★ Why You'll Love this Recipe ★
This popular dinner recipe is easy to whip up and is a crowd-pleaser. Flour tortillas are stuffed with a simple yet tasty combo of chicken, cream cheese, taco seasoning and green chilis.
Bake or Air Fry
These 5-ingredient homemade chicken taquitos can be baked in the oven or use your air fryer for a quick and easy yet delicious dinner.
Meal-Prep Friendly
Make a batch of these and save some to heat up for lunch or dinner, later. Just roll and store. Then bake or air fry when you're ready to enjoy.
Try Toppings
Then, add toppings if you'd like. Salsa, hot sauce, lettuce, shredded cheese... any of your favorite taco toppings will taste great!
These taquitos are freezer-friendly so you can make them ahead to take to work or to heat for a meal on the go.
Kid-Friendly
Chicken. Cheese. Simple ingredients. Finger food. These taquitos check all the right boxes with the kiddos. So if you have a big family to feed, or friends of the kids coming over to play, this is a great-go to meal.
★ Ingredients You'll Need ★
You'll need just 5 basic ingredients to make these chicken taquitos, plus any toppings you'd like.
Here are the main ingredients:
- Chicken. You can use any cooked chicken. Leftover chicken works great, grill some chicken, grab a rotisserie chicken, or pop open a can of chicken. Whatever your style, just make sure it's already cooked.
- Taco seasoning. This is what you'll use to season your chicken and maximize the flavor of these taquitos.
- Green chilies. A Mexican staple. This adds a touch of spiciness. Add the whole can, liquid and all.
- Cream cheese. This makes the taquitos stay together and adds a rich creaminess. Win-win! I prefer to use whipped cream cheese for easy mixing but you can use block cream cheese, you just may need to use an electric mixer to blend everything together.
Toppings are optional by highly encouraged!
Here are topping ideas:
Shredded iceberg or romaine lettuce, pico de gallo or salsa, cheddar cheese, pepper jack cheese, fresh authentic Mexican cheese like cotija, and/or or sour cream.
You can top things off with hot sauce if you want some extra heat.
★ How to Make this Recipe ★
Here are the basic step to making these yummy chicken taquitos. (Full recipe below)
- Start with cooked chicken, add in taco seasoning, cream cheese and green chilis for a little kick.
- Spread that yummy mixture onto a flour or corn tortilla and roll it up.
- Brush with butter or oil (optional for extra crispy shells) then bake or air fry those babies to a golden crisp. Enjoy plain or topped with your favorite taco toppings.
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This easy recipe for 5-Ingredient Chicken Taquitos was featured on South Your Mouth!
5-Ingredient Chicken Taquitos
Ingredients
- ½ cup cooked chicken drain if using canned chicken
- 1 oz packet taco seasoning
- 4 oz whipped cream cheese
- 4.5 oz can green chilis drain excess liquid
- 12 flour or corn tortillas brush with oil or butter if desired*
Optional Toppings
- salsa or pico de gallo
- lettuce
- sour cream
- cheddar cheese
- hot sauce
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Instructions
- Make filling. In a medium bowl, add cooked chicken, taco seasoning, cream cheese, and green chilis cheese. Stir until combined.
- Add chicken mixture to tortillas. Add chicken mixture to the center of each tortilla stretching it across from one side to the other, about 1" thick. Fold one end over and tuck it under the chicken, then tightly roll up.
- Cook taquitos. Place taquitos in air fryer basket or onto baking sheet, seam-side down.*Bake in preheated oven or air fryer at 400˚ for 6-9 minutes or until tortillas are light golden brown and hot in the middle.
- Add toppings. When done, plate taquitos and add toppings if desired, or enjoy this with a dipping sauce.
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Notes
- Block cream cheese softened at room temperature or whipped blends easier.
- Heat tortillas in the microwave for 5 second to soften if needed to help tightly roll.
- If baking vs. air frying, you may want to add a couple extra minutes of cook time to get them extra crispy. Keep an eye on them toward the end of the cook time and pull them out when they turn golden brown.
- Brush rolled taquitos with butter or oil before baking or air frying if you'd like a crispier shell.
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Heather says
Loved this recipe! Made these then served them with Spanish rice. Delicious and simple to make.
Mrs. JW Clark says
You mention to add the cream cheese and pepper jack cheese to chicken. BUT pepper jack cheese is not on your ingredient list. How much pepper jack cheese do I add?
Angela G. says
You can add shredded pepper jack cheese as a topping if you'd like. I would add 1 tbsp per taquito. This is optional!
Gayle says
I used sour cream instead of cream cheese.
Janet says
another recipe adds ranch dressing powder. I will try it.