Easy Chipotle Chicken Tacos
Chipotle Shredded Chicken Tacos bursting with complex, delicious flavors. Easy to make, smoky, savory and outright delicious.
Servings: 4
Equipment
- small food processor or blender
- large skillet
Ingredients
- 1-1½ lb chicken breasts, boneless, skinless or rotisserie chicken
- ½ tsp cumin *see notes for seasonings
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp onion powder
- 8-10 small tortillas *flour or corn
Chipotle Sauce
- ⅓ cup chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
- 1 ½ tbsp honey *see notes!
- 3 tbsp cilantro
- 1 garlic clove
- ¼ cup lime or lemon juice about 2
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- ¼ cup water *to thin the sauce
- ½ tsp salt
Instructions
- If you are cooking your own chicken, read on. If using rotisserie chicken, shred the chicken and move to step three. Heat a skillet with oil on medium to low heat. Clean chicken breasts, in a small bowl mix seasonings together and rub all over chicken on both sides, if breasts are really large, cut them in half to cook quicker.
- Brown all sides of chicken for about 3-5 min each side. Preheat oven to 375º. Once all sides are browned, stick into the oven in an oven safe dish (I use a cast iron skillet for this entire process). Bake for 15 - 19 minutes or until internal temp of chicken is 165º. Let the chicken rest, then shred.
- In a food processor, add chipotle peppers in adobo, lime or lemon juice, honey, garlic clove, cilantro, water, olive oil, pinch of salt & pepper.
- Toss about 3/4ths of the chipotle sauce into the shredded chicken and mix well, you can reheat the chicken in the same skillet used before on medium to low heat. Warm tortillas of choice, layer sauced, shredded chicken onto warmed tortilla and top with any optional toppings of choice. *Add more chipotle sauce as needed, all chicken will vary on how it absorbs the sauce. Some shredded chicken will have more moisture than others.
Notes
*if you are using precooked rotisserie chicken from the deli, you can skip the seasoning or cut everything in half, rotisserie is typically very seasoned.
*add some extra honey if you want a more mild flavor. Feel free to add honey to taste. Be sure to taste the Chipotle Sauce as you go.
Nutrition
Serving: 2tacos | Calories: 640kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 41g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 18g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 109mg | Sodium: 987mg | Potassium: 468mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 186IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 113mg | Iron: 4mg