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Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup

Pin this recipe or leave a comment: Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup on Green Healthy Cooking Instant Pot chicken tortilla soup makes the perfect meal on a busy night! The recipe takes about 30 minutes and is full of authentic Mexican flavors. What is tortilla soup made of? This is a classic Mexican soup with a tomato base. Traditionally, it can be made with chicken or as a vegetarian version with black beans. Any of a variety of chile peppers are used to increase the spiciness. Jalapenos are a popular choice. However, for this recipe, I use dried ancho chile powder. The peppers arent very hot, ranking below jalapenos on the Scoville Scale (the scale measures how spicy peppers are....

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Gluten Free Menu Plan

I love fall foods. Soup and oven meals for dinner and pumpkin and apples for baking. This week’s menu plan includes some of my favorite fall recipes.  Here is this week’s gluten free menu plan. I made notes next to what needs to be sure is gluten free, but as always read labels to be sure your ingredients are safe for your family. Breakfast Banana Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies– use gluten free oats Gluten Free Banana Pancake Muffins Homemade Gluten Free IHOP Pumpkin Pancakes Dinner Homemade Panera Tomato Soup Crock Pot Salsa Chicken Quick and Easy Mexican Pork Chops Simple Pasta Sauce– Use gluten free pasta Salmon Chowder Slow Cooked Homemade Refried Beans and Mexican Rice Dessert of the Week Chewy...

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100+ Low Carb Lunch Ideas

If youre looking for low carb lunch ideas, youve come to the right place! Here are over 100 for you to try: whether youre at home, at work, or on the go! The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you! So whats for lunch? Perhaps its a grilled cheese (yes a low carb one!), some warming soup, a wrap, a tasty salad, a quesadilla, or a stuffed avocado there are SO many options to choose from! Many of the recipes here are single serve, and only need a handful of ingredients. Other dishes are more complicated perhaps when...

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Green Bean Salad

This is a lovely green bean salad with a lemon dressing that presents nicely and is fairly quick to make. It can largely be made ahead making it ideal for meal planning, or getting ahead for dinner parties and festive holiday gatherings! Green Bean Salad This is a salad I like to make when I’m planning a large menu ahead because I can prepare most of it in advance then there is very little prep on the day. The beans can be cooked a day or two ahead, the dressing made and onion chopped. Then the only thing that needs to be done on the day is chopping a tomato which is best done fresh (it goes soggy if done ahead)....

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