Tip for using your Kitchen Aid mixer to shred Chicken

A great trick to getting perfectly shredded chicken in just seconds.... throw the cooked chicken into your Kitchen Aid stand mixer with the cookie paddle attachment. Turn it onto speed 4-6 and in just 20 seconds you'll have perfect, restaurant style shredded chicken.  Tip: Make sure the chicken is warm/hot before you shred it. Refrigerated chicken is harder and may harm your mixer.

just add chicken!

Southwest Calzone's GT Xpress Redi Set Go Recipe

Here's my latest Creation from my Redi Set Go gadget

Cheryl's Corner, Southwest Calzones

Pizza Dough Recipe (for the Redi Set Go)

you just need one of the round balls that you made and put in the fridge.

Salsa or enchilada sauce

Left over chicken or beef or pork (I used Chicken)

a few black olives

left over Spanish rice

any cheese

Pam spray or butter

flatten out your dough to a circle about 6 inch on a lightly floured surface

place all your ingredients on one side of your dough and fold over

and pinch the edges together, you may use a fork to press them

i use a empanada maker its easiest for me.

then cook these in the wells of your GT express about 10min

serve with your favorite salsa, and lettuce and sour cream.

Cheryl's Recipe and Photo

Really you can fill these with anything, just use the calzone recipe in your GT Xpress book
but improvise your fillings to what you have on hand, don't be afraid to get creative.

Hawaiian-stuffed Chicken Breast‏

This is a quick dinner yet very elegant if paired with the right side dishes. This recipe has been in my box waiting for me to make it, its very easy, not many ingredients but the flavor is very tropical. I used my GT Xpress to cook these but also included the oven instructions.

Lisa's Corner Recipe and Photo

Ingredients:

2/3 cups hot water

2 tablespoons Butter

2 cups stove top stuffing

4 Boneless skinless chicken breast

1 5-oz can crushed pineapple; (up to 6 ounce)

Instructions:

Heat your water in a measuring cup in the microwave, when heated,

 add butter until it melts. In a separate bowl add the dry stuffing,

 water and butter mixture, half the pineapple mixture and some pepper.

 Stir it around to blend and cover bowl for a few minutes. Then taste

 to see if it needs more pineapple, if its too dry add a little more.

 Cover and set a side

Use a large zip lock baggie to pound each chicken breast,

 make sure the bag is zipped and the air is pressed out, and start pounding, I use a heavy cast-iron skillet, it seems to flatten more equally.

Sprinkle a little salt on top, place a heaping spoonful of stuffing mixture close to one end, and roll, securing the seam with 2 tooth picks.

Lightly salt and pepper the top.  Make remaining breast.

At this point you can do either two things, I used my GT Xpress

 because it is over 100 where I live, I just buttered the inside and cooked it for 7 minutes to perfection.

Or you can brown each side for 1 minute in hot butter in a hot skillet.

You want them a little seared on outside with out over cooking them.

Then place in a greased baking pan, these loose a lot of juice

so don't use a cookie sheet.

Bake at 400 for 30 minutes, you can finish under the broiler for one minute.

 I served this with my New Indonesian Rice, cold and a quick salad

 with my Orange-sesame-cilantro dressing.

Chicken Flautas From Serrano's Cafe‏

Lisa's Corner Recipe and Photo

This is our secret recipe for Flautas, the secret is Parmesan cheese, I know, you are saying "huh", that's not Mexican, well after you taste them, then you will see how good they taste, you can also add other things inside, but I would make them like this first so you can see what might go good with them for next time. You can also add more cheese, I am a very light cheese eater now, so I always use less. To make these even more wonderful, add some sour cream and a dollop of guacamole and some shredded lettuce.


Ingredients:
6 medium Flour tortilla's
2 med-sized chicken breast
1 ts garlic salt
1/2 white onion
1/2 cup cheese; grated, (more if needed)
1 tablespoon of Oil; and butter for frying
Salt and pepper
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese; for rolling flautas in


Instructions:

