Chicken tinga. Shredded chicken with sliced onions and a tomato chipotle sauce. Chicken Tinga Tacos - the only chicken tinga tacos recipe you will ever need! Spicy, saucy, simple, and so fresh.
This chicken tinga recipe is a much easier and less elaborated version of the authentic tinga recipe I previously posted a few years ago since that one is traditionally flavored with chorizo. Chicken Tinga, or tinga de pollo, is a Mexican dish consisting of shredded chicken in a saucy, smoky, spicy tomato chipotle sauce. It's not only quick and easy, but healthy.
Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, chicken tinga. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Shredded chicken with sliced onions and a tomato chipotle sauce. Chicken Tinga Tacos - the only chicken tinga tacos recipe you will ever need! Spicy, saucy, simple, and so fresh.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken tinga using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken tinga:
- {Prepare of Large rotisserie chicken pulled. You want about 2 1/2 to 3 lbs of meat.
- {Get of is chicken stock.
- {Take of water(or extra chicken stock).
- {Take of large yellow onion diced.
- {Take of large yellow onion halved.
- {Take of ox can chipotle pepper is adobo seeded(unless you prefer hot).
- {Take of garlic.
- {Take of dried guajillo seeded.
- {Prepare of Dried crushed Mexican oregano(I crush to remove any hard stems and to release the oils in the oregano).
- {Get of dried cilantro (optional).
- {Get of Cilantro finely chopped.
- {Prepare of Salt.
Chicken Tinga is a classic Mexican dish made of shredded chicken that has been cooked in sauce made of chipotle chiles Of course, my family and I typically enjoy ours as Chicken Tinga Tacos. Chicken Tinga - an easier version of the classic Mexican shredded chicken in a flavorful smoky, sweet tomato-chipotle sauce. Great as a make-ahead regular weeknight dinner or a buffet-style meal when. Slow cooker chicken tinga is swimming in a full-flavored tomato-chipotle sauce, studded with sliced onions, and with just heat to keep you on your toes.
Steps to make Chicken tinga:
- Add your chicken stock and water followed by the halved onion, chiles and garlic and simmer covered for 20 minutes..
- While that simmers add the tomatoes, lime juice and the chipotle with adobo into a large blender..
- After you simmer for 20 minutes remove the onion, garlic and chiles to the blender and pour the stock into a separate container. Blend the mixture until smooth..
- Add olive oil to the pot and heat up. Add the diced onion, pinch of salt and cool until browned. Retune the stock back to the pot and reduce by half..
- Once reduced add the sauce followed by the oregano, a few pinches of salt and a few pinches of sugar and return to simmer and reduce for 30 minutes..
- Remove 2/3 of the sauce into a sieve and push it through to remove the extra pulp, add back to the pot and simmer for another 15 to 20 minutes to reduce..
- Once the sauce is where you want it add the chicken to the pot and heat through for about 15 minutes.
- Serve with cotija cheese, cilantro and diced white onions (optional diced avocado and crema).
This Chicken Tinga recipe is juicy shredded chicken slowly simmered in a zesty tomato-chipotle sauce. Serve it as tacos, tostadas, burritos, or tortas. Add chicken tinga, then top with shredded lettuce, avocado or radishes slices. This is an Authentic Mexican Chicken Tinga- Tinga De Pollo, a dish made with shredded chicken in a delicious tomato. Tinga is a Mexican dish made with chicken, called tinga de pollo in Spanish.
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