Chicken Helper : Chicken Enchilada Copycat

Submitted by apricot 123

"Chicken helper, but homemade, adjustable and without preservatives!"

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 - 2 lbs chicken breasts
• 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained (optional)
• 2 cups dry rice, cooked
• 4 ounces tomato paste
• 1 1⁄2 cups milk
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine
• 1 1⁄2 cups milk
• 1⁄2 tablespoon onion powder
• 1⁄2 tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon sugar or 1 tablespoon stevia
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1⁄2 tablespoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 tablespoon cornstarch

directions

1. Dice and brown chicken breast in butter until cooked. Cook rice. Add sauce, black beans and tomato paste to pan of cooked chicken. Simmer until slightly thickened. Stir in grated cheese. Ladle chicken and sauce over rice and top with additional shredded cheese and sour cream as desired. (You may alternatively stir rice into sauce and combine right away.).
2. Rice: combine 2 cups white rice and 3 cups water, bring to a light boil. Cover and reduce heat to medium - low. Simmer covered 20 minutes or until all water is absorbed. Fluff with fork.

Reviews

[Shanea M.]

I have a BAD habit of getting the gist of something and doing my own thing. I'm going to make this tonight, exactly according to the recipe and will report back. This will be my first review of ANYTHING ever. Hope it goes well.------ Ok so I chose this based off the ingredients. Something simple my bf could make. Big mistake. He's in the kitchen and calls me in saying, "what am I supposed to do?" Um, it's a recipe, read and follow it I say back. Long story shorter, no clear instructions. We didn't know if the seasoning went on the chicken raw so we just seasoned it like normal. Then it says to add sauce, beans, and paste to the chicken. What sauce? We add the milk because well, it's an ingredient. Where does the cornstarch go? Not looking good at all, we figure the cheese will definitely save it. It barely did anything but help with the color. So while he's cooking, I can't take my eyes off the ingredient list. I think, this bottom half looks like a gravy. Maybe that's the sauce, but didn't say how to put it together being that you're supposed to mix the starch with water before adding to hot soups and sauces, there was no water in the ingredient list. It's too late at this point anyway. It has 1 1/2 c of milk twice. Where does that go? Overall, it has really good potential to be a great meal. Kind of sucks because I wanted to stick to a recipe and the first one I actually decide to review was incomplete. I am going to try this again but of course there will be tweaks. Not to the ingredients themselves, but to the assembly of it. I will post in the tweaks what I plan to do.