Chicken Tacquitos. Corn tortillas are tightly rolled around a cheesy chicken mixture and baked until crisp. Serve these baked taquitos as an appetizer with salsa or top with lettuce, tomato, and sour cream for a main course. A Few Baked Chicken Taquitos Tips: We like to use rotisserie chicken for this recipe to keep it easy peasy.

Homemade chicken taquitos filled with green onions, tomatoes, and plenty of seasoning are a great Mexican-inspired appetizer. To make chicken taquitos, you'll need some cooked shredded chicken. You can use any leftover chicken you have in the fridge, use a store-bought rotisserie chicken, or you can make your own shredded chicken at home. You can have Chicken Tacquitos using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Tacquitos

You need 2 of small corn tortillas.
It's 2 oz of grilled chicken.
Prepare 2 tbsp of monterey jack cheese.
It's 1 tbsp of taco sauce.
It's 1 tbsp of ranch.
You need 1 tbsp of honey.
You need 1 tsp of dijon mustard.
It's of peanut oil.

To season the shredded chicken, toss it in a mixing bowl with some easy-to-find Mexican spices like chili powder, ground cumin and a few others. The recipe for these chicken taquitos is my standard chicken taquito filling for kids. It's very mild and also very flexible. My base is shredded chicken, plus two kinds of cheese (the cream cheese really helps the filling come together), and some mild green chiles.

Chicken Tacquitos instructions

Turn burner on to medium temp. As burner heats up, warm tortillas in pan until soft..
Remove tortillas from pan, and while still warm, add chicken and cheese to both. Roll shut, as tight as possible..
Pour 1/3 cup oil into hot pan, bring to boiling temp. Add tacquitos, with seam side down, to oil. Flip every 3 minutes, cook for total of 9 minutes..
In small cup, combine taco sauce, honey, ranch, and dijon mustard. Whisk together..
When fully cooked (cheese melted, chicken at 165°F, tortillas are hard), remove tacquitos from pan. Gently wrap in paper towels to soak extra oil off for 5 minutes..
Remove from paper towels, serve with sauce..

Place chicken in medium saucepan of lightly salted water. Bring to a boil over med-high heat. Reduce to low, simmer until chicken is done - but moist. In a large bowl, combine chicken, cream cheese, chipotle and sauce, cumin, and chili powder. Chicken taquitos are an easy yet unexpected appetizer that's perfect to feed a crowd - I've included instructions for both baking and frying these crispy bites of goodness!