Meal Prep: Chicken with Pasta and ROTEL Sauce & Chicken with Rice and Roasted Vegetables.

Hello all,

Sorry for such sparse updates on here (see last post).  However, this will be my main source for meal prep recipes and workout information.  Sadly, this may be one of my last "fun" meal preps, as I plan to start doing an easier and more plain meal prep so that I can hit my macros for bulking (more on that in a different post). Anyways, lets have at it!

Ingredients Needed:

• 1 bundle asparagus (make sure they are thin)
• 1 pack baby carrots
• 1 pack sweet baby peppers
• 1 medium yellow onion
• 2 green peppers
• 1 box whole wheat angel hair pasta
• 1 box brown rice
• 1 pack boneless, skinless chicken breast (about 2.5lbs or enough for ten 4oz servings)
• 2 cans ROTEL

(For this meal I am just going to put all of the prep in one set of directions)

• Preheat Oven to 375 F
• Wash and cut your asparagus, and put in a roasting pan with the carrots, and baby peppers.  Lightly drizzle with olive oil and season with pepper, garlic powder, paprika, red pepper flakes and light salt.  Cover with foil and set aside.
• Before you start using the cutting board for the chicken, go ahead and clean and dice the onion and green pepper.  Place in a large skillet with coconut oil.
• While your oven is preheating, open the package of chicken breast and cut into ~4oz pieces (I used an electronic food scale to make sure my measurements were correct).  Put on a pan lined with aluminum foil and season with pepper, chili powder, paprika, garlic powder and red pepper flakes.
• Once the oven has preheated, pop in the vegetables and the chicken.  Cook for 35-40 minutes.
• While the chicken and vegetables are cooking, cook the entire box of pasta, and rice.
• Turn the skillet with your peppers and onion on to medium-high and saute until the vegetables start getting soft.  Once they have, add both cans of ROTEL, and continue to cook on medium-high for about 5 minutes.
• Once all ingredients have finished cooking, take the sauce off the heat.

Finishing the Dish:

• Each container gets 4oz chicken breast.
• In 5 containers put 1 cup brown rice.
• In another 5 put 1 serving size of pasta (food scales are handy here!!!)
• Top the pasta and chicken with the pepper, onion and ROTEL mixture.
• To the containers with rice and chicken, split the roasted vegetables evenly among containers.

Viola, that is it!  As always, stay healthy!