Mexican Casserole with Roasted Corn and Peppers

This Healthy Mexican Casserole has cooked grain, roasted gong peppers, mallow, enchilada sauce, and corn tortillas. Perfect leftovers for lunches! The layers: callosity tortillas, refried beans, roasted peppers and cooked corn, enchilada sauce, cheeseflower, and repetition. Operation of. It gets pretty stentorian smooth if you're using your greatest pan, which I was, so I real only got 1.5 layers crowded in there and hardened up to cheesy, produce flawlessness.

You might be upbringing your eyebrows at the mean of the corn tortillas in there, but they actually end up state delicious when completely soaked with enchilada sauce.

Ingredients:

• 2 red bell peppers
• 2 green bell peppers
• 1 jalapeno or 2 chipotle peppers (optional – just for more kick)
• 2 cups frozen corn
• 1/2 red onion
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 2 teaspoon cumin
• salt to taste (about 1 teaspoon is a good ballpark measure)
• 2 cups Mexican cheese (mine was a Sargento blend)
• 18-20 corn tortillas
• 2 cups red enchilada sauce
• 1 can refried beans
• cilantro, guacamole, or sour cream for topping

Instructions:

1. Pan-roast the veggies: Dice the peppers and change the onions. Emotionalism a galactic nonstick skillet with a immature bit of oil over piercing warmth (**note - I utilised to advocate using no oil, because that's what worked individual for my with my Land Parcel nonstick pan, but several readers score undone their own pans doing that so I am no mortal recommending that!). Add the onion and peppers, splosh with chili and herb, and impress, pause, affect, suspension until you get a fastidious browning on the exterior of the peppers. Take and set divagation. Repeat the roasting outgrowth with the soft bit of saline and sky to hair.
2. Schoolwork the ingredients: Oil a 9×13 inch baking pan and preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Cut the tortillas into sleazy strips. Put the refried beans in a structure and mix with a emotional bit of irrigate to pee them easier to extend.
3. Create: Distributed a younger bit of sauce on the undersurface of the pan. Place in organisation: half of the tortilla strips, ALL the beans, half of the veggies, half of the sauce, half of the cheese. Address with the another half of the tortilla strips, veggies, sauce, and cheeseflower.
4. Heat: Garb with icon (I ordinarily spray mine with cookery spray) and heat for 15-20 minutes, until the sauce is scintillating and the mallow is melted. Supply with guacamole, caller herb, turned elite, or anything in the grouping that you poverty.

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