Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 March 2014

The Green and Beige Salad

This is probably one of the ugliest salads since there is a serious lack of colour as it is completely only beige and green, but do not discount it based on that; it is very healthy and easy to make on days you are in a rush. I love eating this salad as a complete meal for dinner when I am rushing home from school and off to work and it makes great use of any leftover chicken you may have. I used to make this recipe with couscous and to be honest it tasted a lot better with that but to increase the nutritional value I substituted it with quinoa and only use that in the recipe now.

Ingredients:
Romaine Lettuce (around 6 pieces off the stalk or if you have a premix you can use about half of the package)

1/2 of a leftover chicken breast (or if I'm making fresh chicken I like to season it with Jerk Seasoning)
~10 Croutons
Half of a large cucumber slices
1/2 cup of quinoa
1 tbsp olive oil
Lemon Herb Seasoning-I like to use brands with no added salt

Toss this all into a large bowl and eat! Quick, simple and healthy!

-A

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Thai Peanut Chicken Skewers

It doesn't look super appetizing but the picture just doesn't do it justice

This is probably my all time favourite recipe I have created so far. I came up with it when I was maybe around 14, and it has been a family favourite since. I can’t say it’s the healthiest recipe ever, it has some sodium in it from the soy sauce, but this can be slightly mitigated by using sodium-reduced soy sauce. Other than that, its pretty healthy and simple to make, and you can use to it to just marinate your chicken breast, or make it a little more fun by putting it on skewers.

Ingredients:
2 large chicken breasts
Ginger
2 tsp Red Chili Flakes
Half of a lemon
½ cup Peanut Butter (All-Natural)
2 tbsp water
2 tbsp Soy Sauce (Reduced Sodium)
3 cloves garlic
1 tbsp brown sugar

Step 1: Cut the chicken breasts into long, thin strips about an inch wide. Place in a bag, or in a container-whatever you use to keep chicken while it is marinating

 Step 2: In a small bowl grate the ginger, squeeze in the lemon juice, mince the garlic, and add all of the other ingredients, and whisk with a fork until smooth. Pour this mixture over the chicken and coat it well. Allow the chicken to marinate for as long as possible, minimum being an hour for the best taste

Step 3: While chicken is marinating soak around 4-6 long skewers in water, so that they will not burn when being cooked

Step 4: Once the marinating time is up, thread chicken lengthwise onto the skewers. Cook on the convection bake setting at 375 degrees for 25 minutes. 
-A