Lean Tandoori Chicken with Rice

Lean. Tandoori. Chicken. Yum.

 

 

Serves 4 - 6

 

2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
3 T tandoori paste
1 cup thick natural yoghurt
4 chicken breast fillets, cubed
1 T oil
2 brown onions, chopped
1 can chopped tomatoes
steamed basmati rice, to serve
lemon wedges, to serve

1. Place garlic, ginger, tandoori paste, yoghurt and chicken in a bowl. Stir to combine, cover and refridgerate overnight.
   
2. Heat oil in a large pot, add onions and stir until softened. Add tandoori chicken mixture and heat until sauce thickens and chicken is cooked through.
3. Serve with steamed basmati rice, yoghurt and lemon wedges.

 With a view like this, who wouldn't want to cook in my family kitchen!

To finish off, store-bought profiteroles. My goal is to make these one day.

Healthy Fish Burgers

A quick and efficient meal to prepare. If your kids love fish then this could be a winner!
Think of this as a meal base and your imagination is the limit. You could also add more salad ingredients to this recipe, or 'Thai It Up' by adding coriander, beanshoots and chopped red chilli. Coating the fish in your favourite seasoning powder before grilling or frying gives a tasty twist (eg. Cajun, Morrocan, Five-Spice Powder etc...)

Either way, you still have a cost effective, healthy tummy filler.

Serves 2
2 Basa fish fillets
cooking spray
2 Saigon rolls (or large hotdog rolls)
2 handfuls mixed lettuce leaves 
1/2 small cucumber, sliced thinly
low-fat mayonnaise
sweet chilli sauce
salt and pepper, to season

Firstly, prepare salad ingredients and set aside. Slice rolls in half horizontally. Heat a large fry pan, spray with oil. Grill fish until cooked through.

To assemble, drizzle rolls with mayonnaise and sweet chilli sauce. Place lettuce and cucumber on roll and top with the grilled fish fillet. Season and serve.

Saigon Roll, bought from my local bakery.

Mayo and sweet chilli sauce.

Assembled salad items.

Extremely simple.

Moves Today
85 minutes walking

Total Kilojoules Burnt: 2644kj

Tandoori Chicken Salad

Whilst becoming (yet again) excited about using my new camera, I prepared my super-healthy lunch for tomorrow. A rather large lunchbox filled with Tandoori Chicken Salad. My New Year Resolution was to lose weight, so I've been consuming much healthier food and therefore less kilojoules.

My days over the last few weeks have involved hitting the gym, and pavement, hard!! As a result I have lost just over 5kg, and very happy about it! I have a feeling this lunchbox meal is going to be a regular when I go back to work.

Serves 4

Ingredients
600g chicken, sliced
100g tandoori paste
400g natural yoghurt
1 Tbs mint sauce
250g mesclun or mixed salad
4 large tomatoes, chopped coarsely
2 small cucumbers halved lengthways, sliced to your liking

Combine chicken with paste and half the yogurt in medium bowl; toss to coat chicken all over. Cook chicken in large pan until cooked through.

Combine remaining yogurt in small bowl with mint sauce. Divide mesclun among serving plates (or in my case, lunchbox); top with tomato, cucumber, chicken and yoghurt mint sauce.

 600g chicken breast

This Tamar Valley natural yoghurt would have to be THE BEST yoghurt I have ever tasted. Ever. I couldn't believe it was 99% fat-free when I had my first spoonful. Unbelievable!

 

Another bonus? It's Australian!

300kj per 100grams. Not the best for those on a 'strict' diet, however there is very little fat and it's low in carbs. Oh, and it tastes SOOO good!!

Combining chicken, yoghurt.....

....and tandoori paste.

The outcome!

To make the sauce.....

...add the mint sauce (I used this small sachet I found in the pantry beause I'm not too keen on mint).....

....add to yoghurt, and you have your extremely simple Yoghurt and Mint Dressing.

Since I was only making one serving of alad for lunch tomorrow, I chopped up one tomato....

.....half a small cucumber.....

 ...and place both of these ingredients into my lunch container, topped with the yoghurt dressing.

I then added the mixed mesclun. I like to add the lettuce leaves on the top of my salad when packing my lunch the night before. This prevents the lettuce leaves from becoming squashed and flattened by all the other ingredients in the salad overnight. The result? A plump, airy, fresher salad the following day.

Now that you salad is assembled, fry your chicken....

 ...and place on top of your salad. Easy!

Move Today
90 minutes walking
30 minutes running
23 minutes cycling

Total Kilojoules Burnt = 5109kj

Saudi Baklava

I've tried a lot of Baklava in my time, but this was heaven!! Not too sweet, not oily at all, and NOT drowning in the sticky, honey mixture that you usually tend to find with some Baklava. This was a balance of those good things associated with this sweet pastry dessert / snack, as well as containing a mixture of pistachio and peanut pieces.

 Pistachio Baklava

 These ones were my fav!

Peanut Baklava