In the Kitchen: Chicken Salsa Melt

In the Kitchen will be the category where I will post some of the recipes I cook for my family. I promise you these are super-duper easy recipes because I’m really not an expert in the kitchen plus the fact that I don’t want recipes with so many steps/how-tos. Just 4-6 instructions, anything more than that, I skip the page of my recipe book and look for simpler recipes. So newbies in the kitchen, I hope you’ll try my recipes or suggestions and let’s share kitchen secrets!

3 Key Ingredients! This super simple recipe can be cooked in under 30 minutes. The use of bottled salsa is really a lifehack, it’s already seasoned so no more guessing on how it should turn out. You can thank me later :p

Chicken Salsa Melt recipe

Ingredients:

3 pcs. chicken breast (lightly seasoned with salt and pepper, OR you can just skip the salt and season only with pepper)
Tostitos Salsa
Cheese (you can use quickmelt cheese, I used the square ones for sandwiches
olive oil

Optional: 

sour cream for dipping

How to cook:

1. Heat the olive oil in a nonstick pan.
2. Pan-fry the chicken breasts on medium heat. The chicken breasts will be cooked in around 10 to 15 minutes (depends on its thickness/size), turn it once if you see the sides turn white. Cook on the other side.
3. Once the chicken is cooked, lower the heat. Add the salsa. Make sure that the chicken are covered with the salsa. Cover and simmer for a few minutes.
4. When the salsa gets bubbly, it’s time to add the cheese. Add the cheese on top of the chicken breasts. Cover and wait for the cheese to melt.

Note: When I cooked this before, I would pan-fry the chicken and then arrange them in baking dish, add the salsa and cheese and pop them in the oven. But laziness got in the way and I found out cooking them all in a pan works too!

Serve with sour cream on the side.