy with its own lid. However if yours doesn’t have a lid, aluminum foil or plastic wrap work well too. Just make sure to cover the dish well. 

Leftover enchiladas verde will keep in the fridge for up to 5 days. These carnitas enchiladas make great lunches throughout the week! If you pre-pack your leftovers into ready-to-go meal prep containers, you have easy lunches ready to grab, go, and reheat.

When you’re ready to enjoy your leftover pork enchiladas, just reheat individual servings in the microwave for about 1 and a half to 2 minutes. Or if you want to heat up all the leftovers for the whole family, you can leave them right in the baking dish and bake at 350 degrees F for 25 to 30 minutes. Make sure to cover them with foil to prevent them from drying out.