Beef and Avocado Enchiladas

I could eat Mexican food all week long.  I love enchiladas (although I'm kinda picky with them...don't like the red sauce) so I decided to create my own with a few different recipes as inspiration.  I have a chicken and green chile enchilada recipe that I have used and love, so decided to mix it up with some beef!  I typically use ground turkey but felt like changing it up today.  This recipe you could totally make with ground turkey or chicken!

Ingredients

Beef and Avocado Enchiladas

1.5 lb ground beef (or ground turkey or chicken)
1 onion, chopped
1 red pepper, chopped
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp paprika


Avocado Cream Filling
1 ripe avocado, mashed
1/2 cup Greek yogurt
1/2 cup green chili salsa (or you can use 1-2 jars of green chilis)
1/2 - 1 lime, juiced

12 corn tortillas
1/2 cup - 1.5 cups shredded cheese (this varies depending on how much you want to add to the top of the enchiladas, it's completely a preference).

Directions:
Chop onions and red bell pepper, sauté with a touch of oil until soft.  Add ground beef and brown the meat until cooked through.  Add cumin, chili powder, salt, garlic powder and paprika and mix meat mixture.  Set aside.

Combine avocado filling.  Add mashed avocado, Greek yogurt, salsa and lime juice and stir together. If you want to ensure it is creamy you can add to a food processor.  I mixed mine by hand and it was just fine.

Because the corn tortillas will break when you roll them up, you may want to steam the tortillas before adding the mixture to the tortillas.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. In a 9x13 baking dish, spread a small amount of avocado filling on the bottom of the baking dish, just enough to lightly cover the bottom.  
3. Take one corn tortilla and place a small amount of avocado filling in the tortilla, then add a spoonful of meat mixture to the tortilla.  (I add about the amount I would like in a taco).
4. Wrap the tortilla and place in baking dish with the seam down.  
5. Repeat until you've used all tortillas and meat mixture.  
6. Place remaining avocado mixture on top of the rolled tortillas.  (I also placed some extra green salsa on top too, as I wanted mine a little more moist). 
7. Top with shredded cheese.  (You can vary the amount of cheese depending on your liking).
8. Place in oven for 20-25 minutes or until cheese is melted and heated throughout.

Serve immediately and you can top with extra avocado if you desire!  Enjoy!!

21 Day Fix containers:  1 serving (1 enchilada worth)

1/2  yellow

1 red (this counts for the meat and small amount of greek yogurt)

1 blue (avocado)

[Add a side of asparagus for a green container]

(Personally I would probably just count the 1 tortilla as a full yellow, because when I cut these it never seems to just be the single tortilla that is served, just based on how it cuts for me.)

Clean Eating Carne Asada Fajitas - Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!  So today is another great excuse to have Mexican food in our family!!  Whaoo!!  So instead of having it just once…I decided to start early and have it last night and tonight.  I'll come up with a different recipe for tonight…or who knows, maybe do this again tonight because it was so good!

So here it is…clean eating Carne Asada Fajitas.  I found this recipe and decided to try it out…yummy!

Clean Eating Carne Asada Fajitas

Ingredients:
2-3 lb flank or skirt steak, about 1 inch thick
1/3 cup white vinegar
1/3 cup olive oil
2 limes, juiced
4-5 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp salt
11 tsp pepper
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp smoked paprika

--Corn Tortillas

Directions:
Combine white vinegar, olive oil, lime juice, garlic and spices together in a bowl.  Mix well.  I like to pour my marinade in a freezer Zip Lock baggie with the meat and let it marinade for at least 1 hour (up to 24 hours).  Make sure to flip the bag of meat/marinade to get both sides!

After it's finished marinading, grill the flank steak (doesn't take long on grill).  You can also broil the steak on the tap rack for 6 minutes, then flip steak and broil for 5 more minutes for medium.  Cut the steak into slices top with toppings listed below and serve on heated corn tortillas.

Toppings:
Guacamole
Cheese
Sautéed peppers
Black Beans
Tomatoes
Cilantro
Onions


Homemade Guacamole:
2-3 Avocados
Cilantro (as much as you like)
 1-2 limes, juiced
tomatoes, diced
salt (to taste)
pepper (to taste)
chili powder (to taste)
cumin (to taste)

Clean Eating Shrimp Fajitas

I don't buy shrimp very often, but was walking thru Trader Joe's and saw shrimp, so thought I'd get some!  So I went searching for something yummy to make with it.  Well, you can't go wrong with Mexican!!

It's a super easy meal and can be thrown together in a flash!

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp olive oil (or coconut oil, I'm on a coconut oil kick right now!)
• 1/2 lb of shrimp peeled and deveined
• 1/4 tsp himalayan sea salt
• 1 small onion thinly sliced
• 1 red bell pepper (or mixture of red, yellow, green)
• Fresh lime juice
• Hard or soft whole grain tortillas or you can use leaf lettuce instead of the shell

Then you can add toppings to go with it!  Greek Yogurt (instead of sour cream), black beans, avocado, tomato, lettuce, salsa, brown rice, steamed corn, cheese for the kids!

Preparation:
Place oil in a pan and heat on medium.  In a small bowl combine the shrimp, lime, sea salt and stir.  Then place in a pan and cook for 4 minutes or until done.  Remove shrimp from pan and add in the onion and peppers and brown.  Stir in shrimp and toss to combine then croon into whole grain tortillas.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Mousse

Did you ever think you could have a healthy, clean chocolate mousse?  Well…here you go.  I'll be honest, I haven't tried this yet.  This is a recipe from a friend, but I just was given a ton of avocados and thought this would be a great recipe to try out!  (Plus I didn't want to lose the recipe!)  :)

So here it is…

4 ripe avocados
1/3 cup maple syrup or coconut nectar
7 medjool dates, soaked
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
sea salt to taste


In a high speed blender or food processor, blend all the ingredients until smooth.  Add salt to taste.  Serve chilled!

Avocado Chocolate Mousse