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Reviewing: Speedy start chicken tacos with creamy Chipotle lime slaw and Mexican cheese blend 1 serving prepared  Here's what you get: Lime  Scallion  Sour cream  Chipotle powder  Coleslaw mix  Standard wheat cast-iron seared chicken breast  Southwest spice blend  Mexican cheese blend  Flour tortilla (not used) Substitute: 1 cup Cauliflower The protein: Since the chicken was precooked all I needed to do was heat it up with the scallion whites and season it with the Southwest spice blend and a bit of salt. Extras: The cauliflower with steamed for about 10 minutes.  Sides: Once the cauliflower was finished it was mashed up and mixed with the coleslaw mix, sour cream, lime juice, scallion greens, honey, salt and pepper. The plate: I decided to turn this one into a bowl since I didn't have corn tortilla and no other substitute for the flour tortilla.  It came out pretty well this way be slightly warm islami...

Reviewing: Mojo pork tacos with creamy cilantro slaw 2 servings prepared  Here's what you get: Lime Orange Cilantro Ground pork Cumin Chicken stock concentrate Dried oregano Garlic powder Coleslaw mix Mayonnaise Sour cream Flour tortilla (not used) Substitutes: Lime corn chips The Cilantro slaw: To make the slaw the mayonnaise, cilantro, sour cream, garlic powder and lime juice were added and tossed together. This was then salted and peppered to taste The protein: Half of the lime and all of the orange were juiced before cooking.  The orange and lime juice were added to the cumin, stock concentrate, 1/2 tsp sugar, oregano and half the garlic powder.  In a non-stick pan the pork was added and cooked until browned. The mojo sauce was then poured over this and cooked until the juices were reduced. The chips: Instead of doing a taco dish this was turned into nachos by using lime tortilla chips.  This was topped with a little bit of sour cream that had som...

Reviewing:  caramelized pineapple chicken tacos with Smokey red pepper Crema  1 serving prepared  Here's what you get: Long green pepper  Red Onion  Roma tomato  Cilantro (not used) Lime  Pineapple (not used) Chicken breast strip  Southwest spice blend  Flour tortilla (not pictured/used) Smokey red pepper Crema  Substitutes: Corn tortilla Fresh pineapple  The salsa: The Cilantro in my box was unusable so that part will be missing from the recipe. The fesh pineapple was charred in a pan for about 4 minutes per the directions and then removed from the pan. In a separate bowl the pineapple,  tomato, minced onion, lime juice were combined with salt and pepper mixed well and set to the side. Preparation: In the same pan the green pepper sliced onion we're cooked in and then flavored with a bit of lime juice, they were then transferred to a plate. Next into the same pan was the chicken strips they were cooked with the ...

Reviewing: BBQ pulled chicken tacos with creamy slaw and red onion 1 serving prepared  Here's what you get: Red Onion  Lime  Pulled chicken in BBQ sauce  Cilantro  Mayonnaise  Hot sauce  Coleslaw  Not used: Flour tortilla  Substitute: Corn tortilla The corn tortilla: The tortillas were placed in a small convection oven on warm while the rest of the items were being cooked so they were warm by the time the meal what's ready to plate. The coleslaw: To make the coleslaw the veggie mix was combined with cilantro and onion and then tossed with mayonnaise, hot sauce and juice from half of the lime. Salt and pepper were then added to taste. The bowl was set aside while the meat was being prepared. The protein: To finish off the protein a drizzle of oil is heated up in a non-stick pan and the remaining onion was added along with salt and pepper. This was cooked until the onions were soft and browned then the pulled chicken was added. Th...

Reviewing: Pork and poblano tacos with kiwi salsa & lime Crema 1 serving prepared Here's what you get: Shallot Toma tomato Cilantro Sour cream Ground pork (5 oz used) Tomato paste Poblano pepper Kiwi Lime Mexican spice blend Chicken stock concentrate Flour tortilla (not used) Substitution: Keto tortilla boats made using this recipe: Super easy   The salsa and crema: Preparing the produce is the most involved part of this process.  Once everything is chopped and the lime juiced you just mix the components.  The protein: The poblano needs to be cooked well before adding the shallots and ground pork. This taco dish has more components to add than the previous ones I've tried.  Even so, cook time was reasonable.  Extras: The tortillas provided were swapped out for homemade keto tortilla boats. The plate: Again!  The flavors in this dish were really great! I was skeptical about the addition of kiwi but it r...