Quick & Easy Chicken Tacos
By @chef1
These chicken tacos are ready in under 30 minutes and packed with flavor. Perfect for a weeknight meal!
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Ingredients
- ●1 pound Chicken breasts
- ●2 tablespoons Taco seasoning
- ●1 tablespoon Olive oil
- ●8 Corn tortillas
- ●1 cup Shredded lettuce
- ●1 cup Diced tomatoes
- ●1 cup Shredded cheddar cheese
- ●1/2 cup Sour cream
Instructions
- 1Cut chicken breasts into small, bite-sized pieces.
- 2Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- 3Add chicken to the skillet and cook until browned and cooked through, about 5-7 minutes.
- 4Stir in taco seasoning and cook for another minute.
- 5Warm tortillas according to package directions.
- 6Fill each tortilla with chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, and sour cream.
- 7Serve immediately and enjoy!
Recipe details
- Cuisine
- Mexican-inspired
- Category
- Main course
- Preparation
- 29 minutes
- Cooking
- 14 minutes
Estimated total: 43 minutes. Planning estimate: explicit duration ranges use their midpoint; documented preparation, heating and handling allowances are included. Overlapping tasks are counted once. Package directions and doneness checks take priority.
How these estimates were calculated
- Prepare lettuce, tomatoes and toppings: 10 min planning allowance (vegetable_prep)
- Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces: 10 min planning allowance (meat_prep)
- Heat skillet: 3 min planning allowance (pan_preheat)
- Move chicken aside for tortilla warming: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Warm eight tortillas: 0.5 min planning allowance (tortilla_warm)
- Fill tortillas: 5 min planning allowance (assemble)
- Serve tacos: 2 min planning allowance (garnish)
- Assumes skillet warming one tortilla at a time, 15 seconds per side (4 minutes for eight); use actual package directions.
- Matched to raw, skinless, boneless chicken breast.
- Taco seasoning: USDA tsp portion weight
- Matched to dry taco seasoning mix.
- Olive oil: USDA tablespoon portion weight
- Matched to olive oil.
- Corn tortillas: USDA tortilla portion weight
- Matched to corn tortillas.
- Shredded lettuce: USDA cup shredded portion weight
- Matched to raw green leaf lettuce, shredded.
- Diced tomatoes: USDA cup, chopped or sliced portion weight
- Matched to raw, red, ripe tomatoes, chopped or sliced.
- Shredded cheddar cheese: USDA cup, shredded portion weight
- Matched to shredded low fat cheddar cheese.
- Sour cream: USDA cup portion weight
- Matched to light sour cream.
- Chicken breasts: 453.59 g · USDA reference 171077
- Taco seasoning: 17.1 g · USDA reference 172243
- Olive oil: 13.5 g · USDA reference 171413
- Corn tortillas: 192 g · USDA reference 175036
- Shredded lettuce: 36 g · USDA reference 169249
- Diced tomatoes: 180 g · USDA reference 170457
- Shredded cheddar cheese: 113 g · USDA reference 173439
- Sour cream: 115 g · USDA reference 173443
chicken tacos · tortillas
Estimated nutrition per serving
382 calories · 36.9 g protein · 28.5 g carbohydrate · 12.8 g fat · 4.2 g fiber · 656 mg sodium
Source and basis: USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018), ingredient-based calculation per serving. Standard USDA portion weights; all listed ingredient mass included before cooking losses. Full ingredient matches and assumptions below.
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