Slow Cooker Enchilada Casserole

Source:  The Crockin' Girls

Ingredients:

• 1/2 to 1 T. butter
• 1/2 onion chopped
• 1 pound ground turkey meat
• 1 T. cumin, or to taste
• 1/2 c. light sour cream
• 2 Cup low fat cottage cheese
• 1/2 tsp. Teaspoon salt
• pinch of black pepper
• 20 corn tortillas
• 2 c. mozzarella cheese
• 1 (10 oz) can* mild red enchilada sauce  (*I doubled this)
• 1 can sliced black olives (optional)

Directions:

1. Meat Mixture: Heat butter in skillet on medium high. Cook onions until tender and then add the ground turkey meat. Cook until turkey meat is cooked through. Add cumin to meat mixture halfway through cooking the meat.
2. Cheese Mixture: Mix sour cream with cottage cheese, salt, and pepper. Combine cheese mixture with meat mixture and mix well.
3. In layers, cover the bottom of the crock pot (I used a 6-quart) with corn tortillas, overlapping each other.
4. Spread half of the meat mixture evenly over the corn tortillas*, then add a layer of mozzarella cheese. Add another layer of tortillas, finish up the meat mixture and then another layer of mozzarella cheese, leaving enough to top off the casserole.  (*I also poured some enchilada sauce over each layer after I added the meat mixture.)
5. Add the last layer of corn tortillas. Pour the enchilada sauce over the casserole. Add the black olives and top with the remaining cheese.
6. Cover, cook on LOW for 3 hours.

Comments:

 

We really rely on our CrockPot a lot, especially on Sundays, and it was fun to find a yummy Mexican slow cooker recipe.  Plus, with the ground turkey, it's pretty healthy!  As was mentioned in the ingredients and directions, I preferred it with much more enchilada sauce.  The original recipe called for enchilada sauce poured only over the top -- which made it a bit dry and bland -- I prefer the enchilada sauce more distributed throughout the whole casserole.  We non-olive-loving Wihongis omitted those entirely, but we topped each serving with sour cream, guacamole, extra cheese, etc., and we were plenty happy.  This is so tasty!