Chicken Fajita Bowls

OH MY... that was delightful.
I just finished eating my lunch for today and it was leftover from last night. I started this week with trying to be better about cooking at home and also preparing health meals for me family. Now this isn't easy since my step daughter decides after eating something and liking it that she now doesn't like it, but we have some not so health things in the pantry for her if she really isn't eating what we put in front of her. Before you start telling me how we should make her eat what we put in front of her, or telling me that I should make her meals that she likes.... We do both of these. She knows that in our house she needs to eat what is in front of her, but this is a fairly new concept to her, she use to only have to eat chicken nuggets and hamburgers from McDonald's... So within reason we allow her to not eat what is in front of her some nights, but she does try it, and she had yogurt, fruit, and some not so healthy things for those 2nd night in a row she isn't going to eat.... I can't starve the child.


Ok, so on the point of this blog post. I made some super yummy chicken fajita bowls last night for dinner and I wanted to share with you how so you can enjoy too.

Ingredients:
~24oz of boneless skinless chicken breast cleaned and chunked into bite size pieces
~1 med/large Red Pepper
~1 med/large Yellow Pepper
~1 med/large Orange Pepper
~1 med/large Green Pepper
~1 med/large onion
~1 Tblsp of EVOO
~3 teaspoons of Taco Seasoning.


So first I took the steam and seeds out of all of my peppers and sliced them at aprox 1/4 inch, really you can cut them to whatever size you like though. Then I cut my onion at the same size.
I put the cut peppers and onions into a bowl and drizzled with EVOO and then used 1.5 teaspoons of taco seasoning and mixed together well.
Place the peppers into a casserole dish that has been sprayed with Pam.
Place the chicken into the same bowl the pepper/onions were in, mix with the remaining 1.5 tsp of taco seasoning and mix well to coat the chicken. Then place the chicken chunks on top of the peppers and onion.

Place in a 400 degree preheated oven for arpox 20-30 min. Check the chicken between this time to make sure it is done.


When done... ENJOY!

Now the way I served this to my family was over 1 cup of brown rice. I love the ease of the boil in bag brown rice, so I boiled a couple of those bags, each bag yielded approximately 1 cup of cooked rice.
So 1 cup of rice, 1 serving of chicken and peppers/onions and then I topped mine with 4 tablespoons of salsa and a 100 calorie pack of guacamole. This total was 471 calories for my plate. It was so good that I am probably going to make it again this weekend. Even my husband loved it. The child... well you know, you Win some and Lose some.

#healthandhappy2017