This Salsa Pouch Chicken recipe is a simple dinner that makes for easy cleanup — because everything bakes in a parchment paper pouch in under 30 minutes.
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Cooking can be really fun. When you have the time, you can experiment with different methods of cooking. Like pouch cooking. It’s a really interesting way to keep all the juices and flavors in your dinner. We use this technique to make salsa pouch chicken.
It’s so easy and so delicious. Please, don’t feel intimidated if you’ve never done it before. If you can fold your t-shirts to fit them in a drawer, you can fold the parchment paper into a pouch.
Side note about the salsa. Any version of salsa will work in this. Play around with different ones to get different flavors.
Salsa Pouch Chicken Recipe
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Salsa Pouch Chicken Ingredients:
- 1 chicken breast
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/4 teaspoon lemon pepper
- 4 tablespoons red pepper mango salsa
How To Make Salsa Pouch Chicken:
Pre-heat the oven to 350 F.
Fillet the chicken breast in half.
Season it with the garlic salt and lemon pepper.
Place the chicken breast half on top of a piece of parchment paper. Top with two tablespoons of salsa.
Fold over the sides of the parchment paper. Then, grab the bottom of the parchment paper and roll up to the top.
Fold the excess parchment paper from the sides into the center.
Repeat with the other half of the chicken breast.
Put the pouches on a cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes.
Let the chicken rest for a few minutes. Do not open the pouch immediately.
When you do open, you will see all the good juice at the bottom and your chicken will be incredibly moist, and infused with that liquid.
Serve your salsa chicken with rice. We made the rice, put the chicken on top, and poured all the juice from the pouch on top too.
Salsa Pouch Chicken
Salsa Pouch Chicken recipe is a simple dinner that makes for easy cleanup -- because everything bakes in a parchment paper pouch in under 30 minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 chicken breast
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/4 teaspoon lemon pepper
- 4 tablespoons red pepper mango salsa
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 F.
- Fillet the chicken breast in half.
- Season it with the garlic salt and lemon pepper.
- Place the chicken breast half on top of a piece of parchment paper. Top with two tablespoons of salsa.
- Fold over the sides of the parchment paper. Then, grab the bottom of the parchment paper and roll up to the top. Fold the excess parchment paper from the sides into the center.
- Repeat with the other half of the chicken breast.
- Put the pouches on a cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes. Let the chicken rest for a few minutes. Do not open the pouch immediately.
Nutrition Information
Yield
2Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 121Total Fat 2gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 1gCholesterol 51mgSodium 554mgCarbohydrates 5gFiber 1gSugar 4gProtein 19g
Have you tried this Salsa Pouch Chicken recipe? Let us know in the comments.
Jen Trevino
Tuesday 25th of June 2019
It looks delicious, and this is coming from a vegetarian (a bad vegetarian that's known to sneak eating meat every now and then). Moist chicken. Yummy mango salsa. Rice. All together in parchment paper. Yum.
Ewuzie Kingsley
Saturday 15th of June 2019
Wow this chicken dish looks delicious and tasty I love the juicy nature and will love to have one for my self.
Casey
Thursday 13th of June 2019
Wow. I'm seriously feeling my stomach rumbling. This is so delicious, really going to make it this weekend. Thanks!
Jasmine Watts
Thursday 13th of June 2019
Wow, this is definitely perfect for me. A simple recipe yet sooo yummy!
adi
Wednesday 12th of June 2019
What a creative idea! Have saved this and can't wait to try the salsa pouch chicken recipe!