This recipe is a HIT! - frugal dinner too!

Tried out a new recipe tonight. I wasn't sure how the kids would react since it has black beans in it and they generally won't eat beans of any kind (except green beans), but I got a "infinity thumbs up" rating from them so it must be good! LOL

Here's what I did...

2 chicken breasts, diced & cooked. - $3.50 (?) - $2.19/lb and figured it was about 1.5 lb

1 can black beans, rinsed & drained - $0.83

1 1/2 cups Fat free Sour Cream - on sale - $0.33

1 cup grated shredded cheese  - ??? $1.00

4 corn tortillas. - $0.30

Total cost  - $5.96 

Take the corn tortillas & cut into strips. Lay half of them in the bottom of a baking dish.  Mix 1/2 of the shredded cheese and the remainder of the ingredients together in a separate bowl. Spoon half of the chicken mix onto the tortilla strips.  Take the remaining tortilla strips and lay on top of the chicken mix, then add the remaining chicken mix and top with the other 1/2 of the shredded cheese. Bake for 30 minutes on 350.

Of course you can season to taste. I did not add in the pepper & cumin that the recipe called for because my family hates pepper and I couldn't find cumin. when I make it again I think I'll just add in the taco seasoning packet that I know everyone likes.

I will also say that this would NOT have been enough if my husband had been home. I would have needed to double the recipe but that would have given us leftovers for at least 2 of us the next day. But, it easily fed myself and my 2 kids with a reasonable portion left over. Plus, if we had put a salad or something with it, it would have been plenty.