Your favourite healthy, low fat, easy to prepare meal?
DH and I need to get a handle on our eating. I have started using some bad habbits and making our meals a bit too fatty. I am aware of what healthy eating and cooking is but my ways of preparing food and the meals I am making are less than ideal!
I used to have lots of healthy meals I made several years ago when I was doing weight watchers and actually trying to make healthier choices (which is why I was 25++ kg's lighter!) but I have all but forgotten them now and I donated my healthy eating cook books cause I just wasn't using them. After I have bub, I am going to get a subscription to the Weight watchers mag for inspiration but for now...
What are your fave low fat meals which are easy to make? Tonight we had crumbed pork leg steaks (or chicken nuggets to the kids!) with a plain garden salad and tinned 4 bean mix. I so wasn't looking forward to it, but it was yummy!! I think my taste buds are getting used to the heavier fattier meals I have been making... no wonder I'm so fat! (Besides being pg!)
i love a simple steak with salad & a baked potato or vegies. i don't like fat on meat so i get very lean steak & then just do it in the frypan without any oil or on a grill pan.
have a few more but we're about to head out for dinner so i'll be back later!
parmagiana - slice a chicken breast flatways to get two thin pieces. Lightly spray with olive oil and grill. Put on an oven tray. Top with a spoonful of tomato paste, low fat ricotta and a sprinkle of low fat grated cheese. Pop in a preheated oven about 180 for a few minutes until cheese has melted. Serves 2 and have a salad or steamed veg with it.
In a non stick pan add a head of broccoli florets an 1/8 of water, some minced garlic, and a dot (and I mean a dot) of sesame oil. put the lid on the non stick pan and turn it down to low so the water simmers and steams the brccoli. Once it seems soft enough add some soy and crank the heat with the lid off and give it a bit of charring. Then serve with the pan fried salmon and steamed rice. The whole meal takes as long to cook as the rice as the broccoli takes about 10 mins, the salmon about 6-7 mins and whatever method you use to cook the rice.
This is actually my kids "Special Dinner" that they request when they are allowed to have whatever they want... it even beats take away
Mine is a pasta sauce - some nice ripe tomatoes (maybe 4) - diced (I dont bother skinning them, but you could if you wanted to), 1 chopped shallot (or small onion), 1 crushed garlic clove, fresh thyme, parsley and oregano (I have these in my garden!) and a bay leaf and some verjuice or white wine (about 1/3 cup).
Gently fry the shallot/onion and garlic in a small amount of olive oil. when softened, add tomatoes until the juice is being released. Add herbs and season with salt & pepper. when the juice is begining to disappear, add the verjuice or white wine. Cook on a medium heat (simmer) until reduced and serve over freshly cooked pasta. Is soooo yummo! I add some parmesan over it too, but you don't have to - it's absolutely delicious anyway!
We eat healthy but easy dinners just about every night so i will give you some of our favs.
-Chicken Rissole Burgers.
I get my butcher to mince me up 1/2 kg of chicken breast then add a clove of minced garlic, 3 schallots, some breadcrumbs, an egg and salt and pepper. Crumbed low fat fetta or tasty cheese also tastes great but it's still yum without.
Make into patties and spray pan with olive oil. Cook until browned and cooked through, takes 15minutes ish.
Put onto wholemeal flat rolls with avocado, cucumber, beetroot, grated carrot, lettuce tomato and tomato sauce if you like it. This is a delicious, filling and healthy dinner that seems to satisfy everyone.
Lamb Wraps -
Cook diced or stirfry strips of lamb with salt and pepper and some fresh rosemary.
In a seperate pan cook some onion.
Wrap in Chappata wraps with tzatziki, tomato, shredded lettuce and cucumber
Yum
We have basic meat or marinated meat and salad alot and heaps of chicken. Chicken rice paper rolls are good, chicken kebabs on the bbq. Loving chicken marinated with rosemary and dijon mustard cooked on the barbie right now and i reckon it also pays to invest in really good non stick cookware. If we have potato it is usually either chips cooked in the oven with cooking spray or rosemary and sea salt potatoes. Cut a potato into cubes, one for each person, spray with olive oil and spinkile with fresh or dried rosemary or other herbs you like and sea salt. Yummy little morsels.
Another fav at the moment is chicken turkish stacks. I cut the chicken into strips, cook with salt and pepper. Meanwhile cut the turkish into quaters and halve the quaters. Flatten these in the sandwich press then remove when they have some colour. Cut into triangles, spread with soy mayo or whatever you like and heaps of salad then another layer of the mayo turkish and the chicken. mmm
Anyway i'm going to cook our dinner now as i'm hungry but hth give you a couple of ideas.
thinly slice the garlic, peeled ginger, and chilli. Put in a bowl
Combine soy sauce and sherry in a bowl/cup/jug.
Heat wok. Dry fry the cashews until golden (don't have the wok too hot as they go black quickly). Remove cashews and put to one side.
Add oil to wok. Stir fry ginger, chilli, and garlic 1-2 minutes or until fragrant.
Add snowpeas. Cook 2-3 minutes. add liquids. Cook until liquids are heated through. Add cashews and mix through. Serve! YUMMO!
If you don't like spice or hot spice, I used the larger sweet chilli and it turned out really well. When I can't get the sweet red chilli, I use red capsicum but that doesn't taste as good!
When I make this, DH and I fight over who's taking the left overs for lunch the next day! Oh, and that is suppose to serve 4 as a side.
Ooohh, yummeeee!! They all sound lovely! I used to cook so healthily used minimal oil and non fatty meats ect, but now I just do what's easy! I have gotten out of habbits I need to get back into and yoru recipes are inspiring me to do it!
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Your favourite healthy, low fat, easy to prepare meal?
no wonder I'm so fat! (Besides being pg!)
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