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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Hey everyone!

Today I ate the most amazing dinner. It was sooo easy to make as well. Took about 20 minutes to cook and about 5-10 minutes to prepare. 

First of all before you read the recipe, I absolutely hate counting calories or measuring how much food I putting in my meals. It makes me feel depressed. Instead I just eat until I'm satisfied and I try to stay away from food with empty calories. So if you want to know how much calories you're in taking you'll have to count it yourself. Sorry! =( I just find it boring and frustrating to count exactly how many calories I'm eating. It takes the joy of the food away from me. I feel like to really enjoy a dish then there can't be a number attached to it, as long as it is healthy. Control is key here. 

Anyway...back to the recipe! 

So for all those salad haters, as I am, I was completely surprised when I fell in love with this salad. It was slightly sweet, slightly salty, and the chicken made it even more filling. 

Alright so I'm calling this dish, Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad. Very creative right? ;) 

Ingredients: 

-skinless chicken breast
-Italian bread crumbs
-diced garlic
-Plain Greek yogurt (0% fat) 
-Spinach
-One tomato
-Half a cucumber
-One medium size carrot
-Half an apple 
-A little Ceasar Salad Dressing
-Oil

Directions: 

Preset the oven to 350 degrees 
For the chicken
-Cut the chicken into squares and put the chicken into a bowl
-In another bowl mix the garlic and Italian bread crumbs. I just put in as much as I thought would work for the chicken, about one spoonful of garlic and a cup of bread crumbs. 
-Put in two-three spoonfuls of Greek Yogurt into the bread crumbs and mix.
-Mix the Yogurt/Bread crumbs with the chicken. I ended up using my hands to mix it so the bread crumbs evenly spread across the chicken.
-Take a pan or two (depends on how much chicken you're making), put a little oil in it. I used a small amount of vegetable oil since I'm out of olive Oil. And spread the chicken in the pan so it's pretty even across the pan.
-Cook the chicken for about 20 minutes or until it's done. I would check it at 15 minutes, but it took my oven 20 minutes.

For the salad
-Once the chicken finishes, take a large bowl and put in a few handfuls of Spinach and then rest of the vegetables and fruit.
-Place the chicken on the top and dribble a little bit of Ceasar salad dressing on it. Don't go too crazy with the dressing, otherwise it'll become more dressing than vegetables.

And voila! A complete, filling, and delicious dinner. I didn't eat anything else for dinner and I'm completely stuffed. 

Happy eating your Daily Vegetable!! 

1 comment:

  1. Cool idea Tami!! I love the recipe! Can't wait to see more!

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