Pioneer Woman

If you have never checked out The Pioneer Woman's blog, you need to. I have the link posted under my favorite cooks link on the side bar. I got her new cookbook for Christmas and I LOVE it! I was surprised to learn that most of my family had never heard of her. That is crazy! Her blog has much more than recipes, but of course the recipes are my favorite part. Check it out...you won't regret it. She is a rancher's wife and her recipes are very easy and use ingredients that you probably have in your house. My favorite recipe from her blog is her beef tenderloin. She calls it Heaven on a Fork and it really, really, is. Just ask my husband.

I plan on making nearly everything in her new cookbook. I will let you know how it goes...

Chicken Fajita Burgers

This is my best recipe by far!! The key is the fajita seasoning. You can use any brand, but this one is our family's favorite.

Ingredients:
1 Pound Ground Chicken
1 1/2 T Fajita Seasoning and 1 t Fajita Seasoning divided... and a few shakes here and there
1 C Shredded Monterey Jack Cheese
1 Chopped Green Bell Pepper

butter of course!
2T Chopped Fresh Cilantro
1/2 C Sour Cream
1 t Fresh Lime Juice
1 Package of Bun

1 T Butter
Serve with buns, lettuce and chips

1. Chop the bell pepper.

2. Saute in 1 T butter and 1 1/2 T fajita Seasoning. You can never have too much seasoning or butter!

3. While the bell pepper is cooking in the butter making you extremely hungry, you can dice up some of the fresh cilantro. This will be used for the sour cream and cilantro sauce.

4. Mix together cilantro, sour cream, lime juice and 1 t of fajita seasoning. This is so good you could eat it with a chips before the chicken burgers are even finished. You could make more and no one would ever ever know...

5. Amazing and smells oh so good. This is what it will look like when it is ready.

6. Pour this buttery pepper mix on top of your ground chicken in a large mixing bowl.

7. Add the monetery jack cheese. Add a little more cheese. No one is looking.

8. Mix and squeeze and combine with your hands. Next, score the meat into fourths. This is just a fancy way of saying to divide it into four sections. This helps to make your burgers the same size.

9. Roll them up. Rachael Rae says to make a little indention into the middle of hamburgers to keep them from getting the ugly bulge in the middle. I will pass along my new found trick. I like to fry them in the same pan that I cooked the peppers in. Hey, why not. I hate having to clean extra pans. Plus, it has all that flavor in it.

10. Cook about 5 minutes on one side and flip. It always cooks faster on the other side.

11. Stare and admire.

12. Place onto a bun and serve with the sour cream cilantro sauce, shredded lettuce and chips.
13. Enjoy!