Soft Chicken Tacos. These healthful Mexican chicken tacos are made with chicken thigh meat, making them especially moist. Soft chicken tacos are healthy, delicious comfort food. Made with a shredded chicken filling, soft wholesome tortillas, and fillings of your choice, soft chicken tacos are an easy meal to throw.
Easy Chicken Tacos - With a simple spice rub, the chicken is cooked so quickly on the stovetop!
These tacos are the perfect destination for leftover chicken.
Set up a taco bar and let your family assemble their own tacos with their favorite fillings and toppings.
You can cook Soft Chicken Tacos using 12 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Soft Chicken Tacos
- It's 1 of large full boneless chicken breast.
- Prepare 1/2 of medium onion.
- It's 1 tsp of minced garlic.
- You need 1 tsp of oregano.
- It's 1 tbsp of lemon pepper.
- It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
- You need 1 dozen of corn tortillas.
- You need 2 cup of shredded lettuce.
- It's 1 cup of shredded cabbage.
- Prepare 1 cup of diced tomato.
- You need 1 cup of grated cheese (your choice).
- You need 1 of small jar of salsa of your choice.
Give your taco fillings a Caribbean twist. Grilled pineapple gives tacos a juicy, tropical twist. With flavorful chicken morsels and taco fixings wrapped in soft tortillas, and then drizzled with a dreamy Del Taco-inspired sauce, they are quick and easy to make yet pack big, bold flavors. No one can resist a taco with all its Mexican flavors and fresh ingredients.
Soft Chicken Tacos instructions
- Shred lettuce and cabbage and mix together ahead of time..
- Dice tomatoes ahead of time..
- Use scissors to cut chicken breast into small pieces..
- Dice onion..
- Saute chicken, onion, garlic, and oregano using your choice of cooking oil in a medium skillet or saute pan until chicken turns white..
- Season chicken while cooking with salt and lemon pepper..
- Adjust burner under chicken to low heat to keep chicken warm..
- Add 1/2 Cup salsa to chicken after cooking and turning burner down..
- Slide tortillas individually on each side through hot cooking oil in a separate pan..
- Layer warm tortillas in paper towels as you fry them to soak up excess oil..
- Lay 3 tortillas open on each plate..
- Add chicken, cheese, lettuce, cabbage, and tomato to the center of each tortilla..
- Top each taco with salsa or taco sauce of your choice. (optional).
- Fold each taco over. Serve alone or with rice and beans. Eat and enjoy!.
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