Showing posts with label Easy Quick and Healthy Recipes For Your Dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easy Quick and Healthy Recipes For Your Dinner. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Cooked Chicken Recipes

These cooked chicken recipes are delicious. Just check these out and I'm sure you'll be amazingly surprised.
So here we go for some cooked chicken recipes:

   White Cooked Chicken

1 whole chicken broth to cover 3/4 way
1 cl garlic, minced
1 tb cornstarch
2 oz dark soy sauce
2 oz dry sherry
2 oz rice vinegar
2 scallions, minced sesame oil
3 ginger slices
3 scallions in 1 pieces
4 ts water
Wash chicken and pat dry. Put in a kettle with broth, scallions, and ginger. Bring to a simmer. Skim off any scum that rises to the surface. Let simmer at lowest heat for 20 min, covered. Turn heat off and let steep for 1 hour. Remove chicken, disjoint, and arrange on a platter.

Take 1 c liquid (saving the rest for another use). Bring to a boil and reduce by half. Add soy sauce, sherry, garlic, and vinegar. Mix in cornstarch mixed with water. Cook until thickened. Taste for seasoning, correcting with salt as necessary. Add scallions at the last moment. Pour sauce over chicken and flick a few drops of sesame oil over the top. Serve warm or cool.

  Chicken Cooked With Rice

1 1/2 c long grain white rice
1 1/2 tb peanut oil
1 tb light soy sauce
1 t cornstarch
1 t salt
2 ts sesame oil
2 ts dark soy sauce
2 ts minced peeled fresh ginger
2 ts rice wine or dry sherry
8 oz boneless chicken thighs with skin removed
Garnish
1 tb dark soy sauce
2 tb finely chopped scallions

Put rice in clay pot or medium sized pot with water to cover about 1 inch. Bring rice to boil; cook until most water evaporates. Reduce heat to low and cover tightly. Coarsely chop chicken; combine with soy sauces, wine, salt, sesame oil and cornstarch. Heat wok or large sauté pan until hot. Add oil and ginger; stir fry for 10 seconds. Add chicken, and stir fry for 2 minutes.

Pour the contents of wok on top of the rice, cover, and continue to cook for 10 minutes. Just before serving, drizzle the soy sauce on top of the rice and garnish with the scallions.

That's it for today! If you want more cooked chicken recipes just check below:

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Cooking Light Recipes - 2 Easy Quick and Healthy Recipes For Your Dinner

If you already had a full meal for lunch, you most likely don't feel like something so filling again for supper. If you want to eat healthy and balanced, then it's a great idea to choose something light for dinner, especially if your lunch had quite some calories today. And seeing that you already cooked, you definitely don't want to stand behind the stove again, so it should be an easy non-cooking recipe.

Here are 2 easy quick dinner recipes which are light and healthy. Both of them make four servings.
  • Mixed salad with whole grain rolls
  • Noodle and mushroom soup

Light dinner recipe #1: Mixed salad with whole grain rollsIngredients
  • 1 medium lettuce
  • 2 red and 2 yellow peppers, sliced
  • 250 g fresh mushrooms, sliced
  • 200 g feta cheese, cut into small cubes
Dressing:
  • 4 tbsp. olive oil
  • 2 tbsp. lemon juice
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 1 pinch freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp. thyme
  • 4 whole grain rolls
Wash the salad, tear it into pieces and drain it. Then mix it with the other ingredients. For the dressing, simply mix all ingredients well, pour over the salad and mix thoroughly. Serve with the rolls. This recipe won't take you more than half an hour, and it doesn't require any cooking.

Light dinner recipe #2: Hawaiian Toast 

Ingredients
  • 8 slices of brown toast
  • low-fat margarine
  • 8 slices lean ham
  • 1 large can pineapple rings or peach halves (should contain 8 rings or halves)
  • 8 slices low-fat cheese
  • yellow curry powder
Preheat the oven on maximum temperature. Spread the margarine on the toast and place it on a baking tray covered with baking paper. First put a slice of ham on each toast, then a pineapple ring and a slice of cheese. Grill the toast for approximately 5 minutes until the cheese has melted and slightly browned. Sprinkle a bit of curry on and serve. Done within half an hour, too.

Now, enjoy your light dinner and come up with more ideas yourself. You can put anything into your salad, be it vegetables that can be eaten raw or fruit, or both. Just choose foods that go quick to prepare. You can also adapt the toast. Maybe you prefer the grilled chicken stripes that you got in your fridge from yesterday's lunch with tomato to ham and fruit. Many light soups are also very quick and easy to make if you use canned veggies and leftover rice or soup noodles.

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