Vegan Enchiladas Verdes with Spinach and Tofu

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup raw cashews
• ¼ cup roasted green chiles

  or canned green chiles
• 1 clove garlic

  minced
• ¼ cup cilantro
• ½ cup water + water for soaking cashews
• salt and pepper
• 1  cup pine nuts

  (there will be extra for garnish)
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1 tablespoon olive oil + more for tortillas
• 1 clove garlic

  minced
• 1  tablespoon finely chopped serrano pepper
• 6 cups spinach
• 14 oz. firm tofu
• salt and pepper
• 12 corn tortillas
• 15 oz. medium green enchilada sauce
• chopped cilantro

Instructions

• 1 Soak raw cashews in water for at least an hour. Drain. Put in a blender along
  with roasted green chiles, garlic, cilantro, water, salt, and pepper. If you
  want it to thicken, refrigerate before serving.
• 2 Heat a pan on medium heat and toast pine nuts until they start to brown and
  become fragrant.
• 3 Preheat oven to 350°F.
• 4 Pour olive oil
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  in a hot pan. Add chopped onion and cook until translucent on medium heat.
• 5 Add garlic and serrano pepper. Cook for about a minute longer. Add spinach and
  cook until wilted.
• 6 In a food processor
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  add spinach mixture and tofu. Mix to combine.
• 7 Add olive oil
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  to a hot pan. Add one tortilla at a time and cook for 10 seconds on medium heat
  on each side. Place tortillas on paper towels to soak up some of the oil.
• 8 Pour half of the green enchilada sauce in a 9x13 inch baking dish
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  On a tortilla, spoon a couple of tablespoons of the tofu spinach mixture.
  Sprinkle a couple of teaspoons of toasted pine nuts. Roll tightly and put seam
  side down in the baking dish
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  Repeat with the rest of tortillas.
• 9 Pour the enchilada sauce over tortillas. Bake at 350°F for 20-25 minutes*.
• 10 To serve, pour creamy roasted green chile sauce on top. Sprinkle pine nuts and
  cilantro and serve.

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