Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce

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Whitetrash Gastronome @stoned_yeti
Illinois, USA

Just a big batch of food divided into Tupperware for a weeks worth of work lunches. Everyone will get very curious when they smell this in the microwave! Also, this recipe is awesome but the white sauce just puts it on a whole other level.

Lunchtime Chicken Fajita Bowls w/ Mexican white sauce

Just a big batch of food divided into Tupperware for a weeks worth of work lunches. Everyone will get very curious when they smell this in the microwave! Also, this recipe is awesome but the white sauce just puts it on a whole other level.

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Ingredients

  1. 3large boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  2. 1purple onion
  3. 1green pepper
  4. 1sweet pepper
  5. 1 canwhole kernel corn
  6. 1 canblack beans
  7. 1 1/2 cupsrice
  8. 1/4 cupolive oil
  9. Salt and pepper
  10. Misc. seasoning blend (I used Tony Chachere's creole blend)
  11. stripsTortilla chip
  12. sauce----
  13. 1 cupmilk
  14. 2 tbspmiracle whip
  15. 1 tbspsour cream
  16. 1 dashlime juice
  17. 1/2 packetranch dressing mix
  18. 1-2 tspcumin
  19. 1-2 tspchili powder
  20. 1 pinchoregano
  21. Fresh chopped cilantro
  22. 1 Pinchsalt
  23. 1 pinchblack pepper

Cooking Instructions

  1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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I've always loved to cook, it's probably my favorite hobby. I'm not a huge fan of recipes because half the fun of cooking is experimentation and trial and error. I suggest ya'll do like me and use a recipe as a guideline only! Add your own stuff, try your own methods.Just a bit of background on me. I taught myself to cook when I was a younger, poorer man. Using and experimenting with cheap ingredients and utilizing stuff I already had in the house. Had to streach those dollars ya know? Hence the Whitetrash moniker.I'm a single guy so most of what I share on here I've cooked for myself and myself alone. I like to make big batches of stuff and eat on it for a few days. I use simple methods and ingredients and try to maximize quality while spending as little money as possible. I will always be adding recipes as I cook them. Bon appetite!
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