Low Carb Chipotle Chicken Tacos (or use ground turkey!)

These flavorful Low Carb Chipotle Chicken Tacos are equally good with ground turkey. Try this lower fat, low carb, keto friendly, and naturally gluten free alternative to ground beef tacos on your next Taco Tuesday — or, on any weeknight, because: Why wait!

We’re making Low Carb Chipotle Chicken Tacos today in this May 14, 2017 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around ingredients that are either on sale or generally affordable.

This amazing  low carb taco recipe is…

• Lower fat
• Low in carbs
• Keto friendly
• Naturally gluten free

Chipotle chicken tacos make for a great & flavorful alternative to ground beef tacos for your next Taco Tuesday, and they are a new family favorite for ours!

I made my batch of chipotle chicken tacos here with some clearance ground chicken I ran across at Target last week (just $.99 a pound after clearance coupon — always check for meat clearance).

But here’s an update, since this is now a family favorite recipe that I’ve been making for a couple of years now: You can also make your low carb tacos with ground turkey, and they come out just as flavorful!

Low Carb Chipotle Chicken Tacos

Ingredients

1 Tbsp olive oil
1 medium red bell pepper, diced small
One small yellow onion, diced small
1 Tbsp minced garlic (or mince about six cloves)
2 pounds ground chicken or ground turkey
4 chipotles in adobo, diced small
1 Tbsp chili powder
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp cumin
sea salt, to taste
8 oz can of tomato sauce
Romaine lettuce, for wrapping

Directions

In large skillet, saute onion and bell pepper in olive oil over medium heat until softened. Add garlic and cook another minute. Stir in ground chicken, chipotles, and spices, increase heat to medium-high, and continue to cook over medium-high heat (breaking up chicken as you go), until it is cooked through.

Drain chicken mixture, then return to pan and add tomato sauce. Reduce heat to low and simmer for another 5-10 minutes until heated through and flavors are well blended.

Serve your low carb chipotle chicken tacos wrapped in lettuce leaves of choice (I used Romaine here), with optional taco toppings such as sour cream, diced avocado, shredded cheese, chopped tomato, diced onion, or whatever you generally prefer on yours.

Note: To save time, I used my little food chopper to dice the pepper and onion, and then to dice the chipotle peppers — just go slowly to be sure not to puree the red pepper and onion.

So I thought we’d have leftover low carb tacos here…

… but I thought wrong, didn’t I. These were such a hit with everyone on a very hungry night that the kids and MashupDad each devoured an inordinate number of tacos and I was left staring at an empty pan. (Although, I will admit that the kids enjoyed theirs in taco shells rather than the lettuce wraps, being fond of the crunch.)

Note: This recipe should serve six (about three tacos each) on a normal night — I made it again later for visiting family, and it served six easily.

This easy keto tacos recipe is soooo full of flavor

The bell pepper and tomato sauce help keep the chicken moist in this keto chicken tacos recipe, while the chipotles and smoked paprika add a great underlying smoky spice to the mix.

Low carb chipotle chicken tacos have a bit of a kick, but aren’t super spicy. I’m definitely making these again… Possibly even this week, because hey, there are some chipotles left from the can I just opened, how convenient! 😉

(Store your leftover chipotle peppers and sauce in a sealed plastic container in your fridge, and they will keep for quite a while.)

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Low Carb Chipotle Chicken Tacos is an easy flavor-packed recipe that also happens to be naturally gluten free -- and lower fat than beef tacos! So good!

Course dinner

Servings 6 servings

Calories 272kcal

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 medium red bell pepper diced small
• 1 small yellow onion diced small
• 1 Tbsp minced garlic about six cloves
• 2 pounds ground chicken or ground turkey
• 4 chipotles in adobo diced small
• 1 Tbsp chili powder
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 tsp cumin
• sea salt, to taste
• 8 oz can of tomato sauce
• 4 oz romaine

Instructions

• In large skillet, saute onion and bell pepper in olive oil over medium heat until softened.
• Add garlic and cook another minute.
• Stir in ground chicken, chipotles, and spices, increase heat to medium-high, and continue to cook over medium-high heat (breaking up chicken as you go), until it is cooked through.
• Drain chicken mixture, then return to pan and add tomato sauce.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer for another 5-10 minutes until heated through and flavors are well blended.
• Serve your low carb chipotle chicken tacos wrapped in lettuce leaves of choice (I used Romaine here), with optional taco toppings such as sour cream, diced avocado, shredded cheese, chopped tomato, diced onion, or whatever you generally prefer on yours.

Note: To save time, I used my little food chopper to dice the pepper and onion, and then to dice the chipotle peppers -- just be sure not to puree the red pepper and onion.

Notes

Note: To save time, I used my little food chopper to dice the pepper and onion, and then to dice the chipotle peppers -- just go slowly to be sure not to puree the red pepper and onion.

Nutrition

Serving: 3tacos | Calories: 272kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 422mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 3160IU | Vitamin C: 36.9mg | Calcium: 37mg | Iron: 2.5mg

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