I fillet the breast with a knife, each breast in 3 slices so that they cook quicker,
 put salt, pepper, garlic salt on each fillet.
Cook chicken breast in a heated saute pan with butter, oil, Let cool, save juices
In food processor, put in onion, and process until minced,
 set aside in a bowl, then cut chicken in pieces and process them as well until minced,
 you may have to do a few batches. Once they are minced,
 add them to the onion, add any chicken juices to the mix,
then add your cheese and mix well, add some salt and pepper and taste
 it should bond together like meat loaf, that is the perfect consistency.
Take your tortillas and heat them on open fire, both sides,
 get a few brown spots on there, that is good for flavor,
 line up your tortillas and divide your mix among the 6 tortillas
. If you have extra then just make another one.
On a separate plate sprinkle a good portion of Parmesan cheese for rolling.
Roll up tortilla fairly tight without breaking them, when they are all rolled,
 keep them seam side down on counter until you are ready to cook
.heat your oil and butter up in a saute pan, high heat and cook 3 at a time,
 use 2 spoons to roll them as they cook, you can lean them up on each other
 as you cook them on all sides, its very easy, you want them brown,
 not burned, so just kind of keep rolling them, when they look fantastic,
 take them out and set them in the Parmesan cheese and roll them,
 covering them generously,
 put them on a serving platter. You can heat them in the micro
 if you need to keep them hot.



BBQ style Chicken From your Crock Pot and Toaster Oven

Cheryl's Corner Recipe and Photo
"BBQ Style Chicken"

This Recipe is quite easy, I take a large package of Chicken Legs
place them in a baggy (large)and add some Olive oil-about 2 Tbsp,
 then combine some seasonings, like salt, pepper,paprika,
Thyme, Rosemary, BBQ Chicken seasoning (optional) garlic powder, onion powder,into
your Magic bullet and grind it up, if not just pour them alltogether into the chicken and massage in.
Shake it up so all the chicken is covered in the seasoning.
I spray my Crock pot with Pam, and place the legs in bone side up.  The Chicken
can be still partially frozen. Turn on your Crock pot to High
and cook the Chicken 3-5 hours. It should be falling off the bone just about.

  Make BBQ Sauce:
Half of the bottle of your favorite BBQ Sauce
1/4 Cup Jack Daniels
4 Tbsp. Honey
dash of Tabasco
Heat Ingredients in sauce pan being careful do to the Jack Daniels. about 5 min.

When your chicken is finished cooking place on your toaster
oven pan that you covered with foil and sprayed with Pam, Brush with BBQ sauce
and Broil your chicken on low broil till they turn a nice BBQ color, Dark!
Keep brushing with sauce to keep them moist. that's how i like them.
Keep a close watch on them, turn them so they darken evenly.


Serve with your favorite BBQ sauces.
Note*
I like to make a White BBQ sauce
a  Hot BBQ sauce
and a Sweet sauce.  This is easy to do
if you use your favorite sauce and just fix them up sweet and hot, place them in
squeeze bottles.
The white sauce i like to mix mayo, salt, pepper, vinegar, a little sugar and more pepper.
Mix them in your Blender or Magic Bullet, let me know how yours turns out, my mouth
is watering all ready

Yummy, The finished Product
get the sauces out I'm ready!

Lite Chicken Taquito's with Gaucamole Sauce



 Chicken Taquitos:  This Recipe

Is really easy if you have a Cuisinart Griddler.  All you do is take some cooked shredded chicken, sprinkle it with some garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste, set aside. Heat up your Grill to med to high heat, lay your corn tortillas on the grill they can be overlapping if need be, when there warm and pliable, sprinkle some of your favorite cheese on each tortilla, then some chicken, roll them up tight, seam side down, when your finished making them all, I make 3-6 at a time but you can make as many as you want that will fit on the grill, drizzle a little olive oil on the grill, then place all the taquitos down, and close the top so it cooks on the top and bottom, turn once after they start to get crunchy about 3-4 min, you want all sides crunchy.  When there done, remove them and sprinkle them with Parmesan cheese, and Serve them with Guacamole sauce.



*Note: if you want to take these up a notch in flavor, grill your chicken first in a skillet with some garlic and onions chopped, and a Little olive oil, cook on one side and press with a spatchla till crunchy on the bottom of the chicken, then remove the meat and then make your Taquito's as listed above. Enjoy! (Recipe below)

Guacamole Sauce

1 avocado

1 jalapeno

1/2 cup water

2 tbsp cilantro

salt

pepper

To Make:

Excellent!

mix all ingredients together in your magic bullet or small blender or food processor

mix until creamy and totally blended, add more salt n pepper to taste if needed.

may want to use only half of the jalapeno, it may be to spicy. Serve with your Chicken Taquito's.







watch out because these babies are addicting, oh and the reason i call them lite is because they are not fried.
they are grilled, and if you do not have a Cuisinart grill, just heat up a skillet, and warm your tortillas in it, do as instructed above, and to cook them, lay a skillet on top of them that you greased with Pam and cook them that way.





Cheryls Corner Recipe and Photo