 Hi everyone. I am Lauren. I am sister number five and today I'm going to share with you 30 minute chicken recipes that are going to change your life. I currently have a two-year-old and a one-year-old so the chances of me getting more than 30 minutes of uninterrupted time to make dinner are usually pretty slim. So I love quick and easy recipes like this because I can usually throw them together without too much chaos happening in the background. If you are looking for more easy 30 minute meals like this, make sure to check out our 30 minute meal plan on Prepare. I'll put a link down in the description for you to get more quick and easy meals that are done from start to finish in 30 minutes. Let's jump into it. The first recipe that we are going to be making today are our barbecue chicken burritos. To start I have three chicken breasts just cooked and shredded. I actually bought this in my deli to avoid having to cook it at home which is a really great shortcut if you're short on time. Then I have one third of a red onion that I've chopped up pretty small. Just a dash of salt and pepper here. I also have some soft flour tortillas. You're going to need about six of those. I have my favorite barbecue sauce. This is what my family loves but any barbecue sauce works great. You can decide on how spicy you want to make it. You'll need about two and a half to three cups of colby jack cheese shredded and some cilantro. Now I don't have fresh cilantro on hand but I do love using this free dried cilantro and recipes like this because it doesn't require me chopping. We know how short on time I am and as soon as I add this to my wet ingredients and get it cooked up it tastes just like regular cilantro and this lasts a lot longer. So if you're someone who doesn't use a whole bundle of cilantro when you buy it this is a great option for you too. I have my chicken in a mixing bowl all shredded and ready to go so to this I'm going to add about three fourths a cup of barbecue sauce and I'm just going to eyeball it. You could never have too much barbecue sauce. I'm going to add in my onion about two cups of cheese. You're going to want to just make sure to save a little bit of cheese for topping these burritos at the end. Just a little bit of cilantro and mix all of this together. I love quick meals like this especially when I buy my chicken already shredded up and ready to go because I don't feel like I'm spending so much time in the kitchen and when five o'clock rolls around and someone asks me what's for dinner I'm not in a huge panic because I know that by 5.30, 5.45 I'm going to have something done. That's my favorite part about following that 30 minute meal plan is that every meal that comes in the plan for the week is done in under 30 minutes. So if you're busy, if you're working, if you need some time this one is perfect. Okay now that this is done I'm going to get everything ready to cook my burritos. Okay to assemble my burritos I'm just going to lay a tortilla down on a plate. I'm going to take about one half a cup to a third a cup of barbecue mixture and just set it in the center. You're going to want to leave about an inch on each side for folding up the burrito. Once you feel like you've got all the filling in there you're going to top it with just a little bit more cheese and from here you can either just roll it up kind of like a taquito it will still work great you just might lose a little on the ends or here's my trick. Take the two sides and bring them together pinch them down with these two fingers and with your thumbs bring up the other back of the tortilla fold it and you've got a burrito. So we've got nothing coming out of this end nothing coming out of this end not the prettiest but when I cook it I shouldn't lose any of my filling. So I've got some oil heating up on the stove let's go cook these burritos. Okay I've heated up about two tablespoons of oil here so I'm just going to stick in my burritos. I'm going to start with them seam side down so we can kind of get that seam sealed a little bit. The best thing about recipes like this is that they are super easy for small hands to pick up and dip into things or just to pick up and eat. You don't have to chop everything up there's not a lot of pieces to it so it makes a really kid-friendly meal. Most of the meals in the 30-minute meal plan are kid-friendly and they are just so perfect and so convenient. Okay I'm going to be keeping them here for about one minute until they turn a little bit golden on the bottom. You can see a few that I have already done over here look just golden and perfect. I'm just going to check it and make sure that they're done. Oh are you ready for this? Wow that looks so good. Okay I'm going to flip the second one too and just make sure to get both sides really really well. I'm still going to push this down a little bit. They have a tendency sometimes to kind of peek open so we will keep these down. Okay I wish you could smell this because it's smelling so good so I'm going to add this to my sack. Perfectly cooked barbecue chicken burritos in under 30 minutes. Should we try them? Okay let's give these a try. They're a little hot so I'm a tiny bit nervous but yeah that's good. Dip that in ranch. So good. Our second recipe today is an easy chicken cordon bleu french bread pizza. Each recipe calls for about three to four chicken breasts so I'm just going to dump these all in. These are all frozen so we're just going to add one cup of water and then put the lid on. Now we're not going to really season these if you want to you can but I'm not going to today. Okay make sure your lid is on and then this is the old school. This is our luxe which I still love and I still use all the time so it has a manual button so if you have a manual or pressure cook button it's the same so we're going to push pressure cook and then because it's frozen we're going to cook it for 25 minutes so you can set the timer for either the negative sign or the positive sign when it hits 25 minutes then you can just walk away and it will cook. Oh and one of the most important things don't forget to check your little knob make sure it's on