Learn how to make Chuy’s velvet enchilada sauce

I regularly dine at Chuy's. I love all their sauces as they seem to be made fresh at each location. During their New Mexico Hatch Chili festival, they introduced a new "velvet" sauce for the enchiladas. Now that the festival is over, I can only get that sauce on Wednesdays for the weekly Chicken Velvet Enchiladas special. I travel often for work so it's sometimes tough for me to get to a Chuy's on Wednesday. I would love it if they would be willing to share the recipe for the Chicken Velvet Enchiladas so I can enjoy that sauce! It's almost as good as their creamy jalapeno sauce. But since I can get the creamy jalapeno seven days a week, I won't be too greedy in asking for that recipe, too. Thanks! — Jeff Langer, Smyrna

Each year John Hrinkevich, culinary and beverage manager for Chuy’s Restaurants, creates a batch of recipes for the restaurant’s Green Chile Festival. These are dishes meant to be available only during this limited time. But if a Chuy’s location finds a dish to be especially popular, they can offer it as a weekly special for the next year. That’s what happened with these Chicken Velvet Enchiladas. Customers loved them and so the Chuy’s Perimeter location kept serving them.

Hrinkevich created a scaled-down version so you can reproduce this recipe at home. In our photo, the enchiladas are paired with Green Chile Rice and Chuy’s Tex-Mex garnish which is a mix of leaf lettuce, iceberg lettuce, Pico de Gallo and pickled jalapenos.