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I made this up tonight - wanted something easy to pop into the oven.

2 chicken breasts - boneless skinless
1 red or green pepper
1 cup of frozen corn
2 cups cooked quinoa (can use cooked rice if you don't have quinoa)
bunch green onions, chopped
small bunch cilantro, chopped
1 jar of salsa (medium sized)

1 can of refried beans
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (or any cheese you like)

Cook the chicken breasts in a frying pan. I cooked them 3/4 of the way, then took them out of the pan to cut them up into chunks. I then put the chunks back into the pan to finish cooking. When I returned them to the pan I added the chopped pepper, frozen corn and salsa. I covered the pan to let the chicken finish cooking and to cook the peppers and corn.

Once this was all cooked, I added 1/2 of the green onions, quinoa and cilantro to the chicken mixture. Mix well. Put this in a casserole dish. Spoon out the refried beans and spread on top of the chicken/quinoa mixture. It sometimes is not that easy to spread so you will have to work at it. Once it is spread, sprinkle on the cheese and then the remaining green onions on top of that.

Bake at 400 for about 20-25 minutes. The refried beans should be all bubbly on top - delicious.

Serve with sour cream or plain yogurt if you like!
Enjoy.


Vegetarian option: substitute tofu for chicken.