Crispy pan-fried chicken flautas

Chicken second courses Mexican cuisine

I know, I know. This weekend is the super bowl and all that jazz. To be honest, we'll probably have the game on. Maybe watch a few commercials. But it's really not our thing. But I know for many of you, the superbowl is a big deal. And so is the food. And I can support that. We made these flautas earlier this week, and I figured I'd post them right away. Since they'd make a pretty darn good super bowl snack (if you're in to that sort of thing). We took quite a bit of liberty with the original recipe, which called for a rotisserie chicken and barbecue sauce. I know the recipe was written specifically to be easy, and maybe we're nuts for undoing those obvious shortcuts. That's just how we roll. Instead, we used a mix of chicken breasts and thighs, browned and braised, and then reduced the leftover juices and added that to the filling. The result was an incredibly flavorful, and delightfully crispy flauta (they were originally called taquitos, but in my mind taquitos are smaller and made