"Smokin' Nachos": Gluten Free Spicy Chicken Nachos

Gluten Free Spicy Chicken Nachos
Our version of a favorite dish from local restaurant "The Salty Iguana".

Serves 2
2 small chicken breasts
1 tbsp lime pepper
1 tbsp garlic salt
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp olive oil
1 cup sour cream
1/4 cup light mayo
2 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsp chopped garlic
1-2 cups shredded "mexican" cheese
1 bag sturdy blue taco chips
Pickled Jalapeños
1 cup salsa


Step 1:
2 small chicken breasts
1 tbsp lime pepper
1 tbsp garlic salt
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp olive oil
Spice chicken with garlic salt and lime pepper. Cook in a covered pan over medium heat in olive oil and water until white, but still juicy.

Step 2:
Shred chicken into "tuna like" flakes with forks. For faster preparation (and avoiding burnt fingers from impatience!), you can lightly pulse in the food processor, but be careful not to liquidate the chicken! I prefer it fork shredded.

In a bowl combine:
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup light mayo
2 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsp chopped garlic
1/2 cup shredded "mexican" cheese

Stir mayo, sour cream and lime juice until smooth. Add garlic and cheese.
Add chicken and mix until coated.


Arrange whole sturdy taco chips (we prefer blue chips) on a baking sheet.


Spoon a fork full of chicken onto each chip. Sprinkle with more cheese, a pickled jalapeño and some cayenne pepper. Salt and pepper to taste.

Bake in a 350 degree oven until cheese is melted. Enjoy with a dipping sauce made of 1/2 cup salsa and 1/2 cup sour cream mixed until smooth.

Mochi

We recently went to a GF cooking class at the local health food store, called the Merc, where the instructor introduced us to an interesting new food, mochi. Mochi is a glutenous rice (no, not bad gluten) which has been compacted into bricks. You cut it into small cubes and put it in the oven or in a waffle iron. As it heats up it expands significantly. Then you can stuff it or top it with a variety of things. I've been eating it for breakfast for the past week cooked on a waffle iron (which makes it look like mini-waffles) topped with cream cheese, cinnamon and honey. We are currently trying the Cinnamon and raisin version, but they've a wide variety of versions listed on their website.
Best of all, it's really quick to cook on the waffle iron (takes about 5 minutes I'd say) so it's easy for me to make while still mostly asleep.

The only one I'd be wary of would be the wheatgrass and mugwort flavored version, but quite frankly that sounds rather horrid anyway.