05/02/2021 13:41

Simple Way to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce

by Barbara Evans

Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce
Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lunchtime chicken fajita bowls w/ mexican white sauce. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lunchtime chicken fajita bowls w/ mexican white sauce using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce:
  1. Take 3 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  2. Prepare 1 purple onion
  3. Prepare 1 green pepper
  4. Make ready 1 sweet pepper
  5. Get 1 can whole kernel corn
  6. Get 1 can black beans
  7. Get 1 1/2 cups rice
  8. Prepare 1/4 cup olive oil
  9. Make ready Salt and pepper
  10. Take Misc. seasoning blend (I used Tony Chachere's creole blend)
  11. Get strips Tortilla chip
  12. Prepare sauce—-
  13. Take 1 cup milk
  14. Make ready 2 tbsp miracle whip
  15. Prepare 1 tbsp sour cream
  16. Prepare 1 dash lime juice
  17. Make ready 1/2 packet ranch dressing mix
  18. Prepare 1-2 tsp cumin
  19. Take 1-2 tsp chili powder
  20. Prepare 1 pinch oregano
  21. Make ready Fresh chopped cilantro
  22. Prepare 1 Pinch salt
  23. Prepare 1 pinch black pepper
Instructions to make Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce:
  1. Prep the peppers and onion by cutting them into strips, about 1/2 inch thick. Lay everything out on a cookie sheet lined with foil, chicken in the middle, peppers on one end and onions on the other. Drizzle everything with the olive oil and toss a little bit so it's all coated. Sprinkle peppers and onions with a pinch of salt and pepper. Sprinkle the chicken with your misc. seasoning.
  2. Bake on middle oven rack at 375 for 30-40 minutes (depending on how thick the chicken boobs are) Make the rice according to package directions. I used jasmine rice. – while that's cooking, make the sauce.
  3. Sauce- again, this sauce makes the whole thing. This sauce is the robin to Batman. The Louise to Thelma. The Mallory to Mickey. The gravy to KFC's mashed potatoes… you get the idea.. In a separate container combine the milk, miracle whip and sour cream. Add the dash of lime juice. Whip with a fork till it's all combined. Add all the spice ingredients and whip again to combine. Add the fresh cilantro last and just let it relax on top. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours. Mix
  4. Side note about the sauce. I didn't use actual measurements for anything when making mine, so this is just a guideline. Keep tasting and adjusting accordingly. I like spicy, bold flavor. Also you're looking for the consistency to be a tad thicker than milk.
  5. Ok. When the oven is done let everything cool enough to handle with your bare hands. Slice the chicken across the grain. Now we build the bowls.
  6. I made 4 portions out of this and honestly it was a lot of food haha probably could've made 5 instead but I only had 4 Tupperware containers. Don't forget to drain the corn and black beans. Lay out a layer of tortilla strips (yes they will lose their crunch but that's what I wanted. Just the corn tortilla flavor) Next, a layer of rice. In one corner a couple spoons of corn. The other corner, some of the onion. Another corner, black beans. In the last corner some of the pepper strips.
  7. Sprinkle all of it with a bit more of the spice blend. Garnish with fresh cilantro. They should somewhat resemble the photo. Now lunches are ready for the week! Bring a separate container of the sauce and you're set!
  8. When reheating this at work, I microwave for about a minute, cut up the chicken into bite size pieces, mix it all together and finish reheating. THEN drizzle the white sauce all over it. One round of cooking and you've got a weeks worth of home cooked lunches your coworkers will be jealous of you over!—– P.S (search "sheet pan chicken" on YouTube and there's a cool little minute long demo of the oven part of this, which inspired this recipe)

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