Easy Peasy Chicken Flautas

I <3 chicken flautas. A long long time ago I tried to make them. I was young and had them at Chevy's and figured I can make these at home so I put some chicken in a tortilla and dropped it in the deep fryer. All the chicken fell out of the ends of the tortilla. Dinner sucked that night. Since then I have experimented and most nights my flautas didn't come out too well. So I saw a pin on pinterest and though oh how cool a baked version. The pin took me to a link on all recipes. I wasn't crazy about the recipe posted there so I just made up my own and here you will see what I got.


Sorry forgot a picture of ingredients.

4 bone in chicken breasts
1 pkg McCormick Hot Taco Seasoning
20 Corn Tortillas
Monterey Jack Cheese
Taco Cheese
Oil
13x 9 Pan sprayed with cooking spray


First I boiled 4 bone in chicken breasts for about an hour. Then I shredded the meat and mixed a pkg of McCormick's hot taco seasoning along with 3/4 cup of water with the shredded chicken.

Taco seasoned chicken

While the chicken was simmering, I softened 20 corn tortillas in oil for about 15 seconds. I just covered the bottom of the pan with oil and heated the oil on medium until hot. Dropped a tortilla in there and flipped it over after a few seconds. I normally would have seasoned the oil with chili powder but I have yet to restock the spice cabinet since the big move so it was plain oil for me. Soften all tortillas and drain them before moving on to the next step. I drain them between coffee filters.

Fry each side for just a few seconds

Once all your tortillas are softened and drained, then you can begin to assemble them. I don't measure I just dump some chicken and lots of cheese in the middle of the tortilla and roll it up. Put it seam side down in the pan.  Repeat for the other 19 tortillas.

All wrapped up before going into oven

Bake in 375 degree oven for about 20 minutes or until flautas are golden brown or as crispy as you would like.

After being baked

My family likes a lot of cheese so I added some cheese to the top. I served my flautas with black beans, Spanish rice, home made salsa, lettuce, sour cream, and guacamole. Easy peasey and none of the chicken fell out!

Yummo!!!

A few notes: No they don't shrink, I had too many in the pan so I had to take some out and put them in two pans so what you see in the first pan is before I removed and made a second pan. If you want the original recipe from all recipes you can find it Here