Friday Fast & Easy Meals-Mexican

The recipes you find on here won't be fancy but they will be tried and true favorites that come through my kitchen. You will also find that many times they do not have a ton of ingredients or steps. I am not FANCY and I do not love dragging everything in creation out of the cabinets to make a meal and WE LOVE MEXICAN. That will become exceedingly clear the further along we go in our relationship. So you will see lots of variations and ways to have a mexican themed meal.


Salsa Verde Chicken

2-4 chicken breasts 

• or more depending on your family size. Use your judgment. For Trey and I to eat a meal and have left overs for one of us the next day I use 2 chicken breasts. 

1 onion chopped 

• pick small or large depending on how many chicken breasts you use

1 jar of green salsa verde 

• We were gifted some from Trader Joes that is amazing but we do not have one of those. If you do get you some! It is amazing. If not we go to Wal Mart and I buy the Herdez brand. It is in the mexican food section. 

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon cumin

1/8 teaspoon onion powder

Dump all of these ingredients into a crock pot and cook on low for 6 hours. When it is done pull the chicken out of the crock pot and shred. If you have a stand mixer dump it in there and shred that chicken in seconds. Then dump it all back in the crock pot and let it sit for at least 5-10 min. 

The beauty of this dish is you can serve it a ton of different ways. Trey eats his over brown rice. I eat mine over chopped salad. Wal Mart has a fabulous selection of chopped salads. There is one that is more tex mexish. It has some tortilla strips in the bag with it. It is about 3.75 a bag. Not bad especially since you can eat on it all week or it will feed the whole family with one bag. On this I usually eat over a salad and use an avocado mashed up as dressing or if I am out of avocado I will use a little of the dressing that comes with the salad. You do not need a whole lot because you have the chicken and sauce to put over the rice or salad. Another option is to make a nacho bar using this chicken. Easy and so good dish!!!!!