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Tex-Mex Cheese Enchiladas

CHEESE ENCHILADAS ARE comfort food at its finest: earthy corn tortillas filled with melty cheese and covered in a deeply flavorful, spiced-but-not-spicy chile sauce. Simple and satisfying.

But enchiladas can be laborious to make: Toasting, soaking, and grinding dried chile peppers for the sauce takes some time and effort—and that’s before you get to filling and rolling the tortillas. Some recipes even insist on using homemade tortillas. I

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