These Ground Chicken Tacos make a delicious and healthy option for an easy weeknight dinner. Lean ground chicken is cooked with simple seasonings and salsa transforming it into a delicious taco filling. Serve up in tortillas with your favorite toppings any day of the week for a delicious meal!
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add a teaspoon of oil and 1 pound of ground chicken. Season with salt, oregano, cumin, garlic powder, and red pepper flakes and break up the chicken with a wooden spatula. Stir and cook until chicken is browned and nearly fully cooked.
Add the salsa and stir to combine, cooking for another 2 minutes to infuse the chicken with the flavor of the salsa. When this is fully cooked, set aside.
Warm the tortillas - regardless of your choice of tortilla (corn, flour, cassava), you want to warm them up! The easiest way to warm tortillas, in my experience, is in a skillet or over an open flame. Simply heat to medium-high and warm each side for 30-60 seconds until they’re puffing up just a little or developing a little color so they’re pliable but not at all crunchy. However, if you’re warming up a lot of tortillas at once, you may prefer the oven or microwave option (see below).
Add a few Tablespoons of meat to each warmed tortilla. Prepare any toppings such as sliced avocado, guacamole, black beans, or shredded cabbage slaw, then build your tacos!
Notes
Price breakdown & nutrition content include avocado and feta cheese and do not include the optional toppings. This recipe makes 16 tacos, which yields 4 tacos per serving. To warm tortillas in the oven, sprinkle each tortilla with a little bit of water and loosely wrap with aluminum foil. Warm on 350ºF for 10-15 minutes. You can also remove the foil and spread them out on a sheet pan for the last 2 minutes if desired. To warm tortillas in the microwave, wrap in a damp towel and microwave in 30 second intervals until to your liking.Top this with your favorite toppings!! Growing up, my taco was a flour tortilla with seasoned ground beef and a little lettuce and shredded cheddar cheese. In high school, influenced by Taco Bell, I liked the “ranchero style”, which was chopped chicken with a little bit of ranch dressing mixed with salsa. In my early twenties I lived in San Diego and fell in love with the simplicity of carne asada or lengua with onions, cilantro, lime, and maybe some spicy salsa verde. In grad school in Baltimore, I was obsessed with Sweet Farm curtido kraut as my taco topping. You do you!