By Jenna Grasso
Staff Writer
Since the first month of a new fall semester is finished, the food in the student center is getting redundant to students and all are wishing for a nice home-cooked meal. While it’s the start of a new semester and stress is running high, you may think that there is not enough time to cook and sit down and eat a meal. Many dishes will take only 20 minutes to make and will be yummy and remind you of a piece of home or at least a home-cooked meal.
Ingredients:
1 package of thinly sliced chicken cutlets
1 can of mild salsa (the salsa you would use when dipping into chips!)
1 onion
An assortment of peppers
1 box of instant white rice
1 bag of 3-blend sliced cheese
The Mexican Fiesta dish will only take 20 minutes and will leave you with leftovers for the rest of the week and after running around from class to class and those late night study sessions in the library. The Mexican Fiesta includes 1 packet of thinly sliced chicken, onions, peppers, two cups of white instant rice, one can of mild salsa blend and three-blend, shredded cheese.
The first step to cooking this is to get a skillet pan and put either corn oil or butter on the skillet and let the onions and peppers cook while you cut the thinly sliced chicken. Once the chicken is cut into small cubes, you will add the chicken into the skillet and let them cook. Make sure that the chicken on each side is brown and cooked.
Once the chicken is cooked, you take the chicken out of the skillet and then you add the rice, with the onions and peppers. After the rice is added you add the whole can of salsa into the skillet and then once the onions, peppers, salsa and rice are mixed together, then the chicken is re-added to the skillet and once all are mixed together, then add the cheese to the top of the skillet.
You can let this cool for about five minutes and then it will be ready to eat. This dish is absolutely perfect for on the run to classes and is perfect as a filling meal for when you are missing home and want a nice home-cooked meal.
