Add these easy veggie-filled enchiladas to your next meal prep!

With only a few simple ingredients & steps, you can add a delicious & nutritious meal to your weekly meal plan!  Best part yet  – you can use up all those vegetables you intended to eat 🙂

Being a busy, working mom, I cherish my weekends, and don’t want to spend hours slaving away in the kitchen just for Monday to roll around again.  And as a dietitian, I don’t want to be running through the drive-through every night.

Enter —> Easy Meal Prep Veggie Enchiladas!!

These enchiladas aren’t just easy + delicious, they are nutritious & RD-approved!  They even follow my #terrificthree approach, with a healthy balance of complex carbohydrate (the whole-wheat tortilla), protein (beans & cheese) + veggies (lots of them!).

Here’s the recipe:

Makes 8 Servings

INGREDIENTS:

• 8 whole grain tortillas
• 2 cups of chopped veggies (any kind!)
• 1.5 cups shredded cheese (your favorite flavor!)
• 2 cups enchilada sauce (I buy canned sauce to simplify my life!)
• 1-15 oz can black beans, drained & rinsed
• Salt, pepper & cumin to taste

 

DIRECTIONS:

• With light olive oil, sauté chopped veggies in a large skillet over medium heat & season with spices.
• Transfer veggies to a mixing bowl and add beans, 1/4 cup cheese and 2 tbsp of enchilada sauce.  Mix well!
• Spread 1/2 cup veggie filling mix down the middle eat tortilla and then fold, left over right.
• Spread 1/4 cup enchilada sauce to bottom of 13×9 inch pan and place enchilada seam down. Repeating with remaining tortillas and filling.
• Drizzle remaining enchilada sauce over the tortillas and sprinkle with remaining cheese.
• Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes until cheese is golden & bubbly!

Ready to give it a try?!  It may seem like a lot of ingredients and work at first, but I promise that it won’t take long!!  Best yet, you can’t mess this recipe up.  You can use WHATEVER ingredients for the “filling”  you want!!

Check out my video tutorial for enchiladas in the making + a peek into my weekend meal prep!!

Have fun with it, make it your own.  After a few tries, you won’t even need to look up this recipe because you’ll be a pro!!

Want more meal prep tips? Make sure to check out my Top 5 Healthy Meal Planning Tips for Busy Moms (P.S. You can print this full recipe + more in the FREE downloadable guide!)

Happy, healthy cooking 🙂