Recipe: Delicious Marinated chicken for tacos

Marinated chicken for tacos. The best grilled chicken tacos marinade makes these the ultimate, healthy grilled tacos you'll ever make! It just hit me last night that we are on the downhill side of official grilling season and I've been wallowing in pity all day because grilling season is my FAVORITE. We love this marinated chicken recipe so much!

These chicken tacos are also at the top of our list of favorites. They are so incredibly flavorful and EASY to make. You can make the marinade several days in advance, if you want, and you could even marinate the chicken the night before. You can cook Marinated chicken for tacos using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Marinated chicken for tacos

1. It's 8 cloves of fresh garlic.
2. It's 1/2 cup of olive oil.
3. Prepare 2 of lemons.
4. It's 1 tbsp of oregano.
5. It's 1 of orange.
6. You need 1 tbsp of cumin.
7. Prepare bunch of cilantro.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of salt (add more to taste).
9. You need 2 lbs of boneless skinless chicken thighs or breasts whichever you prefer, thighs tend to be juicier.

Mexican street tacos are smaller tacos, typically served on corn tortillas. So the marinade I use for this chicken is adapted from Bobby Flay's Mexican Red Chicken with Grilled Black Corn and Quinoa Relish. I skipped the Relish because this chicken is absolutely perfect for using for tacos, as I have done for this recipe. The marinade for this chicken is based on a Mexican street food called Sinaloa Chicken.

Marinated chicken for tacos step by step

1. Clean chicken thighs, trim fat.
2. Peel and smash garlic cloves then dice fine.
3. To make marinade: In a blender add olive oil, juice from lemons and orange, cumin, salt. oregano, cilantro and garlic. Pulse blend well..
4. In a ziploc bag add chicken thighs and blended marinade. Marinade anywhere from overnight to 1 hour..
5. Grill chicken.
6. Dice chicken for tacos..
7. Add chopped cilantro, onion and tomato to top off tacos.

Try these tempting tacos when you're looking for a change of pace from regular tacos. A mild zing from the lime juice in the chicken taco marinade comes through after grilling. I like to serve them with salsa, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes. —Susan Scott, Asheville, North Carolina How to Make Street Tacos. Make the chicken taco marinade by stirring together lime juice, olive oil, garlic, cumin chili powder, cilantro, S&P. Pour marinade over chicken in a bag.