Healthy Chicken Mexican Casserole

• Olive oil cooking spray
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 tsp paprika
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 2 cups cooked shredded chicken
• handful chopped fresh cilantro
• 2 cups reduced fat cheese (I like the fiesta blend from Trader Joes)
• 1 bottle of Herdez Verde Salsa (sold at WalMart in the Mexican food aisle)
• 8 corn tortillas (remember to check the ingredients for only corn, water, and lime)
• 1 1/2 C lite or ff sour cream
• 1 can of drained chopped green chilies

Spray pan with olive oil and saute onion and garlic until they are translucent.  Add garlic, paprika, black pepper, salt, and chicken and heat thoroughly.  Remove from heat and stir in cilantro.

Preheat oven to 350F.
Using a square casserole dish, spray with olive oil and add 1/3 jar Verde salsa to cover bottom of the dish.  Put 4 tortillas on top.  Spread 1/2 sour cream over tortillas. Next spead another 1/3 of verde salsa, 1 cup of chicken, 1/2 of cheese, and 1/2 of green chilies.  Top this with 4 tortillas, then the remainder of sour cream, salsa, chicken, and  green chilies.  Top with the remainder of cheese.  Bake for 35 minutes or until bubbly.

Slow Cooker: Mexican Turkey

This is a delicious and easy dinner! Perfect for healthy eating!

• Ground turkey (browned)
• Black beans
• cilantro
• onion chopped
• green chilies
• jalapeno peppers
• garlic
• olives
• sea salt & pepper
• Salsa

Put in the crock pot and cook on low a few hours. Tastes great on bake potato, in a tortilla, as a chili or dip. Top with r/f cheddar cheese (Cabot 50% light, WalMart has it)or (Cabot 75% light, Publix has it). Add in lettuce, tomatoes, avocados, light or ff sour cream on top. Even one of the neighborhood kids LOVED it (of course my own never tried it).

Chicken Tortilla Soup

This is a healthy and delicious soup! No exact measurements.

• onion
• garlic
• Shredded cooked chicken
• 4 serrano peppers, deseeded and chopped
• 1 oz chipotle pepper, chopped (watch the ingredients if you buy the canned ones)
• chicken broth, about 3-4 cups (use your own or check the ingredients of store bought)
• cumin
• salt
• pepper
• 1 lime's juice
• cilantro
• diced chilies
• tomato, chopped
• salt & pepper to taste

In a large pot, take garlic and onions and saute them in spray of olive oil until translucent. Add the 3 types of peppers and saute a few minutes.  Add all the other ingredients.  Bring to boil and simmer for 20 minutes.
Serve with torn corn tortillas (look for the ones with only corn, water, and lime for ingredients -- they sell them at WalMart) avocado slices, and 75% reduced fat cheddar cheese (sold at Publix, Cabot brand) on top.

This is good!