Easy chicken tacos. In a large skillet over medium heat, heat oil. Season chicken with salt and pepper and add to skillet. Easy Chicken Tacos - With a simple spice rub, the chicken is cooked so quickly on the stovetop!
For the juiciest chicken tacos that you can make easily and quickly at home, I highly recommend using chicken thighs.
They have a good white meat to dark meat ratio, which makes them a little fattier than chicken breasts and way more moist and juicy.
By Layla Published in All Recipes.
You can cook Easy chicken tacos using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Easy chicken tacos
- Prepare 3 lbs of chicken breast.
- You need 1/2 of large yellow onion.
- It's 1/2 cup of chopped cilantro.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of diced sweet peppers or bell peppers.
- Prepare 2 cloves of garlic.
- It's 1 tsp of salt.
- It's 2 tsp of black pepper.
- You need 1 tsp of crushed chili pepper flakes.
- Prepare 2 cups of chopped lettuce.
- It's 1 cup of chopped purple onion.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of cilantro.
- Prepare 2 of limes.
- Prepare 1 of & 1/2 cup shredded cheese.
- You need of Flour or corn tortillas.
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of light chili powder.
- You need 1-2 tablespoons of paprika.
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Easy chicken tacos step by step
- Cut thawed chicken breast against the grain, then chop into small bite sized pieces. Dice purple and yellow onion. Dice sweet peppers. Cut up cilantro. What you see below is what I set aside for toppings..
- In your favorite nonstick 12 inch pan, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Add chopped up chicken, yellow onion, 1/2 of the cilantro, salt, black pepper, chili flakes, 2 tablespoons cumin, 1/4 cup light chili powder, garlic, 1 tablespoon of paprika..
- On medium heat cook all ingredients in step 2 until it looks like the picture below.
- Make your tacos however you like them!.
- Chop about 2 cups of iceburg lettuce. Squeeze 1 lime and sprinkle with salt. This adds zest to your lettuce!.
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