Mexican
Chicken Tostadas
Chicken Tostadas 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
- 8 tostada shells
- 16 oz canned refried beans
- 3 cups cooked shredded chicken
- 2 cups shredded lettuce
- 2 tomatoes
- 1/2 cup crumbled cotija
- 1 avocado
- 1/2 cup Mexican crema
- 2 limes
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Warm the refried beans in a small pot with the chili powder and a pinch of salt.
- Toss the shredded chicken with the juice of one lime and season with salt.
- Spread a thick layer of warm beans over each tostada shell.
- Top with chicken, then shredded lettuce, diced tomato, and sliced avocado.
- Drizzle with crema and sprinkle with cotija.
- Serve right away with the remaining lime wedges so the shells stay crisp.
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. Chicken Tostadas 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
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Pulses, Vegetables, Dairy, Meat or fish, and Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken Tostadas takes about 35 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, tostada, and bean.
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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