Chicken with Artichokes and Pasta

What you need:

1 jar of mushroom and onion spaghetti sauce (watch out for high fructose corn syrup)
Boneless skinless chicken breast chopped into chunks you can get away with less than 1 per person
1 jar roasted red peppers, sliced and drained
1 large jar artichoke hearts (drained and chopped)
small can sliced black olives
Olive oil
Rotini (I use the high protein pasta)
grated Parm for garnish

Here’s what you do:

• heat up the oil in a large skillet.
• add chicken and cook until no longer pink
• Stir in the pasta sauce, artichokes, olives and peppers
• Heat to boiling stirring every so often
• Reduce to simmer and cook for 10 minutes or so.  (make sure chicken is done)

While you’re doing that cook up some rotini, however much you think looks good. When it’s done combine it with the chicken mixture and serve it up.

Add a little parm on top to make it even yummier.

Lemon Chicken with Spinach and Tomatoes

We had this last night and it rocked my world. Delicious!

Here’s what you need:

Chicken breasts ~ one per person
1 roma tomato per person
1 lemon
1 C fresh spinach per person
chopped garlic
basil ~ fresh or dry
basmati rice

Here’s what you do:

• Get your rice started following the directions as it takes a while
• Zest the lemon and dice the tomatoes and garlic

• Pour a little oil in a pan.  Throw in the chicken. I covered it so it would steam a little too.
• When the chicken is done put it on a separate plate
• Add the tomatoes, garlic, lemon zest and a little basil to the pan
• Add the juice of the lemon you just zested.
• Use medium heat so the lemon juice will reduce fairly quickly.
• When the lemon juice has reduced add the spinach
• When the spinach has wilted it’s done.

To plate it, just put some rice on the bottom, then a piece of chicken and then cover the chicken with the veggie mixture.

Yum Yum. Let me know what you think!!

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Last night I made Hawaiian Burgers for dinner. We had sweet potato “fries” and a mango and pineapple fruit salad with it.

It was my first try at Hawaiian Burgers and they were really good and well received by the family. Thought I’d share the recipe with you.  I was talking to a friend on the phone while I was making them and didn’t follow the recipe very well. They still came out really yummy though.

Hawaiian Burgers

This recipe is for 4 burgers.

1lb ground beef (get the lowest fat you can afford)
1/4 c. BBQ sauce (do your best to find one without High Fructose Corn Syrup)
4 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp Brown Sugar
Canned pineapple slices (reserve the juice)
lettuce leaves
whole wheat hamburger buns
salt and pepper to taste

Ok, this is what you’re going to.

Add the worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper and ground beef in a bowl.  Mix it all up.

In a small pan combine the BBQ Sauce, brown sugar and enough pineapple juice (from the slices) to make a nice sauce. Bring to a boil, make sure to stir frequently.  Remove from the heat when it’s boiling.

Put the pineapple slices on a broiler pan, brush or spoon a little sauce on the top of the pineapple slices.  Broil about 4 inches away from the flame for 3 or 4 minutes. Turn the slices once and brush with sauce.

I used the George Foreman Grill, but you can also throw the burgers on the broiler pan and broil them on each side for about 4 minutes a side.

Now to serve your burgers, put the burger on the bun, add some sauce top with a lettuce leaf and a pineapple slice.

That’s Yummy!

To make this meal even better for Fit Yummy Mummy I added

Sweet Potato Fries

Preheat oven to 450

Just cut a couple medium size sweet potatoes into 1/4 inch matchsticks.

I throw them in a bowl and add a little olive oil and cinnamon.  Mix it all up.

Throw the “fries” on a cookie sheet in a single layer and bake.

The recipe I used said 30 minutes, but after 20 minutes they were pretty blackened on the bottom. So keep an eye on them and make sure you turn them half way through.

I added a fruit salad made from pineapple and mango to this meal ~ I also added some strawberries, just to give it color.

So the motto is Protein and Produce.  This meal adds up quite nicely, and was very delicious.