Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Easy Chicken Wraps

Here's a super easy week night dinner.

Sometimes every dinner can't be a total photo op, but you get the idea.


Ingredients:
(use whatever vegetables you have on hand, the more you have the better)
Sun dried Tomato Tortilla Wraps
2 large chicken breasts
red, yellow, orange pepper, or green pepper - sliced into 3-4" strips
red onion - sliced into 2-3" strips
1 bag of steamfresh sweet corn
cilantro
cherry tomato
salad greens
shredded cheese
avocado
ranch dressing or sour cream

Directions:
- Crock pot your chicken earlier in the day by placing frozen chicken breasts & about 1/2 cup of water. Cook on high until done about 3-4 hours. Cut your chicken into bite sized pieces and reserve for later.
- Chop all the vegetables.
- Microwave corn per package directions.
- Heat oven to 350. Heat tortillas in a stack while cooking -- about 3-5 minutes in a hot oven.
- Use a 1 tbsp of olive oil and heat over med-high heat. Throw in vegetables and cook until vegetables begin to soften about 3 minutes.
- Add chicken & cilantro and cook until chicken is heated throughout about 3-5 minutes.
- On warm tortilla spread sour cream -optional.
- Top with warm chicken & veggie mixture. Top with salad greens, corn, & cheese.

If you are trying a healthier option, then use light sour cream moderately or not at all. If you want a more flavorful option try this recipe for cilantro ranch dressing. It's delicious, but not especially diet friendly.

Dressing
1/4 cup ranch dressing
1/4 cup salsa verde (herdes)
1/2 cup tightly packed cilantro leaves

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend away until smooth. Refrigerate.

(I found this dressing for the topping of Chicken Taco Cornbread Wedges with Ranchero Cilantro drizzle on the Martha White site. I love this recipe, of course, it's from Jenny of picky-palate.com) You can double up the ranch if you don't have salsa verde on hand.
Tip: Spend 20 minutes one day washing & chopping all your vegetables for your weekly meals. It makes preparing dinner so much faster, and increases the likelihood you'll actually use the veggies you bought.

1 comment:

April Westerhold said...

Sounds delicious. I am going to put it on my list of recipes to try. I have a meal planning blog on here so don't be surprised if you see yourself tagged in the next couple of weeks. LOL

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