Homemade Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos! Corn tortillas are filled amongst a vibrant, creamy chicken filling, rolled upwards nice in addition to not bad, as well as baked until deliciously crispy. Make these for a crowd—we similar them for our annual Super Bowl Party food bill of fare!
Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos
Who doesn’t honey the taquitos? They’re similar mini rolled tacos in addition to yous tin can fill them amongst all your favorite meats or vegetarian fillings (similar beans together with roasted vegetables).
Most usually taquitos are deep-fried in oil merely I highly recommend trying out this oven-baked version instead.
I used to be skeptical myself, thinking at that place’second no manner a baked version is going to be anywhere about every bit proficient or every bit crisp equally a fried version, just these examine that thinking incorrect. These are just equally good without the greasy mess and extra fatty!
This is a flavorful Mexican dish that your whole family tin can enjoy! They make a neat party nutrient or weeknight chief dish. Just don’t forget to pile on the brilliant fresh toppings (or serve to the side for dipping) it merely makes them that much ameliorate.
Photography credit: Jess Larson
What Ingredients are Needed for Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos?
- Cooked chicken breasts – leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken will run bully. Thighs tin can be substituted.
- Corn tortillas – the not-then-flimsy tortillas operate best here amongst less swell.
- Canola crude – low-cal olive oil or vegetable rock oil can be substituted.
- Yellow onion – cherry onion will work groovy likewise.
- Garlic – purpose fresh garlic for best flavour.
- Salsa verde – homemade or store-bought plant groovy.
- Cream cheese – regular or calorie-free cream cheese tin can live used hither.
- Chili pulverization, paprika, cumin – these spices pass on the taquitos a classic Mexican seasoned season.
- Lime juice – this adds a delicious zesty season to the filling, function fresh squeezed.
- Chopped fresh cilantro – feel gratuitous to add more to taste.
- Monterey jack cheese – colby jack would run swell also.
How make You Make Baked Taquitos?
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Make tortillas pliable: (and so they roll without smashing) rut tortillas briefly in a skillet so “exertion” inward an airtight container.
- Make filling: saute onion too garlic in skillet. Add salsa too cream cheese together with melt. Add seasonings, chicken, cilantro as well as cheese.
- Assemble taquitos: add together almost i/four loving cup filling to each tortilla (inwards a row), and so wind snuggly.
- Brush with fossil oil: Transfer to baking canvass lined amongst parchment together with brush lightly alongside crude.
- Bake: bake in oven until gilded brownish together with crisp, virtually 18 – 20 minutes.
Can I Fry Them Instead?
Yes. These tin can also live fried inwards about 1/ii-inch vegetable fossil oil inward a saute pan prepare over medium heat instead of baking if preferred.
Can I Make Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos In Advance?
The filling can be made upwardly to ane mean solar day in advance simply don’t twine it in tortillas until make to bake, otherwise, the wet volition soak into the tortillas in addition to brand them soggy.
Also, freezing isn’t recommended because once again that moisture inward the filling will go along them from staying crisp over about time.
What About a Beef Version?
My other favorite fashion to brand taquitos is amongst this Slow Cooker Shredded Beef equally the filling. Just be certain to drain it really well.
What’sec the Difference Between a Taquito too Flauta?
In example you were trying to figure that out, the difference is that taquitos are made with a corn tortilla while flautas are made amongst flour tortillas. If you’d prefer you can purpose flour tortillas here instead. Just continue inwards heed they’ll probable be done baking a footling sooner, I recommend checking around fourteen minutes.
Tips for the Best Taquitos:
- Don’t skip the footstep of “sweating” the tortillas otherwise they aren’t equally pliable and volition interruption like crazy.
- Season the filling. I similar to purpose classic Mexican spices only inwards a pinch even taco seasoning will operate.
- Bake inward high rut for a crisp tortilla or tike inward preheated rock oil.
- Serve with toppings or dips.
What Toppings or Dips Should I Serve alongside them?
- Guacamole or diced avocados
- Pico de Gallo, Salsa or diced tomatoes
- Sour cream or Mexican crema
- Mexican hot sauce
What Sides go Well amongst Taquitos?
Baked Chicken Taquitos
Ingredients
- ii ane/ii cups cooked, shredded chicken chest
- 12 6-inch corn tortillas*
- ane 1/2 Tbsp canola oil, divided
- 1/2 loving cup finely chopped xanthous onion
- ane clove garlic, minced
- vi Tbsp salsa verde
- 3 oz cream cheese (regular or light), diced into i-inch pieces
- ane tsp chili pulverisation
- i/2 tsp paprika
- 1/ii tsp earth cumin
- i Tbsp fresh lime juice
- Salt and freshly ground dark pepper
- 2 Tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1 loving cup shredded monterey jack cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Heat tortillas inwards a 12-inch non-stick skillet set up over medium-high heat well-nigh ten - fifteen seconds per side (until tortillas become more pliable), and so immediately transfer to an airtight container or plate in addition to encompass amongst a pan chapeau**. Repeat with remaining tortillas in addition to set aside.
- In same skillet estrus i/2 Tbsp of the canola crude oil over medium-high rut. Add onions as well as saute until soft in addition to slightly golden, most iv minutes, adding inward garlic during last xxx seconds of sautéing.
- Remove skillet from oestrus, and then add together salsa verde and cream cheese. Reduce estrus to medium-depression, too render skillet to rut. Cook stirring constantly until cream cheese has melted.
- Add inwards chili pulverisation, paprika, cumin, lime juice too season amongst common salt together with pepper to sense of taste. Remove from estrus as well as stir inwards shredded chicken, cilantro together with Monterey jack cheese.
- Spread nearly a scant i/4 cup of the chicken mixture inward a row, closer to one side of the tortilla (about one-inch from border), and so snuggly roll tortilla to contrary side.
- Place on a parchment paper lined baking canvass. Repeat process with remaining tortillas in addition to chicken mixture, spacing tortillas at least one-inch apart on baking canvass for even toasting.
- Brush tops and sides of rolled tortillas lightly amongst remaining ane Tbsp canola crude. Bake inward preheated oven until edges are gold chocolate-brown as well as taquitos are crisp, near 18 - 20 minutes. Serve warm alongside dipping of choice (ane.e. sour cream, salsa verde, guacamole, love apple salsa, hot sauce).
Notes
- *I don't recommend using the corn tortillas they've recently come up out alongside that are directly "softer together with improved." The more firm tortillas really operate improve hither too don't intermission every bit much.
- **This is done to seal in wet. Be certain it's a hat that volition basically seal on bottom, equally inward in that location shouldn't be whatever space betwixt the plate as well as the hat. This should preclude tortillas from keen.
- Recipe adapted from Our Best Bites
Amount Per Serving
Calories 375
Calories from Fat 162
% Daily Value*
Recipe originally shared May 2014, photos have been updated.