Tuesday, March 30, 2010

4 easy dinners to try!

Chicken Enchiladas
**not the healthiest dish in the world, but oh-so-delicious!**

2-3 chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
1-2 cans green chiles
green salsa (optional)
salt and pepper to taste
1 onion chopped
1 tbs. butter
1 lb. shredded monterey jack cheese
8 oz. cream cheese
1/2 pint whipping cream
6-8 tortillas

Put chicken breasts with 1 can green chiles and about a cup of green salsa in crock pot on low, cook 5-6 hours. (green salsa is just to flavor it up a little, optional, and you don't have to cook chicken in crock-pot either, i just like it that way!). Shred chicken. In saucepan, saute chopped onion in butter. Add 1 more can green chiles and cream cheese and stir until melted. Add shredded chicken to mixture. Put mixture into tortillas and roll up. Top with shredded monterey jack cheese (it seems like a lot but is soooo good!). And then pour whipping cream on top of that. Bake at 350 until bubbling and cheese is golden brown, about 20 minutes.


Russian Chicken Tenders with Rice
- don't have a good name for this one! :)
1 small bottle of wishbone Russian salad dressing
1 jar of pineapple apricot jam (you can find some at walmart)
1 package of dry lipton onion soup
As many chicken tenders as you'd like!

Blend the three ingredients together and then poor over chicken. Bake for 30-40 min (or until its done) and then broil 5 min or until chicken is brown on top. Serve over rice and enjoy!

Chicken Parmesan Sandwiches
1 loaf garlic bread
marinara sauce
frozen breaded chicken tenders
mozzarella cheese

Bake garlic bread and chicken tenders per instructions. Top garlic bread with marinara sauce, then chicken tender. Put some mozzarella on the chicken and put back in oven to melt cheese. And voila!, an open faced (is that the right word?) delicious sandwich!

Sun-dried Tomato and Chicken Ravioli
1 bag costco Ravioli - frozen
3 jars Sun-dried Tomato Alfredo (classico makes one)
16 chicken tenders
Parmesan Cheese (grated)
(This is the party size - only 1 jar and 8 tenders are needed for an 8x8 for 1 family)

Cook tenders in 1 tbs butter, cube when cooked 1/2 way through. Continue cooking until done.

Add jars of Alfredo sauce to chicken. Add about a 1/8 cup water to each jar when empty, put top on, and shake to get extra sauce, add to chicken. This helps thin the sauce as well.

Take large pan and start layering:
Add a small amount of sauce 1st so the ravioli doesn't stick
1. Ravioli - lay pieces side by side filling whole bottom
2. Add chicken sauce to cover ravioli
REPEAT
Sprinkle top with grated parmesan cheese

Place in oven 350 for about an hour, for large pan, - remove when bubbling - let sit for a minute to thicken... enjoy!

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