Salt Roasted Chicken

This salt roasted chicken recipe is from Ju, Little Teochew.

http://thelittleteochew.blogspot.com/2009/06/salt-roasted-chicken.html

The recipe turned out great ! This is so easy and the skin is crispy and meat is so moist ! Definitely a keeper

To summarize the recipe, clean the chicken, pat it dry, garlic in the chic cavity , then roast at 420-440F for ~ 1 hour until it is nicely browned.

Enjoy!

Addictive Crispy Kale

How to make a carnivor eat vegetable ? How to make healthy snack and avoid eating chips? I think i have a good answer for that ! I stumble upon crispy kale recipe in Steamy Kitchen's blog and decided to try it today. It did not disappoint. It was really good and like its name, it's addictive. I guess next time , i will try it with Kai lan ( chinese brocolli)

Recipe
1-2 tb olive oil
Big bowl of kale green
salt to taste
1-2 ts garlic powder
2 ts cayenne pepper

1) Clean kale and remove from stems
2) Break kale into small bite size pieces
3) Dry with paper towel
4) Add olive oil , garlic powder , cayenne pepper and toss to coat
5) Bake in preheated 350F oven for 12 -20 minutes
6) Add salt to taste

ENJOY !

Healthy Pasta Salad

This is a quite healthy vegetables loaded lunch with Omega 3 from tilapia! I love this simple and easy recipe and would like to share it with you. The nice thing about salad is that you can basically add in any vegetable that you like and mix it with the dressing and it will turned out to be a good meal !

Ingredients
1/4 box macaroni
1 slice low fat cheese
4 tablespoon low fat mayonaise
1 tablespoon yellow mustard
1/2 tb garlic powder
1/2 tb dry parsley
1/2 cup of broccoli florets
1/2 cup corns
1/2 cup green peas
dash of pepper to taste
dash of sat to taste
2 tilapia fillets marinated with salt and pepper
1 ts vegetable oil

1) Bring 2 large pot of lightly salted water to boil
2) Add pasta and cook for 5-8 minutes until al dente in one pot and cook brocolli , corn and peas in another pots for 3-5 minutes
3) Drain brocolli, peas and corns and rinse in cold water. Drain the pasta and stir in one slice of cheese until melted
4) Heat 1 ts oil in a non stick skillet over med heat
5) Sear tilapia about 5 minutes each side or until just cooked
6) Mix mayonaise, mustard, parsley, brocolli, corns, green peas, and garlic powder in a bowl
7) Lastly, add in the fish and if you prefer big chunks, just slightly break the fillet and mix in with the salad
8) Add salt and pepper to taste

Cream Of Broccoli

Ingredients

1 lbs of brocolli
1 onion
1 carrot
3 cloves of garlic
3 cups of skim milk
1 tb butter
1 ts nutmeg
1/2 cup white wine
2 tb of sour cream
salt

1) Chopped onion , garlic, and carrot
2) Saute onion, garlic until fragrant with butter in a pan , then add broccoli and carrot
3) Add milk and white wine, simmer for 15 minutes
4) Blend the soup in the blender
5) Add milk until desired consistency
6) Add nutmeg and season with salt to taste
7) Divide the soup into 2 bowls and top the soup with 1 tb of sour cream

Tilapia with lettuce salad

I love to eat conch salad. I had that in Nassau, Bahamas and it was one of the best food that ever i had . This recipe is quite similar with conch salad except that it is not conch but is tilapia. It is a very healthy dinner for those who are looking for healthy recipes

Ingredients

1 onion cubed

1/2 cup chinese parsley chopped

1/2 cup of julienned bell pepper

2 lemons

1 carrot julienned

1 jalapeno chopped

2 tomatoes chopped

1/2 cucumber cubed

3 cups of chopped Romaine Lettuce

salt

1 lbs of tilapia

1/2 lemon

salt

pepper

1/4 cup chinese parsley

Instructions

1) preheat oven to 350F

2) Marinate fish with 1/2 lemon juice, salt and pepper and top it with chinese parsley

3) Bake in oven for about 10 minutes-15 minutes

4) To assemble, layer the chopped lettuce in a bowl

5) Then layer with tomatoes, bell pepper, onions and carrot

6) Squeeze one lemon into the layer

7) Top the layer with cucumber, then another 1/4 cup of the chinese parsley and jalapeno

8) Place the fish on top of the salad

9) Squeeze the remaining lemon on top of the fish and top the fish with 1/4 cup of parsley

Ginger black bean sauce steam tilapia

Recipe
2 tilapia fillets
1 tomato sliced
2 stalks scallions sliced
2 inch ginger ( minced)
1 tb black bean
1 tb fish sauce
2 tb sambal paste * left over from kangkung belacan, recipe in this blog*

