Baked Crunchy Chicken Carnitas Tacos with Homemade Guacamole

Who is ready for their new favorite weeknight dinner? These crunchy chicken carnitas tacos are sure to become a family favorite weeknight staple in your house!

Traditional carnitas use pork, but this quick-cooking chicken version packs all the flavors you love so much faster. A zesty blend of fresh oranges, limes, garlic plus traditional Mexican herbs and seasonings flavor the chicken perfectly. This recipe uses chicken thighs instead of breasts which results in the juiciest shredded chicken that cooks up in your oven in less than 30 minutes!

Let's start by Preparing Your Kitchen for Taco Success

You'll need these tools to get started:

• A large nonstick baking sheet

• A sharp chef's knife paired with a sturdy wooden cutting board

• Multiple mixing bowls in different sizes to sort ingredients

• Heat-resistant tongs and spatulas to handle hot ingredients

• A set of measuring cups and spoons

Next Let's get to Preparing the Tacos

For the tacos, we will need to start by preparing the chicken carnitas as detialed in the recipe below:

Next up, while the chikcen is cookies, we need to prepare our homemade guacamole:

Once the chicken is cooked and shredded we are ready to assemble our tacos. The magic really happens when we put everything together! These irresistible crunchy tacos filled with lots melted cheese and perfectly juicy chicken carnitas are almost too good to be true!