Queso dip chicken and rice skillet
A weeknight skillet built on a jar of queso—it turns into sauce for shredded chicken, rice, and roasted peppers. This shelf makes dinner fast when you are tired.
About 640 calories a serving, 26 g protein, 101 g carbohydrate, 13 g fat. From USDA figures for 100% of the ingredients; amounts are the recipe's.
To buy
- 1 small rotisserie chicken
- 1/2 cup roasted red peppers in a jar
From your shelf
- 1 jar Mexican style dip, 4 cheese queso (Tostitos)
Staples
- 1 tablespoon oil
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 2 cloves garlic
- Warm 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Shred 1 small rotisserie chicken into bite-sized pieces while the pan heats.
- Add the chicken and 2 minced cloves garlic to the hot oil, stir once, and cook until the garlic is fragrant, about 2 minutes, then pour in 1 cup cooked rice and stir to coat with oil.
- Pour the jar of queso into the skillet and add 1/2 cup roasted red peppers torn into strips, stirring until the dip is warm and everything is coated, about 5 minutes, then taste and season with salt and pepper.
- Divide between two bowls and serve at once, spooning into tortillas or eating with a spoon, as you wish.
Note Swap rotisserie chicken for canned black beans or rinsed white beans if you like. Leftovers keep in a covered container in the fridge for three days and reheat gently with a splash of water. Serve with warm flour tortillas or warm corn tortillas and lime wedges.
On the label
WATER, JALAPENO PEPPERS, DICED TOMATOES IN TOMATO JUICE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SUNFLOWER OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL, MALTODEXTRIN (MADE FROM CORN AND POTATO), MONTEREY JACK CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), WHITE CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), RED BELL PEPPERS, QUESO QUESADILLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ARTIFICIAL COLOR), AND LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: QUESO ASADERO CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), NATURAL FLAVORS, WHEY, SKIM MILK, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, YEAST EXTRACT, SALT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ONION, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, DATEM, GARLIC POWDER, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, AND ARTIFICIAL COLOR (YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6).
Tostitos, cheese, serving 33 g. Ingredients as printed on the label.
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Cooks as queso. Half of it left? Use up the queso.