These are some of our favorite recipes, mostly from Cooking Light, but we tend to edit portions and ingredients
that suit our taste buds (e.g. when a recipe calls for 1 minced garlic clove, we use about 4 :) ).
Other recipes are passed down from family and friends.
Enjoy!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Cilantro-Lime Chicken with Avocado Salsa

Instead of serving this on rice (as the recipe suggests), we sliced the chicken and put it on a bed of romaine lettuce. This is SUCH a good salad!
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A three-minute dip into a pungent cilantro-lime marinade is all that's needed to deliver big flavor to chicken breasts.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 chicken breast half and about 1/4 cup salsa)
Ingredients
Chicken:
* 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
* 2 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
* 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
* 4 (6-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* Cooking spray
Salsa:
* 1 cup chopped plum tomato (about 2)
* 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
* 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
* 1 avocado, peeled and finely chopped
Preparation
1. To prepare chicken, combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl; toss and let stand 3 minutes. Remove chicken from marinade; discard marinade. Sprinkle chicken evenly with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add chicken to pan; cook 6 minutes on each side or until done.
2. To prepare salsa, combine tomato and next 4 ingredients (through pepper) in a medium bowl. Add avocado; stir gently to combine. Serve salsa over chicken.
Nutritional Information
Calories: 289
Fat: 13.2g (sat 2.4g,mono 7.5g,poly 1.9g)
Protein: 35.6g
Carbohydrate: 6.6g
Fiber: 3.6g
Cholesterol: 94mg
Iron: 1.6mg
Sodium: 383mg
Calcium: 29mg

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