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Family, Food, Stay at Home Mom, Uncategorized, Women

Yummy Taco Seasoned Potatoes 

Hannah Lucio

This is one of our family favorite. It is a meatless meal but super easy to mix it up and put meat on it. This is actually a pretty healthy meal and everyone loves it. And it is really inexpensive.


Ingredients: 

3-4 large Potatoes

3 Tbps Taco Seasoning

1-2 Tbsp Olive Oil

1 can Black Beans

1 Avocado 
Directions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees

Cut potatoes into little chunks. It doesn’t really matter which shape. I mix it up regularly . 

Put the Potatoes into a bowl and add the olive oil. Mix until all coated. 

Add the Taco seasoning and mix until all coated. 

Put into a greased baking pan, this time I used our cast iron skillet. Put in the oven for 20 minutes and test to see if the Potatoes are soft/cooked. They normally take 40 minutes total but I do not like to over cook them. After the 20 minute mark I will check on them about every 10 minutes. 

Once they are done, put them into a bowl or plate. Add black beans and top with avocado. 


I make many variations of this. You can add cooked ground turkey, shredded cheese and salsa. Making the Potatoes is just the base to so many different meals. 
I hope you get to enjoy them as much as we do!

Live healthy 

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Family, Food, pregnancy, Uncategorized, Women

Healthier Onion Rings

Hannah Lucio

When you think of Onion rings you would normally think of a few things: Deep fried, fat and greasy. Well….I found a recipe of the fried version and made it healthier. Enjoy!

 

Ingredients:

1 large onion, cut into 1/4 inch slices (I used what we had and it was a very small onion)

1 1/4 Cup Whole wheat flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Salt

1 egg

1 cup milk, I used organic 2%

2 cups dried whole wheat bread crumbs: recipe below

Olive oil

 

Dried bread crumb directions:

I did not have dried bread crumbs already so I made my own. All I did was take 2 slices of whole wheat bread, took the crust off and baked it at 350 degrees for 4 minutes. Use your own judgment on how long to bake them. You want to make sure you can crumble the bread into small crumbs.

Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Separate the onion slices into rings, and set aside.
  3. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt.
  4. Dip the onion slices into the flour mixture until they are coated; set aside.
  5. Whisk the egg and milk into the flour mixture using a fork. Dip the floured rings into the batter to coat, then place on a wire rack to drain until batter stops dripping. (I placed parchment paper under the rack to make it easier to clean up.) Put the bread crumbs in a shallow bowl and spread out. Place one ring at a time into the crumbs, flip and coat the ring. Tap the ring as you remove it from the bowl. The bread coating should cling well. Repeat with the remaining rings.
  6. Lightly coat the bottom of the pan with olive oil. Place the rings on the pan side by side and drizzle olive oil over the rings.
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for 5 minutes, flip the rings and bake for 5 more minutes. I then turned the oven up to 425 degrees and baked for another 5 minutes. Bake until desired crispiness.

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They were so delicious! We will be making these more often 🙂

Enjoy and Live simple