These creamy mushroom enchiladas will take you by surprise! The easy filling can be made with any kind of mushroom, with mascarpone and tarragon to give it an amazing sweet creamy taste. These can be an easy weeknight dinner if you have a prepared enchilada sauce, and the recipe can be customized in so many ways to make it work perfectly for you.

If you are looking for some new ways with mushrooms, you’re in the right place! We are making enchiladas with them. Specifically, we are cooking them with tarragon, garlic and mascarpone to make a very luxurious creamy, sweet filling for our enchiladas.

I love having that slightly sweet finish to my enchilada fillings. Before these, my favorite ever enchiladas were these Cheese & Caramelized Onion Enchiladas which have that same creamy sweet note about them. I love how a sweet creamy filling contrasts with the deeper smokiness of a red enchilada sauce.

These mushroom enchiladas are surprisingly easy

So, enchiladas are never easy easy. There are always multiple steps, multiple components, usually multiple pans. But I found these relatively simple to make because the filling comes together in one pan, in about 15 minutes.

You’ll simply saute the mushrooms before adding the tarragon, mascarpone and feta cheese into the pan. It comes together perfectly.

So if you use a premade sauce, there aren’t a whole lot of ingredients either. Homemade enchilada sauce is a dream, but it’s usually what tips enchiladas into a full-on weekend project. Using premade makes this more feasible for a weeknight.

There’s a full printable recipe card coming your way, but this is the gist of it:

Ingredient Notes

The right ingredients will make or break this recipe so let’s discuss.

  • Mushrooms: you can use whatever mushrooms you like best, or have to hand. As a guide, the darker mushrooms (portobellos, criminis, chestnuts) are more flavorful than the white and button mushrooms, but it can work with those too! For this recipe I used some portobellos and some mixed mushrooms that included shiitakes and oyster mushrooms. You really don’t need the fancy ones though.
  • Dried tarragon: a whole tablespoon of it! If you want to use fresh, you can swap that in, but since it’s less potent you’ll want more. Try 3 tablespoons.
  • Mascarpone: can’t be beaten for luxurious creamy sweet vibes. If you want to swap in cream cheese, feel free. It’s not exactly the same – a little less fatty, a little more tangy – but it will still turn out well.
  • Feta, cotija or queso fresco: Since Mexican cheeses are hard to find in my part of the world, I use feta, but in this recipe I like the cheaper fetas or generic “salad cheese” blocks because they are a little milder and less salty / tangy.
  • Red onion could easily be swapped for vidalia onion or shallots.
  • Red enchilada sauce: While this will always be its best self with a homemade roux sauce (I recommend this recipe), a good pre-made sauce will do the job very nicely too. Ideally you want something smoky. I enjoyed Potts’ brand with this.
  • Corn tortillas: You definitely want to use corn and not flour tortillas for this. So much tastier.

A couple variation ideas

  • Adding spinach would always be a great idea – just stir in a couple handfuls of baby spinach along with the mascarpone and let it wilt.
  • If you’d rather not use tarragon, try leaning into fresh summery flavors instead and add lime zest, chopped green chili and a handful of chopped fresh cilantro (coriander) instead.

Creamy Mushroom Enchiladas

These creamy mushroom enchiladas will take you by surprise! The easy filling can be made with any kind of mushroom, with mascarpone and tarragon to give it an amazing sweet creamy taste. These can be an easy weeknight dinner if you have a prepared enchilada sauce, and the recipe can be customized in so many ways to make it work perfectly for you.
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Ingredients

  • 6-8 corn tortillas, see notes
  • 2 Tbsp olive oil, for cooking
  • 1 small red onion, thinly sliced
  • 500 g (1.2 lb) mushrooms , destemmed and chopped – see notes
  • 1 Tbsp dried tarragon, or 3 Tbsp fresh
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 3 Tbsp mascarpone cheese
  • 35 g (â…“ cup) feta, cotija or queso fresco cheese, crumbled (+more for topping)
  • 100 g (100 g) grated mozzarella
  • 1 portion enchilada sauce
  • 1 handful chopped fresh coriander (cilantro)
  • Optional toppings: avocado or guacamole, sour cream, chili slices, lime wedges

Instructions 

  • Preheat the oven to 200C /400F.
  • In a large, deep saucepan, heat a couple tablespoons of olive oil and saute your onion slices on a medium heat until soft and starting to brown.
    1 small red onion, 2 Tbsp olive oil
  • Now cook the mushrooms. If you're using a normal sized large frying pan, you will want to do this in two batches to avoid overcrowding the pan. So cook half the mushrooms with the onions, then pour them into a bowl, quickly cook the rest of the mushrooms and then add the first batch back into the pan. (If you're using an extra large pan and feel you can fit all your mushrooms in at once, go for it.) Deglaze the pan with water or white wine if things are sticking.
    500 g mushrooms
  • Add the garlic and tarragon. Cook until fragrant, just a minute or so, and then remove from the heat.
    3 cloves garlic, 1 Tbsp dried tarragon
  • Add the mascarpone to the pan, stir through to melt.
    3 Tbsp mascarpone cheese
  • Finally, add the crumbled feta and mix until just combined (we're not trying to get the feta to melt, we want it to stay a little chunky).
    35 g feta, cotija or queso fresco cheese
  • Now spoon the filling into the corn tortillas, and roll them up.
    6-8 corn tortillas
  • Pour a little bit of the enchilada sauce on the bottom of a casserole pan (only enough to cover the bottom – no more) and place your rolled enchiladas on top, folded side down.
    1 portion enchilada sauce
  • Cover with the remaining sauce.
  • Sprinkle the grated mozzarella on top.
    100 g grated mozzarella
  • Bake for 20-25 minutes, uncovered, until the cheese is browned to your liking.
  • Add a little more crumbled feta, the chopped coriander (cilantro) and any other toppings you're using.
    Optional toppings: avocado or guacamole, sour cream, chili slices, lime wedges, 1 handful chopped fresh coriander (cilantro)

Notes

How many tortillas – You can make this with 6 or 8 tortillas, the filling will easily stretch to 8 if you want to get four portions out of it. If you don’t need that many and would prefer them more generously filled, just make 6 enchiladas. You’ll get 3 large portions, or 2 large portions + 3 lunch or child size portions.
What kind of mushrooms – any kind of mushrooms will work here! I used a mix of portobello and wild mushrooms, but made this plenty of times with just portobello or chestnut mushrooms and it worked well either way.
Nutritional information is for 1/4th of the recipe made using 8 tortillas, and excludes any additional toppings used.
Calories: 340kcal, Carbohydrates: 33g, Protein: 15g, Fat: 18g, Saturated Fat: 8g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 39mg, Sodium: 297mg, Potassium: 621mg, Fiber: 5g, Sugar: 4g, Vitamin A: 440IU, Vitamin C: 6mg, Calcium: 261mg, Iron: 2mg