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Chicken Arizona

A workweek's worth of dinner with simple changes (chicken chili and smothered burritos). these meals can also be made with whatever is on hand or regional brands of hispanic foods, the most important thing is to mix and match. if your family doesn't care for spicy foods, tone down the peppers but if they do you could go wild!!

Steps

Sunday: cooking the chicken.
In a big , oval crock-pot layer chicken and canned tomatoes.
Add 1-cup water.
Set crock-pot to low , cover and cook for 5 hours till tender.
Remove from crock-pot , cover and refrigerate.
Monday: eat leftovers from sunday or go out to dinner !.
Monday night / tuesday: chicken chili.
Shred the chicken breasts using two forks.
In your very same big , oval crock-pot place all of the shredded chicken.
Open and dump in the following: all of the el pato and all of the green chilies.
Stir.
Cover , turn crock-pot to low and go to work.
Come home from work.
In a small saucepan , heat the black beans.
Microwave tortillas wrapped in moistened paper towels.
Serve a large scoop of chicken , a scoop of black beans and a tortilla or two on each plate.
Cover and refrigerate leftover chicken and beans.
Wednesday: smothered burritos.
In a medium saucepan warm leftover chicken and beans.
Add 1 package neufchatel cheese , stirring until melted.
Pour salsa.

Ingredients

chicken breasts, diced tomatoes with jalapenos, salsa, tomato sauce, diced green chilies, black beans with jalapenos and lime juice, neufchatel cheese, enchilada sauce, tortilla