Every busy person needs to have a library of easy recipes – especially on those nights when you don’t want to cook anything but you also don’t want to order take out either. These black bean and chicken tostadas are that kind of recipe. Well kind of. It only becomes complicated if you don’t have the chicken ready ahead of time. Good thing that is easy to do when you have a batch of Mexican shredded chicken in the freezer. To bring up the easy factor a couple more notches I used canned re-fried beans. Of course, you can easily substitute homemade re-fried beans if you have them. Here is a delicious re-fried beans recipe I made last year or so.
From start to finish these tostadas took about 20 minutes. They were super tasty and easily adaptable using ingredients you have on hand.
Before going into the broiler.
After they are done and dressed up.
- 4 small corn tortillas
- 1 cup refried black beans
- 2 tablespoons salsa
- 1 cup shredded Mexican chicken
- ½ cup shredded taco cheese
- 1 avocado, diced
- Plain greek yogurt or sour cream
- lettuce
- Cilantro
- hot sauce to taste * optional
- Turn broiler on
- In a microwave safe bowl warm up the re-fried black beans, about 1-2 minutes. After the beans are warmed stir in 2 tablespoons of salsa.
- On each tortilla spread ¼ cup re-fried bean mixture, ¼ cup shredded chicken, and 1 tablespoon shredded cheese. Place tortillas on a baking sheet and broil until the cheese is melted, 3-5 minutes
- Top each tortilla with ¼ of the avocado, cilantro (to taste), lettuce, dollop of greek yogurt, and hot sauce if using.
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Caren with a C says
March 4, 2013 at 9:08 pmThose look delicious! I’ve got to Pin them!
Ella-Home Cooking Adventure says
March 5, 2013 at 10:51 amI think I have the recipe for today:) Thanks for this idea.
Tammy says
March 5, 2013 at 11:41 amYou are welcome! Enjoy!
Fran says
March 5, 2013 at 10:53 amYay! I’m so excited!! Not only does this look delicious and totally easy, your new format imports directly to Plan to Eat. 🙂 Just signed up for the free trial yesterday and manually imported a bunch of your recipes that have made it into my rotation. Love it so far…
Tammy says
March 5, 2013 at 11:41 amI love Plan to Eat! You can also save your recipes into Ziplist and create your own recipe box right on my site. Check out the tab that says “recipe box” on the menu bar. It is free. I am working to get all my recipes into the format – hopefully this will be done within the month.
Amanda says
March 8, 2013 at 7:59 pmMmmm… These look fantastic!
Rosie @ Blueberry Kitchen says
March 9, 2013 at 6:08 pmOh yum, these look so delicious!
Linda says
March 10, 2013 at 4:26 pmThese look so good. I have to try them!
Jocelyn Stewart says
August 15, 2014 at 4:40 amThis looks great! I’m wondering if the tortillas get crunchy under the broiler like this? I usually baked mine first and then build the tostada but I would love to skip a step!