Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Black Bean Chicken


So yesterday as I a perusing recipes online (one of my favorite things to do) I discovered eatingwell.com 's 500 calories recipe section. If course I was delighted because I love 4-500 calorie meals. That was until I looked at the recipes, all of them. All the recipes on the site call for about a thousand ingredients (most of which I don't have), and just looked and the list intimidated me. So just to spite their thousand ingredient recipes I made my own 500 calorie meal with a lot less and out of stuff that was already in my cupboard.

Black Bean Chicken

Serves 4

1 large Chicken Breast

1 can Black Beans (15 oz)

1 can Salsa verde (7 oz

8 Corn Tortillas

4 roma Tomatoes

Preheat oven to 350. Place breast in baking dish and season lightly (I use Mrs.Dash.) Mix black beans and salsa verde and pour over chicken. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes occasionally scooping bean mixture on chicken. Remove from oven. Cut chicken into 1 inch cubes. Mix with black bean mixture. Toast tortillas over dry griddle until brown and crispy. Place half cup of chicken and bean mixture over each tortilla. Two tortillas per serving. Serve sprinkled with tomatoes.
Calorie breakdown per serving

2 Tortillas 130

1 Cup Chicken and black beans 230
Tomato 30

Total- 390

I added a cup of fresh green beans to bring the total to

424




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