These Quick Weeknight Chicken Tacos are so good and come together in less than 30 minutes.
These quick weeknight chicken tacos are on my permanent dinner rotation and I make them about once every few weeks. I make the taco shells myself, but you can also make them with store-bought taco shells.
It starts with cooked chicken and you can use slow-cooked chicken, roasted chicken or a rotisserie chicken. I like to add a little seasoning to the cooked chicken if it was not prepared with any.
The taco shells are made by frying corn tortillas over medium heat in hot oil for a few minutes. The shells need to cool a bit before being filled, but then the chicken and lettuce and cheese are added.
Quick Weeknight Chicken Tacos Recipe
📖 Recipe
Quick Weeknight Chicken Tacos
Ingredients
- 3 cups cooked chicken
- 8 corn tortillas
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 ½ cups shredded lettuce
- 1 ½ cups cheddar cheese shredded
- 1 to mato diced
Instructions
- Season chicken with taco seasoning and warm on stove or microwave.
- Chop or shred chicken and set aside.
- Make taco shells while chicken is warming.
- In a frying pan, bring oil to medium high heat. Add tortilla and fold over.
- fry for about 30-45 seconds.
- Carefully turn shell over with kitchen tongs and cook until both sides are lightly browned.
- Let taco shells cool upside down on paper towel and sprinkle with salt.
- Assemble taco by filling with about 2 tablespoons cooked chicken, 2 tablespoons lettuce, 1 tablespoon cheese and a few diced tomatoes.
Nutrition
We love these and they are best served with salsa and sour cream.
- Use a rotisserie chicken for a super quick dinner
- Substitute pre-made taco shells for hand made shells
- Save time with pre-shredded cheese and bagged shredded lettuce.
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Tamara
What could be better than that? I love quick and easy weeknight recipes. Chicken tacos are a forever hit in this house. Although we had to switch to turkey after we got the chickens, because of Scarlet.