Chicken Tinga

Name: Chicken Tinga
Ingredients: ½ large onion, diced; 2 pounds (910 g) boneless, skinless chicken breasts; 2 tablespoons tomato paste; 1½ cups (360 ml) chicken stock or water; Corn or flour tortillas, warmed (see Note); ½ (7-ounce/198-g) can chipotle chiles in adobo, pureed or minced, with sauce; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 cloves garlic, chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Slow Cook Modern

By Liana Krissoff

Published 2017

About

This is one of the few recipes in which it’s possible to use chicken breasts (eight hours in the slow cooker is not easy on that lean cut): The meat is shredded after cooking and the stew is saucy enough that the breasts can withstand a bit of overcooking. However, feel free to substitute thighs, or even pork shoulder.

Ingredients

½ large onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
½ (7-

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Morning

Put the onion, garlic, chipotles, tomato paste, stock, chicken, 1 teaspoon salt, and several grindings of pepper in the slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.

Evening

Using two forks, shred th