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Chicken Envueltos Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 large chicken breast (bone in)
12 corn tortillas (Guerrero brand)
1 package Pioneer Chicken Gravy Mix
(prepare gravy while chicken boils-use water or chicken broth from boiling chicken)
Shredded lettuce & cheese
diced tomato
1 cubed avocado

Directions:
Directions:
Boil chicken breast until fully cooked. Debone and cut up into small pieces for tacos. Wrap corn tortillas in a clean kitchen towel (two at a time) and warm in microwave for 45 seconds.

(The towel helps keep the tortillas moist-the longer you heat them the drier they get so 45 seconds maximum for 2 tortillas )

Place tortillas flat on a plate, side by side, add chicken, roll into flute tacos (like flautas). Top with gravy and garnish with lettuce, tomato, cheese and avocado-additional gravy on top if desired)

Repeat process for each plate you are serving.

*The original recipe did not include cheese-this was added later by my husband and two daughters who love cheese. I still eat mine with only the original toppings. The Pioneer chicken gravy is a modification-you can’t buy Pioneer gravy mix in Mexico! They use their own family recipe-you can too.

**With the original recipe you dip the tortillas in hot oil as if making fresh crispy taco shells except that they are only dipped in the oil briefly to soften. I make the heart healthy version now-no oil.

***Goes great with a side of Mexican rice and a Mexican Coca Cola.
Servings: Six servings if 2 tacos per person –or- Four servings if 3 tacos per person

Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This was my 6 foot, 2 inch tall, baby brother’s favorite dish. Rick passed away over 10 years ago but I still remember how often he’d be making “envueltos” when we would stop by and visit or when I would call him to see how he was doing-it was quite often.

This recipe comes from my mother’s family in Mexico. After my brother passed, we like to think that Rick sits at our table and eats with us every time we make envueltos.
Phil. 1:3 “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.”
Filipenses 1:3 “Doy gracias a mi Dios siempre que me acuerdo de vosotros.”

 

 

 

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