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Old 05-15-2020, 05:25 PM   #1
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Smile Chicken my Fajitas

With the wife and I on the Weight Watchers plan, I’ve been avoiding some of my favorite Mexican dishes. Now that I think about it, this really isn’t necessary if I’m carefully what I choose and how I prepare the dishes. Take fajitas for example. A protein, seasoning and some veggies. Made with boneless, skinless chicken breasts and not much oil the fajitas themselves are only 1 point per serving. I can live with a diet that includes chicken fajitas, can’t you? Well, that leads me to the sides. Made carefully many of the sides are 0 to only 2 points per serving. Follow along with me and I’ll show you how I prepared everything.

The night before I mixed up some blue corn masa to make up some tortillas. (This is the one item I couldn’t cheat on to lower the point value. 3 tortillas = 5 points)


I also got out the onion and bell peppers to cut up


and mixed up the fajitas seasoning.



Ingredients:

1/2 Tbsp. Chili Powder
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. smoked paprika
1 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. granulated sugar
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1/2 tsp. kosher salt to taste
1/4 tsp. Chipotle pepper 1/4 tsp. Oregano

The next day started out by making a batch of my Mexican rice. (1 Point per serving) Started out by sautéing the veggies.

I measured out 2 cups of Brown rice, 1/2 tsp. of salt and 1 tbsp. of OO and put this in the rice maker. I now added 1 cup of Clamato Picante juice and 3 cups of chicken stock.

Next, I added the veggies to the pot.

I closed the lid and pressed start. Here are the results.

Next up was the Guacamole. (2 points per serving) Cut up 1 medium Hass avocado.

Now I added 1 tbsp. of light mayo, some granulated garlic, 5 heaping tbsp. of my Pico de Gallo, some fresh squeezed lime juice and mixed this up and covered.

Next up were some frijoles. I sautéed some diced onion, 1/2 a jalapeno, some bell pepper and corn and then added two kinds of black beans. (0 points per serving)

I now got out 3 boneless skinless breasts and coated them with the fajitas seasoning.

I took them and the cut-up veggies out to my gas grill side burner.

Now I needed to make the tortillas, so I rolled up 6 balls of masa about the size of a golf ball. I flatted them a little to make them easier to press out.

I was having some issues with the masa sticking to the press so had to experiment with dusting the bottom with some of the blue core masa.

I heated them up on a C.I. griddle, very lightly sprayed with some OO.

Next I sprayed my 12” Camp Chef C.I. skillet with some OO. After it was heated it up I put the 3 breast in and cooked them for 8 minutes per side.





Once they were cooked I removed them to a cutting board and was left with the fond.

I dumped in the onions and bell peppers and let them start to cook.

While them were cooking I sliced up the chicken.

Now I dumped in the chicken

and stirred it in and continued to cook until the veggies had soften.

Now I brought it all in and plated it up with a Modelo Negra.







Here is a shot once I took it inside to eat.

Gratuitous side shot close ups.



OMG!!! This was so delicious!

Thanks for looking.
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Old 05-15-2020, 05:31 PM   #2
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Now that is one fine meal!
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Old 05-15-2020, 05:37 PM   #3
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Dang that's Weight Watchers? It's definitely some good eats, job well done...
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That’s serious good chow!
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Looks great DH, I'd love a plate
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Outstanding! That is one fine looking plate and thanks for the reminders about the WW point values.

Damn, I gotta get back on our WW plan and start tracking again.

What's the first meeting to attend after this COVID-19 thing is over - AA or WW?
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Old 05-15-2020, 07:24 PM   #8
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I love your cooks, Brother. I would absolutely smash that- nice work!
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Spectacular!!!

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Yessir!!! Face, meet fajita That is an awesome dish and no doubt that the hard work doing everything from scratch paid off in the taste. You rocked this one!
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Now that is one fine meal!
Thank you Marty.
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Thank you Bill. It's sometime hard to believe I've lost close to 40 lbs. with how good I've been eating.
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Looks great DH, I'd love a plate
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Outstanding! That is one fine looking plate and thanks for the reminders about the WW point values.

Damn, I gotta get back on our WW plan and start tracking again.

What's the first meeting to attend after this COVID-19 thing is over - AA or WW?
Thank you Dom.

Once I cracked the 300 lbs milestone I knew I needed to make some changes. The WW plans (Blue, Green and Purple) offer a lot of flexibility and can be tailored to fit your lifestyle and eating likes and dislikes. My wife and I are on the Purple plan with has a list of 300 foods that are 0 points. (including most fruits and veggies but the kicker was that it included potatoes and brown rice)

I'm definitely not staving myself. I'm eating really well it's just that I'm eating a lot more fruit and veggies than I ever used to.
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