Blackened chicken and Manchego tacos
Baked Manchego cheese tacos filled with dressed Caesar salad and blackened chicken pieces.
Equipment
- 1 Silicon baking sheet
- 1 frying pan
Ingredients
- 150 g Manchego cheese grated
- 1 head lettuce chopped
- 300 g chicken breast 2 breasts
- 60 ml Caesar dressing
- 50 g Butter
- 30 g Parmasan
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- 1.5 tsp dried thyme
- 1.5 tsp onion powder
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 tsp cayenne powder
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to Gas 7, 220 degC or 427 F.
- In a frying pan over medium heat, melt the butter and infuse spices.
- Slice chicken fillets length ways into 3 to reduce cooking time.
- Turn up the heat under the pan to medium-high and fry of the chicken strips in the spice infused butter. Turn the chicken through the cooking process to evenly cook and cover in the spices as they blacken.
- On a silicone mat or grease proof paper, spread out 30 grams of cheese into circles approximately 125 mm or 5" in diameter
- Bake the cheese for 8-10 minutes until golden brown. When they are grilled to a uniform colour, remove from the oven and dab off any excess fat.
- Lay the cheese circles over a rolling pin to create a taco shell. The cheese will hold this shape once cooled.
- Check and remove the chicken once cooked. Slice the chicken strips.
- In a bowl, add chopped lettuce and toss with the Caesar salad sauce.
- In the cheese taco shell, place tossed salad, blackened chicken and top with fine grated Manchego and Parmesan cheese.
- Enjoy.