Easiest Way to Prepare Quick Taquitos (Flautas)

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, taquitos (flautas). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Flautas and taquitos (also called tacos dorados) can be difficult to tell apart and decipher what makes them different. At times, the crucial difference between flautas and taquitos is found in their length. Are Flautas and Taquitos the Same Thing? Here's How to Spot the Differences.

Taquitos (Flautas) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Taquitos (Flautas) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have taquitos (flautas) using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Taquitos (Flautas):

1. Get 4 each chicken breasts
2. Get 2 clove garlic
3. Make ready 1 large onion
4. Take 2 tbsp seasoned salt
5. Take 20 small tortillas
6. Take 2 cup vegetable oil
7. Take 2 medium tomatoes sliced into rings
8. Make ready 2 cup chopped lettuce
9. Get 1 cup sour cream
10. Prepare 1 cup roasted salsa (in my recipes)
11. Take 1 bunch toothpicks

Traditionally taquitos and flautas are deep fried until crispy. The accepted definition is that baked taquitos would be smaller with corn tortillas and baked flautas would use flour tortillas. Those flautas were long, thick and cooked in a mix of vegetable oil and lard topped with a spicy jalapeno sauce. If you live close to some areas of Chicago, Texas, and California you can buy.

Steps to make Taquitos (Flautas):

1. Boil the chicken breast with garlic, seasoned salt, 1/2 onion. Shred once it's done (let it cool off a bit)
2. In a somewhat deep pan heat up the oil
3. In a flat pan or a Comal heat up some tortillas and wrap them lightly in a towel to keep warm. (Do a few at a time)
4. Grab one warm tortilla and lightly stuff with chicken. Roll it and pin it with a toothpick.( Do a few)
5. Add the tortilla rolls to the hot oil turning once until lightly browned ( do not over do it or they will get hard)
6. Set standing up in a bowl on a paper towel to absorb excess oil or at an angle on a plate.
7. Slice the remaining onion into half rings
8. Remove toothpick and serve. Topped with sour cream, onion, tomatoes, lettuce and salsa

Those flautas were long, thick and cooked in a mix of vegetable oil and lard topped with a spicy jalapeno sauce. If you live close to some areas of Chicago, Texas, and California you can buy. Today I am making beef flautas, rolled tacos or taquitos. I am also going to show you how to store in the freezer for a great meal prep ideas for taquitos. Flautas are often longer than taquitos, as taquitos are made from taco sized tortillas, while flautas are made from burrito sized tortillas.

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