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Quick Mexican chicken salad with rice & corn chips recipe

Quick Mexican chicken salad with rice, corn chips & sweet chilli cream

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 16 minutes
Total Time: 21 minutes
Servings 4 people
Appliance/Function:

Equipment

  • 1 Large frypan
  • 1 Small bowl

Ingredients

Chicken

  • 600 g chicken breast skinless, boneless
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp Mexican seasoning

Corn

  • 1 cup frozen corn

Salad

  • 2 tomato
  • ½ lettuce
  • 1 avocado

Sauce

  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce

Rice

  • 250 g pre-cooked Mexican-style rice or pre-cooked brown rice

To serve

  • 170 g corn chips or gluten-free corn chips

Instructions

Cook chicken

  • Pat 600 g chicken breast dry. Place your hand flat on top of the chicken and slice through horizontally. Season with salt and pepper and 2 tbsp Mexican seasoning. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a large frypan on medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side or until golden and cooked through. Set aside to rest and reserve the pan.

Cook corn

  • Heat the reserved frypan on high heat, add 1 cup frozen corn and cook for 3 minutes, before stirring, and cooking another 3 minutes or until the corn is slightly charred.

Make salad

  • Dice 2 tomato. Julienne or thinly slice ½ lettuce. Peel and thinly slice 1 avocado.

Make sauce

  • In a small bowl combine ½ cup sour cream and 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce.

Cook rice

  • Cook 250 g pre-cooked Mexican-style rice according to the packet directions.

To serve

  • Divide the rice, 170 g corn chips, and salad between plates. Top with the Mexican chicken and sweet chilli cream.