Recipes

Calorie-counted recipes for your fasting days.

Smoky BBQ chicken with tomato salad

445 Calories

15-45 minutes Chicken Dairy-free Fast Day Main meal Mexican Nut-free Spicy

Easy peasy spicy chicken

Ingredients

4 Chicken Breasts cut into thin strips across the grain
1 packet Old El Paso Smoky Barbecue Fajita Spice Mix
500g carton passata
35g chopped onion
45g chopped bell peppers
10 sprays of olive oil (about 1 tsp)
120g fresh tomatoes for salad
50g cucumber for salad
20g onion for salad
40g peppers for salad
sprinkling of fresh coriander
a medium size Old El Paso soft tortilla

Method

In a large frying pan fry the onion, pepper and chicken in the oil until cooked through.
Add the spice mix and coat the chicken and vegetables.
Add the passata and simmer for twenty minutes until the sauce is thickened.
Serve with the tomato, onion and pepper salad (47 cal) and a medium size Old El Paso soft tortilla (128 calories).

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