Have you tried air frying frozen taquitos or flautas? Or making fresh ones? They’re both amazing in the air fryer. But what if you want to use up those taquitos into something different? We have some fun taquito recipes, tips, cooking suggestions and delish ideas for you to play around with. Best of all, some of these ideas take literally minutes to make.

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Air Frying Frozen Taquitos or Making Fresh Flautas

The hot circulating air makes frozen taquitos or frozen flautas super crispy. It’s still mind blowing when you can take something hard like a rock frozen directly from the freezer and make it crispy and hot in minutes.

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Air Fryer Frozen Taquitos and Flautas
There's several things which affect how the frozen taquitos or flautas cook. They all vary in size, thickness, type of filling, thickness & type of tortilla so you’ll have to adjust timing. For best and even cooking, don't overcrowd the basket. Fill just an even single layer. Cook in batches if needed.
All air fryers are different and some cook much hotter than others. Once you cook your first batch, you’ll know more of what works for your model of air fryer and size of food. These were tested on basket style air fryers. Read more recipe notes below the recipe. Nutrition will vary depending on individual taquito types.
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air fryer beef taquitos in basket
Air Fryer Beef Taquitos or Flautas
Use corn tortillas for taquitos or flour tortillas for the flautas.
The sour cream, cream cheese, and greek yogurt all provide a nice tang as well as adds a nice moistness to the filling. If you can find crema Mexicana, all the better.
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holding air fryer chicken flautas or taquitos with guac
Air Fryer Chicken Flautas or Taquitos
The sour cream, cream cheese, and greek yogurt all provide a nice tang as well as adds a nice moistness to the filling. If you can find crema Mexicana, all the better.
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Air fryer Enchiladas with frozen taquitos
Air Fryer Taquito Enchiladas
We like to use this air fryer accessory pan. It’s a pizza pan but it works great for making the enchiladas. Make sure the buy the one that fits your air fryer.
Don't thaw the taquitos before air frying. Thawing might make the enchilada dish mushy.
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More Recipe Hack Ideas

  • Soup! Break the frozen taquitos in smaller pieces to make a taquito soup.
  • Casserole with the taquitos is great. Just make a cheese sauce like you would mac and cheese, but instead of using macaroni, use the frozen taquitos or flautas. This taquito casserole looks great.
  • Breakfast Egg scramble is delish by breaking up the taquitos. Or make a breakfast egg bake with the taquitos.
  • We have some great breakfast bakes like shredded hash brown bake, air fryer tater tot bake, low carb egg bakes.