One of many variations.
1 lb. medium size shrimp, cleaned and deveined
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, finely minced
1 can tomatoes
1/3 cup sofrito
Chile Pepper, to taste
salt and pepper, to taste
4 lemon/lime wedges (4 to 5)
1/2 can tomato sauce
1 cup liquid


In a pan, add a little olive oil and sauté garlic, chile, onion and the for
a minute. Add can of tomatoes and tomato sauce and mix. Salt and pepper
shrimp and add.
Mix well to incorporate the the mixture to shrimp. Add 1 cup of liquid
(water, broth or beer) and stir.
Let cook for 20 minutes.
Serve with rice and lemon/lime.

Gunner wrote:
> One of many variations.
> 1 lb. medium size shrimp, cleaned and deveined
> 1 onion, thinly sliced
> 1 garlic clove, finely minced
> 1 can tomatoes
> 1/3 cup sofrito
> Chile Pepper, to taste
> salt and pepper, to taste
> 4 lemon/lime wedges (4 to 5)
> 1/2 can tomato sauce
> 1 cup liquid

I'm imagining Hank Hill saying, "Wait, what about the tortillas? There
aren't any tortillas listed! How can you have *enchilados* without
tortillas?"

Chili (or chile) is a kind of *sauce*, made with chile peppers. It
doesn't matter what else goes into the sauce, as long as there are
fiery peppers.

Anything *dipped* in the chile sauce, becomes "chili-ed" or, as the
Spanish would say,
"enchilada" or "enchilado", depending on the gender of the word.

So the tortilla dipped in chile sauce becomes an "enchilada", even if
it isn't filled with meat or cheese, or rolled up. The spicy tortilla
is now an "enchilada".

I can buy Queso Enchilado in the local supermarket. It's cheese with
chile sauce in it or on it.

If a person eating chiles overestimates his tolerance for capsaicin, he
becomes "enchilado", sweating and crying with a runny nose, while
desperately groping for water or sugar or salt or lime to put out the
fire.

Also, hotheaded people who get very angry are said to be "enchilados".

I told my world travelling friend about the differences between Spanish
cuisine and Mexican cuisine before he visited Madrid. But he didn't
learn his lessons very well. He went into a Spanish restaurant and
couldn't understand the menu, but he saw "ensalada"
listed there, so he ordered that, thinking that he knew what an
*enchilada* was.

He was served some kind of salad, he didn't know what it was, and
couldn't eat it, and that was all because he didn't understand Spanish
well enough to order something to eat...