Easy Mexican Skillet & Chopped Salad Dinner Party

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Try this delicious #Mexicanskillet dinner with an easy #choppedsalad for your next get together with friends!

I don’t know what it’s like where you live, but here, we took a quick trip to FREEZETOWN. Seriously, after a lengthy heat wave (by Midwestern standards), we went from 80’s to 40’s in a snap! Now, don’t get me wrong, I appreciate fall weather, but in Chicago no one wants to leap right into winter. So, for this past week’s football Sunday get together, I tried to warm us all up a bit with a delicious Mexican party feast!

I would probably order Mexican food as my last meal if need be. I LOVE IT. So many delicious spices and flavors can be infused in a good Mexican meal! Now, while I do enjoy cooking, on game day I really just want to enjoy time with my friends and watch my team, so I don’t like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen cooking. So I was thrilled to come across these Frontera® Carnitas  and Barbacoa Taco Skillets while shopping at Target.

I think any hostess wants to wow her guests, but we can’t ALWAYS spend time slaving over a meal, can we? Sometimes, we’d like to join in the fun, right??  So these skillet meals were perfect to make a delicious Mexican spread without a lot of hassle. I threw in a homemade Mexican chopped salad to go with, a recipe you can grab below!

You guys don’t understand, it is BITTERLY cold outside. While whipping this meal together, I saw snow flurries! It’s November, so that is TOTALLY UNCOOL, Mother Nature. Even in Chicago.

Good thing I picked such delicious, succulent, aromatic skillets to warm all my freezing friends. I love that these skillets work well both in a warm tortilla or over rice.

Do you host tailgates or football parties? Or even just friendly hangouts? If so, I definitely recommend these Frontera Skillets. SO EASY. You quickly have a meal fit for at least four people, if not more. A few tortillas, some Frontera salsa, cheese and guacamole? Done and done!

Since our team is officially terrible this year (and honestly, most years lately), a few of us commiserated with cilantro lime margaritas. And yes, adding cilantro to the margaritas make the even more amazing.

I cooked up both the Carnitas and Barbacoa skillets for this friendly get together, and both were quickly gobbled up. I loved that they took a total of 15 minutes to make! Super easy and plenty of food for all of us! I also snapped up some Frontera Tomatillo Salsa for snacking with chips. All of these premium ingredients made me feel like I had a Mexican restaurant in my own kitchen.

Print Recipe

Easy Mexican Chopped Salad

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Total Time15 minutes mins

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Mexican

Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 1 head romaine lettuce, chopped
• 1 cup frozen corn, cooked and cooled
• 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
• 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
• 1 cup sliced cherry tomatos
• 1 medium avocado, diced

Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette

• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 3 tbsp honey
• salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

• Mix all the salad ingredients together and toss to combine. Drizzle dressing over and toss again until fully dressed. Serve and enjoy!

If you want to try these frozen skillets, I encourage you to head to Target and snap them up. Sadly, they are only available in Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota currently. However, if you ARE in one of those areas, I have a coupon for you! Coupon is good 10/29/2017-11/25/2017.

Check out the frozen food aisle at Target for these awesome skillets!

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