Healthy Recipe: Salsa Avocado Roast Chicken Skillet
Author: by Two Purple Figs
Recipe type: Entree
Serves: 4
- 3 lbs chicken drumsticks (or your favorite chicken parts)
- 1 batch of restaurant style Mexican salsa(or your favorite jarred salsa)
- ½ a red onion minced or pureed in a food processor
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 jalapeno, minced
- ¼ cup of fresh cilantro leaves
- 1 teaspoon of chili powder
- ½ teaspoon of cumin
- 1 teaspoon of dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- ½ teaspoon of black pepper
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Line a baking pan, or individual serving size cast iron skillets, with parchment paper, or just cover the bottom with 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
- In a large bowl, mix half of the salsa with all the ingredients and leave the other half in a separate bowl.
- Toss in the chicken pieces in the bowl of the spiced up salsa.
- You may leave this to marinate for 30 minutes and up to 3 hours.
- Bake the chicken for 35 minutes ( time is for these drumsticks, more or less time will depend on the cut of the chicken).
- Once chicken is ready and crispy on the outside, top it with the remaining salsa and arrange avocado slices,
- tomatoes, corn chips and your favorite sides.
Recipe by Francesca Kotomski at https://francescakotomski.com/healthy-recipe/healthy-recipe-salsa-avocado-roast-chicken-skillet/
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