I made a version of this today for lunch and it came out pretty okay. My oldest ate 2 of them, and my mom came out for a second one, so it must have been pretty good.

Food for a stay at home teen & a diabetic

Since Kat is home now for lunches every day, I wanted to find something easy, healthy, low carb, and that could stay in the fridge or be frozen for eating later. These taquitos/tacos/ fit the bill. The original recipe calls them taquitos, but I don’t think thats what they turned out like.

I’m including below the original recipe with notes about what I did or did not include. I did not see the bottom line of ingredients when I started cooking it, and then when I tried to view the instructions about how to cook it, they would not show up for me. So, I winged it. (wung it?)

Anyway.

I had a bag of cubed, frozen, chicken. So, I threw it into a cast iron skillet and heated it up on the stove top. About 5 minutes or so – according to the package directions, of course.

Meanwhile, In a large microwaveable bowl,

I dumped a whole 8oz block of cream cheese, and about a cup of frozen spinach.
Then I nuked them for 1 minute.
Then I stirred them, and popped them back in for 30 seconds because the spinach wasn’t thawed.

At this point, I measured out the sour cream, salsa, and shredded cheese.
I dumped them all into the bowl with the cream cheese and spinach.
Sirred. Stirred some more.
Added the chicken.
Stirred even more.

Then I went back to the skillet and added some olive oil and heated the pan. This is where I had trouble. I have a gas stove and for the life of me, I could not get the heat even today. It either burned or took too long to fry a tortilla! And, I had hot oil pop onto my eye lid! Ouch.

When it got hot, I took a smaller sized low-carb tortilla and put some of the filling in it. I originally rolled the tortilla up like a burrito, but later just folded them over like a taco and fried them like that. They leaked less with the taco format.
The one thing I really changed with my ingredients was the salsa. I bought a fruity salsa, as opposed to a regular salsa. But, again, everyone ate them, and they are low carb.
No, I did not calculate carbs exactly, but I know they are (especially if you don’t use fruit salsa!)

I got exactly 8 tortillas out of this one batch, and I put about 1 (rubber) spatula full onto each one.

Here’s the link to the original recipe: Chubby Chicken and Cream Cheese Taquitos

Ingredients

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• 3 cups cooked shredded chicken ( I used frozen cubed chicken)
• 6 ounces cream cheese, softened (I used a whole cube – 8oz.)
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup salsa (I used mango salsa from Dillons)
• 1 + 1/2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• 1 + 1/2 cups chopped baby spinach, stems removed (I used frozen)
• coarse salt and fresh black pepper, to taste ( I forgot to add any seasoning until I’d made half the batch)
• 9 – 10 (6-inch) flour tortillas  (I got an 8 pack of low-carb 6 in. tortillas)
• vegetable or canola oil, for frying ( I used olive oil)

sour cream/quacamole/salsa/taco sauce/ranch dressing (this is the part I did not see before starting)

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Does it sound good to you?