Dinner is served...

I decided to try something a little easy for tonight, since this is my first attempt at gluten-free cooking. Obviously I could serve grilled chicken with vegetables every night, but that gets old fast and I truly do enjoy cooking.  Lime chicken tacos sounded fairly easy, and since I pride myself on my fajitas (although they are not nearly as good as my mom's recipe) I thought this would be a good choice to start with.  Apparently this recipe calls for marinating the chicken overnight, but we only had time to marinate for 1 hour, which actually seemed suffice. 

Lime Chicken Tacos

For the marinade:
4 split chicken breasts (boneless)
4 cloves of fresh garlic, chopped
1/4 cup of fresh squeezed lime juice
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons agave nectar
a pinch of cumin
fresh ground pepper

Rinse the chicken briefly in cold water and pat dry. Place in a shallow glass dish. In a small bowl, combine the garlic, lime juice, olive oil, agave nectar, cumin and fresh ground pepper. Four the marinade over and under the chicken breasts. Cover tightly and marinade for at least an hour; overnight is even better.

For the tacos, I decided to make home-made guacamole.  This is a Grigsby secret and it is an almost perfect topping.  All you need is 2 fresh avocados, picante sauce, lime juice and a little bit of garlic salt.  Core the avocados, scoop out the inside, and mash it up until smooth.  Add picante sauce, a squeeze of lime juice, and a few shakes of garlic salt and mix together.  It's very magical.

The rest of the recipe called for 4 vine-ripe tomatoes, 2 cups of shredded romain lettuce, 1 cup shredded cheese, and 8-10 soft corn tortillas. We grilled the chicken on medium-high heat until it was cooked through and no longer pink inside. This took us about 10-15 minutes.  We then chopped it up into bite-sized pieces and served it with all of our taco fix-ins.  Here is the finished product!

It appeared much more appetizing in person, but overall the final verdict was it tasted great! In fact, Tommy actually related them to the chicken tacos he gets at Chilis.  Now that's a compliment!!  Overall we were pretty pleased with this recipe and I would recommend it to other gluten-free diet enthusiasts.  Day 1 a success!