Cooking Light Cilantro-Lime Chicken With Avocado Salsa

"Fast: A three-minute dip into a pungent marinade is all that's needed to deliver big flavor to chicken breasts. Serve with saffron rice. Weight Watchers: 6 points per serving"
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
12
Yields:
1 breast and 1/4 cup salsa
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • To prepare chicken, combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl.
  • Toss and let stand 3 minutes.
  • Remove chicken from marinade; discard marinade.
  • Sprinkle chicken evenly with 1/4 teaspoon salt.
  • Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat.
  • Coat pan with cooking spray.
  • Add chicken to pan; cook 6 minutes on each side or until done.
  • To prpare salsa, combine tomato and next 4 ingredients (through pepper) in a medium bowl.
  • Add avocado; stir gently to combine.
  • Serve salsa over chicken.

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Reviews

  1. This was fabulous! I added extra lime juice to the marinade and a tablespoon of fresh minced garlic. I needed everything ready to cook up quickly in the evening, so I made the salsa in the afternoon and marinated the chicken for 5 hours or so. So glad I did! The chicken was amazingly moist and tender. I also added some cilantro to the salsa and doubled the amount of everything in the salsa except for the avocado. It was light and fantastically flavorful. Definitely making this again!
     
  2. This was super yummy. I used cilantro in a tube b/c I was out of fresh. Will absolutely make again - thanks!!
     
  3. This chicken was so good, we had it two nights in a row! The salsa on top gave even more flavor to the already juicy chicken! I served this with Cilantro Rice (also found on zaar). This is my new favorite meal!
     
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I am just your average, everyday Southern girl. I love comfort food...those meals that you just CRAVE! Like chili in the Fall; Turkey Tettrazini after Thanksgiving; Chicken Tortilla soup on a cold night...HOMEMADE brownies on a rainy day....It's hard...I love great food but still want to maintain my girlish figure. So, I try to balance the week out...if we eat those comforting foods one night, we'll definitely be eating something on the light side on several other nights in the week to balance it all out. I also think presentation is so important. Put a regular old green salad in a beautiful bowl...and it just tastes better. I use by Southern Living At Home pottery ALL the time and get rave reviews on the food becasue it's so "pretty"...has nothing to do with me...it's all about the presentation! I also love to decorate my home.
 
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