Chicken Tacos

This meal can be made to suit your families taste and is pretty standard, but I thought I would share how I made it to minimize kitchen time while your kiddos are around.

I poached the chicken the night before.  This consisted of using 1 can of chicken stock, 3 boneless skinless chicken breasts, and your favorite spices.  I used cumin, chili powder, salt, and pepper.  Put your stock and spice in a medium pot.  Place in chicken breasts.  Add enough water to cover chicken.  Set on medium high heat and boil.  I boiled my chicken for about 20 minutes, but you can't overcook it, so boil until you feel like it is done.  Then place chicken on cutting board and reserve about 3/4 cup of liquid.  Shred chicken with a fork.  Place in a microwave safe storage bowl with reserved liquid.  The night of dinner, place bowl in microwave on 50% power for 5 minutes.  Stir chicken and makes sure the liquid coats the chicken.  Then cook for an additional 5 minutes on 50% power.  This will get the chicken hot without drying it out or making it too hot for kiddos.

I put out the usual items.  Tortillas, shredded lettuce (purchased already shredded lettuce for timesaver), diced tomatoes (cut the day or night of), shredded cheese (purchase already shredded to save time), sour cream, and mild salsa.  I heated up some black beans as well.  It only took about 10 minutes to put together just before dinner.