Golden Chicken & Sweet Potato (NOT!)

This is the recipe (story follows below):

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp veggie oil
  • 2 chicken breasts, defrosted
  • 1 cup chicken broth (I use Knorr Chicken Broth powder and hot water)
  • 1 Tbsp garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp rosemary, dried
  • 1/2 tsp thyme leaves, dried
  • 2 large, peeled sweet potatoes, cut into 1 inch cubes
  • 2 cups veggies – we used green beans

Instructions:

  1. Brown chicken in hot oil, approx 5 min per side.  Remove & set aside.
  2. Stir in broth, seasonings and veggies.   Bring to gentle boil.  Boil 5 minutes.
  3. Cut up chicken into bite size pieces, return to pan.  Reduce heat to simmer.
  4. Cook until chicken is done, and veggies are tender, about 7 – 10 minutes.

Story:

This recipe is loosely based (how I follow all my recipes) on a Campbell’s recipe from my local grocer’s flyer.  It called for Sweet Potatoes, and being myself a brand new, sometimes-strict, self-proclaimed GREEN, CLEAN, and LOCAL eater, I sent my husband out for exactly – SWEET potatoes.  He came back with white potato-looking things.  I quizzed him (he’d call it grilled) emphatically about the labeling of said ‘sweet’ potatoes.

Here’s the recipe picture:

Do those potatoes look WHITE to you?  Perhaps its the wizardry of photoshop I tell myself.  Or maybe gluten-carrying chicken broth has more dye in it (I’m kidding btw).  I have checked 3 different local markets, all our sweet potatoes are WHITE.  Our YAMS are orange!  So I’ve discovered, its all you Americans who have labeled everything wrong.  Just to let you know – those orange things, those are YAMS.  What you want in your recipe here – is Sweet Potatoes.  Yummmm!

PS – the picture of the gorgeous food that I made is being held hostage by my dead phone.  :(

Diet Friendly Pulled BBQ Chicken

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So I’ve been a little adventurous this week with a new ingredient – White Wine Vinegar.  And I’ve had to be a little less kitchen-averse on this diet.  You just can’t pull out a bottle of BBQ sauce and expect to loose weight.  And this recipe?  I’ll never use a bottle of BBQ sauce again – it is THAT good!  If you try this with regular vinegar, let mek now how it works.

Homemade Special BBQ Sauce

  • 2 Tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tsp white wine vinegar
  • 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
  • 4 grams Splenda (or 2 Tbsp brown sugar)
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup water

BBQ Meat:

  • leftover pieces from yesterday’s baked chicken or
  • thinly sliced chicken breasts or
  • thinly sliced pork tenderloin

Cook meat first, or use leftover pieces.  Mix the sauce together, and pour over meat in large skillet.  Heat over medium until boiling.  Reduce heat and simmer for 10 – 20 minutes.  Serve over rice or with potato wedges.

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Curried Chicken & Rice

This was a little different for our gang, but mommy loves curry! This isn’t AT ALL spicy, just the yummy flavor of a little curry thrown in for good measure.

You’ll need:

  • 2 SL BL chicken breasts, cubed
  • 1/2 Tbsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 onion, chopped
  • Campbell’s Chicken and Rice Condensed Soup – GF in Canada- I’m not sure about the US
  • 1 tsp curry powder
  • 1 scant soup can of white rice.
  • 2 cans of water
  • 1/2 cup shredded cheese

Directions:

1. Saute onions with garlic and olive oil, add chicken and curry. Cook until chicken is done.
2. Add chicken to casserole dish.
3. Add everything else into casserole dish (I don’t know about you but whenever someone tells me to mix something in another bowl and then toss it in, I think they must be taking advantage of the kitchen staff, and, well, since I AM the kitchen staff around here, we manage just fine with the whole mix-it-right-in-the-casserole-method.)
4. Cook at 350F for one hour. Top with cheddar 10 minutes before removing from oven.

Of course I forgot to take a picture.

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Fried Rice with Chicken and Broccoli

This came of necessity since I had about 8 cups of rice in the fridge!  I made a tad more than I needed last week.  lol

  • 3 Tbsp oil (I use half olive, half canola)
  • 3 defrosted skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cubed
  • 1 carrot, thinly sliced
  • 1/2 onion, thinly sliced
  • 3 cups of broccoli (I used frozen)
  • 4 cups of cooked rice
  • 1 cup hot water
  • 2 Tbsp chicken bouillion
  • 1/4 cup soya sauce
  1. Cook the chicken in the oil.  Add the soya sauce and garlic.fried-rice
  2. When cooked, add the carrot, onion, and broccoli.  Cover.  Cook for 4 minutes, until broccoli crisp-tender.
  3. Uncover, add seasonings and rice, stir over medium heat until heated through – approx. 10 minutes.

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BBQ Chicken Quesadilla

One of my favorite lunches!

Ingredients (for 4 quesadillas):

  • 4 small brown-rice tortilla wraps
  • 2 Sl BL chicken breasts, sliced thin
  • 1/4 each: green, red bell peppers, and onino, sliced
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 4 tbsp Kraft Original BBQ Sauce
  • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • salsa & sour cream, if desired

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Directions:

  1. Stir fry veggies and chicken over medium-high heat with 1 Tbsp EV Olive Oil 5-7 minutes, until chicken is no longer pink in center
  2. add garlic 1 minute before end of cooking, and turn heat down to low, simmer, being careful not to burn garlic.
  3. Remove from heat, add bbq sauce and stir.
  4. Lay out each wrap on baking sheet. On one half of the wrap, layer 1/4 of the chicken and 1/4 of the cheese.  Fold the empty half over top like a calzone.
  5. Repeat for all wraps.
  6. Bake on 400° for 3-4 minutes until lightly toasted.
  7. Serve with sour cream and salsa.

Low-fat, Low-point, gluten-free snacks

Hubs is just down-right ticking me off with all his weight loss.  He’s winning hands-down.  And don’t even try to tell me that it isn’t a competition.  If it is something we are both doing, then obviously its a competition.

Oh.

That’s not obvious?  Anyway, here’s my observations from raiding his gluten-free snack cupboard:

3-4% MF Cheese

Freybe Turkey Chicken Pepperoni

Smart Pop Popcorn

Chocolate Crunch Rice Cakes

Crispy Minis:  his fav’s are butter popcorn flavor, and caramel

And of course, the absolute best for you:

If you have some secret super-fab snack, let me know!  I’m sure he’d appreciate it.  :D