Crunchy Chicken Tacos Recipe – How To Make Crunchy Corn Taco Shells

Recipe below:

I often make crunchy tacos for friends and family, and I may be guilty of spreading the taco-love obsession! But let me warn you: once you or your loved ones try these, you will forever make homemade taco shells; there’s no going back!

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Crunchy Taco Recipe
Tools
large skillet or my favorite frying pan
long tongs
Flat wooden spoon
glass measuring cup
casserole dish
parchment paper
Ingredients

Crunchy taco shells
12 King Size Corn Tortillas at room temperature
1 cup Corn Oil or Avocado Oil

Taco fillings
Shredded Chicken Recipe – https://youtu.be/fhsd3JcYFmw?si=NOcxJnsBKcnvbsDL

Taco Toppings
Guacamole
Salsa Fresca
Grated Mexican Cheese Blend
Chopped tomatoes
Finely chopped cilantro
Diced jalapenos & serranos peppers
Diced onions
Finely diced lettuce
Sour Cream

Directions
Set up a taco assembly line with all the toppings in small bowls on a table or counter.
Warm filling (hamburger, shredded chicken, veggies, etc.) in a skillet, turn off and leave on the stove.
Place parchment paper on the casserole dish.
Place oil in skillet and turn burner to medium heat

Test the oil temperature by placing the flat wooden spoon in the oil. When the oil is ready, tiny bubbles will appear around the base of the wooden spoon.

Place tortilla in oil, dipping half in first for a few seconds, then fold over, making a shell shape. Fry for a few minutes and turn over until golden brown

Remove the fried taco shell from the skillet with tongs, shake off excess oil, and place into a casserole dish lined with parchment paper.

Gently fill the taco shell with warm filling.
Add desired taco toppings, and enjoy!

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We’re making crunchy chicken tacos and I’m going to teach you how to make your own homemade crunchy crunchy shells and also we’re going to be stuffing them in shredded chicken and we have a whole lot of toppings that I’m going to be going over in just a moment

First of all let’s talk about those crunchy taco shells so use corn tortillas if you can find them get Kings size so they’re a little bit bigger than your standard tortilla easier to work with the other thing is make sure that they’re room temperature they’re much more pliable easy to work with when

They’re at that room temperature versus cold they’re going to stick together you’re going to have issues when you’re trying to fry your tortilla and make those crunchy taco shells so good tip my mom taught me that and it really works also before you get started we’re going

To go to the stove in a minute you need to have all your ingredients ready to go that you’re going to actually use to stuff into your crunchy taco today it’s all about about shredded chicken I have another video that shows you how to make this really easy it’s ready to go and

We’ll go to the stove in just a moment and you’ll see that how easy it is once you have this made to just put into those tacos and lastly you want to have all your toppings ready this is a recipe where if you’re making it with guests

And family they’re going to be right there next to you in the stove waiting to get their Taco so you want to make sure that you have bunch of options for them if if they want them to put into their Taco in our home what we like to

Add to the tacos are diced cilantro any type of diced onion this is white you can use purple you can use yellow of course avocate you got to have some avocado some sanos and jalapenos that are chopped up ready to go some diced lettuce probably because I grew up

On a farm in California we had lettuce and lots of things but dice finally very just D very super fine and you can use Iceberg or Roma or any other kind tomatoes and you’ll see in a moment when I fry the tortilla I fill it with the

Chicken that’s nice and warm and then I add the cheese and it kind of melts on top which is kind of yummy all right we’re ready to go to the stove so let’s talk quickly about the skillet that I’m going to use to fry it this is a pretty small Skillet but I

Wanted to show you this cuz I’m going to actually be using a larger one but this is about the smallest size you can use can you see that and also I’m not using a fryer nothing fancy any kind of Skillet that you have will work I’m

Going to be using a bigger one because I’m making a lot of tacos uh but I just wanted to let you know that the way you can tell if you have a big enough Skillet here it is Lay Your tortilla in it and see yep that’s going to fit so

You’re good to go so let’s go and make some crunchy tacos There [Applause] Okay little it’s frying I’m just going to go in and kind of again kind of open it up a little bit so that way later when it’s we’re going to be stuffing these it’ll be easy to do filling them Up I’m holding it just a little bit that’s going to help us again when we go into to fill these with our shredded Chip drip off the excess Oil we’re just going to drop it in parment paper get some more going in there and then we’re going to fill them up right now you can see we’ve created that space there’s the chicken going add a little cheese to this because it’s nice and hot

So I can melt in there before we add our other toppings and the next one open it up often times when I do Taco parties I make 90 of these I’m not going to tell you how many some of our my guests have eaten but count on people eating more than Two [Applause] I hope you’ve had fun learning how to make crunchy chicken tacos I I hope you’ll try the recipe and absolutely make sure if you do please take a picture and tag me I want to see 10,000 photos of my family recipes in your kitchens filling them up with love and

Joy and blessings and oh yum yum yum yum