Healthy recipe: Baked tacos with protein-packed ranch slaw

These Crispy Baked Buffalo Chicken Tacos from my cookbook “The Protein Meal Prep Plan” are stuffed with a collard slaw made with a protein-packed ranch dressing (yes … macromolecule ranch!) that, I person a feeling, volition astonishment you by however delicious it is.

This macromolecule ranch is truthful good, I marque other for topping salads, dipping veggies for snacks and conscionable astir thing other I tin deliberation of. Double up!

If you’ve ne'er baked a crispy taco and past peeled it backmost unfastened to worldly successful a cool, crunchy slaw (this 1 is affluent successful calcium, fibre and vitamin K), past you’re successful for a existent treat. Pickled onions, on with the slaw, are a fabulous summation to these tacos, if you person them connected hand.

If you’re grain-free oregon dairy-free, opt for cassava flour-based tortillas, prime up a store-bought dairy-free ranch dressing, and regenerate the Monterey jack food with a dairy-free shredded cheese. And if you person folks successful the location who are delicate to spicy foods, you tin skip the Buffalo condiment for their portion, opting alternatively for a elemental brackish and capsicum seasoning.

Crispy Baked Buffalo Chicken Tacos with Ranch Collard Slaw

Serves 4 to 6

Total navigator time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

Protein Ranch Dressing

1 cupful cottage cheese

2 tablespoons citrus foodstuff (from astir 1 lemon)

1 tablespoonful dried dill

½ spoon ail powder

½ spoon oversea salt

Baked tacos

3 cups shredded roasted chicken

¼ cupful buffalo sauce

15 (6-inch) maize tortillas

Olive lipid oregon avocado lipid spray

3 cups shredded Monterey Jack food (12 ounces)

4 heaping cups chopped collard greens

1 cupful macromolecule ranch dressing

Directions

1. Combine each the macromolecule ranch dressing ingredients successful a blender oregon nutrient processor. Blend connected precocious until the substance is creaseless and evenly combined. Set aside.

2. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.

3. Mix the chickenhearted with buffalo condiment until good coated.

4. Place the tortillas successful a azygous furniture connected the lined baking sheets, spray the tops with oil, past flip them over. Place 1 heaping tablespoonful shredded food connected 1 fractional of each tortilla. Follow this with astir 2 tablespoons of the buffalo chickenhearted mixture. Finish with 1 much tablespoonful cheese. Bake the open-faced tacos for 5 minutes, oregon until the food is melted.

5. Remove the tacos from the oven and property them closed (they should enactment closed present that the food is melted). Flip them implicit and instrumentality them to the oven for 10 much minutes. Flip them implicit 1 much clip and cook for a last 5 minutes.

6. While the tacos bake, flip the shredded collards with the macromolecule ranch dressing until evenly coated.

7. To serve, peel backmost 1 broadside of each crispy taco (careful, they’re hot!) and worldly a generous spoonful of the collard slaw inside.

Excerpted from “The Protein Meal Prep Plan” by Cassy Joy Garcia.