# Chicken Birria Tacos

A delicious recipe for low-calorie chicken birria tacos, perfect for meal prepping.

- Servings: 6 servings
- Total time: 75 min
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 ancho chilis
- 2 arbol chilis
- 4 guajillo chilis
- 1 white onion
- 1 tiny spray avocado oil
- 1 handful garlic
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 cloves
- 1 tomato
- 1 enough to cover water or stock
- 1 tablespoon thyme
- 1 a whole lot black pepper
- 1 tablespoon oregano or marjoram
- 1 tiny bit cumin
- 1 tablespoon coriander
- 1 generous amount sea salt
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 white onion
- 1 cilantro
- 1 oaxaca cheese or low-fat mozzarella
- 6 corn tortillas or gluten-free tortillas
- 1 a little consommé

## Instructions

1. Remove stems from ancho, arbol and guajillo chilis and deseed them.
2. Roughly chop the chilis and the onion.
3. In a frying pan, sauté the chopped onion with a tiny spray of avocado oil.
4. Add the garlic to the pan.
5. Add the trio of chilis to the pan.
6. Add tomato paste for extra flavour.
7. Add a bay leaf, cinnamon stick and cloves.
8. Add a chopped tomato.
9. Cover the mixture with water or stock.
10. Transfer the slightly cooled mixture into a blender.
11. Add thyme, black pepper, oregano (or marjoram), cumin, coriander and a generous amount of salt to the blender.
12. Blend until smooth.
13. Pour the blended sauce back into the frying pan and bring to a light simmer.
14. Cut boneless skinless chicken breasts into large cubes.
15. Add the chicken cubes to the simmering sauce.
16. Bring the sauce back to a simmer, cover, and reduce the heat to medium-low.
17. Cook the chicken for about an hour or until fork-tender.
18. Dice a white onion and chop some fresh cilantro.
19. Shred Oaxaca cheese.
20. Warm the tortillas.
21. Assemble the tacos: add cheese, shredded chicken, and a spoonful of sauce to each tortilla.
22. Fold the tortillas in half and cook until crispy.
23. Top with diced white onion, cilantro, and extra sauce.

## Equipment

- knife
- blender
- frying pan

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYE8s9Dn/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/c01fbc87-9f88-4c08-8056-5dd2abc91a8b
- Extracted: 2025-01-11

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