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Southwest Basic Grilled Chicken

This chicken is excellent to have on hand if you’re as huge a fan of Mexican cuisine as I am. Add it to salad, soups, Southwest wraps, and more. If you use just a touch of salt along with a salt-free Mexican or Southwest seasoning, it will have a ridiculously small fraction of the sodium of any taco, burrito, or fajita seasoning I’ve seen in grocery stores, not to mention far fewer preservatives.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    makes 4 servings

Ingredients

1

pound trimmed boneless, skinless chicken breast

1

teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

2

teaspoons salt-free Mexican seasoning or rub (I used Southwest Chipotle Mrs. Dash)

Salt, to taste

Need to make a substitution?

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Preheat a grill to high heat. Toss the chicken breast with the olive oil and season both sides with seasoning and salt. Grill the chicken until it is no longer pink inside, about 5 minutes per side.

  2. nutrition information

    Step 2

    Each serving has:

    Step 3

    Calories: 135

    Step 4

    Protein: 26g

    Step 5

    Carbohydrates: 0g

    Step 6

    Fat: 3g

    Step 7

    Saturated Fat: 1g

    Step 8

    Cholesterol: 66mg

    Step 9

    Fiber: 0g

    Step 10

    Sodium: 74mg

Reprinted with permission from I Can't Believe It's Not Fattening! by Devin Alexander. Copyright © 2010 Devin Alexander. Published by Clarkson Potter Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Devin Alexander is the author of The Most Decadent Diet Ever, Fast Food Fix, and coauthor of The New York Times bestsellers The Biggest Loser Cookbook and The Biggest Loser Family Cookbook. She was a chef on NBC's The Biggest Loser and the host of Healthy Decadence on Discover Health and FitTV.
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