Healthy Recipe: Salsa Avocado Roast Chicken Skillet
 
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Salsa Avocado Roast Chicken Skillet - from Two Purple Figs; serves 4
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Recipe type: Entree
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. 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.
  3. In a large bowl, mix half of the salsa with all the ingredients and leave the other half in a separate bowl.
  4. Toss in the chicken pieces in the bowl of the spiced up salsa.
  5. You may leave this to marinate for 30 minutes and up to 3 hours.
  6. Bake the chicken for 35 minutes ( time is for these drumsticks, more or less time will depend on the cut of the chicken).
  7. Once chicken is ready and crispy on the outside, top it with the remaining salsa and arrange avocado slices,
  8. tomatoes, corn chips and your favorite sides.
Recipe by Francesca Kotomski at https://francescakotomski.com/healthy-recipe/healthy-recipe-salsa-avocado-roast-chicken-skillet/