There is no need for a slow cooker when making this recipe for shredded chicken tacos. Serve the taco shell with the warm chicken filling inside and top with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, and your other preferred toppings.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon minced onion
- ¼ cup tomato sauce
- 1 pinch ground cumin
- 1 pinch chili powder
Instructions
- Place chicken breasts in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then simmer until no longer pink, 10 to 12 minutes.
- Transfer chicken breasts to a bowl. Allow to cool briefly, then shred with 2 forks.
- Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook until translucent, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in shredded chicken, tomato sauce, cumin, and chili powder. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer until chicken is hot and flavors have blended, about 3 minutes.
- If you prefer more sauce, add additional tomato sauce a spoonful at a time to your liking.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 213 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 1 g |
| Cholesterol | 96 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 35 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 158 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Super simple and fantastic. Turned out excellently I added a little more Chili and cumin and also some Dan o’s red top and it’s awesome
Very good a must make
This turned out great! Since I didn’t have any tomato sauce (shame on me) I added about 1/2 a SMALL can of La Victoria Enchilada Sauce. The chicken was plenty moist. I wound up slicing the chicken instead of shredding it which worked out fine!
Was very bland, had to use a full cup of sauce and a lot more than a “pinch” of seasoning, probably like 20 pinches
I think it sounds really good!!! Thanks
It was rather bland. People shouldn’t give it high ratings if they had to change the receipe by adding more ingredients. If they had to add ingredients, that tells you something about the recipe.
This was good…I did find that I needed a lot more seasoning. It definitely needed salt. I added salt to the water of the boiling chicken, when it started to boil. And I added extra garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, and chili powder, and salted “to taste” as I cooked it. I used a can of Rotel tomatoes instead of tomato sauce. The cooking method was “spot on” and the chicken was very juicy. Since I didn’t use tomato sauce, I added a little chicken broth when the pan started getting dry. It was great!
Delicious it was!!!
I liked this a lot, but I definitely needed more tomato sauce (there was nothing to “boil”), cumin, and chili than the recipe said. I also added garlic salt.
Excellent starter recipe!!! You can make it as spicy as you like. Thank you for another “what can I do with chicken “ recipe! I’ll be making this many , many times. AWESOME
Loved it!
Too bland, added extra seasonings
I used frozen chicken breasts so it took significantly longer to boil. I used smoked paprika, cayenne, cumin, and chili powder. It was excellent. I added Fritos to my soft tacos for a little crunch. Highly recommend.
It came out perfect. In Spanish we call it tinga but found out my boyfriend doesn’t like tings so me but imma do them in tacos dorados
What a amazing Taco filling, and perfect for the Cinco de mayo Recipe, and I think it tastes good.
One alternate way to cook the chicken is to boil it. You can defrost chicken breasts and just place the chicken in boiling water for about 20 minutes. Once cooked (no red inside) pull the chicken from the pot to a cutting board. The chicken is so soft at that you can use to dinner forks to shred the chicken. It’s not as easy as a processor, but if you don’t have one this works just fine. Enjoy!!
First I make as instructed in order to give an accurate rating. It was okay, but it was bland to me. I have some suggestions for those that may feel something is missing. Use boneless skinless chicken thighs instead, it’s more melt in your mouth tender and has more flavor due to it being the fatty part of the chicken. It’s also not as costly as breast. Always remember the best chicken meat to add to compliment dishes that require added condiments such as this, a stirfry, or chicken casserole rice or noodle or dumpling dishes choose short thighs. It’s more cost effective if you aren’t a cook and keep a cabinet full of spices on hand, to just buy McCormick season package and keep them on hand. Take up less space too. I redid this using short thighs and a package of McCormick fajita season. I also used a salsa instead of tomato sauce, I added 2 tsp of minced garlic. I used my processor to finely chop a small onion. Stirfry the garlic and onion in the pan with 2 tbs of cooking oil or bacon fat until onion start to look iridescent then add cooked shredded chicken and follow McCormick packet instructions.
Not sure how you would boil 3 cooked and shredded chicken breasts with 1/4 cup of tomato sauce and spices ?? Pretty dry. However i don’t think you really to. I simply added the chicken and spices and tomato to the onion and cooked on low for 10 minutes to blend all the flavours together. The chicken was a bit bland but as you are adding all your taco toppings it was the perfect base from which to build upon. My family loved it. Would make this again.
I was looking for a simple and quick recipe for chicken tacos and came across this. I followed all directions but added a bit of water at the end for simmering because the chicken was dry. Even after the tomato sauce. I would reserve some of the water from boiling the chicken and use to moisten it a bit while simmering. Was simple and flavorful. I used for tacos, then quesadillas and ultimately sopa da fideo.
I absolutely loved this recipe. I make it with medium salsa instead of tomato sauce for a bit more spice.
Great recipe although I did make a couple tweaks by using 2 tables spoons of taco seasoning rather than the Chile spice and cumin. Also, I heavily seasoned the water with salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and chicken bouillon which added a lot of great flavor to the bland poached chicken! Will definitely make this again!