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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mexican pulled chicken using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mexican Pulled Chicken:
- Get 2 chicken breasts, around 300g worth,
- Get 4 tbsp Chipotle BBQ sauce,
- Make ready For the chicken dry rub
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper,
- Take 2 tsp smoked paprika,
- Make ready 1 tsp garlic granules,
- Prepare 1/2 tsp red chilli flakes,
- Prepare 1 tsp pre-mixed Mexican herb blend, (optional),
- Prepare Salt and white pepper to season,
- Get For the broth base:
- Get 1 pint (500 ml) boiling water,
- Take 1-2 chipotle Morita dried chillies,
- Get 3 guajillo dried chillies,
- Make ready 1 cube chicken or vegetable stock,
- Make ready For frying:
- Make ready Enough vegetable oil to cover 2mm entire base of the skillet
- Get Equipment recommended:
- Get 1 large cast iron skillet
Then add the chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, vegetable broth, and lime juice. While the water is heating up, add all the powdered seasonings and bay leaves and boil chicken. Ways to Use This Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken. In tacos with cheese (Queso fresco is great, and we like shredded cheese, too, for a gringo taco), avocado salsa, or chipotle aioli.
Instructions 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. :)
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. 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!
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