Monday, March 1, 2010

Low Fat Chicken Recipes

Chicken is one of everybody's favorite dishes. Chewing on the leg gives an individual immense pleasure. However most of the chicken dishes are fattening and adds a lot of calories. Let us at some dishes that are less fattening:

1) Grilled chicken salad

-A grilled chicken fillet
-A slice of tangerine
-A piece of lettuce
-Cherry tomatoes chopped
-5 dots of Tomato Ketchup
-A half cup of low fat ranch dressing.
-Grill the chicken and simply put all the ingredients together.

2) Breaded chicken, Low fat recipes

The Ingredients:

-Two skinless chicken breasts
-One egg white
-Half cup milk
-Clove garlic
-Chopped onion and tomatoes
-Half cup flour
-And spices

Preparation:

1.Beat the whites and milk to combine. Add garlic, onion, salt and pepper.
2. Place chicken in this milk mixture and let stand 1 hour in the
refrigerator.
3. In food processor, process corn flakes along with herbs, paprika, salt
and pepper. Stir into flour.
4. Remove breasts from milk and coat with corn flakes mixture.
5. Place in a baking dish and bake 40 minutes in 350 d. oven.

3) Low Fat Chicken Breast Recipe

Ingredients:

-Four boneless-skinless chicken breasts
-2 cups of plums
-A half cup brown sugar
-2 tsp. fresh squeezed lemon juice
-1 tsp. cornstarch
-1 tsp. ginger
-2 dollops of tomato ketchup
-1 tbsp. plum jelly
-1 tsp. salt
-1 tsp. onion powder
-1 tsp. black pepper

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 400. The chicken needs to marinate for a day. If you use fresh plums, they will need to have the pits removed before using. You can use fresh or frozen varieties of this fruit if you want to. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the plums, the plum jelly, cornstarch, and the tomato ketchup..Now gradually add the brown sugar while stirring. Next, add the tamarind juice and ginger. Continue mixing. Lastly, add the garlic and onion powder, and the black pepper. Once this plum glaze has been mixed well, it is ready to use.

Place each chicken breast, one by one, into the mixing bowl and cover each it with the plum glaze. Do this for each chicken breast. Then put the chicken breasts in a baking pan. You can add one more spoonful of plum glaze to each chicken breast before putting them in the oven if you wish. Bake this dish on 375 for 25-30 minutes.
Remove the pan from the oven. Top each piece of chicken with parsley before serving