Need a healthy appetizer recipe for game day or a party? Look no further than this healthy enchilada dip. It’s made with ground beef, two types of beans, and enchilada sauce.
Amazing Enchilada Dip
When I dip you dip we dip.
This healthy enchilada dip needs to be added to your next party menu! It’s saucy and meaty and beany and cheesy…basically, everything you’ve ever wanted in a dip! If you’ve ever tried our chili cheese dip recipe, then I know you’re going to love this one.
If you’ve ever had an enchilada, you know that the star of the recipe is the enchilada sauce. Well, good news for you is that you can choose any enchilada sauce your heart desires. You can make your own or buy your favorite at the store. Here are our favorites:
- Frontera
- Trader Joe’s
- 365 Red Enchilada Sauce
Ingredients
Now that you’ve chosen your enchilada sauce, it’s time to assemble the rest of your ingredients! Lucky for you, a lot of the ingredients in this recipe are pretty interchangeable.
- ground meat: we recommend ground beef, but any kind of ground meat will work!
- garlic: garlic makes this recipe extra warm and savory.
- beans: you need 1 cup of beans and we suggest mixing black beans and white northern beans, but you can try kidney or pinto.
- red onion: we know, some people have a love-hate relationship with onions, so feel free to add more or omit completely.
- sweet corn: corn out of the can is perfect for this recipe, but if you have it fresh off the cobb…even better!
- sweet potatoes: don’t love sweet potatoes, feel free to ditch them or swap them with normal potatoes or even more beans!
What makes this dip healthy?
I’m sure you’re asking yourself what makes this enchilada dip healthy? There are a couple of different reasons why this dip is better than others.
Meat Selection
The recipe is written that you can choose whatever kind of ground meat your heart desires. If you’re looking to keep this lower in fat and calories, we suggest ground chicken or turkey. If you’re looking to add iron and more fat to your diet, then we suggest ground beef.
Fiber
We love how fibrous this recipe is and that’s mostly thanks to the BEANS. Feel free to mix and match when it comes to beans…and even double the amount!
Veggies
Last but not least, this enchilada dip is packed with 3 different kinds of veggies (sweet potatoes, onions, and corn) and it doesn’t have to stop there! Try adding bell pepper or even zucchini to this dish to make it even more veggie-packed!
Healthy Dip Recipes
- Healthy Chili Cheese Dip
- Crockpot Buffalo Chicken Dip
- Baked Spinach and Artichoke Dip
- Healthy 7-Layer Greek Yogurt Taco Dip

Healthy Enchilada Dip
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound ground meat beef, chicken, turkey, or bison
- 1.5 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 medium sweet potato peeled and diced (~1 cup diced)
- 1/2 cup minced red onion
- 1/2 cup black beans drained and rinsed
- 1/2 cup northern white beans drained and rinsed
- 1/2 cup sweet corn
- 1.5 cups enchilada sauce
- salt to taste
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- 1 large avocado sliced (for topping)
Instructions
- First, preheat oven to high broil. Then, brown 1/2 pound of ground meat in a 10 inch cast iron skillet. Drain fat and set meat aside.
- Next, heat 1.5 tablespoons of olive oil over medium/high heat in the same cast iron skillet. Add in minced garlic, diced sweet potato, and red onion and sauté for 7-10 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are almost cooked all the way through.
- Add in black beans, white beans, sweet corn, enchilada sauce, and the cooked meat and bring to a slight boil. Take off heat and sprinkle on shredded cheese.
- Place cast iron skillet in the oven for 1 minute in order to melt the cheese. Remove and top with sliced avocado and fresh cilantro.
- Serve with tortilla chips.
Hi Lee 🙂 After draining & setting ground meat aside.. at what point do you add it back into pan? (I didnt see that).?
Looking forward to making this for a get together tomrw!
It should be step 3! I just updated the recipe <3
I want to mention that the Trader Joe’s enchilada sauce is not gluten free.
Did I miss seeing a calorie count for this? Looks wonderful, just need a calorie count for my daily calculations.
Hi, one portion provides about 300 kcal, if you want to cook low calorie dip you can add less cheese
Thanks! Appreciate! Doubt I’ll skip the cheese, just like to know what the count is so I can add it in for the day! 🙂
I tried this recipe and I loved it! Had to use kidney beans instead of black ones and I served it as diner instead of as a snack and it was quite a lot for the three of us but we still finished it because if you have chips in front of you and such a yummy dip, how could you stop dipping??
So for 4 it would be perfect, but I’m not sure if I made a bit more because I wasn’t too exact with the measurements 🙂
YAY! So glad your modifications worked. I bet kidney beans were just as good 🙂
Hi Lee, I find your recipe quick to follow, and of course, mouth-watering. I certainly would want to try it with my sons who love enchilada so much.
This already looks absolutely amazing but then you go and top it all off with those big CHUNKS of avocado! Yes yes yes.
Wow this seriously looks so good!! This is perfect for a party appetizer and I can’t wait to try to make it!
I hope you love it!
I was going through the pantry to find something and came across a bottle of the TJ’s enchilada sauce so glad I have something yummy to make with it now! I agree dips and chips made healthy is awesome!
Thanks
Sara http://www.wholistickitchen.com
Love dat stuff!
Thank you for sharing your recipe Lee. I love that I can eat my favorite comfort food without feeling guilty. 😀
Enchilada dip is one of my favorites, and now I can indulge in a healthy way! Love that it is filled with superfoods! 🙂
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OBVI. Gonna Snap the shiznat outa that!
You said it’s dairy free but it has cheese?
You can use a Dairy free cheese or just don’t put the cheese on top!
I literally saw TJ’s enchilada dip on Wednesday and thought “yum, but I don’t have a recipe to use it, so I’ll wait to buy it.” now I’ve got that recipe, hooray!
LOVE YOU TJSSSSSSS! And so glad I randomly bumped into you last weekend! In Stillwater of all places 😛 #smallworld #MNLove
This looks incredibleeeeeee. Looks like the perfect dip for partays. Actually, for my family’s Christmas party, we do appetizers instead of a full out meal. It is fabulous and amazing and this dip sounds like the perfect way to change it up! I love me some Mexican flavors.
DOODE that is such a good idea. We do a full spread of apps and then move into dinner and then dessert. Somewhere in there there’s an hour power nap on the couch.