Air Fryer Chicken Taquitos
These air fryer chicken taquitos are easy to make and loaded with flavor. You can easily enjoy these taquitos as a party appetizer. Or you can load them up with toppings and enjoy them as your main meal. No matter how you serve them, they’re delicious.
About Smart Chicken
For this recipe, I used Smart Chicken’s chicken breasts. Their chicken breasts are super tender when boiled and easy to shred. Making them perfect for this taquito recipe. Smart Chicken is the reason I started eating chicken again after 9 years without. Their products are superior in every way.
In fact, Smart Chicken’s chickens are fed a high-quality diet, humanely handled, and never given antibiotics, hormones, or animal by-products. Smart Chicken is USDA Process Verified as pure air chilled, without added water and are hand-trimmed for your convenience. The result is the best-tasting, highest-quality fresh chicken on the market!
This post is sponsored by Smart Chicken. I was compensated for my time, but all opinions are my own.
Ingredients Needed for Air Fryer Chicken Taquitos
Chicken – You’ll need one pound of Smart Chicken’s chicken breasts. Boil a pot of water and cook the chicken for 15 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 165-degree Fahrenheit. Once it’s cool to touch, begin shredding the chicken. Once it’s well shredded, give it a rough chop into small easy to eat pieces.
Cheese – You’ll need both shredded Mexican cheese blend and room temperature cream cheese for this recipe.
Vegetables – Heat a non-stick skillet over medium high heat and add some avocado oil. Sauté the minced garlic, diced onions and canned diced green chilies in the pan.
Seasoning – Combine cumin, salt, black pepper, and garlic powder. Mix well and season the vegetables while they are sautéing.
Tortillas – Warm 10-12 of your favorite tortillas so they are pliable and easy to work with.
How to Make Air Fryer Chicken Taquitos
Preheat your air fryer to 400 degrees.
Boil a pot of water and cook the chicken breasts for 15 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Once cool to touch, shred the chicken. Give it a rough chop so the pieces are small and easy to eat.
Heat a non-stick skillet over medium high heat. Add the avocado oil. Once hot, sauté the minced garlic and diced onion until soft. Add the canned diced green chilies with the juice. Season the vegetables with cumin, salt, black pepper and garlic powder. Mix well and remove from the heat.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the shredded chicken, room temperature cream cheese, shredded Mexican cheese blend, and seasoned sautéed vegetables. Mix well.
Heat the tortillas and begin filling them with the chicken vegetable mixture. You’ll get 10-12 depending on size.
Add one row of the rolled taquitos into the air fryer basket, don’t overlap. Spray them with olive oil spray and cook them for 5 minutes at 400. Turn them over and cook for 1 additional minute. Work in batches if your air fryer is smaller. Once they are all cooked, you can top them with diced tomatoes, diced jalapeno, sliced scallions, and lime wedges.
Storage
Store leftover taquitos in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to four days. Reheat in the microwave until warmed through. Looking for more recipes?
Air Fryer Chicken Taquitos
Ingredients
- 1 lb. chicken breasts, shredded, about 3 cups
- ½ cup cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup shredded Mexican cheese blend
- 1 tablespoon avocado oil, for sautéing the vegetables
- ¾ cup yellow onion, diced small
- 4 ounce diced green chilies with juice, canned
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 10-12 tortillas
Equipment
- 1 pot
Instructions
- Preheat your air fryer to 400 degrees.
- Boil a pot of water and cook the chicken breasts for 15 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Once cool to touch, shred the chicken. Give it a rough chop so the pieces are small and easy to eat.
- Heat a non-stick skillet over medium high heat. Add the avocado oil. Once hot, sauté the minced garlic and diced onion until soft. Add the canned diced green chilies with the juice. Season the vegetables with cumin, salt, black pepper and garlic powder. Mix well and remove from the heat.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the shredded chicken, room temperature cream cheese, shredded Mexican cheese blend, and seasoned sautéed vegetables. Mix well.
- Heat the tortillas and begin filling them with the chicken vegetable mixture. You’ll get 10-12 depending on size.
- Add one row of the rolled taquitos into the air fryer basket, don’t overlap. Spray them with olive oil spray and cook them for 5 minutes at 400. Turn them over and cook for 1 additional minute. Work in batches if your air fryer is smaller. Once they are all cooked, you can top them with diced tomatoes, diced jalapeno, sliced scallions, and lime wedges.
2 Comments on “Air Fryer Chicken Taquitos”
These were so good. The kids loved them and came back for seconds. Easy and delicious!
Last minute my son asked to have a friend come over and of course they got hungry. I whipped a batch of these up and they inhaled nearly all of them! I will definitely be making these again and again. I love how simple the recipe was but it still had great flavor. THanks!