How do you cook your chicken for dishes like chicken enchiladas?

[BoSox 15]

Originally Posted by Jkgourmet

Why breasts? They're dryer and less flavorful than thighs.

Depends on how you're cooking them. If you're making enchiladas and they're dry, you're doing something wrong.

My fiancee, who is Mexican, uses breasts and I know it's stewed with tomatoes, onions and other stuff - I don't know the recipe but it is certainly not dry and flavorless. Mexican cooking is quite liberal with the fats (oil, lard, etc.).

Now if you're cooking enchiladas from a non-traditional recipe, then that may get dry (depending on how you're doing it).

[NYC refugee]

I buy split breasts with bones and dry poach them. In a heavy pot with a good lid, put rinsed chicken with a half teaspoon of salt, 1/4 cup of water, lid on, low heat for an hour. They're not dry, there's usable liquid, and sometimes I dice it up and freeze it so I have "cooked chicken" on hand for pot pies and cat treats.