
Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, Mexican Pulled Chicken. It is one of my favorites . This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really deliciou
The Ingredients needed to make Mexican Pulled Chicken:
- It’s 2 of chicken breasts, around 300g worth,
- It’s 4 tbsp of Chipotle BBQ sauce,
- It’s of For the chicken dry rub
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper,
- Prepare 2 tsp of smoked paprika,
- You need 1 tsp of garlic granules,
- You need 1/2 tsp of red chilli flakes,
- You need 1 tsp of pre-mixed Mexican herb blend, (optional),
- You need of Salt and white pepper to season,
- You need of For the broth base
- You need 1 pint (500 ml) of boiling water,
- Prepare 1-2 of chipotle Morita dried chillies,
- It’s 3 of guajillo dried chillies,
- Prepare 1 cube of chicken or vegetable stock,
- You need of For frying
- Prepare of Enough vegetable oil to cover 2mm entire base of the skillet
- You need of Equipment recommended
- It’s 1 of large cast iron skillet
Step to make Mexican Pulled Chicken:
- Stir the chicken/vegetable stock through the boiling water, then add in the dried chilli pepper Cover in cling film and set aside to infuse for at least an hour. The longer, the better.
- Mix together the dry rub ingredients in a bowl or upon a tray then cover the chicken breasts in the mixture evenly so no gaps are showing.
- Heat up a large skillet over a medium heat. Add in the oil. Place in the marinated chicken breasts and gently fry on both sides until lightly charred and the spices are cooked off.
- Pour in the pre prepared chilli broth by tipping it through a sieve to catch the rehydrated chilli pepper Set the chillies aside on a chopping board. Bring the stock to a gentle simmer.
- Chop up the rehydrated chillies, discarding the stalk Add them in with the chicken. Simmer away gently until the chicken is cooked right through. Once cooked through using a couple of forks shred up the chicken breasts by pulling them apart and leave the pieces to simmer in the now reduced broth.
- Once the broth has almost completely reduced down and soaked into the pulled chicken remove from the heat and stir through the chipotle BBQ sauce, simmer for a couple more minutes and if needed pour in around 50ml water to loosen up the sauce, depending on how dry/saucy you like your pulled chicken. Its now ready to serve! Enjoy. )
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