Slow Cooker Enchilada Quinoa
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Healthy, easy Slow Cooker Enchilada Quinoa. Just set it and forget it for a cheesy, protein-packed crock pot meal the whole family will love!
Slow cooking minimizes your time in the kitchen while maximizing dinner compliments! Try Slow Cooker Honey BBQ Beef Brisket, Slow Cooker Spicy Cashew Chicken, and Slow Cooker Barbacoa Beef to be sure 😉
This may very well be my new favorite dish of all time. And if not all time, certainly the past 93 hours. That means it’s competing with Mom’s Christmas ham – shh! don’t tell.
Sometimes (read: pretty much every day of my life) I need an easy, practically zero-work recipe that I know I can count on to be absolutely 100% delicious to feed my Mexican food obsession. Slow cooker enchilada quinoa, you are heaven sent. Literally five minutes of prep means I can forget it for a few hours and come back when it’s ready to be devoured.
See that picture up there? ^^^ There’s a lot of yum happening in that crock pot and it lasted us several days since there’s just two of us in this here humble abode, which means leftovers for dayzzz and I could not be more happy about that. If there’s one thing I love more than freshly made cheesy quinoa smothered in enchilada sauce and stuffed with corn and black beans, it’s one or two day old cheesy quinoa smothered in enchilada sauce and stuffed with corn and black beans.
I ate this stuff for breakfast. Yes. Cheesy enchilada quinoa for breakfast. It’s a thing that will be happening again friends.
Now who wants the first bite??
Too late! That’ll be miiine……
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- Quinoa Chicken Nuggets – crispy, golden, bite-sized perfection baked for ultimate guilt-free crunch.
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Slow Cooker Enchilada Quinoa
Ingredients
- 1 15-ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 15-ounce can yellow corn, drained and rinsed
- 2 15-ounce cans mild or medium red enchilada sauce, divided
- 1 15-ounce can diced fire roasted tomatoes and green chiles
- 1 cup uncooked quinoa
- ½ cup water
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- salt and pepper to taste , (I used about 1 teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon black pepper)
- 1 cup shredded Mexican style cheese
- optional: chopped cilantro, diced tomatoes, diced avocado, sour cream
Instructions
- Add beans, corn, 1 can of enchilada sauce, diced tomatoes and chiles, quinoa, water, cream cheese, and salt and pepper to the slow cooker. Stir everything together.
- Pour remaining can of enchilada sauce on top, then sprinkle with shredded cheese. Cover and cook 4-5 hours on high or 5-7 hours on low.
- Uncover, top with tomatoes, avocados, sour cream, and chopped cilantro and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Made this tonight for dinner.. and it was delicious! Before adding the remaining sauce and cheese, I cooked it on high for 3 hours, stirred it a couple times while cooking, and then put the remaining enchilada sauce and cheese on top and let it cook on low for another hour. I split it up into 7 servings and I calculated it out to around 350 calories per serving (using full fat cream cheese).
Is yellow corn sweet corn? x
Hi Alison – yellow corn sometimes has “sweet yellow corn” on the label – any yellow corn is fine!
Making this for a friend’s bday lunch at work and can’t wait! Do you chunk up the cream cheese or try and soften it to mix with the other ingredients before turning the crockpot on or does it take care of itself and mix in well enough while cooking?
Looks awesome, thanks for the recipe!
Hi Sarah! Just put the whole block in with the other ingredients, then give it a good stir at the end and it should be perfect!
I made this for dinner tonight and it was soooo good! Wow! It was so easy to prepare too. A new favorite dish for sure. Thanks for sharing!
how do you think adding some browed ground beef to this would go?? Or chicken?
I’ve had some comments from other readers with success adding in meat! If you’re doing ground chicken or beef, I’d just brown it up on the stove for a couple of minutes and then throw it into the crockpot with all of the ingredients at the beginning! 🙂
Do you have nutrition facts for this recipe?
Hi Rachel! You know I don’t have them off-hand but when I need to get nutrition stats for a recipe I use http://www.myfitnesspal.com it’s sooo easy to use and I feel like it’s pretty accurate!
Hello,
If I doubled recipe, how much time would this add to the total cook time?
Maybe 1-2 hours. The great thing is that if it gets done a while before you’re ready to serve dinner, you can just switch the crockpot to “warm” and it will stay warm without burning. 🙂
I am dairy free, and soy free, so don’t use cream cheese at all. Would it work without it?
Yep it should work okay! 🙂
We made this today and love it!!!! Do you know how many calories are in a serving? I could add it up of course but I’m being lazy
Ha sorry – I’m lazy too! You could use http://www.myfitnesspal.com though, it’s really easy!
I made this today and it’s amazing!! I was just wondering how many calories per serving this is. Thank you.
Hi Cathy! I’m not sure of the nutrition stats for this particular recipe – I would recommend http://www.myfitnesspal.com – it’s my favorite resource for calculating nutrition stats!
Its around 515 calories per serving