"Verde" Chicken

I had a "picnic pack"of chicken that I thought I'd barbeque....at the last minute, I thought I'd try to make some shredded chicken-y thing to put in burritos or something....so I had some onion, garlic and chicken broth....figured I'd start with that.....what came out was so beyond my expectations...it was absolutely delicious! I had to post it.....You could probably use 8 chicken breasts in place of the thighs and drumsticks if you wanted to....Also, if you don't have a pressure cooker, I suppose you could throw the chicken, onion, garlic, green chiles, chicken broth and water into a crock pot and cook low and slow....on low for 8-10 hours until it shreds easily.

Verde Chicken

8 chicken thighs (skin off)

8 drumsticks (skin off)

1/3 white onion, sliced thinly

6 cloves of garlic, sliced

1 can chicken broth

1 cup water

2 small cans diced green chiles (I had whole chiles and just sliced them. You can do either)

 2 tbsp cornstarch

1 tbsp salt

Put onion and garlic into a pressure cooker. Put chicken into the pressure cooker and add chicken broth and green chiles.

The chicken needs to cook in the pressure cooker on high for 9 minutes.  

Take the chicken out and shred it all....getting rid of the tendons and bones.

Put chicken into a large skillet with all the juice from the pressure cooker.

Bring to a simmer. Add salt.

In a separate bowl, add 1/4 cup water to the cornstarch to make a slurry.  Add to the chicken mixture a little at a time.  You can decide how thick you want it to be. Add half the cornstarch mixture, stir and see how thick it is after a few minutes. If you'd like it thicker, add the rest.

I made burritos out of this, but you could use it for tostadas, enchiladas, tacos....whatever you want!

If you prefer a less saucy mixture for your burrito, try leaving the water out and just using the chicken broth and green chiles in the pressure cooker, so it would be less saucy for burritos....but I like saucy...lol....If you'd like it less saucy, just omit the cup of water in the pressure cooker.  Try it once and then tweek it the way you like it! 

Enjoy!