Fast Chicken and Slaw Tacos

Ingredients

  • 200g chicken tenderloins
  • half a red onion
  • half a cabbage
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • mint
  • olive oil
  • white / red wine vinegar
  • sugar
  • mayonnaise
  • salt
  • pepper

Tools

  1. oven
  2. aluminum foil
  3. frying pan
  4. large bowl for pickling the vegetables

Steps

  • Pickle onion

    • Thinly slice the onion

    • Crush or finely chop the garlic cloves

    • Combine and whisk in the large bowl:

    • 2 tbs vinegar

    • 1 tsp sugar

    • some salt and pepper

    • Add finely chopped onion, and toss it well to combine, leaving it aside

  • Warm tortillas

    • Preheat the oven to 220 centigrade degree
    • Enclose 3 tortillas in foil, and put it the oven for 5 minutes or until they are softened (note heating them for too long would make them crispy, and unable to be folded)
  • Cook chicken

    • Coat chicken tenderloins with finely chopped garlic and some chili powder
    • Heat the frying pan with one tbs olive oil on medium fire
    • Cook the chicken until browned
    • Roughly shred the chicken
  • Serve up

    • Thinly slice the cabbage, leaving it aside
    • Finely chop the mint leaves, discarding the stems
    • Add cabbage, mint leaves to the pickled onion, tossing it well to combine
    • Spread the tortillas with mayonnaise
    • Top the tortillas with slaw and chicken