Chicken Taco Nachos

1st October 2007

posted in Food, How-To |

We were avoiding grocery shopping, but we needed to eat. So we pulled out several items we already had and I concocted this “pantry-buster” of a meal. It was so good it might become a menu item in the future.

First, I browned some chicken. We had bought two bags of frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts on sale (buy one get one free), so that’s a sort of “pantry item” we’ll have for a long time now.
brown chicken breasts in a pan

Meanwhile, I baked some corn tortillas I had, leftover from making homemade tortilla chips. Just stick them in the oven till they’re crispy.
crisp corn tortillas in the oven

While they were crisping and the chicken was browning in the pan, I chopped up some tomatoes, leftover from the tomato pie.

Chopped Tomatoes

When the chicken is done, throw in some taco seasonings (according to the directions) and let it simmer for a bit.

cook chicken in taco seasonings

Now we can begin assembly.
1) Tortillas + tomatoes

tortillas and tomatoes

2) Tortillas + tomatoes + chicken

tortillas, tomatoes, chicken

3) Tortillas + tomatoes + chicken + cheese

tortillas, tomatoes, chicken, cheese

Broil the whole thing to melt the cheese.

broil chicken taco nachos

I served these delightful “taco nachos” with a dollop of sour cream, which we had around because of the green bean casserole and the paprika chicken and rice.

chicken taco nachos with sour cream

My husband just walked by, saw the pictures and said, “Oh, that was good!”
This pantry-buster gets thumbs-up ratings. Yum!

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1 On October 1st, 2007, Amy said:

Those look amazingly delicious.

posted on October 1st, 2007 at 9:50 am

2 On October 2nd, 2007, Joyful Abode said:

They ARE, Amy.

posted on October 2nd, 2007 at 4:51 am

3 On December 31st, 2007, Top Posts of 2007 | Joyful Abode said:

[…] Chicken Taco Nachos: A spur-of-the-moment pantry buster recipe that turned out so well we might just repeat it on purpose. […]

posted on December 31st, 2007 at 9:27 am

4 On February 12th, 2008, Fajita Nachos » Joyful Abode said:

[…] On this particular night, we were totally out of flour tortillas, but we had some corn tortillas. So I made corn chips out of them with the plan of doing SOMEthing a la chicken taco nachos. […]

posted on February 12th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

5 On February 18th, 2008, Shaky said: