Recipe of Chicken Flautas in 17 Minutes for Mom

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken flautas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

How Do I Serve Chicken Flautas? With flautas, the two things that vary by region are the filling and the toppings. In most cases, the filling is made from pulled chicken or beef, your favorite Mexican chili.

Chicken Flautas is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Flautas is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken flautas using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Flautas:

1. Prepare 1 Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2. Get 1 Canola oil (for frying)
3. Make ready 1 Avocado
4. Take 1 Lemon
5. Make ready 1 bunch Cilantro
6. Prepare 1 Chipotle sauce
7. Make ready 1 tsp Cumin
8. Make ready 1 tsp Garlic powder
9. Make ready 1/2 tsp Adobo Goya
10. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Chilli powder
11. Make ready 1 (Shredded) Chicken Breast
12. Prepare 1 chopped Red Onion
13. Prepare 1 large Sweet Pepper
14. Prepare 1 Sriracha sauce
15. Prepare 1 Salt and Pepper (to taste)
16. Make ready 1 Corn Tortillas

When tacos are rolled tightly and pan-fried until crisp so they resemble tubes or "flutes," they become flautas. My favorite flauta recipe, from a Mexican cookbook by Jane Milton. The addition of cheese inside makes them very tasty! I serve these with crema (or sour creme) and homemade salsa.

Steps to make Chicken Flautas:

1. Preheat your oven to 375°F and cover your baking dish with aluminun foil for easy clean-up ;} …set aside. Wash a large chicken breast and pat dry with a paper towel. Drizzle EVOO on breast and season with adobo goya, cumin, garlic powder, and chilli powder (on both sides). Place chicken in oven for about 15-25 minutes (depending on your oven) or until it's almost fully baked and shreddable.
2. While chicken is cooking, in a small mixing bowl add 1 chopped avocado, 1/2 chopped red onion, a bunch of chopped cilantro, juice from 1/2 a lemon and a pinch of salt (or to taste). Blend well.
3. On a medium skillet, on medium heat, add 1 tbsp. of EVOO, your other 1/2 chopped red onion and chopped sweet peppers. Once onions are translucent, add shredded chicken and season with a little more cumin and chilli powder (or your favorite mexican seasonings), drizzle the other half of your lemon and about 1 1/2 tsp. of chipotle sauce. Add more EVOO if needed and chipotle sauce if you like it spicier.
4. After it's cooked, let chicken mixture cool so it's easier to handle. Once chicken mixture is cool enough, fill your corn tortillas. BE CAREFUL NOT TO OVER FILL or mixture will fall out while frying. Fill and roll all your tortillas. In a medium frying pan on medium low heat, add about 1/4 cup of Canola oil. Start frying tortillas with seem down so they won't open up on you. Fry for about 2 minutes on each side or until golden, crisp brown. Place on paper towels to drain excess oil.
5. Top with your simple guacamole mix and drizzle sriracha sauce on top and serve right away. Delicious! Enjoy :-)

Before we get started it's worth mentioning that Flautas sometimes moonlight as Taquitos, and vice versa. In Mexico, Flautas are traditionally made with corn tortillas. Fried chicken flautas made with flour tortilla and fresh ingredients. Flautas are basically taquitos but made using flour tortillas instead of corn tortillas. Needless to say the chicken mixture ended up making some spicy chicken flautas.

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