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These chicken tostadas are stacked high with shredded BBQ chicken, cheese, and sour cream for an easy and epic weeknight meal.

There's nothing better than turning a rotisserie chicken into a tasty dinner, and these BBQ chicken tostadas are how you demonstrate who's the boss around the kitchen.

image: two chicken tostadas on a pan with sour cream and cheese

Easy Tostada with BBQ Chicken

Traditionally, tostadas are topped with beans, ground meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese, but today, we're doing something a little special. The BBQ chicken flavor and crunchy tostada texture combo is out of this world and total success with my kids.

Using rotisserie chicken to build terrific dinners is my favorite kitchen hack, and these tostadas couldn’t be any easier to make. Just like the other recipes inside the Taco Tuesday Cookbook, you're gonna love this 10-minute meal.

Ingredients

You can use store-bought tostadas or make your own with regular flour tortillas and cooking spray. I top them with rotisserie or poached chicken since they are the easiest to shred! Toss it with your favorite BBQ sauce, add shredded cheese such as Monterrey Jack, Cheddar, or mozzarella, and you’re good to go!

image: 4 tostadas on a sheet pan with a small bowl of sour cream

How to Make BBQ Chicken Tostadas

Once you top the tostadas with chicken, BBQ sauce, and cheese, bake them at 350F until the cheese has melted. Add toppings and bite! And let’s accept the fact now that there is NO clean way to eat a tostada. Just eat it with your hands. Messy? Yes! Delicious? Too! So serve a Tequila Lemonade or a Dr. Pepper Margarita, and enjoy!

Pro Tip: For the topping part, make sure to start with the denser ingredients, such as guacamole, black beans, and meat, first. Otherwise, nothing will stack upright, and you'll definitely have a disaster in your lap.

Do you Bake Tortillas for Tostadas?

Yes, whether you use regular flour tortillas or the ones you get from the grocery store, you'll need to toast the tostada! Crisping them up will make them irresistible.

Other Ways to Make Tostadas

If this recipe awakens your inner tostada love, which it should, I’ve got a few more ideas for you to try, like Huevos Rancheros (swap the regular corn tortilla with tostada) and Chipotle Beet & Egg Tostadas. Yummy!

image: 4 tostadas on a sheet pan with a small bowl of sour cream - side shot image

What’s better than this recipe? 51 more yummy taco dishes found in my Taco Tuesday Cookbook!

BBQ Chicken Tostadas

Servings: 4

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 8

Total Time: 13

These chicken tostadas are stacked high with shredded BBQ chicken, cheese, and sour cream for an easy and epic weeknight meal.

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Watch how it’s made:

Ingredients

3 cups cooked and shredded chicken
1 ½ cups barbecue sauce, divided
2 cups shredded Monterrey Jack cheese, divided
8 Baked Tostadas
¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped
Sour cream, for serving

Instructions

Prep:

Preheat your oven to 350F.
In a large bowl, toss the shredded chicken with 1 cup barbecue sauce and 1 cup of the cheese.

Bake:

Place the tostadas on a rimmed baking sheet. Distribute the chicken mixture evenly over the tostadas. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes, until the cheese has melted.

Serve:

Top the tostadas with the remaining 1 cup cheese, drizzle with remaining ½ cup barbecue sauce, sprinkle with cilantro, and finish with a dab of sour cream.