These Chicken Flautas are a great dinner if you don’t have a lot of time but still want a family-pleasing meal. I love dipping these in sour cream or salsa!
Easy Chicken Flautas
Chicken Flautas are surprisingly filling and one batch goes a long way. It can feed a family for dinner or you can freeze/refrigerate for snacks throughout the week. Little kids will only eat one for a snack after school, but teenagers will eat a lot more! It’s a much better after school snack than if my kids went for something loaded with sugar. With all the cheese and chicken inside, these are loaded with protein. We love dipping Chicken Flautas in sour cream, salsa, guacamole, and/or ranch dressing.
Chicken Flautas are also a great game day food. They’re a great utensil-free food, but you won’t need a bunch of napkins to clean your hands afterward. I like this recipe for using up leftover chicken. It can also be made up even quicker with canned chicken. Check out the video below to see how easy these are to make!
Homemade vs. Store Bought
This recipe reminds me of the Chicken Flautas you can buy pre-packaged at Costco. While these store-bought versions are convenient to purchase already made, there are some advantages to making your own at home. First, making your own is definitely the healthier option. These Easy Chicken Flautas are baked, not fried. You can also use a variety of tortillas if you are trying to cut back on calories or have a gluten allergy. Corn tortillas, whole wheat tortillas, and low carb tortillas can all be used in this recipe. Second, making your own at home is more economical. The last time I looked at my area Costco, a package of 16 flautas cost $9.49. You can make a lot of flautas at home for that amount!
More Easy Mexican Recipes
We have some other EASY Mexican recipes that I would highly recommend if you like our Easy Chicken Flautas. I use our Restaurant Style Refried Beans and our Restaurant Style Mexcian Rice for side dishes every time I make Mexican food at home. We honestly never make a Mexican dish without these two sides anymore. Some of my other favorite Mexican dishes are our Carne Asada Burritos and our Honey Lime Chicken Enchiladas.
How to make Easy Chicken Flautas
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 c. chicken shredded, feel free to use leftover chicken or even canned chicken
- 6 oz. cream cheese
- 1 c. Monterey Jack cheese shredded
- 1/3 c. salsa
- salt and pepper to taste
- 8 flour tortillas soft taco size
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400-degrees.
- Combine chicken, cream cheese, Monterey Jack cheese, salsa, and salt & pepper in a medium-sized bowl. Mix together well.
- Evenly distribute chicken mixture over each tortilla, making a line down the middle of each tortilla and then rolling them up tight.
- Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray (or use a silpat).
- Place rolled up tortillas evenly spaced on the cookie sheet (seam side down) and spray cooking spray generously over the top.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until tortillas become golden-brown.
Brittany C. says
Yum. I’m making these for dinner tonight.
Melissa D. in TX says
I made these on Sunday during halftime of the Houston Texans game (since my family ate all the Cheese Steak Crescent Rolls before the game). BIG hit! I made a double batch so we could eat them for snacks and/or school lunches this week. And they were all gone today! Thanks for another great recipe!
Katie G says
I made these last night. They came together so fast!. We loved them, and needed something easy during the holiday season. I served them with a green salad, and they were perfect. Thanks.
Meggan says
Made these for the first time tonight and they were a huge hit! I love how quickly I could put these together, and how tasty they were! Thank you!
teresa g says
Made these tonight and they will certainly be going into our rotation for dinners. They went together real quick and tasted oh so good.
Colin L says
im going to try get my ex gf back by making these on saturday night. wish me luck
Emily says
Good luck!!! Maybe make a good dessert too. 🙂
Kat P says
How did it go?! I was thinking about going with a similar plan for my ex boyfriend!
Britney says
Does the oven cook the chicken? Or do you boil it or something first?
Erica says
Definitely used pre-cooked, pre-shredded chicken. You can boil it or bake it first. Whichever you prefer. Just make sure it is fully cooked and shredded before adding to the recipe!
Meg says
I’m cooking my chicken in the crock pot with a tsp of cumin and will shred it myself later.
Erica says
Yum! Sounds delicious!
Jennifer Cortez says
This was delicious! Thank you so much!
Amy Wong says
Can I use Pita bread instead of tortilla wrap. If not hopefully u can post a recipe using Pita bread.
