How To Make Chipotle Chicken Thighs for Burritos
Savor these delicious and flavorful slow-cooked chipotle chicken thighs spiced with chipotle peppers, garlic, and spices. They taste perfect in burritos!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 7ozchipotle peppers,(1 can) in adobo sauce
- ½small onion,sliced
- ¼cupfresh cilantro,or to taste
- 2clovesgarlic
- 2tbspvegetable oil
- 10chicken thighs,boneless, skinless
- ½tspcumin,ground
- ¼tspcayenne pepper
- salt and ground black pepper,to taste
- water,to cover
Instructions
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Slice 1 chipotle pepper open and remove the seeds.
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Add the pepper and all of the adobo sauce from the can to an electric blender along with onion, cilantro, and garlic.
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Reserve the remaining peppers for another use. Blend until smooth.
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Heat the oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat.
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Add the chicken and cook for about 5 minutes, turning as needed, until golden brown.
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Mix in the blended chipotle sauce. Season with cumin, cayenne, salt, and black pepper.
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Pour in the water to cover the chicken.
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Reduce the heat to low and simmer for about 2 hours until the chicken is easy to shred.
Recipe Notes
Red pepper flakes can be substituted for the cayenne.
Nutrition
- Calories: 766.72kcal
- Fat: 58.23g
- Saturated Fat: 14.88g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 25.72g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 12.00g
- Carbohydrates: 4.22g
- Fiber: 0.89g
- Sugar: 1.38g
- Protein: 53.73g
- Cholesterol: 315.23mg
- Sodium: 856.38mg
- Calcium: 35.18mg
- Potassium: 753.37mg
- Iron: 2.62mg
- Vitamin A: 274.99µg
- Vitamin C: 23.49mg
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