Chipotle Chicken & Rice

Yesterday for lunch, I had a Lean Cuisine Chipotle Chicken & Rice bowl and it was pretty phenomenal to say the least. I read the ingredients and knew it would be pretty easy to recreate. Since we're snowed in at the moment, I couldn't use fresh ingredients so I had to improvise with what I had on hand. 

2 grilled chicken breasts, cooked and diced up

1 can of mexi-corn (the can I used has corn, onion, black beans & red peppers in it)

1 can of Campbell's cheddar cheese soup

1 cup brown rice, cooked

2 tbsp sour cream

2 tbsp chipotle hot sauce

Salt & pepper to taste

Pour the mexi-corn and cheddar cheese soup into a pan and bring to a slight boil and immediately turn it down to medium. Throw in your grilled chicken, rice, hot sauce and seasonings and cook on medium for about 10 minutes. Move the pan off of the heat and stir in the sour cream. It's a quick, simple meal that takes less than half an hour. Enjoy! 

Mexican Chili

This is a little bit chili and a little bit taco soup, so I'm going to call it Mexican Chili. I've made this before with chicken and now I'm making it with ground turkey. It's a pretty close call as to who will reign champion because they're both delicious! This is a crock pot creation with minimal time required at a stove, which is a plus. If you're totally anti-stove, then just throw frozen chicken tenders in the crock pot when you start it and come back later to shred the chicken. Here goes...

1 lb ground turkey 

1 can low sodium black beans

1 can mild tomatoes & green chiles 

1 can mexi-corn (the corn with red and green peppers mixed in)

1 can tomato sauce

1 packet chili seasoning 

1/2 onion, chopped 

Salt, pepper, garlic powder and chili powder to taste

Throw all the canned goods and the onion into the crockpot. Stir in the chili seasoning and let it all cook on low for about 4-6 hours. Brown your ground turkey and add it to the crockpot and then add salt, pepper, garlic powder and chili powder to suit your taste. The chili powder is optional as it definitely spices the dish up. Let it cook for an additional 30 minutes or so and then serve however you like. Be creative and enjoy!