Fiesta Chicken

The Paraplegic Chef is Fight Pink’s official Online Chef!  Megan McCauley is an amazing woman who has overcome many obstacles in her life, to be the woman she is today.  She also has an amazing flair for cooking!  Below you will find her tasty recipe for Fiesta Chicken.  Be sure to click on the picture to visit The Paraplegic Chef!  

“I hope you enjoy and let’s get cookin’ Meg”…

Low Fat and Easy

Approximate Per Serving
9 grams of fat
260 calories
40 grams protein

Now that the weather is warming up I chose this recipe in part because the chicken has a wonderful flavor, and with the cool salsa on top it adds just the right amount of contrast. There are some great ingredients in this dish.

Here’s a few quick facts:

-Black Beans are very high in protein and fiber. They help to regulate your body’s glucose. This boosts your metabolism and the amount of fiber helps lower your cholesterol. The soluble fiber in black beans, binds with the bile acids in your system. They are then carried out of your body, making it impossible for those acids to become cholesterol.

-Chicken has a very high protien count. In 3.5 ounces you are taking in 45 grams of protien.

I’m also starting something new, titled the Aroma Factor. For those of you who are worried about the strength of smells while cooking (for reasons such as sickness, or guests visiting), this will greatly help you decide if a recipe is for you or not. It will be a scale of 1 to 5. 1 being faint or no smell, and 5 being strongest.

Fiesta Chicken Aroma Factor: 3.5 – Lime & Garlic are the stars of this recipe, and will prove it with their lingering aroma. (However, it is a very nice summer time smell, I think.) If you are not a huge fan of garlic just use a little hint of it. Remember you don’t have to follow this recipe exactly. Now, let’s get to it.

Lime Chicken
Ingredients:

6 chicken breasts
1 teaspoon lime zest
1/4 cup lime juice
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon fresh or dry thyme
2 cloves garlic or already minced garlic
1/4 teaspoon salt

Black Bean Salsa Topper
Ingredients:

1 can organic black beans (drained)
1 can corn (drained)
1/2 red onion, chopped
1 tomato (optional)
1 tablespoon Cilantro
1 garlic clove
Squeeze of lime

Lime Chicken
Prep:

Pull thyme from stem and mince or if using dried thyme add to medium mixing bowl

Mince garlic or use already minced garlic and add with thyme

Zest lime and add with other ingredients

Squeeze lime to make 1/3 cup juice and add to bowl or buy lime juice from the produce section

Add salt, pepper, and olive oil and baste over chicken in a glass cooking dish and
chill/marinate 10 minutes. While this is marinating, start on the Black Bean Salsa Topper.

Once marinated preheat broiler, place on rack and broil 5 inches from the heat and cook for 6 minutes or until light brown

Turn chicken and brush lightly with liquid from pan. Broil 6 to 8 minutes more or until chicken is no longer pink.

Black Bean Salsa Topper 
Prep:

Drain black beans and corn and add to small mixing bowl

Chop red onion and add to the bowl

Dice tomato and add to the bowl

Finely chop up the cilantro and add to the bowl

*You can also add some more lime juice, or if you want a bit of a kick like we did, you can add some diced jalepenos.

Voila the finished masterpiece!  Fiesta Chicken

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