Chicken Fiesta

Meal: 
Lunch
Dinner
Course: 
Main
Total Time: 
25 min
Prep Time: 
5 min

Chicken with taco seasoning and/or sauce, black beans, corn, and tomatoes makes a hearty, comforting meal that's easy to make.

Recipe Ingredients: 
  • 1 (or 2) cans of chicken
  • 1 can black beans
  • 1 can tomatoes
  • 1 can corn taco seasoning and/or taco or mexican cooking sauce
Directions: 

Basic instructions:

  1. Using your manual can opener, combine contents from cans of chicken, black beans, tomatoes, and corn.
  2. Stir in taco seasoning and/or taco sauce/mexican cooking sauce as desired or available.

Preparation options: If all of your canned items are fully cooked, combine ingredients into a bowl (though we prefer this heated and served like a chili) and serve.

  1. Break up the canned chicken with your hands, as needed, or with the serving/stirring spoon/spatula. Our cans of chicken are about 10 ounces, so decide if you'd like to use one or two, depending on the size of your group.(Replace the chicken with whatever meat or substitute you have stored or prefer.)
  2. Follow directions on the taco seasoning package or prepare/store in advance the amount you would use for a pound of chicken/meat. We use about 1/3 cup when making this with one can of chicken.
  3. If you are clearing out fresh or frozen produce, add chopped peppers (whatever colors you have) as desired. We have pre-chopped green and red peppers frozen ready in bags. Though optional, they add color, texture, and taste.
Cooking Tips: 

Cooking options: We like to heat this in our big, iron dutch oven. Heat the chicken, breaking it up and stirring in the taco seasoning (with enough liquid from the canned chicken, you shouldn't need to use any of your water in this dish). Choose a safe heating method. The grill in our back yard has a side burner, and simmering over a camp fire really adds to the flavor! Practice preparing this is easy, hearty, delicious camping meal, which lets you rotate through your stored kit cans. If you have electricity, let it simmer on the stove. While the flavors intensify, it smells appealing and comforting. Serving options: This can be served cold (if your cans are all fully cooked) like a dip with crackers or tortilla chips. Options for serving it hot include: like chili in bowls (plain or with crackers crumbled on top, if you have them), wrapped in soft tortillas like burritos, or poured over some crunchy tortilla chips (or we dip the chips in to scoop it up).