Chicken & Cheese Flautas
Ingredients
- 2 breasts of a rotisserie chicken
- 1-2 tbs of sazon tropical
- ½ tbs of adobo
- 1 tsp of lemon pepper optional
- Corn tortillas
- Queso quesadilla or oaxaca cheese
- 1-2 cups of pico de gallo
- Iceberg lettuce
- Cotija cheese
- Queso fresco
- Guacamole salsa
- Mild salsa
Instructions
- Prep the pico de gallo if making fresh ( see video for recipe)
- Begin shredding the breast part of the chicken and add to a mixing bowl
- Add seasonings of your choice to the rotisserie chicken, I use sazon tropical, adobo, and lemon pepper. Mix well and set aside.
- Wet a dish cloth or paper towels and wrap the corn tortillas in the wet cloth. Place on a microwaveable dish and place in the microwave for up to a minute.
- Carefully remove a tortilla from the hot cloth (be sure to keep the others covered) and add in the filling of chicken and some of the queso quesadilla cheese.
- Tightly wrap the flauta keeping it tight enough the contents will not burst out.
- Place the flauta flat and seaside down in a preheated oil pan. Fry till golden brown, then flip and fry the otherside.
- Assemble by adding flautas to your serving dish, followed by: mexican crema, lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole salsa, regular salsa, queso fresco, cotija cheese, and some more crema and guacamole salsa.
Video
Delusional Cooking Show | Episode 12: Chicken & Cheese Flautas
Dinner Made Easy
There are some nights I get home from work and I have little to no energy to make anything for dinner. But, groceries will go bad, uber eats is expensive, and I still gotta eat! On those days, I make these chicken and cheese flautas. I buy a juicy $5 rotisserie and double check all the ingredients I have at home. I typically make these in the same week I make my Shrimp Tostadas so I most likely have all the condiments already. But, the condiments aside, everything is pretty much to your liking.
If you want to skip the pico de gallo, buy a premade salsa. If you want to swap the guac salsa for regular guac you absolutely can. Food is meant to altered, played with, experimented on. Find what works for you and make it happen. And then the leftover rotisserie can be used to make Chicken Noodle Soup or just make chicken and rice or whateverrrr! Point is, life gets busy y’all and you shouldn’t let food just be a thing that consumes your time, when you have the time to spare, sure. But when we need to get dinner on the table after a long day, this will do!
