Popular recipes that just didn't hit for you?
Tonight I made the enchiladas suizas (chicken enchiladas with spicy tomatillo sauce) which were recently featured on the new ATK season. They looked sooooo good on the show, so I was really excited to try them...but I found them to just be okay. The sauce was really good and so was the chicken, but somehow it didn't come together in the final dish for me.
I thought the instructions were sorta strange too. The recipe was pretty simple, but made a lot of dishes, and the whole assembly and baking steps were so different to other enchilada recipes I've made. For example, ATK's ground beef enchiladas call for brushing the tortillas with oil and baking them all at once, but here you fry them individually in a 1/3 cup oil in a skillet, which you then use to bake the enchiladas in. But it also calls for a hot oven and dirtying a sheet pan, so the other method would have worked. I also found it strange how none of the sauce or cheese are mixed in with the chicken, and how little of the sauce is added to the dish while baking. I had to add more than it called for so it didn't look like they'd dry out in the oven.
So I was surprised when I went on the website to check out others' opinions to see nothing but glowing comments, and that it's a Staff Pick. Guess everyone has to be the tenth dentist at some point!