1) Marinate tilapia with all the ingredients except tomato and scallions
2) Top tilapia with tomato and steam it for about 10 minutes-15 minutes
3) Garnish with scallions

Grill Salmon

Ingredients

1 tb soy sauce

1 tb worcestershire sauce

pepper

salt

1/2 salmon fillet

1) Preheat oven to 350F

2) Bake for 5-7 minutes

3) Then, broil the fish in oven until brown

4) Serve it hot with mango tomato salad

Strawberry Banana Smoothies

Recipes
1 cup strawberries
1 tb honey
1 banana
5-8 ice cubes
1/2 cup plain yogurt ( low fat is preferred)

Blend everything together and enjoy

Mango-Apple-Blueberry Smoothies for 2

Is fun to play with your food and come up with something tasty and yummy and nutritious! This is one of the mix and match fruits , blend together and Ta.. Da.... Super tasty and healthy smoothies for lunch .

Recipe

1) 1/2 cup of green apple

2) 1 cup of mango

3) vanila low fat yogurt

4) 1/2 cup of blueberries

5) 6 cubes of ice

6) 1/2 cup of cold water

Blend everything together and there you have a healthy, super good for you smoothies :)

Low Carb Caesar salad dressing and crouton

Yeah , yeah , eating healthy post again ! Crouton + Caesar salad dressing = Great salad. I remember the first time i cooked for my mother, i made caesar salad with a packet of crouton and packet of caesar salad mix. There, is my caesar salad which i claimed to make ! Seriously , why do people have to buy crouton and the dressing. It is extremely easy to make and you can whip the dressing up in 5 minutes or maybe less.

Recipes for caesar salad dressing

1 cloves of garlic / 2 ts of garlic powder

1/2 cup of low fat plain yogurt

1 ts worcestershire sauce

1 ts - 2 ts of white vinegar ( depends on preference)

1/8 ts salt

1 lemon

1 tb olive oil

mix everything together , cover

refrigerate until ready to use

Vegetable mix

* 1 slice of green apple , 1 ts chopped chives, 2 tb chopped red pepper , 1/2 cup chopped napa cabbage, tomato , 1/2 cup chopped brocolli

Crouton

Recipes

2 slices od stale bread

1 tb garlic powder

2 tb olive oil

1-2 tb dry basil and parsley

1)Peheat oven to 350F

2) Cut the bread into 1 inch X 1 Inch

3) Toss the bread with garlic powder, olive oil, dry basil and parsley unitl incorporated

4) Bake in oven for about 10-15 minutes ( until dry and brown)

p/s : this is a low carb version, and of course there is a real version of caesar salad out there in google ! :) enjoy !

Mango Lassi

I have been playing with my food so much lately and my current obsession is mango. We used to have mango lassi in indian restaurant for USD 3-4 per drink. It's so EXPENSIVE ! Thanks to google that we can easily find mango lassi recipe EVERYWHERE, and it is so easy to make.

Recipes , serve 2

1 big mango or 2 small mangoes

1 cup of plain yogurt

1/2 cup - 1 cup of milk ( depending on the thickness preference) cold water

5 cubes of ice

How to make it ? well it is not rocket scientist. Just cube the mangoes , and blend all the ingredients in your blender.

Serve immediately and start enjoying the cold, refreshing , sweet , tasty drink ....

Chicken Cordon Bleu

I bought lots of chicken breast in costco recently, with the thought of eating healthy. I usually will get chicken thigh or chicken drumstick, because to me , dark meat usually is tastier and juicier but for the sake of " healthy diet", i just need to make some changes . This chicken cordon bleu doesn't disappoint. It is easy, does not need hours to marinate and is great!

Recipes
3 tablespoon of butter
2 chicken breast
2 slices of cheese
2 slices of ham
bread crumbs
2 tb paprika + cayenne pepper + a dash of salt+garlic powder
Salt
pepper

White sauce
1/2 cup of white wine / shaoxing wine
2 tablespoon of flour /cornflour
1/2 cup of milk/ heavy cream / half and half


1)Preheat oven to 350F
2)Use the back of the knife to pound chicken breast to 1/4 inch thickness
3)Sprinkle salt and pepper on the chicken
4)Place a slice of ham on top of chicken followed by a slice of cheese
5)Roll the chicken and secured with toothpick
6)Coat the chicken with bread crumb+ cayenne pepper+paprika+ garlic powder+ salt
7)heat the butter in a pan, pan sear the chicken about 5 minutes each side, until brown
8) bake in oven for 35 minutes
9) Meanwhile, to make the white sauce, add flour to the pan (with the chicken dripping)
10) Add milk/cream and wine. Cook until thickened.
11) to serve, pour the sauce on top of the chicken. For side dishes, boiled the green peas and brocolli and seasoned with pepper and salt