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The best thing about these yummy chicken tostadas? The chicken is cooked in the pressure cooker and is ready within about 30 minutes or so, depending on how long you pressure takes to heat up and pressure. You can also double this recipe and use it for a simple meal prep idea.

Here’s how to make these simple chicken tostadas

You can use any style of pressure cooker for this. All you need is the high pressure setting and saute. Start by adding all ingredients to the pressure cooker. Seal and cook on high for 12 minutes.

Here’s what it looks like after the 12 minutes.

Break apart the chicken, and set your pressure cooker to saute. I like to reduce my sauce in the chicken. This will intensify the flavors and also thicken the sauce.

I continue to shred a little as the chicken cooks.

Here is what the chicken looked like after it had cooked on saute about 10 minutes. It is shredded, tender and so good! Sorry for the terrible photo, it turns out it is really hard to take a photo of a steamy pot of chicken!

Preparing tortillas for tostada

I love to broil cheese on my tortillas. You don’t have to do this, you can simple char your tortillas. I think this is so much better though! I used cheddar cheese with a little cotija.

I don’t put my tortillas up top when I am broiling. I like to leave them on the middle or bottom shelf. If you put them on the top shelf when it is broiling the cheese will broil, but the tortillas will still be really soft, you want them to be crispy.

Assembling the chicken tostadas

You can arrange these however you want and in whatever order you want, but here it what I did. I started with the cheddar covered tortillas, then added the chicken. Next up was the marinated cabbage, pico de gallo, jalapenos and a little sprinkle of cotija.

Variation ideas

If you aren’t into cotija, which is a salty Mexican cheese, use whatever cheese you prefer. Now, if you aren’t into the marinated cabbage, just use lettuce. Want to skip the pico, simply add your favorite salsa

I use a pretty high ratio of veggies to meat. This is a personal preference of course.

I like to pick my tostadas up, so this was a little high for my taste…but it looks good for the photos…so….

It is hard to really tell what the tostada looks like, all the colors and textures make it kind of hard to tell, but let me just say, they were really good!

I actually ate 3, but we will pretend like this is my serving :).