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Chicken Tinga Tostadas

Chicken Tinga Tostadas are the perfect easy dinner idea to serve up any night of the week.  Made with rotisserie chicken, chipotle peppers and a few staple pantry items, these Chicken Tinga Tostadas are ready in under 30 minutes and are the ultimate healthy comfort food.
These easy Chicken Tinga Tostadas are the perfect easy dinner recipe to spice up any day of the week.  Made with shredded rotisserie chicken, chipotle peppers, refried beans, red onions and crumbled Cotija, these smoky spicy chicken tostadas are exploding with flavor and ready in under 30 minutes making them the perfect weeknight dinner! Fresh ingredients make this chicken tinga recipe the ultimate healthy comfort food and can easily be transformed into tostadas, nachos, tamales, tacos, burritos or Mexican rice bowls.
Heather - A Wicked Whisk
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Serving Size 12 tostadas

Ingredients

Tinga Sauce

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 large sweet onion diced
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 2 - 3 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce chopped
  • 15 ounce fire roasted diced tomatoes
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • 3 chicken breasts, shredded or one rotisserie chicken

For Serving

  • 12 tostadas
  • 10 ounce refried beans
  • 1/4 cup cilantro chopped
  • 1/3 cup red onion diced
  • cotija cheese crumbled
  • 2 limes cut into wedges

Instructions

  • To make your Chicken Tinga Tostadas, start by heating olive oil over medium high heat in a large skillet and then adding the chopped onion. Stir and cook for 3 - 4 minutes and then add in your diced garlic.  Cook for another minute and then add in your chopped / diced chipotle peppers in adobe sauce.  Stir to combine and cook for 2-3 minutes.  
  • Stir in the diced tomatoes and spices and cook for 5 minutes. At this point, you can either continue to cook it as it is or you can move the mixture to a small food processer or a blender and blend until smooth. Return the sauce to the skillet, add in your shredded chicken, stir to combine and continue to cook over medium heat for 10 - 15 minutes. 
  • While your Chicken Tinga sauce is cooking, heat a can of refried bean up in a small pot, warm your tostada in a 250 degree oven and prepare your garnishes. Once your Chicken Tinga is done, take a spoonfull of refried beans and lightly smear it on a tostada. Top the beans with an even layer of Chicken Tinga and then garnish and serve.

Notes

PRO TIPS FOR PERFECT TINGA TOSTADAS

  • This is the perfect quick and easy dinner recipe so have all of your fresh ingredients chopped and ready to go because this tinga recipe moves fast!
  • Fresh ingredients are key to the BEST chicken tinga tostadas but taking a hand from the store is totally ok! Grab that rotisserie chicken and shred it to save you the time and trouble of making chicken at home.
  • If you do want to skip the rotisserie chicken, roast 2 or 3 chicken breasts (about 2 pounds of chicken)  in a 350 degree oven for 25 minutes or until fully cooked. Shred chicken and use in place of the rotisserie chicken in this recipe.
  • Tweak these chicken tinga recipe to fit your families needs. Like shredded lettuce, sliced avocado and fresh pico de gallo? Go for it! Want it super spice? Add more adobe peppers in the red sauce .. you get the idea!