Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Chicken tinga

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Chicken tinga is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Chicken tinga is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Place chicken thighs, garlic cloves, halved onion, salt, oregano, water, and chicken stock, and water in a large pot. Bring to a simmer over high heat; reduce to medium-low. Remove chicken, cool, and shred meat. Chicken Tinga, a classic shredded chicken taco or tostada filling prepared with sliced onions and a tomato chipotle sauce is a full-flavored crowd pleaser.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken tinga using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken tinga:

1. Take Large rotisserie chicken pulled. You want about 2 1/2 to 3 lbs of meat
2. Prepare 32 is chicken stock
3. Make ready 1 cup water(or extra chicken stock)
4. Get 1 large yellow onion diced
5. Make ready 1 large yellow onion halved
6. Get 7 ox can chipotle pepper is adobo seeded(unless you prefer hot)
7. Get 4 cloves garlic
8. Get 6 dried guajillo seeded
9. Prepare 2 tbsp Dried crushed Mexican oregano(I crush to remove any hard stems and to release the oils in the oregano)
10. Take 2 tsp dried cilantro (optional)
11. Take Cilantro finely chopped
12. Get Salt

Shred chicken in sauce and serve. Chicken tinga (known as tinga de pollo in Spanish) is a Mexican dish made with shredded chicken in a sauce made from tomatoes, chipotle chilis in adobo, and sliced onions. It is often served on a tostada and accompanied by a layer of refried beans. It can be topped with avocado slices, shredded lettuce, crumbled cheese, Mexican crema, and salsa.

Steps to make Chicken tinga:

1. Add your chicken stock and water followed by the halved onion, chiles and garlic and simmer covered for 20 minutes.
2. While that simmers add the tomatoes, lime juice and the chipotle with adobo into a large blender.
3. After you simmer for 20 minutes remove the onion, garlic and chiles to the blender and pour the stock into a separate container. Blend the mixture until smooth.
4. Add olive oil to the pot and heat up. Add the diced onion, pinch of salt and cool until browned. Retune the stock back to the pot and reduce by half.
5. Once reduced add the sauce followed by the oregano, a few pinches of salt and a few pinches of sugar and return to simmer and reduce for 30 minutes.
6. Remove 2/3 of the sauce into a sieve and push it through to remove the extra pulp, add back to the pot and simmer for another 15 to 20 minutes to reduce.
7. Once the sauce is where you want it add the chicken to the pot and heat through for about 15 minutes
8. Serve with cotija cheese, cilantro and diced white onions (optional diced avocado and crema)

It is often served on a tostada and accompanied by a layer of refried beans. It can be topped with avocado slices, shredded lettuce, crumbled cheese, Mexican crema, and salsa. Tinga poblana de pollo is a stewy dish of shredded chicken in a light, fresh tomato sauce that's spicy and smoky with chipotle chilies. It's an excellent filling for tacos or topping for tostadas. Cover saucepan and cook until chicken is cooked through and shreds easily with two.

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