Chipotle roast chicken tacos

Roast Mexican cuisine

We've done chicken tacos before. Though they usually involve picking up a rotisserie chicken and adding a few things on top. It makes for a quick meal any day of the week. But we've never roasted a chicken for tacos before. Sure, we've roasted chickens, but it's usually an occasion to do so. Why? No idea. Maybe because it takes so darn long. Maybe it because it reminds us of roasting a turkey on Thanksgiving, and that is definitely a once-a-year ordeal. And to be honest, I'm not sure that the act of roasting this one ourselves actually made it any better than if we HAD used a rotisserie chicken. All that delicious seasoning and butter we smeared on before? Couldn't really taste it. Sure, the chicken was incredibly moist, but the extra effort didn't add anything to the dish. I think the onions were really the only things that benefited from the seasoning and extra long roasting process. And maybe the pan sauce - it actually made good use of the compound butter that the chicken failed to