Southwest Chicken Soup (Instant Pot)

December 29, 2019 Amanda Plott

This Southwest Chicken Soup is based on one that I often get at fairly well known chain restaurant. It’s a broth-based soup that’s light and yet loaded with tons of southwest flavors. Instead of the usual pinto or black beans, chickpeas are used instead!

Bring as we’re at the tail end of the Holiday season, and there’s still a lot going on, I decided to once again make this soup in the pressure cooker. Why? It saves me time and energy. So, I kept this soup pretty simple and made all at one time and in one pot. Toss it in, cook it, and enjoy…

Chicken Fajita Soup (Instant Pot)

December 19, 2019 Amanda Plott

Fajitas are one of my favorite Tex-Mex meals, but with it being the great big middle of winter… soup just sounds like a really good idea right now. So why not put the two together?! And to take it a step further, and with being so busy in the middle of the Holiday rush, I decided to take the lazy route and make chicken fajitas into a soup instead!

This Chicken Fajita Soup is quick and easy to make, with almost everything being tossed into a pressure cooker for all of an hour of hands off cooking time. Everything you know and love about chicken fajitas is in this soup too. Chicken, onion, bell peppers, jalapeño, and even some rice!…

Chicken Lunch Wrap

December 17, 2019 Amanda Plott

Who has two thumbs and loves the ‘cool wrap’ from Chick-fil-a? This girl.

It’s true, the cool wrap is one of my favorite things to get from the fast food chain. Mostly because it’s really such a healthy option. Grilled chicken, plenty of greens… and what is that wrap? Well, with a quick search over their menu and the ingredients for the wrap, I found that a ‘lavash pita’ bread is used.

Lavash pita bread is a very thin and very soft pita bread that is perfectly foldable, rollable, and doesn’t tear very easily. It holds up extraordinarily well. It’s officially my ‘tortilla’ replacement, I think…

Chicken Parmesan Dip

December 10, 2019 Amanda Plott

I love Italian food. I mean… who doesn’t? One of my favorite Italian dishes is chicken parmesan. But, with things being so chaotic around the house right now, I thought it would be best if I could find a way to enjoy chicken parmesan as quickly and easily as possible. Chicken Parmesan Dip it is!

This Chicken Parmesan Dip has all the pieces and parts of a chicken parmesan, but is put together in the form of a perfectly dipable dish! Cooked chicken, marinara, ricotta, mozzarella… and of course, parmesan! After all, you can’t have chicken parmesan without the parmesan…

Skinny Creamy White Chicken Chili

November 2, 2019 Amanda Plott

It suddenly got freaking cold here, y’all! Really, for the past few days it’s been unseasonably cold. I think I heard that Austin had the coldest Halloween that we’ve had in 30 years or something? That’s pretty incredible. Despite the cold, we still had a lot of fun. And you’ll never find me complaining about it being a little chilly. (Pun intended.)

When it’s cold out, that means I can use my oven AND I get to make hearty stews, soups, and of course… chili! That’s where this Skinny Creamy White Chicken Chili comes in. It’s made DAIRY FREE. Yep, you heard right, a creamy chili with NO cream…

Fresh Turkey Salad

October 9, 2019 Amanda Plott

I’ve decided to call this ‘fresh’ turkey salad because I loaded it up with plenty of fresh fruits and veggies. No nuts. No dried fruits. Fresh, fresh, FRESH! I borrowed the base of this recipe from my Skinny ‘Leftover’ Turkey Salad, and made just a few tweaks and adjustments to get it to something that was a little more… fresh!

And now for the speech! Turkey salad as in chicken salad. Not a salad with chicken or turkey on it. But, rather a ‘salad’ that’s made up WITH turkey and chicken. The sort of thing you can smear on some toast for a turkey salad sandwich, or load on top of crackers…