Recipe TUESDAY! Next-Day Roasted Ckn Soup AND Mexican Baked Eggs

Recipes this week...a day early!
Two hearty ideas for you - at little cost!
What to do with the remains of your roasted chicken? Make this delicious fall SOUP!
How to turn eggs into a meal of their own? Add some veggies, beans and cheese and ole - it's a dinner FIESTA!!!

Next-Day Roasted Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

Chicken meat and bones remaining from your
roasted chicken the day before, AND (optional) giblets
4 potatoes, cubed
4 carrots, sliced
1 leek, sliced
1 onion, peeled and minced
1 lb kale, chopped
1 10 oz bag of frozen corn
salt and pepper to taste
parmesan cheese and diced red pepper for garnish

Directions:

1. Cover remaining chicken meat, bones and giblets with water in a large soup pot.
2. Add salt and pepper.
3. Bring to a boil and simmer for two hours.
4. Remove all of the chicken parts from the broth. Set aside to cool.
5. Add potatoes, garlic, carrots, leek and onion. Bring contents to a boil. Simmer for 45 minutes or until potatoes are soft.
6. Remove remaining chicken from bones and cut into bite size pieces. Add chicken, frozen corn and kale.
7. Cook for 15 minutes or until kale is soft.
8. Serve sprinkled with parmesan and pepper.

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Mexican Baked Eggs

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon corn oil
1 small onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon cumin, toasted and ground
1 teaspoon chipotle chili powder
2 jalapeno peppers, diced
1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes or 4 cups diced fresh tomatoes
1 (19 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 teaspoon oregano
1 handful cilantro, chopped
4 eggs
1/2 cup grated cheese such as jack and cheddar

Directions:

Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.
Add the onions and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
Add the garlic, cumin, chipotle chili powder, and jalapeno saute until fragrant, about a minute.
Add the tomatoes and black beans and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat and simmer until the sauce thickens, about 20 minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in the cilantro.
Place half of the mixture into one or more baking dishes, top with the eggs and spoon the remaining mixture around the eggs.
Bake in a preheated 350F oven until the eggs just start to set, about 5-8 minutes.
Top with the cheese and broil until it melts, no more than a minute or so.

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"Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people."
~Elizabeth Berry