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Chicken & Cheese Flautas

An easy and delicious recipe for a weeknight dinner is this Chicken and Cheese Flautas!
Course dinner

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

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