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    Home > Mexican Southwest Recipes > Tacos > Saucy Chicken Soft Tacos

    Saucy Chicken Soft Tacos

    Published: Apr 5, 2018 · Modified: Nov 16, 2021 by Lea Ann Brown · This post may contain affiliate links

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    Saucy Chicken Shredded Soft Tacos

    Give these Saucy Chicken Soft Tacos a try. Looking for an easy chicken taco recipe? One that’s dripping in a luscious tomato based, taco seasoned, chile spiked sauce? This easy recipe for Mexican Chicken Tacos using shredded chicken breasts will shake up your Taco Tuesdays.

    Serve this with Gulf Coast Style Baked Rice for a balanced meal.

    Saucy Shredded chicken breasts tacos topped with chopped avocado on a white corn tortilla

    I’m not sure if I’ve ever met a taco I didn’t like.

    And I really couldn’t estimate how long it’s been since we’ve been “taco people.”

    I suppose since I was a teenager, and that’s like a hundred years ago. I’d like to be on record that Taco Bell was not the inspiration, but rather it was a mom and pop restaurant in my home town when I was growing up. It introduced tacos and burritos to me long before that big corporate chain.

    Rick Bayless threw me over the edge with the introduction of official Mexican Street Tacos, warm soft corn tortillas filled with fresh ingredients far beyond the fried ground beef and chopped onions.

    It opened my eyes that a taco shell is a canvas for about any vegetable and protein combination that one can dream up. Take for instance these Swiss Chard Tacos = delicious.

    Chicken Soft tacos in a tomato sauce topped with chopped avocado and sliced radish.

    We don’t really need another reason to love chicken tacos, unless it’s this saucy chicken taco version, which is a little different than most main stream Mexican tacos recipes.

    This sauce, cooked stovetop is extremely easy and the seasoning for the chicken faster than any quick chicken marinade. 

    Boneless skinless chicken breasts coated with taco seasoning in a baking dish for Saucy Chicken Soft Tacos.

    This recipe starts in the oven, by sprinkling flavorful homemade taco seasoning over boneless skinless chicken breasts and baking for thirty minutes.

    While the chicken is baking, the sauce is prepared stovetop and set aside. This easy taco sauce starts with a can of tomato sauce and is seasoned with garlic, onion, cumin and chile powder.

    Once the chicken is cooked and cool enough to shred, it’s added to the sauce and simmered for fifteen minutes.

    Warm flour tortillas filled with chicken and topped with romaine lettuce, radishes and avocado for chicken soft tacos.

    The tacos are built by warming the corn tortillas and filling them with the savory spicy chicken mixture.

    I’ve topped them with chopped avocado, sliced radishes, sliced romaine lettuce and grated Monterey Jack Cheese.

    We truly loved the crunch of the sliced radishes and creaminess of the avocado with tomato sauced chicken. It all came together for this flavorful and exciting soft taco recipe.

    Topping options for chicken soft tacos:

    • Use Muenster cheese instead of Monterey Jack.
    • Replace Monterey Jack Cheese with crumbled Queso Fresco
    • Replace thin sliced Romaine with thin sliced green cabbage.
    • Top tacos with fine diced fresh jalapeno pepper
    • Add very thin sliced rings of red onion, or Homemade Pickled Red Onions.
    • Top with sliced green or ripe olives.
    • Turn these tacos into tostadas. Fry your own or purchase store bought tostada shells.
    Soft white corn tortillas topped with tomato sauced chicken, avocado, sliced radishes, romaine lettuce for Saucy Chicken Soft Tacos

    Easy Chicken Tacos Recipe, Saucy Soft Chicken Tacos

    If you’re looking for an easy chicken tacos recipe, these will be perfect for your next taco night.

    I hope you give these soft chicken tacos a try and if you do, please come back and let me know how you liked it and give the recipe a star rating. Your feedback is valuable to me for developing future recipes.

    Love Mexican food as much as we do? Don’t miss my Mexican Southwestern Recipe Category. You’ll find lots of inspiration for your next fiesta. Including the most popular Mexican recipe on my site for Hatch Green Chili with Pork.

    Warm flour tortillas filled with chicken and topped with romaine lettuce, radishes and avocado for chicken soft tacos.

    Saucy Chicken Tacos

    This easy recipe for Mexican Chicken Tacos using shredded chicken breasts will shake up your Taco Tuesdays.
    5 from 1 vote
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    Course: Main Course Chicken
    Cuisine: Mexican
    Prep Time: 15 minutes
    Cook Time: 45 minutes
    Servings: 6
    Calories: 417kcal
    Author: Lea Ann Brown

    Ingredients

    • 3 medium chicken breasts boneless, skinless
    • 1 1/2 tablespoon taco seasoning mix
    • 2 tablespoons olive oil
    • 1/2 cup onion diced
    • 15 ounces tomato sauce
    • 3 cloves garlic diced
    • 1 teaspoon onion powder
    • 1/2 teaspoon cumin
    • 1 teaspoon New Mexico Chile Powder
    • 2 cups Romaine lettuce chopped
    • 1 1/2 cup Monterey Jack cheese shredded
    • 5 radishes sliced
    • 1 Avocado chopped
    • Soft white or yellow corn tortillas
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    Instructions

    • Coat chicken breasts with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Sprinkle with taco seasoning and bake at 350 degreed for 30 minutes, or until done. 
    • When chicken is cool enough, shred chicken with fork. In a sauce pan, cook onions in remaining olive oil until tender. Add chicken and tomato sauce and remaining seasonings and simmer on medium low, covered for 15 minutes. 
    • Warm tortillas. To build tacos, scoop a spoonful of chicken into each tortilla. Add lettuce, cheese, olives and then avocado.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 417kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 35g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 97mg | Sodium: 728mg | Potassium: 965mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 2129IU | Vitamin C: 13mg | Calcium: 262mg | Iron: 2mg
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    1. Sheila says

      April 17, 2018 at 9:57 pm

      I miss soft tacos. I think I had one around 6 months ago. 🙂
      Thank you for sharing this recipe. I would love to try this as it is my first time to make one with avocado.

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      • Lea Ann Brown says

        April 19, 2018 at 10:12 am

        You definitely need more soft tacos in your life. I hope you give this recipe a try.

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    2. mjskitchen says

      April 16, 2018 at 2:02 pm

      A fabulous taco for Taco Tuesday tomorrow! Glad to see someone else use radish on tacos. Bobby thinks I’m crazy when I do it. 🙂

      Reply
    3. K&E at Twinning Store says

      April 05, 2018 at 9:59 pm

      These looks too yummy! Was looking for a more exciting way to use chicken breast. Thanks for sharing. Xoxo, K&E

      Reply

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