Enchilada Sauce

🎯Easy ·🕓15 Minutes · 🇲🇽 Mexican

Ingredients

• 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter

• 3 Tbsp. flour

• 1 tsp. ground cumin

• 1 tsp. chili powder

• 1 tsp. cayenne pepper

• 1 tsp. smoked paprika

• 1 tsp. garlic powder

• 1 tsp. cinnamon

• 1/2 tsp. dried oregano

• 1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper

• Salt

• 2 Tbsp. tomato paste

• 500ml vegetable broth

• 1 splash apple cider vinegar

Directions

Mix the flour and spices together in a small bowl and make sure the tomato paste and vegetable broth are ready to go, then melt the butter in a sauce pan over medium heat. Once the butter is hot and has stopped spitting, add the flour/spice mixture and whisk constantly for about a minute until the spices are fragrant and slightly darker. Add the tomato paste and keep whisking until it's heated up.

Add about a quarter of the broth at a time, whisking constantly and waiting each time for the consistency to even out before adding more broth. Once the sauce has reached a suitably saucy texture, remove from heat and whisk in the vinegar.

Give it a taste and adjust the spices as desired. Depending on how salty your vegetable broth is you may need to add a healthy pinch of salt.

Variants

• To make it a bit richer and creamier, substitute whole milk for half of the vegetable broth.