Healthy Kid Meals – Taco Soup

Dinner time can often be a challenge in our busy times. We want to make healthy, well balanced meals for our families, but we often don’t have the time. Between swim lessons, sports and work events we are pressed for time! With about 10 minutes of prep time, and only one pot to clean to you can make a meal that your family will love! This recipe can all be cooked in the rice cooker, so no need to have it in the crock pot for 5 or more hours!
 

 

 

 

To get started chop an onion and garlic and put it at the bottom of a HOT rice cooker, with some olive oil to get it nice and brown

· 1/2 onion, peeled and chopped
· 1 clove garlic
· ·1 TBL olive oil
While the rice cooker was heating up the onions and garlic, I chopped some chicken. Then, add chopped chicken to rice cooker and cook till browned.

Then add all at once:

· 5 cups chicken broth
· 1 cup chopped carrots (I left these somewhat large so the kids could pull them out if they wanted to, although no one did)
· 1 can diced tomatoes (with juice)
· ½ cup brown rice (uncooked)
· 1 can corn (drained)
· 1/2 cup black beans
Turn rice cooker on to ‘brown rice’ setting, if yours has that one. Or turn it on for at least 45 min-1 hour.