Showing posts with label Baked Tex Mex Chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baked Tex Mex Chicken. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Baked Tex Mex Chicken

Ingredients
  • Cooking Spray
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 3 tablespoons chili powder
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 2 (15-ounce) cans kidney beans, rinsed and drained
  • 4 chicken breast cut in halves
  • 1 (28-ounce) diced tomatoes, no salt added or 2 (15 ounce cans), drained (juice reserved), and chopped
  • 1/4 cup shredded 2% Cheddar cheese
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
     
  2. In a medium bowl, mix together onions, chili powder, cumin and kidney beans; set aside.
     
  3. Spray a 9- x 13-inch baking pan with remaining oil; add kidney bean mixture. Arrange chicken over top of beans, pressing chicken into bean mixture. Spoon tomatoes over beans and chicken, and add reserved tomato juice.
     
  4. Bake chicken 40-50 minutes (or until chicken cooked through) then remove from the oven, sprinkle with shredded cheese, and bake 10 more minutes, or until cheese is melted, chicken is fork-tender and no pink remains.