How To Make Slow Cooker Honey Chipotle Chicken Tacos
Made with juicy shredded chicken, spicy chipotle peppers, and sweet honey, this slow cooker chicken tacos is a wonderful dish for every meal.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½lbschicken breasts,boneless, skinless, thighs, or a mix
- ½cuptomato sauce,plain
- ¼cuphoney
- ½white onion,chopped
- 1lime,juiced about 2 tablespoons
- 1tspgarlic powder
- ½tspkosher salt
- ½tspblack pepper
- 3chipotle peppers,from a can of Chipotles en Adobo, chopped stems and seeds removed
- 2tbspAdobo sauce,from a can of Chipotles en Adobo
- 1pkgflour tortillas,soft
For the Toppings:
- queso fresco,crumbled
- red onion,diced
- radish,diced
- cilantro,fresh
Instructions
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Combine the chicken, tomato sauce, honey, onion, lime juice, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to your slow cooker. Add 1 to 3 chopped chipotle peppers and 1 to 2 tablespoons of Adobo sauce, depending on your preferred level of heat.
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Mix together well.
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Cover and cook on high for 4 hours or low for 6 to 8 hours.
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At the end of cooking time, use two forks to shred chicken in the pot. Mix the shredded chicken with the sauce.
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At this point, the chicken can be held in a warm setting, covered, for 1 to 2 hours. Stir additional water as needed if the pot starts to become dry.
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Set out a stack of tortillas and all the toppings. Assemble and serve the tacos from the slow cooker.
Nutrition
- Calories: 300.38kcal
- Fat: 10.06g
- Saturated Fat: 2.42g
- Trans Fat: 0.08g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.45g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.41g
- Carbohydrates: 34.27g
- Fiber: 2.05g
- Sugar: 9.81g
- Protein: 18.65g
- Cholesterol: 43.54mg
- Sodium: 718.68mg
- Calcium: 95.83mg
- Potassium: 326.38mg
- Iron: 2.49mg
- Vitamin A: 155.32µg
- Vitamin C: 18.67mg
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