looking for some healthy, easy recipes for chicken/steak/salmon, etc. ideas?
Byi have two picky eaters (a 2 year old and my husband) and i’m pregnant and trying to make sure i don’t gain too much weight like i did with my first. he’s also in the military and i can’t plan out when he’ll be home exactly for dinner.
thanks for any suggestions!
I like to coat boneless skinless breasts with one of McCormick’s Salt Free seasonings. You may need to pound the chicken if it’s really thick at one end. Sear the chicken on high heat in a stainless steel pan for about 2 minutes a side. You want to carmelize the outside, but not burn it. Put the pan in a preheated 350 degree oven, cook 15-20 mins. This piece of chicken is very versatile.
You can cut it up and put it in pasta with chopped fresh tomatoes, olives, and some olive oil.
You can dress your pasta with a regular pesto or sun dried tomato pesto instead of fresh tomatoes. Pesto is easy, put sun dried tomatoes, fresh parsley and basil and olive oil in a small food processor. Process it into a paste and put on the hot pasta and chicken. You can leave out the sun dried tomatoes and add pine nuts and parmesan instead if you want.
You can slice the chicken and serve it on a roll as a sandwich or you can eat it as is. I serve it with cous cous that I prepare with olive oil and the same spice that’s on the chicken.
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July 10th, 2010 at 2:52 am
I like to coat boneless skinless breasts with one of McCormick’s Salt Free seasonings. You may need to pound the chicken if it’s really thick at one end. Sear the chicken on high heat in a stainless steel pan for about 2 minutes a side. You want to carmelize the outside, but not burn it. Put the pan in a preheated 350 degree oven, cook 15-20 mins. This piece of chicken is very versatile.
You can cut it up and put it in pasta with chopped fresh tomatoes, olives, and some olive oil.
You can dress your pasta with a regular pesto or sun dried tomato pesto instead of fresh tomatoes. Pesto is easy, put sun dried tomatoes, fresh parsley and basil and olive oil in a small food processor. Process it into a paste and put on the hot pasta and chicken. You can leave out the sun dried tomatoes and add pine nuts and parmesan instead if you want.
You can slice the chicken and serve it on a roll as a sandwich or you can eat it as is. I serve it with cous cous that I prepare with olive oil and the same spice that’s on the chicken.
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July 10th, 2010 at 3:32 am
i use the recipes from cook yourself slim website, my kids loved the chicken pasta recipe, and the choclate muffins. My favourite was the sausage and lentil casserole, take at look at all the recipes, the idea is low fat and low sugar. ie substitute sugar for fruit sugar (from health shop) and substitute all fats for olive oil (not too much) Gordon ramsay and jamie olivers recipes are good too.
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