Mexican
Chicken Tostadas
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Warm the refried beans in a small pot with the chili powder and a pinch of salt.
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Toss the shredded chicken with the juice of one lime and season with salt.
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Spread a thick layer of warm beans over each tostada shell.
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Top with chicken, then shredded lettuce, diced tomato, and sliced avocado.
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Drizzle with crema and sprinkle with cotija.
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Serve right away with the remaining lime wedges so the shells stay crisp.
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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 Tostadas, 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 Tostadas carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 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 | No | |
| 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
- 520 kcal
- Protein
- 45 g
- Carbs
- 41 g
- Fat
- 20 g
- Fiber
- 10 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 7 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Tostadas takes about 35 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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