So here's a really simple recipe that is cheap and delicious. It's a Mexican delicacy called Chicken tinga and here's what you'll need to make it.
1 onion (I prefer yellow onions, but you can use white as well, but not red)
1 clove of garlic
2 chicken breasts
3-5 Roma tomatoes (I find roma work best, but you can also probably use vine)
1 can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
Garlic Salt
Start by using a larger pot to boil the chicken breasts in. Add your garlic salt to give the chicken a little bit of flavour.
As the chicken is boiling, start sauteing the onion and garlic in a sauce pan till translucent. While that's cooking, quarter your roma tomatoes and then add once the onions and garlic are cooked. This is also when you add your chipotle peppers, and this is where personal preference comes in. I usually add about 6 or 7, but that's proving to be a little too spicy, so I would say use 2-4. Let this sit for about 5 minutes to cook through, stirring occasionally.
By now your chicken should be cooked, so pull the chicken out of the water and using two forks, find the grain and start to pull against it. It should pull easily if it's cooked. Once that's finished, you want to go back to sauce pan and pour the contents into a blender and add just a little bit of chicken stock (the boiling water from your chicken) to the blender and set to puree. I prefer my tinga to be a little chunky so I don't blend it for too long.
Once it's blended to your satisfaction, add it back into the sauce pan along with the pulled chicken. Stir the chicken in so all of it is coated with the sauce, then let sit on a low setting for about 5 minutes.
It should look like this:
You want that really rich red coloring to it, if it's a darker shade of red it means you probably added too many chipotle peppers and your mouth (and as
shole) are in for a rough night.
Then basically you just serve that on top of tostadas, or you can use tortilla chips (which are pretty much the same thing, just broken up). As for toppings, you can use lime juice, cabbage, crema (thinner sour cream), guacamole, and cheese.