Crockpot Chicken Tacos

This delicious crockpot chicken for tacos is flavorful, tender and easy to make. It's totally hands off- just dump the seasonings, chicken and a little bit of water into your slow cooker and let it do the work for you! In no time at all you'll have the base for a hearty and delicious taco dinner ready to go. You can find the recipe for just the taco seasoning here, and use it for other meals too.

Once you have your shredded taco chicken cooked, stuff it into crispy or soft tortilla shells, then complete the taco assembly with your favorite toppings. You can have this meal ready to serve in only about 4 hours. You can do the same to make ground beef for tacos.

I use my crockpot taco chicken not just for tacos, but for chicken burritos, meal prep burrito rice bowls with slow cooker pinto beans, in breakfast chilaquiles and homemade taquitos. You can shred it or dice it when it's done slow cooking, it's really just a matter of the texture you like your chicken tacos. This recipe is so versatile, so use it in your favorite Mexican meals that call for a rotisserie chicken or Mexican-seasoned chicken too.

Shredded Chicken Taco Ingredients

This recipe uses simple pantry staple ingredients:

• Chicken tenders
• Seasonings: chili powder, ground cumin, Spanish paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, oregano, crushed red pepper flakes, black pepper and salt. Use fresh seasonings if you'd prefer but increase the quantity by three times.
• Optional: corn or flour tortillas and choice of taco toppings (suggestions below). On our taco nights we use a combination of soft tortilla shells and hard taco shells.

How To Make Shredded Taco Chicken In The Slow Cooker

1. Add the chicken tenders, water, chili powder, cumin, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, oregano, red pepper flakes, black pepper and salt to the slow cooker.
2. Set to LOW for 4 hours or HIGH for 2 hours. With 30 minutes left, dice or shred the chicken and return to the crockpot. Mix well and cook for the remaining time.
3. Remove shredded chicken from the crockpot and serve inside taco shells with your favorite toppings. Alternatively, use as the stuffing for burritos, burrito and rice bowls, enchiladas, quesadillas and on tostadas.

Chicken Taco Toppings

There are many different toppings that you can add to chicken tacos to enhance their flavor and texture. Aside from the most popular choice of salsa roja, shredded lettuce, cheese, diced tomatoes and sliced jalapeños, you make like:

• salsa verde, mango habanero salsa or chile de arbol salsa for an extra kick
• sour cream or Mexican crema
• guacamole or sliced avocado
• mango pico de gallo or pineapple mango salsa
• corn salsa
• black beans
• chopped onions
• queso fresco
• torn cilantro
• a squeeze of lime

What To Serve With Chicken Tacos

We love our chicken tacos with a side of Spanish rice and Mexican-style black beans. Cheesy jalapeño poppers, tortilla chips and salsa, roasted vegetables like asparagus, black bean salad, corn salad and Mexican street corn are other delicious choices.