Chicken Cordon Blu

Not the healthiest dish but super good nonetheless.

Ingredients:



Instructions:

Butterfly your chicken breasts. Place on cutting board with plastic wrap over and pound until 1/4 inch thick. Salt, pepper and sprinkle cayenne on both sides of breast.

Take out three shallow dishes. In the first one mix flour, salt, pepper, and cayenne. In the second beat two eggs and in the third one breadcrumbs.

Heat cast iron skillet with a little oil. Turn on oven to 350 degrees.

On the flattened chicken breast place ham then swiss cheese. Roll and tie with butchers twine.

Dust breast in flour. Move to egg then to breadcrumbs. Place in skillet and brown on all three sides. When you flip chicken to brown on fourth side immediately transfer to oven.

Cook until chicken is done about 20 minutes.

Sauce:

Sauté onions and garlic in butter salt and pepper. Once translucent add flour and whisk to make a slurry. Add cream. I have used half and half as well as nonfat milk. However, if you use milk make sure mixture never reaches a boil, it will make your sauce grainy. Stir. Add red pepper flakes, rosemary, and chicken stock. Simmer and stir until thickened.

Greek Salad

Fresh and tangy ... So healthy and delicious.

Ingredients:

3.5 oz cubed feta cheese
2 small tomatoes
1/2 cucumber
1/4 red onion
Handful of pitted calamata olives
3 garlic cloves smashed and chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
Juice of half a lemon
Squeeze of honey
Salt
Pepper

Instructions:

To make dressing whisk oil, vinegar, garlic, honey, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Add rest of ingredients and combine gently. Chill and serve.

Sriracha White Bean Dip

This recipe is a little bit spicy but has great flavor and is perfect when accompanied with some homemade pita chips.

White beans are a good source of Protein, Thiamin, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus and Manganese.  You can find additional nutritional values at www.nutritiondata.com  However, beans can be pretty boring and tasteless if you don't have a good method of preparation.

I found this idea / recipe on pinterest and tweaked it a couple a times, adding ingredients, leaving ingredients out, and adjusting measurements until I found this concoction of healthy deliciousness.





Nutritional Facts from Food.com

Ingredients:

8 ounces white beans

3 tablespoons sriracha sauce

1 tablespoon lime juice

1 tablespoon olive oil

3 garlic cloves

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon cayenne

1/4 cup water

2 teaspoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

Directions:

1.) Soak beans in water overnight, then boil until soft.

2.) Place beans in food processor, pulse, and begin to add ingredients.

3.) Make quantity adjustments to taste
 


 

 Thank you for this idea pinterest.  The original idea can be found at here