Category: chicken

Burrito Bowl

Burrito Bowls are great, they are an amazing thing to sit down and share on a cold day, one of my favorite Mexican dishes and I believe everyone can enjoy this, yes, it does take time but not something you need to have a lot of skill to make, just time!

Phase 1 Chicken

Chunk up some boneless chicken breasts, you can use chicken thighs if you’d prefer.

Mix in 2 spoons of minced garlic, some liquid smoke (You don’t need a lot, or it will taste like a shoe.)

Lots of black pepper, some Lime juice, some honey, Paprika, onion powder, and some ground cumin.

Lets this marinate covered for at least 2 hours, for best results, 24 hours.

We used the slow cooker to cook this over 6 hours on low with a bit of wine, and apple cyder vinegar and some water.

Phase 2 Mexican Rice

Take a strainer and put in 2 cups of rice and rinse until the water is clean, this will clean the starch off of your rice and then make it, we used a slow cooker.

We then used a wok to cook the rice mix.

1 Onion and Jalopino put through the food processor and then added to the rice

We used 2 cans of drained corn into the rice.

And some lime juice and then a can of crushed tomatoes.

Mix this well and cook well.

Phase 3 Black Bean Mix

We put 2 onions in a food processor, and then to the frying pan we added 2 cans of black beans, and no we did not drain them we want the liquid, and added some paprika, pepper, cumin and garlic and cooked this till the beans were nice and hot.

Phase 4 Chipolete Mayo

In a food processor we added 3 cans of chipotle peppers in adobe sauce

In a bowl with your now pureed chipolete we added some lime juice, mayo (no miracle whip guys, please.) some sour cream, apple cyder vinegar mix well.

Phase 5 Plate

I would take a huge plate, and a very small bowl, in the small bowl put your mayo in and set in the center of your large plate, and then add every piece of the meal and display well

This is a great meal, you can make guacamole and add lots of different things to it, make it your own, burrito bowls are an amazing treat, and yes they do take some time to make, but its worth every moment, I know my wife loves it!

Fettuccine Alfredo

Fettuccine Alfredo is a great dish, tastes amazing and one of the more expensive dishes you can get when you go out to eat, and how awesome would it be to be able to share this with your partner and server her a better dish than she would if you went out! I think your date would be super impressed.

Phase 1 The Noodles.

Cook the noodles as directions tell you, however when your done you want to save a bowl full of the water.

Phase 2 Garlic and Onion

Cut up your garlic and onion, start cooking them to caramelize them with salt and pepper. When they are done put them through a food processor to make them into a puree.

Phase 3 Chicken.

Cube the chicken and then cook it, just salt and pepper is fine.

Put it aside when done.

Phase 4 Lets get cooking!

Lets pour some oil in your wok (or large frying pan)

You want to have half a thing of butter, cut up to make melt easier.

Once the butter is melted or close enough dump some heavy cream in.

Then a bowl full of your pasta water (You can dump the rest now, but the flavor of the water is better than just using regular water.)

Pour in some onion and garlic puree, if you had too much you don’t have to have it all just what you want.

Have some grated cheese, I prefer to use blocks and just shred it on my own and on this I would use 1 block, you can use 2 half blocks of different cheese if you like.)

Add the cheese in slowly until its melted, and its important to keep stiring.

Add your chicken (if you prefer to do this vegan just skip the chicken all together.)

Now add your noodles, and at this point let it cook and simmer for another 5 minutes.

This is an awesome meal, and one to impress, its really not a lot of work, but to someone else it may seem like it, I hope you like, what do you think.

Chicken Biryani

Do you like Indian food? Do you like it hot and spicy, do you want a taste of something authentic Indian? Chicken Biryani is one of the best dishes you can make, and it tastes amazing, and is super easy and simple to make!

Phase 1 Biryani spice mix.

In a small bowl (Or re usable container you can store spices in mix some

  1. Cuming.
  2. Coriander.
  3. Ginger.
  4. Tumeric.
  5. Cinamon.

Mix that together.

Phase 2 Cube the chicken.

Cube up some chicken breasts, or chicken thighs, either works well, chicken thighs offer more fat and gives a bit more flavor, but breasts will work well too.

Phase 3 Prep work.

Cut up some ginger, and 4 onions and a few cloves of garlic and have 2 cups of rice made on stand by.

Phase 4 Cooking.

  1. Fry up and caramelize 4 onions and garlic.
  2. Add chicken cubes make sure its cooked down, no raw chicken.
  3. Add the spice mix.
  4. Mix everything very well.
  5. Add plain Greek yogurt.
  6. Add a can of crushed tomatoes, you can use tomato soup if you have that.
  7. Add a bit of water, and keep mixing well.
  8. Add some chili sauce.

Serve on top of rice.

We hope you enjoy this, we really enjoy this dish, its a good pick me up and honestly, with its flavor and amazing taste, its something you and your family will really enjoy!

Butter Chicken

This is our butter chicken video, one of the older videos, and honestly it was one of my favorites, who doesn’t like butter chicken, it tastes amazing, and you can make it hot, but you don’t have to, and I think anyone who likes Indian food will tell you they love butter chicken.

I would always encourage you to try to make this if you never had it before, as it is one of those dishes that is simply amazing!

A few things to note, when marinating the chicken you can add some plain fat free Greek yogurt, and when it comes to salt there is a low or no sodium salt you can use and it does make a difference.

Phase 1 Marinating the chicken

Ingredients for phase 1

Boneless chicken thighs

Salt

Garlic Powder (or minced garlic)

Ginger Powder (Or minced ginger)

Onion Powder (or minced onion)

(You can optionally add plain Greek yogurt)

Phase 1

  1. Cube up the chicken thighs.
  2. add the above spices and yogurt if your going to use it.
  3. Let this marinate between 20 minutes to 24 hours.
  4. If your going to add some hot peppers or spice the longer its marinated the hotter its going to be and the better flavor youll have!

