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Tuesday, 17 February 2015

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Crispy Chicken Tacos Biography

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Whether you have been to Chipotle or not, now you can have Chipotle’s Crispy Chicken Tacos whenever you want! There is something about the crispy shell, the perfectly cooked and seasoned chicken, and the corn salsa topped with cheese, sour cream and lettuce that makes these tacos over the top tasty!!! I get these all the time, they are one of my favorite fast food items. And the best part is, you can make these pretty healthy too! Fun fact: the crispy tacos are lower in calories than the soft tacos! They are one of the lower calorie items on Chipotle’s menu. If you skip the cheese and sour cream they are under 500 calories, a much better option than a burrito, which is usually over 1000 calories! Chipotle does a corn salsa and a pico salsa, which combined is really similar to our fresh corn salsa, so we just use that to simplify things.
We first fell in love with Chipotle while we were living in California, we tried pretty much everything on the menu, but eventually what we kept going back for was the tacos. When we moved we were sad not to have one in the Boise area but within a few years we got a Chipotle in Boise and now we have 3 here!! I actually have a scar from the first restaurant that opened here. I’ll spare you the details but it involved me locking my keys and phone in my car and running back into the restaurant way too fast in flip flops. :)
Chipotle’s Crispy Chicken Tacos
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Ingredients
    Crispy Taco Shells (I like the ones from Trader Joe's)
    white cheddar or jack cheese or both
    romaine lettuce, chopped into thin slices
    our fresh corn salsa HERE
    sour cream

For the Chicken
    2 to 3 boneless chicken breasts
    2 Tbsp taco seasoning
    1 Tbsp paprika

Instructions
    Filet the chicken so you have two thin halves of each breast. Mix together the taco seasoning and paprika and rub it all over the chicken. Grill over medium heat til you get nice grill marks and the chicken is fully cooked. Remove chicken from grill and chop it into one inch cubes.
    Warm your crispy taco shells, either in the microwave or oven (it makes them more crispy). Then layer each one with chopped chicken, salsa, lettuce, cheese, and sour cream.

The perfect weeknight meal, these honey chipotle chicken tacos pack a lot of heat, but a lot of sweetness. Crisped to perfection in the oven, they are best served with cilantro lime rice!

I find it totally interesting that my best “work” is done when Zach isn’t here to taste test. I’m not sure why this happens. This just happened to be the case with these crispy honey chipotle chicken tacos. Little known fact, I don’t normally post a recipe that I made that day or the day before. I usually have a little bit of a stock pile going on, and normally the recipe for these honey chipotle chicken tacos wouldn’t have been published until say Thursday or Friday, but I literally COULD NOT wait. I made these last night for early dinner, and they were sooooo amazing that I had to snap a few photos before it got dark. It being #tacotuesday and all, I thought it was more than appropriate to buckle down and write up this post to share with you today! You are so very welcome, guys!

So, I’ve got another little know fact for you guys. I worked at Chili’s as a server for about 5 years (a long, long while ago). Yup, yup I did. I loved it sometimes. I hated it most other times, and one thing is for certain, I could never work in food service ever again.

I did, however, have a creepy obsession with their honey chipotle chicken crispers. Do they even still make these? I don’t know. I haven’t been to a Chili’s in about 3 years, but one things is for certain, I still have dreams about honey chipotle chicken crispers, even if I don’t necessarily want to admit it.

I’ve seen a couple of copycat recipes floating around, but I thought I’d put my own little spin on it by making these crispy honey chipotle chicken tacos with cilantro lime rice. Poor Zach. He totally missed out. I will have to make them for him when he gets home. Luckily enough for me, I have enough leftover for tonight’s dinner! I’m literally counting down the seconds until dinner, which at this moment is approximately 18,000 seconds (if I eat at the same grandmotherly time of 4 pm, like I did yesterday). But, really, who’s counting .
Beer pairing and recipe is below! Have a great day everyone!

Crispy Chicken Tacos