Friday, January 27, 2012

Easy tequila jalapeño chicken

Thank God it is Friday! It feels like it has been a very long week and I dragged myself home from school today feeling totally worn out. John suggested going out to eat, but the defrosted chicken breasts were looking a bit forlorn on the counter so I decided instead to whip up a marinade for them and then go sit in the hot tub for awhile. The marinade is:
one onion, chopped fine
one jalapeño, grated
a handful of cilantro
about a tablespoon of olive oil
3 pressed garlic cloves
1 oz. tequila (John later admitted he added about another ounce in when I wasn't looking)
the juice from one lime, plus a bit more from the bottle in the fridge when that didn't seem like enough.


And just because I wanted to keep it nice and easy, I wrapped a couple yellow potatoes in tin foil and tossed them in the oven to bake.


After about an hour soak in the hot tub while the chicken breasts marinated in the fridge, we got out and went to work. John put the chicken on the BBQ.
And then, since one little measly jalapeño really isn't that much heat in our world, he broke out the Mad Anthony's Extra Hot BBQ Sauce to add on top of his as well.
I boiled the veggies in the kitchen until John had the chicken breasts done. We were out of sour cream for the potatoes, so we broke out the Litehouse Jalapeño Ranch dressing. Yum! What an easy delicious meal.















1 comment:

  1. Looks pretty yummy! And speaking of all things jalapeno, have you tried the jalapeno yogurt dip at Costco? Doesn't have quite the bite I was expecting, but it tastes pretty good!

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