Phase 2 Gravy part 1

Ingredients for Phase 2

  1. 2 Onions.
  2. Extra virgin olive oil.
  3. A whole garlic.
  4. Garam Masala.

Phase 2

  1. In a large frying pan put the heat on with some extra virgin olive oil let it heat up.
  2. Chop up the onions and garlic.
  3. Add the onions and garlic and we want to get the onion caramalized.
  4. Mix in the garam masala mix.
  5. Mix everything

Phase 3 Cooking the Chicken

This is simple and easy just fry up your chicken, get it fully cooked, you don’t want to be eating bad chicken.

Phase 4 Finishing up

Phase 4 ingredients

  1. Rice wine vinegar
  2. 2 cans of crushed tomatoes
  3. Half a box of butter
  4. Red pepper flakes
  5. Whipping cream

Phase 4

  1. In your pan with the carnalized onions, add some rice wine vinegar.
  2. Add in 2 cans of crushed tomatoes.
  3. Take this portion and add to a blender or food processor to make smooth and then replace back into the pan.
  4. Chop up the butter into smaller sticks and add it into the gravy and make sure the butter is melting down.
  5. Put the cooked chicken in.
  6. Add some red pepper flakes.
  7. Add some whipping cream in.
  8. Make sure to keep stirring.

This is basically it, there are other spices you can add, and you can make keep improving this, and this is a yummy base for making an amazing meal!

I would serve this with rice and some nan bread, and honestly it is an amazing meal! Enjoy Bon Appitite.

Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai

Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai is an amazing dish, easy to make with a bit of work at the start, but it is amazing and also very easy to make into a pure vegan dish if you wanted.

This is an absolutely amazing meal, tastes so amazing and very rewarding to eat, and you will be proud of yourself!

Phase 1 Spaghetti Squash

To start preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and get yourself a very sharp knife and cut your squash into quarters.

Clean out the center of the seeds and garbage like you would a pumpkin.

Put it on a baking tray and lightly oil the tops and bottoms of your squash.

Bake it at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Once done put it on a cooling tray, and leave it cool off for 30 to 60 minutes, there is no rush on this, as it stays very hot and will burn you.

After the squash is cooled off enough take a fork, maybe 2 and pull the insides apart, like your pulling pulled pork, it will look like spaghetti noodles, very amazing once you see this for the first time.

Put the noodles in a container and set aside.

Phase 2 Chicken

Take 1 chicken break cook it up with pepper, ginger, and if you have low or no sodium salt you can use that too.

Once that is cooked up cut your chicken breast into small pieces.

Remember this is not the main part of the meal, so its not a big deal here, if your looking for a vegan option just leave it out.

Phase 2 veggies

Ingredients

  1. Ginger
  2. Green Peppers
  3. Onions
  4. Cucumbers
  5. Radishes
  6. Peanut butter
  7. Spinach
  8. Hot sauce – you can replace this with another type of sauce or dressing if you are not into heat

Dice your veggies up and then start to fry them with your spinach being last make sure you have the amount of sauce you want, you can use more than 1 type if you want.

Finally put in your spaghetti squash mix it up nice and good.

And now your ready to serve this delicious healthy meal!

Orange Chicken

Orange chicken is a great and healthy meal, very easy to make and is a crowd pleaser!

It does take some time to prep for, and unlike the meal you order from your favorite Chinese restaurant this isn’t deep fried so tends to be a lot healthier, and yeah it packs a punch and tastes amazing!

For the chicken you can go with a whole chicken, chicken breasts or chicken thighs, any would be a great choice!

Phase 1 Broccoli

Cut your broccoli to just heads and cut it down to the size that you want it to be. take a frying pan and put some water in it, enough to cover your broccoli and start to simmer it until the broccoli is nice and soft then drain it and rinse in cold water so that it stops cooking put it into another container with cold water and set aside.

Phase 2 Chicken

Cut your chicken to small bites, pepper it, (if you want salt use that, but we recommend you use Lo-Salt or a low sodium alternative.) and put in corn starch mix together well, in a frying pan with some extra virgin olive oil fry the chicken up until fully cooked then drain your broccoli again and cook it a bit more with the chicken and then set aside.

Phase 3 Orange Sauce

Ingredients

  1. 2 cups of orange juice
  2. 2 table spoons of corn starch
  3. 3 cloves of garlic
  4. 2 table spoons of ginger
  5. A splash of rice wine vinegar
  6. Some honey to taste
  7. Some soya sauce (We like sweet soya sauce)
  8. The orange rind from 1 orange

In a pot on a burner set to medium high add each ingredient one by by one stirring after adding aside from the orange rind, do not add that yet but take your time and stir each ingredient in so that its incorporated once done, cook down for another 5 to 7 minutes until it reduces, then take it off of the heat.

Now mix in the orange rind and stir again, then pour it over your chicken and broccoli mix, now stir in the sauce with the rest of it, and your done, this is best served with cooked rice, you can go all fancy and make some stir fried rice if you wanted to as well!

We hope you like this and enjoy it, and some take aways, is that we don’t need salt (I don’t use any unless its a no or low sodium alternative, honest is a good replacement for sugar, its natural and better for you.

Rinse your rice, cook it and let it sit in the fridge over night for better results.

Chicken thighs offer more fat and better flavor, however chicken breasts are far more healthier, and some times you can get a whole chicken cheaper and would work better, you do have options, so take some time and think about it.