BBQ Beer Pulled Chicken Tacos with Jalapeño Lime Black Bean Salsa and Napa Cabbage

These tacos. You HAVE to make them this weekend. I’ve been eating them all calendar week too I’1000 yet non sick of them. The combo of flavors as well as textures inwards these is to.expire.for. I am a huge texture someone, as yous belike know, together with tacos are a neat vessel for that. They are super slow too, since the chicken practically cooks itself all mean solar day. The slaw together with the salsa come together in two seconds. I even made a quesadilla alongside leftover pulled chicken and cheese as well as the salsa inside the quesadilla. SO skilful. HIGHLY recommend doing it alongside your leftovers.

Serves four-six

Prep fourth dimension: 30 minutes

Cook fourth dimension: iv-six hours

For the chicken:

1 lb. boneless skinless chicken thighs

1-1 ane/two lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts

1 can (12 oz.) beer of your choice (I used Modelo)

1 T. paprika

i tsp. smoked paprika

1 ane/ii tsp. garlic pulverization

one/iv c. chocolate-brown saccharide

i/2 tsp. table salt

1/2 tsp. pepper

i/4 c. + two T. BBQ sauce of your selection

three T. juices from crockpot

2 T. beloved

For the black beans:

i (fifteen oz.) tin dark beans, drained too rinsed

2 scallions, thinly sliced

ane jalapeño, seeds as well as ribs removed, finely chopped

zest too juice of ane lime

1/2 tsp. table salt

ane/two tsp. pepper

For the slaw:

two c. napa cabbage, shredded

juice of i lime

ane/two tsp. common salt

one/2 tsp. pepper

For the tacos:

shredded monterey jack cheese

corn tortillas (y'all tin besides use flour)

more than chopped scallions

more limes to mash

Begin past patting the chicken dry with newspaper towels. Preheat a large skillet to medium/high rut. Combine paprika, smoked paprika, garlic pulverisation, brownish sugar, salt, as well as pepper inward a minor bowl. Stir to combine. Rub mixture over chicken, generously coating on all sides. Cook chicken for ii-iii minutes per side, until aureate. (You don’t want to cook it all the way through, simply become a prissy sear on it.) Place in crockpot, as well as pour in the can of beer. Cover crockpot alongside lid, together with prepare for four-half dozen hours until chicken falls apart. (I did mine for vi.) Once finished, take away from pot, permit cool for a few minutes, too shred amongst your hands or two forks. In a pocket-sized bowl, stir together three T. juices from crockpot, dear, too BBQ sauce inward a bowl. Add to pulled chicken together with stir until thoroughly combined.

While the chicken is cooking, yous can brand the slaw together with the cabbage. It is amend if they go a risk to marinate inward the refrigerator for a bit! For the salsa, combine dark beans, scallions, jalapeño, lime juice and zest, common salt in addition to pepper, and stir to combine. Refrigerate until fix to gather tacos.

For the slaw, combine shredded napa cabbage, lime juice, common salt, in addition to pepper inward a modest bowl. Toss amongst your hands, as well as refrigerate until ready to gather tacos.

When prepare to get together tacos, place a couple spoonfuls shredded chicken on the corn tortillas (I grilled my tortillas i-ii minute per side showtime together with it was AMAZING). Top amongst black edible bean salsa, slaw, as well as shredded monterey jack. Squeeze a niggling lime juice over them as well as a piddling more chopped scallion if desired. Enjoy!

How gorgeous?!