Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Cilantro-Lime Chicken with Avocado Salsa

I had a dream and it involved Chicken, Avocado, and Lime. So, it's not very surprising that the next day I was on Google looking up recipes that included those 3, and was dairy free. And I was successful, finding this recipe at myrecipes. So here it is, with a few tweaks that I did, and a few more I plan to the next time I make this.

Cilantro-Lime Chicken with Avocado Salsa

Ingredients

  • Chicken
  • 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro (I think dried would work just as well)
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4 (6-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
 Salsa
  • 1 cup chopped plum tomato (about 2)
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
  • 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  •  2 avocado, peeled and finely chopped

Preparation

  1. To prepare chicken: Pound chicken to about 1/2-3/4 inch thickness. Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl; toss and marinate several hours or preferably over night. Remove chicken from marinade; discard marinade. Sprinkle chicken evenly with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Grill on your barbeque grill.
  2. To prepare salsa, combine tomato and next 4 ingredients (through pepper) in a medium bowl. Add avocado; stir gently to combine. Serve salsa over chicken. Might want to double the amount of salsa, as it is incredibly yummy.

Now on the myrecipes site, they pictured this as being served over rice. But in going with another person's comments about this recipe we tried it over lightly seasoned spaghetti squash. WOW! There were no leftovers, our girls were loving it!

Bake you spaghetti squash, halve it, scrape out seeds, fluff flesh to look lie spaghetti, season with a small amount of margarine, onion (powder or minced), garlic (powdered or minced), salt and pepper.

I wish I had remembered to take a picture, so in your mind see a plate, generous serving of squash, chicken breast on top, and then beautiful salsa over all of that.

This is a little bit of a pricier meal, and is best in Spring/Summer time. Enjoy!!

1 comment:

  1. We had this tonight for dinner without the spaghetti squash (did not have any) the kids love it. Great Recipe!!

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