Mexican
Chicken Flautas
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Toss the shredded chicken with the cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, and salt.
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Warm the flour tortillas so they roll easily.
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Spoon a line of chicken along each tortilla and roll tightly, securing with a toothpick.
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Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high until shimmering.
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Fry the flautas in batches, turning, until golden and crisp, about 3 minutes, then drain on paper towels.
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Serve topped with salsa verde, guacamole, and crumbled cotija.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Flautas, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Flautas carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Gluten | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 610 kcal
- Protein
- 40 g
- Carbs
- 33 g
- Fat
- 35 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 780 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Flautas takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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