Slow-Cooked Salsa Chicken Tacos

| December 24, 2014

Slow-Cooked Salsa Chicken Tacos

Ingredients

  • 1½ cups chicken stock
  • 1½ cups mild salsa, green or red
  • 2 (8-oz.) skinless, boneless chicken breasts, preferably organic
  • 8 small corn tortillas
  • 2 cups shredded red or green cabbage
  • 1 cup diced tomatoes
  • 1 avocado, cubed
  • ½ cup chopped cilantro

Directions

  1. In a large saucepan, bring stock and salsa to a simmer over medium heat. Add the chicken and simmer covered, until tender, about 1½ hours. Remove from pan and cool. Reserve cooking liquid.
  2. Shred chicken and put it in a bowl. Drizzle with enough of the cooking liquid to keep the chicken moist.
  3. Fill tortillas with chicken and top with cabbage, tomatoes, avocado and cilantro.

Yields 4 Servings.

Nutrition Information per serving: Calories 454; Total Fat 16g; Saturated Fat 1g; Carbohydrate 45g; Fiber 7g; Protein 31g; Sodium 889mg.

Recipe adapted from If It Makes you Healthy by Sheryl Crow and Chuck White, March 2011