Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mexican pulled chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mexican Pulled Chicken is easy to make, super flavorful and the basis for so many delicious meals! Jack recently prepared a wonderful Mexican-themed dinner for us, and this Mexican Pulled Chicken recipe played a starring role in several of the dishes he made. Shredded chicken breast tossed in a killer Mexican sauce, loaded with smokey chipotle flavours.
Mexican Pulled Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Mexican Pulled Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mexican pulled chicken using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mexican Pulled Chicken:
- Take 2 chicken breasts, around 300g worth,
- Take 4 tbsp Chipotle BBQ sauce,
- Get For the chicken dry rub
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper,
- Make ready 2 tsp smoked paprika,
- Make ready 1 tsp garlic granules,
- Get 1/2 tsp red chilli flakes,
- Prepare 1 tsp pre-mixed Mexican herb blend, (optional),
- Make ready Salt and white pepper to season,
- Take For the broth base:
- Make ready 1 pint (500 ml) boiling water,
- Make ready 1-2 chipotle Morita dried chillies,
- Get 3 guajillo dried chillies,
- Get 1 cube chicken or vegetable stock,
- Make ready For frying:
- Take Enough vegetable oil to cover 2mm entire base of the skillet
- Get Equipment recommended:
- Prepare 1 large cast iron skillet
In tacos with cheese (Queso fresco is great, and we like shredded cheese, too, for a gringo taco), avocado salsa, or chipotle aioli. In a burrito with rice, beans, shredded lettuce, cheese, and salsa. Sit the chicken thighs close together on top of the sauce. Remove the roasting tin from the oven, add all the beans and stir into the tomato mixture around the chicken.
Steps to make Mexican Pulled Chicken:
- Stir the chicken/vegetable stock through the boiling water, then add in the dried chilli peppers. Cover in cling film and set aside to infuse for at least an hour. The longer, the better.
- Mix together the dry rub ingredients in a bowl or upon a tray then cover the chicken breasts in the mixture evenly so no gaps are showing.
- Heat up a large skillet over a medium heat. Add in the oil. Place in the marinated chicken breasts and gently fry on both sides until lightly charred and the spices are cooked off.
- Pour in the pre prepared chilli broth by tipping it through a sieve to catch the rehydrated chilli peppers. Set the chillies aside on a chopping board. Bring the stock to a gentle simmer.
- Chop up the rehydrated chillies, discarding the stalks. Add them in with the chicken. Simmer away gently until the chicken is cooked right through. Once cooked through using a couple of forks shred up the chicken breasts by pulling them apart and leave the pieces to simmer in the now reduced broth.
- Once the broth has almost completely reduced down and soaked into the pulled chicken remove from the heat and stir through the chipotle BBQ sauce, simmer for a couple more minutes and if needed pour in around 50ml water to loosen up the sauce, depending on how dry/saucy you like your pulled chicken. It's now ready to serve! Enjoy. :)
While the water is heating up, add all the powdered seasonings and bay leaves and boil chicken. Mexican shredded chicken is so versatile, and you can use it in so many different things - over rice, in quesadillas, tacos, enchiladas, on taco salad, over sweet potatoes. Side note: It goes great over cilantro lime rice! Make the pulled chicken When just cooked, remove the chicken and use two forks to shred it on a board. Empty the pan and reheat it with a little oil.
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