Fiesta Chicken

[cracker39]

Fiesta Chicken

This dish is supposed to be heated in an oven for 15 minutes after preparing it, but I’ve taken the ingredients to pot luck dinners, and just heated all but the chips and mixed and served and it was just as good. This is about as simple a camping dish you can prepare if you precook the chicken at home. The spicy taste comes from Rotel, a canned mix of tomatoes, green chilies, and spices. Even the mild Rotel is slightly spicy, and the hot is definitely hot.

Ingredients:

1 chicken, cut up and boiled
1 can Rotel (either mild or spicy as you desire)
1 can concentrated mushroom soup
1 bag white corn chips, restaurant style.

Boil the chicken, let cool, remove the bones and cut or tear into pieces. If cooked to be eaten at home, arrange the ingredients as follows and heat for 15 minutes in a medium oven before serving. If you are preparing at camp, mix the mushroom soup with the rotel and preheat both this and the chicken (separately). Prepare by putting in a large salad bowl a layer of slightly broken chips, then half of the chicken pieces, and pour half of the Rotel mixture over the chicken. Repeat with another layer of each, then top it off with more crumbled chips. Serve and enjoy.

[Joseph]

1 can Rotel (either mild or spicy as you desire)

Had to Google Rotel (actually it's Ro*Tel) but I'm glad I did. Now I just gotta figger out where to get some!

Joseph

[SteveH]

Now I just gotta figger out where to get some!

Joseph,

In the grocery store! No kidding, we cook with it all the time. You find it in the canned tomato section at the grocery store. Gooood stuff.

[Chris C]

Joseph,

Yup...........never seen a grocery store that didn't carry it. I use it in a lot of my recepies. I keep lots of cans of it in my pantry. Use it as often as salt and pepper, I think..............maybe even more.

[Laredo]

If you can't find it in your grocery, here is a good substitute:

1 can Mexican Style crushed tomatoes
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon fresh chopped cilantro
1 small can chopped green chiles

Mix well.