Friday, February 20, 2009

Why Did the Chicken Salad Cross the Border?

Some days it's hard to get food requests out of people. After a bit of pondering and poking at the supplies, we finally had something. "How about some sort of southwest chicken salad?" Oh yeah, I could do that. I love chicken salad and I love mexican- why can't the two get together and have kids? It'd be like a burrito at a Jewish Delicatessen. "Oy vai- ai-ai-ai-ai!"

Dissassemble one baked chicken into a big non-reactive bowl. Store-bought rotisserie chicken works for this too.

Chop up an onion, a big handful of cilantro, 2 seeded chipotles. Toss in the bowl.

Grab a can of black beans, drain, put beans in bowl with 1/3 cup olive oil and 1/3 cup lime juice. I like sour things, so you might want less lime.

Core and cube 2 avocados, put in bowl, toss so that the acid in the lime covers the avocado or else they'll turn all brown and nasty.

Chop up a little bag of Fritos and toss in the bowl.

Salt to taste. Serve with lettuce of your choice. It would also be good in wraps or in some savory corn cake type object, like sopes.

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