Thursday, June 4, 2009

Southwestern Chicken Recipe


Quick and easy, very tasty meal. evolved to our tastes from Cooking Light.


18 min 10 min prep
SERVES 4
vegetable oil cooking spray
1 lb
boneless skinless chicken breast half, cut into 2 1/2 x 1/2 inch strips
1 1/4 teaspoons
chili powder
1/4 teaspoon
ground cumin
1 teaspoon
vegetable oil
1 1/4 cups
green pepper strips
1 cup thinly sliced
onion, separated into rings
1 cup
frozen whole kernel corn
3/4 cup commercial
thick & chunky salsa (mild or hot, your choice)

Coat a large nonstick frypan with cooking spray, and place over high heat until hot.

Add chicken, stir fry 3 minutes.
Stir in chili powder and cumin.
Remove chicken from frypan, set aside.

Add oil to frypan, and heat over medium high heat.
Add green pepper strips and onion, stir fry 3 minutes.

Return chicken to frypan and stir in corn and salsa.
Stir fry 2 minutes more or until thoroughly heated (Alternately, thinly sliced into strips, turkey, beef or pork may be used).
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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 (298g) Recipe makes 4 servings
Calories 209 Calories from Fat 28 (13%) Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 3.2g 4% Saturated Fat 0.6g 3% Monounsaturated Fat 0.8g Polyunsaturated Fat 1.3g Trans Fat 0.0g Cholesterol 65mg 21%
Sodium 376mg 15% Potassium 645mg 18% Total Carbohydrate 17.4g 5% Dietary Fiber 3.1g 12% Sugars 4.0g Protein 28.9g 57% Vitamin A 516mcg 10% Vitamin B6 0.9mg 47% Vitamin B12 0.4mcg 7% Vitamin C 31mg 51% Vitamin E 1mcg 3% Calcium 42mg 4% Iron 1mg 8%
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4 comments:

  1. Sounds yummy and easy. Will be giving it a try!

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  2. Well I have to get to the grocery store to get some supplies to make some of these good recipes.

    Iris

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  3. This will be dinner tonight, so I'll let you know what we think of it.

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  4. This was very good and we still have a little left. This is pretty versatile: you could use use it as a burrito or taco filling, etc. I served it with steamed brown rice.

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