Mexican
Crispy Chicken Taquitos
Crispy Chicken Taquitos is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 3 cups cooked shredded chicken
- 12 corn tortillas
- 4 oz cream cheese
- 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 cup neutral oil
- 1/2 cup salsa
- 1 cup guacamole
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Mix the shredded chicken with the softened cream cheese, Monterey Jack, cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, and salt.
- Warm the corn tortillas until pliable so they roll without cracking.
- Spoon a line of the chicken filling along each tortilla and roll tightly, securing with a toothpick.
- Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high until shimmering.
- Fry the taquitos in batches, turning, until golden and crisp, about 3 minutes, then drain on paper towels.
- Serve hot with salsa and guacamole for dipping.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Crispy Chicken Taquitos carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Arroz con Pollo |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Dairy, Meat or fish, and Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Crispy Chicken Taquitos takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, tortilla, and cheese.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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