I love me some Mexican food. It's second only to Thai food in my book. Unfortunately even when you're obsessed with Mexican food there are only so many times you can eat soft tacos before a tortilla with chicken, tomatoes, onions and cheese gets a little dull.
The remedy? Do something totally insane with 'em. And that's what I did. The result? Spicy, sweet, savory beauties in corn tortillas. And the best part? It's super duper mega easy.... and there's enough salsa left for you to nom it with chips for days. So what are you waiting for? Get in the kitchen and make some....
Chicken Tacos with Spicy Grape Salsa*
3 cups(ish) seedless red grapes
1/2 sweet onion
1 jalapeño pepper (seeded)
1/2 cup cilantro
3/4 of one of those plastic limes full of lime juice
2 normal sized chicken breasts
Taco or Fajita seasoning
1 - 2 Tbsp. Oil (I use red chili pepper oil, you can use olive or canola if you don't wanna by the chili pepper oil)
1 clove garlic (chopped)
1 pkg. of taco shells or corn tortillas
Dump oil into a frying pan. Sprinkle taco / fajita seasoning on chicken breasts. Add chicken and garlic to pan. Get one of your minions to oversee the sautéing so that the chicken doesn't burn and stick to the pan.While your minion sautés the chicken, put the grapes, onion, jalapeño, cilantro and lime juice in a food processor. Process it up. When it looks like salsa, it's done. Stop processing. Unless you want spicy grape juice instead of spicy grape salsa.
Dump 1/4 cup of it into the frying pan with the chicken. Saute for another 5 minutes. At this point grab a fork and a spatula and shred the chicken.
Once you've done this you're ready to build a taco. Pick up a taco shell or tortilla. Put chicken in it. Put some salsa on top of that. Top with some loverly grapes cut into quarters. Ta da!
*For best results cook while wearing a sombrero. Failure to wear a sombrero could result in fail-tacos. Nobody wants that.
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