Mid-week Mexican meal

When you work full time, lets face it, sometimes cooking dinner can be a huge drag. Even though you could be craving something delicious and finely crafted, sometimes your after-work hand-eye coordination can leave much to be desired.

I have a weakness for Mexican food, in particular burritos. I really enjoy the sweet and sour tang of lime cutting through the heat and smokiness of chipotle, but I’m also a pretty lazy cook during the week. So I have come up with a quick 20 minute recipe for chipotle chicken with limey black beans.

Ingredients

Can of black beans – drained

Large lime

One brown onion

3 cloves of garlic or 1tsp of dried garlic

500ml Chicken stock

Chipotle tabasco – I use about 1tbsp for each dish but you can choose your tabasco level

Smoked paprika

Chicken breasts (I usually do two so I have a couple of meals worth. You could use Quorn pieces, in which case skip the baking step)

Chopped tomatoes (fresh and tinned)

2 tbsp BBQ sauce

Method

The chicken is the easiest part but takes the longest. Place the chicken on a baking tray, cover with chipotle tabasco and paprika, bake in the oven until cooked all the way through. If you have a particularly enthusiastic oven you may want to cover them so the sauce on top doesn’t burn.

While the chicken is cooking, rough chop the onion and lightly fry in some oil in a saucepan.

Add the garlic and beans before pouring in the chicken stock. Add the tabasco and add the zest and juice of the large lime (or two small ones). Simmer the beans, stirring occasionally to make sure they don’t stick to the bottom. If the liquid boils off completely just add a little more water.

Add your chopped tomatoes, fresh and tinned into another saucepan and heat, add the BBQ sauce and tabasco to taste.

Once the chicken is cooked, slice the breasts and add them to the tomato mix and heat until the sauce is very thick.

Wrap the beans and chicken in a large tortilla with sour cream, salsa, salad and grated cheese, and your super quick dinner is ready.