Simple Healthy Chicken Recipes?!

Diet is such the worst of four letter words!

Baked, broiled, grilled, sauteed, I'm assuming anything but fried is OK.

I'm also assuming you're talking skinless boneless (which is extra lean, and extra flavorless).

Stir fry with broccoli, celery, water chestnuts, scallion whites, and red bell peppers. Make a light stir-fry sauce of chicken broth thickened with a bit of cornstarch, soy sauce, and a squeeze of lime and a squirt of Sriracha for a zing.

Marinate the breasts in olive oil, rosemary, garlic, and red chili flakes. Grill on the bbq or a grill pan. Toss some long slices or wedges of fresh zucchini and yellow squash and red onion wedges in the same seasonings (not with the chicken). Grill them until they're al dente, or as done as you like. I put mine on the grill when I flip the chicken breasts at the 1/2-way point.

Cut the breast into long strips or get tenderloins. Sautee a bit of chopped onion and garlic in olive oil until soft but not brown. Add the chicken strips and sautee only until barely done through. Splash in some tabasco to taste for low fat Buffalo strips. Serve with braised celery and steamed carrots, or just carrot and celery sticks, like a bar treat.

Marinate the breasts in olive oil, garlic and italian seasoning, or lowfat italian salad dressing for a fast cheat. Put them on a rack over a sheet pan in a preheated 375 oven for 20-30 minutes depending on the size of the chicken, or until 170 on a thermometer. Let rest covered loosely for 5 mintues before serving. For faster cooking, use the same weight of the tenderloins instead of the whole breasts. Serve with roasted brussels sprouts and cauliflower. Toss the cleaned, same size veggies in olive oil, red chili flakes, granulated garlic and kosher salt and fresly grated black peper; cook on a sheet pan at 375 - 400 about 30 - 35 minutes, until lightly browned outside and creamy inside.

That's a few ideas; good luck on your diet!

Marinate chicken in italian salad dressing (lite is fine) and then grill on your BBQ grill. You can eat like that, or top w/ bbq sauce.

Poach chicken, chop, and make chicken salad using celery, fat-free mayo, green onions, and halved grapes (your fruit serving). Eat on whole wheat crackers, just w/a fork, or stuff into a tomato (a veggie serving).

Grill as above, cut into strips, and make fajitas out of it. Marinate in Italian salad dressing w/ soem cumin and chili powder added for flavor. Stuff a whole wheat tortilla w/ chicken, pico de gallo (diced tomatoes, onions, cilantro) and corn. Guacamole is nice, too, if you can have a healthy fat.

Pound thinly, lay deli ham inside, then roll up into a "cigar." Bake or grill and dip into honey mustard for a lower fat version of Chicken Corndon Bleu.

I make a big pot of chicken soup every week (I can eat the same thing for weeks) with celery, carrots, a tiny bit of onion, whatever vegetable is on sale--asparagus or green beans, some chicken bouillion, sage, bay leaf, dill and I usually add noodles but you can use quinoa (which I understand is a very healthy grain that won't spike your insulin levels) and I usually add rotisserie chicken (because it has a lot of fat cooked out of it). Very nutritious and satisfying.
Or another thing I eat a lot of is my version of taco salad with salad mix, a little chicken, some crushed tortilla chips, a tiny sprinkle of cheese (there are mexican varieties with very low fat), a little avocado and salsa as dressing.

Make a piece of chicken and a veggie medley with broccoli, cauliflowerr, and carrots with a little salt, pepper, garlic, and butter. And a little fruit medley too but you don't need anything with the fruit. Yummy!

Hope this helps.

Here is one called Chicken Sorrentino Fusilli, on Kitchen Boss
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