Erica says
I don’t know how well that would work for this recipe. We do have a recipe for “pita pizzas”… /2010/03/guilt-free-pita-pizzas.html
Felipe says
OMG sounds delicious, I know most versions of flautas with chicken or beef
Chelsea B says
I’ve made these 2 times and it’s my husband’s new favorite 🙂 I slow cook the chicken for a few hours, helps the chicken shred really easily
Echo says
Great idea! I’m glad you like the recipe!
Sara B says
I found your recipe recently via Pinterest and have made it so many times since. My family and I love them! They freeze so well too. Thanks!
Tatjana says
Hi Sarah! Did you freeze final product or mix?
KMo says
Do you freeze them after already wrapped up in the tortillas? Or just as the prepared chicken mixture?
edna says
Will Corn tortillas work just as well?
Erica says
YOu can use corn tortillas and fry them.. but that would make them a taquito 🙂 Yes, they are very delicious that way!
Becs says
Would you use all the ingredients as above if I use corn and fry them?
Thx
Erica says
Yes, you could make them the same with corn tortillas and fry them
tori says
Very yummy!! Cheap and quick to make. I’m eating them now while typing this
Meghan @ Freezer Friendly Moms says
Love these! I have made them several times and featured them on our blog! They freeze well and are a great go to meal from my freezer on busy days! Thanks for the great recipe, as always!
Tatjana says
Hi! Did yoy freeze mixture or final product? Thanks! This is great to know they’re a hit w my baby girl!
olivia says
I am hispanic, when you say flautas, I think corn torillas, flour tortillas to me are for eating, and burritos. Ty for sharing .
Rozzy says
These are amazing! And as a Mexican born in Mexico, raised in California, when you say flautas it definitely means flour tortillas. Like you said, corn tortillas make them taquitos! : ) Either way, so bomb! Thanks for the recipe!
Erica says
So glad I finally get some back-up on this 😉 Thanks!
Crystal says
Can you make these without the cream cheese?
Erica says
Sure, I just can’t promise they will taste the same!
JERICA says
Does anyone know what the calorie count is?
HappyForks.com says
Our Recipe Analyzer knows it 😉 Here are estimated values:
whole recipe = 3188 kcal
100 g of recipe = 262 kcal
1 oz of recipe = 74 kcal
Christy says
Can you substitute sour cream for the cream cheese? I’m trying to avoid a trip to the grocery store! ????
Emily says
that should work, the flavor will be different though.
Carol says
What is the ‘sauce’ you dip these in?
Erica says
We usually dip it in salsa and/or sour cream. What you see pictured is salsa 🙂 Hope this helps!
Elizabeth M Cyr says
I would like to know if these are best frozen before they are baked?
Should you bake these first before freezing? I am making approximately 60 to 70 for our church children’s summer camp.
Thank you
Beth
Erica says
You can definitely freeze them before baking.. but if it were me, I would probably bake them first unless you can flash freeze them (so they don’t get soggy). Either way would probably work fine. 🙂 Hope this helps!
Barry Hugg says
For us ‘eaters’ here in Oz, tell me what Monterey Jack cheese is?
Erica says
It is a white cheese similar to texture as mozzarella but typically used in Mexican dishes. Do you have pepper Jack cheese there? It is pepper Jack without the peppers!
Terri says
Would cheddar cheese work instead of Monterey Jack
Echo says
Absolutely! Cheddar cheese would be every bit as good. Thanks for asking!
Karen I says
Wow, these look SO good. Our local takeout Mexican food place offers 3 chicken flautas for $4.95 and by the time I get home they are nearly cold. Watched the video and realize I can make them at home. Cannot wait to try these at home. Thank you so much for posting.
Favorite Family Recipes says
Hi Karen! So excited for you to try them! We almost never buy them anymore because they are just SO easy to make AND you can make them healthier because they are baked instead of fried. Let us know what you think when you try them!
Melinda says
I just made the tonight. My picky husband loved them. My grandson also. So easy to make..thank you
Favorite Family Recipes says
So glad you liked them! If both your husband AND your grandson liked them, I definitely consider that a WIN! 😀
Danielle says
These are not flautas.
Favorite Family Recipes says
What would you constitute as a flauta?
Samantha says
I would like to make these for our Cinco de Mayo potluck on Sunday at church. If I baked them ahead of time, do you think putting them in a warm oven for about 3 hours would work alright?
Erica says
Yeah I think that should be fine!
Nancy Banning says
Was pretty good with fresh salsa and fresh guacamole.