It is so nice to know that our neighbors are such caring and kind people.  When a neighboring family recently lost a loved one, everyone got together and came up with meals for the family for a while.  Last night was our night to make dinner.  People had signed up for every different type of food except Mexican, so I took it!  Then I realized why you don’t sign up to bring Mexican to someones house, it is not easy.  My plan was to make tacos and so they could make their own tacos, but then I could not figure out how to bring over all of the parts without just bringing bags of groceries (dropping a bag of groceries at someones house is not helpful).  So then I thought about quesadillas but they need to be warm and they aren’t very filling.

After consulting with my mom and Brady, (and searching the internet) I came up with this recipe.  I didn’t know if it would be good, but it would serve the purposes:

1. Be able to be frozen if they didn’t need dinner or weren’t hungry
2. Be filling
3. Be comforting and warm
4. Be able to be reheated if there were leftovers
5. Be able to be served in a foil pan so they did not have to worry about returning my dishes
6. Be healthy – if someone was bringing me dinner, I would want it to be healthy!

One Dish Mexican Meal

• 2 cans of 98%ff cream of chicken soup
• 1 can of 98% ff cream of mushroom soup
• 1 can of diced tomatoes
• 1 tsp. garlic powder
• 1 tsp. cumin
• 2 tsp. chili powder
• 1/2 c. chunky salsa
• 1 -2 c. cooked chicken
• tortilla chips
• 1 c. cooked brown rice
• cheese for topping (if you prefer)

1. Mix soups, seasonings, salsa and tomatoes together in a bowl.
2. In the pan you are going to bake it in, place a layer of tortilla chips on the bottom of the pan.  Break them up so the cover the pan.
3. Place the cooked chicken on top of the chips in the baking pan.
4. Place the cooked rice on top of the chicken.
5. Add the soup mixture to the top of the rice.
6. Add cheese, if you prefer.
7. Bake at 350 for an hour or until it is heated throughout and bubbly.

This can be made the night before it is eaten and left in the fridge.

One side of this had cheese and the other side doesn’t.  This was ours!

Like I said, we didn’t know how this was going to be, but we actually loved it!  Brady was really surprised by how much he enjoyed it!  I will definitely be making this again. Next time, I think I will add beans to the soup mixture!

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