Chicken Empanadas

These empanadas taste great and are pretty good for you. They give off the illusion of being fried but are baked instead. Pair these with mexican rice and beans or poblano peppers.

Ingredients:

• Empanada shells
• Cubed chicken
• Beans-black or kidney
• Corn cut from cob or canned
• Green onion
• Tomato
• Red and green peppers
• Hot sauce
• Tomato sauce
• Garlic
• Salt
• Pepper

Directions:

• Saute veggies and chicken in a pan
• Add hot sauce, tomato sauce and spices
• Sautee until chicken is cooked
• Add beans
• Put filling into empanada shells (fold 1 in half cresent or use 2 round ones)
• Pinch off ends and imprint with a fork
• Spray with butter spray
• Bake for 10 minutes and flip to other side
• Bake an additional 10 minutes
• Serve

Enjoy!

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Chicken noodle soup is delicious, especially when it's not that instant cup of soup nonsense with ridiculous amounts of sodium. This soup has a much lower sodium content, high nutrient content and good texture. It can be made in 20 minutes if you use canned chicken or rotisserie chicken and frozen veggies.

Ingredients:

• canned or rotisserie chicken (this is already cooked)
• egg noodles
• chicken bouillon
• baby carrots
• broccoli
• celery
• salt
• pepper
• garlic

Directions:

• boil water adding in frozen veggies and egg noodles (if you use fresh veggies make sure to cook them first or your egg noodles will get soggy)
• drain water if needed, reserving enough pasta water for the soup broth
• add cubed or shredded chicken
• add spices and chicken bouillon
• cook for another 5 minutes
• serve

Enjoy!