Best Salsa Stoup Rachael Ray 30 Minute Meals Recipes

SALSA STOUP WITH AVOCADO SMASH AND DOUBLE-DECKER BAKED QUESADILLAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• Heat a medium soup pot over medium-high heat. Add 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan and the jalapenos, bell pepper, onions, celery and garlic. Season with salt and pepper then saute veggies 5 minutes, add tomatoes, crushed tomatoes and stock and bring soup to a bubble. Reduce heat to a simmer and stir in cilantro.
• Paint 1 side of 2 tortillas with oil and place them next to each other, oiled side down, on a large cookie sheet. Mix cheddar with scallions and divide the cheese between the tortillas evenly. Top with another tortilla and top each of those with equal amounts of Pepper Jack cheese. Set the last tortillas on top and brush tops with extra-virgin olive oil. Cook 10 minutes in the oven to melt cheese and crisp up tortillas. Cool quesadillas 5 minutes to set then cut each quesadilla into 6 pieces.
• Serve bowls of stoup with 3 wedges quesadilla along side each bowlful. Pass the Avocado Smash and the sour cream for topping soup or quesadillas.
• Remove 1 avocado flesh to a bowl. Add the cilantro and scallions. Pop the lime in the microwave for a few seconds. Add the juice of 1 lime, the sour cream, and season with salt and pepper. With a fork or spoon, smash up the mixture, leaving chunks for a good consistency.
• Chop and seed the plum tomato and fold into avocado. Serve.

TACO BOWLS WITH GUAC-A-SALSA SALAD

Steps:

• Lightly crush the chips by popping open the bag and giving the chips a few light whacks with a frying pan ¿ careful that they don't fly out of the sack! Hold the bag loosely at the top with 1 hand while you crush the chips with the other.
• Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil ¿ 2 turns of the pan. Add the beef to the skillet, brown and crumble it, 5 minutes. To the browned meat, add half the jalapeno peppers, 3/4 of the chopped onions and all of the garlic. Season the meat with cumin, chili powder, salt and pepper. Cook together 5 minutes more, then add the water and reduce heat to low. Adjust salt, to taste.
• Halve and separate the avocados. Remove pit with a spoon. With the skin in tact, using a small knife, dice the avocado while still in the skin. Scoop out the diced flesh and place in a bowl. Combine tomatoes, remaining onions, jalapenos, and cilantro gently with avocado and dress the salad with the juice of 1 lemon, extra-virgin olive oil, and salt, to your taste.
• Layer a 1 or 2 handfuls of chips in soup or chili bowls and top with a handful of cheese. Fill bowls with taco meat and top with more cheese, then mound up some salad on top and serve.

LATIN CHICKEN AND RICE POT

Steps:

• Preheat a medium pot over medium heat, add extra-virgin olive oil and butter. When butter melts into oil, add cut up chicken. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Stir and lightly brown the chicken, then add the rice and cook another 1 to 2 minutes. Add chicken stock, poultry seasoning, Sazon seasoning, tomato sauce and raisins. Bring the stock to a quick boil, 2 or 3 minutes. When the liquid boils, reduce heat to low and cook 13 to 15 minutes, until rice is tender but still a little chewy in the center.
• While the rice and chicken are working, prepare the salsa. Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and adjust the salt and hot sauce, to taste. Next prepare the Avocado and Garlic Sour Cream by adding all ingredients to a food processor and processing until smooth. Adjust seasoning, then transfer to a small bowl.
• Stir 1/2 cup of prepared Olive and Pepper Salsa to the chicken and rice mixture. Turn off heat and let stand 5 minutes.
• Serve the prepared Latin rice and chicken in shallow bowls with spoonfuls of salsa and avocado cream to garnish. Serve any remaining salsa and sour cream with plantains and corn chips for dipping and scooping.

RACHAEL RAY LEMON CHICKEN (30 MINUTE MEALS)

Steps:

• Coat the chunked chicken lightly in flour, seasoned with a little salt.
• Heat a large skillet or a wok-shaped nonstick pan over high heat.
• Stir fry chicken until golden, 3 or 4 minutes.
• Remove chicken from the pan and return pan to heat.
• Reduce heat to medium.
• Add a splash of vinegar to the pan and let it evaporate.
• Add stock or broth to the pan and scrape up any drippings with a whisk.
• Thin curd by stirring in a little hot water.
• Add curd to broth and whisk to combine.
• Add chicken back to the pan and simmer for 1 to 2 minutes to thicken sauce and finish cooking chicken pieces through.
• Remove the pan from heat, add the scallions or chives and zest, and toss chicken pieces well to combine zest and scallions or chives evenly throughout the sauce.
• Serve with Rice.

MEATLOAF - FABULOUS - 30 MINUTE MEAL

Steps:

• Toast 3 slices of bread, butter and sprinkle with garlic powder, garlic salt and oregano - allow to sit approximately 10 minutes.
• Mix toast with beef broth and seasonings in a medium bowl. After well mixed add ground beef. Mix only until well combined.
• Pat meat mixture into an 8x8x4 glass baking dish.
• Microwave on high for 7 minutes, drain off juices, microwave another 5 minutes on high. Again drain off juices.
• While meatloaf is cooking, combine topping ingredients.
• Frost cooked meatloaf with topping mixture. Microwave an additional 5 minutes on high.
• Allow meatloaf to sit 10 minutes before serving.
• Enjoy!

ITALIAN SUB STOUP BY RACHAEL RAY

Steps:

• Brown and crumble the sausage in your stew pot.
• Add the ham and pepperoni and cook meats on medium-hi for 3 minutes.
• Add the tomatoes and chicken stock.
• Bring to a boil, and add pasta.
• Cook for 8-10 minutes until pasta is al dente.
• Serve with crusty bread and salad for a complete meal.

30 MINUTE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP (FROM FOODTV, RACHAEL RAY)

Steps:

• Place a large pot over moderate heat and add extra-virgin olive oil.
• Work close to the stove and add vegetables to the pot as you chop, in the order they are listed.
• Add bay leaves and season vegetables with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Add stock to the pot and raise flame to bring liquid to a boil.
• Add diced chicken tenderloins, return soup to a boil, and reduce heat back to moderate.
• Cook chicken 2 minutes and add noodles.
• Cook soup an additional 6 minutes or until noodles are tender and remove soup from the heat.
• Stir in parsley and dill, remove bay leaves and serve.
• This is a thick soup.
• Add up to 2 cups of water if you like chicken soup with lots of broth.