sealing not venting. So I had a french bread that I just cut right in half then you're going to put just your favorite alfredo sauce and we're just going to spread it on just like you would a pizza sauce so depending on how thick or thin you like your sauce my kids don't like a ton of sauce so we'll just kind of spread it out a little bit. All right so we have about a teaspoon of Italian seasoning and a teaspoon of garlic salt that we're going to lightly sprinkle on top of the alfredo sauce just to give it just a little bit more flavor. I like to add it where my sauce is so my kids can't see the green stuff inside of their pizza. All right and then just a little bit of garlic salt let's give it a little bit of flavor. Okay next we're going to add four cups of mozzarella cheese. Now I love just buying the huge big bags um this one has eight cups so we're just going to use about half of it. So about two cups per half of french bread so just kind of spread it out. Now I'm making it on a cookie sheet just because you're going to have stuff that will fall off and it will just kind of catch it which is what we like so it doesn't have to be pretty or fancy or professional we're just we're cooking for our families so okay a little bit more cheese okay now it's time for the toppings. Now because it is chicken cordon blue you need a little bit of swiss cheese so we do have one cup of swiss cheese here we're just going to put it right on top of our mozzarella. Now this seems like a lot of cheese you don't have to have this much but I my kids love cheese on their pizza so that's what we're doing. Okay next we're just going to add our ham so I just bought this cubed ham from Kroger I love how it's already cubed so I don't have to worry about cutting it it's just ready to go so this is where it kind of gets tricky as you put on your ingredients you kind of want to press down as you go because like I said it will they will fall off so kind of pressing pressing as we go two both pizzas sorry okay next we're just going to add a little bit of bacon so this is about a half cup of bacon you can cook bacon and cut it up yourselves I just like to use the bacon bits because it just makes my life a whole lot easier and makes this recipe super simple to make all right now it's time for the chicken can't forget that part so we're just going to squeeze this out make sure there's no juice in it there we go and just carefully like I said before carefully put on your chicken because you have chicken cordon bleu you need the chicken oh this looks so good all right a little bit more chicken here now obviously if you made this earlier you won't have all the juices and stuff I'm just making it all today so that's why there's juices in there but you can drain it out and just put it in your fridge when you're ready for it okay we got our chicken we got our ham we got our bacon last thing we need is just a little bit of green onions on top you don't have to do this I like it just gives it a little bit of pop of color and makes it look and makes it taste good looks good tastes good okay okay all right we are ready holy moses these are huge pizzas all right so we are going to cook this at 400 degrees for about 10 minutes all right it is all done cooking it looks so good and smells so good I'm just going to cut it for you just to see so we usually cut each one oh I don't know like four or five pieces in each french bread but these are big pieces because there's a lot of toppings on top all right let's let's taste it a little oh that's good oh you guys need to make this one and the last recipe we have for you today are our easy 20 minute taco cups yes that's right 20 minutes start to finish you're going to love this one the five ingredients for this one include some taco seasoning I like black beans we also have some refried beans some tortillas and then some cheese on top now you can add chicken to this you can use canned chicken I love to use this shredded chicken this is actually just at walmart super cheap it's great you get a good view there that's okay okay so first we're going to take my refried beans and pour it into a little bowl sometimes they are speaking you know I'm talking about okay I'm going to take my taco seasoning just dump it right into that bowl now I'm not going to use the whole packet because it's kind of strong so I'm going to use about half of it and if you know me you know I like to eyeball all the things okay and we're just going to mix the taco seasoning into the beans now for the fun part so I have my little muffin tin here and I have my tortillas now I heated them up in the microwave because we want to make them into little cups so we're just going to kind of make them into cups I like to press down the bottom so it's a little flat on the bottom I don't know if you can see this very well but yes kind of press it down so I'll just do that a few times well let's do three right now just so I can show you then we're going to add just a spoonful of the refried beans just right into the bottom love refried beans now if you don't like beans you can definitely just use the chicken for this but you're missing out if you don't like beans it's all I gotta say no I'm kidding I'm totally kidding all right then I'm going to add some black beans in here too because it just makes it good so I just literally just do a scoop of black beans next up is just a little bit of cheddar cheese on top we're going to stick these in the oven we want our cheese nice and melty right you're going to bake these at 350 degrees for about five to 10 minutes we're going to go five minutes just to melt the cheese now you can leave them just like this these this is your five ingredients but you guys it's tacos I need a few toppings so I apologize if you add topping they will be more than five ingredients I'm going to add a little bit of tomatoes because I love tomatoes then a little bit of lettuce and then like sour cream I like a little bit of avocado there we go this is our awesome taco cup all right you guys thanks so much for joining us if you want more 30-minute meals I've got some good ones right here all right we'll see you later bye