Chicken tinga recipe
A delicious and authentic homemade chicken tinga recipe, an essential dish in Mexican Cuisine.
Servings: 6
Calories: 169kcal
Equipment
- frying pan
Ingredients
- 1 large chicken breast
- 7 large tomatoes
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 white onion
- 1 small can of chipotles or 200 grams
- 1 bay leaf
- A pinch of pepper
- ½ teaspoon of oregano
- ½ teaspoon of thyme
- Salt as desired
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil
Instructions
- Put the chicken breast in a pot with enough water and then put the pot on the stove. Add salt, the bay leaf and 2 garlic cloves. Cook on high heat for 25 minutes.
- After this time, take the pot off the stove and drain it in order to shred them using a fork, being careful not to burn yourself.
- Now, cut the onions into julienne strips, dice the tomatoes taking out the seeds first, and chop the garlic cloves you have left. Put a big frying pan on the stove and heat up the olive oil.
- When it is hot, add the cut onions, cook them on medium heat until they are transparent and then add the diced tomatoes. Mix everything for a minute so both ingredients mix well.
- Next, add the chipotle chili, the salt, the pepper, the oregano, the thyme and cook for 5 minutes until the tomato is well cooked.
- Lastly, add all the shredded chicken, mix everything well while it cooks for 3 to 5 more minutes.
Video
Notes
If you would like to beat the sauce ingredients, put a bit of chicken broth, the chipotle chili, the diced tomatoes, salt, pepper, oregano and thyme in a blender.
Then cook this sauce for 5 minutes and add it to the frying pan containing the garlic and onion sauté, and at the end add the chicken.
Then cook this sauce for 5 minutes and add it to the frying pan containing the garlic and onion sauté, and at the end add the chicken.
Nutrition
Calories: 169kcal