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RSSWet burritos is one of our family's favorite meals. I've made them before with refried beans as a filling and with a taco meat/bean filling, but I'd never made them with chicken until last night. After having tried all three versions, I would have to say that chicken is my favorite, not only because it's delicious, but because it's so easy to make!
All I did was throw some frozen chicken breasts into the crock pot and top them with a jar of salsa. I set it on low and walked away for several hours. Once the chicken was cooked through, I removed the breasts one at a time, shredded the chicken with two forks, and returned the chicken to the crock pot to stay warm.
Then I filled the burritos as I usually do, with a spoonful of refried beans, and then I added a spoonful of the chicken/salsa mixture on top of that. I rolled up the burritos and put them in a large baking dish, smothered them with homemade enchilda sauce, and sprinkled a bit of cheese on top. Then into the oven for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees and voila — absolutely delicious chicken wet burritos with very little effort!
An added bonus was that I made a double batch of enchilada sauce so I had a lot left over to freeze. Plus I had leftover chicken too (I used 3 1/2 breasts in the crock pot), so I was able to freeze an entire meal's worth of shredded salsa chicken to be used later. I'm thinking chicken taco soup is in our future.
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Yum — that sounds really good. Sounds like an easy meal to let fix itself while you're busy with school and piano lessons.
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I made this tonight for dinner and it was great! Thanks so much for the idea to freeze the extra sauce and I made extra chicken to use in tortilla soup at some point!
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That sounds sssooooo good! I have wet burritos on my menu for Tuesday. I am going to have to try it this way. Thanks : )
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I left a comment all the way back in June (where does time go!?!) that I was excited to find your enchilada sauce recipe. I finally got to try it this week! I admit that I'm really hooked on the canned stuff, and of course yours provides a different flavor. (I was too chicken to use the cocoa powder, though, since I don't care for mole sauce) It provides a great platform to tweak my own sauce, though, and it gave me the confidence to give it a try. So, THANKS!!! I'll continue to play with it and see where it takes me. I'm looking forward to the trip. :>)
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I made these tonight for my husband and I and they were amazing! This recipe is definitely a keeper!
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