Loaded Chicken Nachos-400 Calories!

Hello everyone! I hope everything is going well and you are all having a great summer so far! What I have for you today is a recipe that I wrote for my most recent article in Savvy Kids Magazine.  Everyone loves nachos right? We just don't like the aftermath of feeling guilty about consuming all the fake cheese, high amounts of sodium, tons of calories and high amounts of fat! Here is your summer solution! 

You could easily cook the chicken for this recipe in your crock pot to avoid heating your house up.  If you do that, I recommend cooking it with some canned diced tomatoes(Rotel).
Or, You could also skip the chicken all together and have a veggie nacho plate with black beans as your star!  Again, you can totally cook those in your crock pot from a dry bag to prevent heating your house up:)  

How's that look for 400 calories?

Clean‘er’ Loaded Chicken Nachos


Yields: 2 servings

• 1 chicken breast
• 4 whole wheat tortillas(2 per serving)
• 1 tomato, diced
• ½ cup of skim-milk mozzarella
• 2 green onions
• 1 tsp. of hot sauce (or to taste)
• 2 minced garlic cloves
• 1 avocado
• 1 tsp. ground cumin
• 1 tbsp. garlic powder
• ½ tsp. of salt
• ½ tsp. of pepper
• 10 black olives sliced (or to taste)
• 1 tbsp. of olive oil

Directions:

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First, preheat the oven to 350° F to make your own tortilla chips. Lightly brush the whole wheat tortillas on the upward facing side with oil and sprinkle with garlic powder. Place the tortillas on cookie sheets or pieces of aluminum foil and bake for 12-15 minutes or until crispy. Once done, cut into triangles. Each tortilla should make 6-8 large chips.

While the chips are baking, heat a nonstick pan on medium heat and cook chicken breast until done. Season with 1 tablespoon of garlic powder and ½ teaspoon of salt and pepper.  

Shred the chicken while it’s still in the pan, add hot sauce and stir. Add the mozzarella until melted, and then turn off heat.

Guacamole is a key part to this dish! Combine avocado, minced garlic and cumin powder and mix well until creamy. Done! 

Now, just dice all other vegetables and layer your nachos. You may also add lettuce, spinach or any other vegetable you desire. Black beans would be a great addition to this dish as well!

This Clean‘er’ Loaded Nacho dish comes in right at 400 calories for the entire plate! It’s filling, delicious, low-sodium, low in saturated fats, low in cholesterol and loaded with flavor!! 

I hope you all enjoy!! We have had this one several times in my house since it's creation! :) Have a great weekend!