Chicken Tortilla Cups

Name: Chicken Tortilla Cups
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 12 serving(s)
Ingredients: 12 (12 inch) flour tortillas; 1 1/2 cups monterey jack pepper cheese, shredded; 4 cups cooked chicken, shredded (I use chicken that I have already boiled and shredded and placed in the freezer for meals such as th); 2 (1 1/2 ounce) packages taco seasoning; 3 (15 ounce) cans black beans, rinsed and drined; 1 1/2 cups frozen corn kernels, thawed; 1 1/2 cups salsa, deli style; 1 1/2 cups monterey jack pepper cheese, shredded; 6 roma tomatoes, diced

Submitted by Chabear01

"These make up easy and fast and are fantastic and delicious, wonderful to serve at parties and as appetizers for the holidays. I found this recipe at a local market, and with the adjustments I made the family raved when done up as samplers. ***Hint: When I find whole chickens on sale I purchase as many as my pocketbook will allow. I then will roast, then boil about 4 of them shredding some of the meat and chopping the breast meat. Package it into quart sized freezer bags, and place in the freezer for recipes that call for either later. A real time saver in the end. The liquid I then add some celery, onion, and carrot to boil down into a fine broth, cool and strain. After skimming off the fat, I bottle the broth into pint jars and process in the pressure canner for later use."

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Ready In:: 25mins
Ingredients:: 9
Serves:: 12

ingredients

12 (12 inch) flour tortillas
1 ¹⁄₂ cups monterey jack pepper cheese, shredded
4 cups cooked chicken, shredded (I use chicken that I have already boiled and shredded and placed in the freezer for meals such as th)
2 (1 1/2 ounce) packages taco seasoning
3 (15 ounce) cans black beans, rinsed and drined
1 ¹⁄₂ cups frozen corn kernels, thawed
1 ¹⁄₂ cups salsa, deli style
1 ¹⁄₂ cups monterey jack pepper cheese, shredded
6 roma tomatoes, diced

directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees f. Coat muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray; set aside.
To create a tortilla cup, soften 1 tortilla in microwave for a few second, Immediately fold it in half and in half again; gently press it into bottom and up sides of a muffin cup. Repeat with remaining torillas.
Bake cups 5 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinle 1 tablespoon of the cheese into each shell; set aside.
Place 4 cups chicken and packages of taco seasoning in saucepan, add about 1 cup water and allow to boil until sauce thickens and water is almost completely boiled off, stirring often to make sure chicken is well coated with the sauce.
In mixing bowl combine the chicken and it's sauce, beans, corn and salsa; mix well. Microwave mixture until hot throughout, stirring midway through.
Spoon mixture evenly among the shells.
Place in oven and bake about 10 minutes more, or until heated through.
Remove, from oven and immediately top with remaining cheese and diced tomatoes. Serve hot, warm or at room temperature.

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