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Give me your healthy recipes
Re: Give me your healthy recipes
Do you slow cook? If so, stupidly easy Salsa Chicken, I use low fat sour cream, etc.
We put this black bean salsa on baked sweet potatoes and it's sinfully good, I really load up on lime juice.
This wasabi salmon is my favorite ever, super easy.
What kind of food do you like? I tend to think I have healthy cooking in general, not just individual recipes. So, if you tell me what you want to eat, I can probably come up with a healthy way to prepare it.
ftr,I wouldn't have called that salsa chicken linked above healthy due to the canned soup and sodium laden taco seasoning (if pre-bought), so judge my perspective for what it's worth. I'm not criticizing Irishcurls, but I think I may have a different perspective on what's healthy than some.
We eat a lot of chicken. I'm allergic to sea food so I don't make much of I but a recipe I can make one serving fish and the other chicken for me I'd be fine with. We like fruits and vegetables too and normally have a lot on hand since we go to the farmers market on Saturdays.
I guess Im just so tired of grilled chicken and a side of vegetables, but I don't know what else to make. I also love my slow cooker and we have three of them haha.
We're just trying to overall eat healthier, but still enjoy our food.
When I make chicken salsa, all I put in there is black beans, slasa, and chicken. Sometimes I'll add some sour cream or cream cheese (I actually use neufchatel cheese). Most the time I just eat it shredded, without tortilla.
I made this cauliflower pizza today, and I made an extra crust for later (I didnt put the cheese in the crust, and added some ground flax seed)
I'll make stir-fry type meals, no rice for me
Shepard's pie with mashed cauliflower instead of mashed potatoes (South Beach recipe, I can give you if you want, I have to look it up)
I make a ton of roasted veggies to eat with things so I fill up on those- super easy. Just toss veggies (I use broc and cauliflower a lot, also zucchini or mushrooms) in EVOO, some garlic and sea salt (or whatever spice you want) in the oven for like 8-10 minutes at 400 or so.
Beef stew with a lot of veggies, less potatoes, in the crock pot.
We make this tomato chicken meal in the crockpot- chicken, diced tomatoes and a spice packet (we got it from the spice "meal" center with all the packets of things. Its pretty good, we sometimes put it over pasta, I mainly don't.
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Stir fry with whatever veggies you have from the farmers market, plus some diced chicken is easy, cheap, healthy. Serve with brown rice (I use instant b/c eff that 45 minutes for real brown rice). Leftovers can be turned into fried rice with a little olive oil. I love ponzu as a flavor to the stirfry. I also keep diced ginger in the freezer for extra zing.
Shredded seasoned chicken in burritos or fajitas. I shred pre-roasted costco chicken pieces in my food processor. A little lime vinaigrette is all you need for the veg.
If you want a recipe type dish, this is delicious. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/chicken-with-forty-cloves-of-garlic-recipe/index.html I use skim milk with no problems, just a little extra flour.
Chicken cacciatore is another meal type chicken dish that you can easily make healthy and use kitchen sink ingredients. I use whatever wine I have on hand, a can of tomatoes or fresh if available, frozen spinach, and I toss in any veggies I need to use up.
The only PW recipe I use: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/08/crispy-yogurt-chicken/ I use chicken tenders or strips of breast and put them on a salad. H will eat the rest of the chicken for lunches that week, even cold.
I made this last week, using the sodium free broth I'd made from boiling that Costco chicken carcass down. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chipotle-Chicken-Tortilla-Soup-350927 It was pretty good, although in the future I'll make it with dry beans. No green veg, though
This http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Oven-Roasted-Mojito-Chicken-105575 is good. I guess juice isn't necessarily healthy, but H loved it when I made it for a Cuban themed party.