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Spicy Roast Chicken with Mexican Quinoa

Avatar photoCallie Blount • Mar 18, 2016 (Updated: Aug 20, 2019)
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SPICY ROAST CHICKEN WITH MEXICAN QUINOA

SPICY ROAST CHICKEN WITH MEXICAN QUINOA

This Spicy Roast Chicken with Mexican Quinoa is a whole meal in one. The quinoa and chicken cook together with salsa and spices so the Mexican inspired flavors really meld together.  

Keep it organic with Wise Organic Chicken and choose all organic produce.

SPICY ROAST CHICKEN WITH MEXICAN QUINOA

Spicy Roast Chicken with Mexican Quinoa

Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 1 hour hr
Total Time 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins
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Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 cup onion diced
  • 1/2 cup diced green pepper
  • 2 minced garlic cloves
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1 cup fresh salsa drained
  • 3 cups cooked quinoa
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon hot paprika
  • 2 teaspoons sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 whole Wise Organic Chicken

Instructions

  • Heat two tablespoons olive oil in large skillet on medium heat. Sauté onion, green pepper, and garlic until softened. Add chicken broth, salsa, quinoa and salt, and stir until combined.
  • Pour quinoa into a greased 9X13 baking dish.
  • For the Roast Chicken:
  • Preheat oven to 400°F degrees. 
  • Butterfly the chicken, removing the backbone.
  • Combine all spices into a small bowl. Rub the spice mixture under chicken breast skin, then rub the remaining mixture on the rest of the outer chicken skin.
  • Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high to high heat. Add butterflied chicken, breast side down, and cook until browned on outer side. Flip chicken and cook for a few minutes more, until browned.
  • Top quinoa in baking pan with browned chicken and roast for 45 minutes, or until internal temperature of chicken reaches 165°F.
Category: Recipes
Cuisine: Mexican
Holidays: Passover
Diets: MeatChicken

About Callie Blount

Callie absolutely, positively loves to cook and create. As a food & prop stylist and video personality,  it’s the kind of love she grew up learning in the South. The kind of feeling that’s so authentic it’s more like a Steel Magnolias, “I love ya more than my luggage” type of luv. And that love of cooking was equal to the love that came from cooking- meals shared with her family and friends, dishes brought to church picnics and baby showers, the first pie she baked for Thanksgiving. It always felt like the best way to put someone at ease- and to help meet whatever need they had: companionship, comfort, a listening ear. Or, as her Southern momma always said, “I mean, you have to eat!”It was her culture’s way to say “You are important. So important that you are worthy of our family’s signature Big Mama poundcake/homemade banana bread/poppyseed chicken casserole.”Luv Cooks is her best attempt to help you fall in love with cooking- and creating- like she has. The l-u-v-kind of love. The luv of food, people, beauty, life, joy- and a bit of Southern culture to keep things spicy. Simply put, when you love what you do, and who you do it for: Luv Cooks

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