Chicken Pasta Salad

Ingredients :

2 boneless chicken breasts

3/4 cup steak sauce

1 (12 ounce) package fussili or bowtie pasta

2 chicken bouillon cubes

1 medium Vidalia onion, diced

2 avocados, peeled and diced

1 cup halved cherry tomatoes

1 cup blue cheese or ranch salad dressing

How to cook :

• Marinate chicken breasts in steak sauce for 15 to 60 minutes.
• Grill until done and chop into bite−size pieces.
• In a large pot of boiling water, add the bouillon cubes and cook pasta until al dente. Drain and rinse under cold water.
• In a large bowl, combine chicken, pasta, onion, avocados and tomatoes. Add salad dressing, mix and refrigerate until chilled.
• Stir in additional salad dressing when ready to serve, if desired.

Menu Diet Stirred-Fry Mixed Vegetables

Ingredients :

1 tablespoon oil

2 cloves garlic, crushed

1 cm fresh ginger thinly sliced

2 leaves Chinese cabbage, sliced

25 gr shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced

25 gr bamboo shoots, thinly sliced

3 stalks celery, sliced diagonally

25 gr corn

1 / 2 small red bell pepper, seeded, thinly sliced

25 gr bean sprouts

Salt and pepper

1 tablespoon soy sauce

A little sesame oil

1 large tomato, seeded, split 4

Tips:

* To peel tomatoes easily, enter the boiling water for 5 seconds. Remove and put in bowl of cold water. Her skin will be easily exfoliated. Cut four and remove the seeds with small spoon.

How to cook :

1. Heat oil in a frying pan, put garlic, then ginger. Cook until they are fragrant.

2. Enter the chicory leaves, stir briefly. Enter mushrooms, bamboo shoots, celery, baby corn, peppers, sprouts, salt and pepper. Cook for 2 minutes.

3. Put soy sauce and sesame oil, and enter the tomato. Stir for 30 seconds.

Stir-fry mixed vegetables are very helpful for me in doing a vegetable diet. Since applying the breakfast menu and lunch without white rice, a variety of vegetables as much as this helped me overcome the boredom chewing one kind of vegetable in considerable amounts.

The menu in addition to vegetables, I also consume eggs (boiled egg, fried egg, or scrambled egg), or  Japanese Tofu (fried with a little oil), or fried chicken, fried meat, or other meat menus.

Diet Menu White Mustard Oyster Sauce

Ingredients  :

• Several sheets of chicory (according to each individual portion)
• A little cooking oil for sauteing
• Garlic, thinly sliced
• Some items processed meatballs, small pieces
• Soy sauce to taste
• Oyster sauce to taste
• A little sugar

How to cook :

1. Sliced white cabbage

2. Heat oil in a skillet, saute garlic until fragrant.

3. Enter processed meatballs, saute briefly.

4. Enter the white mustard, stir. Enter the oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, stir.

Because chicory has a lot of water content, so no need to add broth or water when cooking this vegetable. However, if you like vegetables berkuah, the broth can be added when the chicory is inserted into the skillet, and cook until boiling. Finally enter the oyster sauce, soy sauce, and sugar.

Notes :

*) Broccoli and mustard greens can also be cooked with meat in the same way. But for the broccoli, boiled with water for one minute before inserting it in a skillet for pan-fried. Or, flush with broccoli in boiling water.

*) Can also be used minced meat instead of processed meatballs.

The next diet menu options menu by using a mixture of vegetables more, but it takes very little time to cook. Of course, the dose / number of vegetables can be adjusted, even some vegetables can be dispensed with, if you do not like it.

A Simple Diet Programme

A diet menu almost certainly does all the focus on lower calories, so it  should be a taboo yes .. all forms of frying food, fatty side dishes (coconut cream, milk, meat) and excessive carbohydrate (rice, potatoes, corn, etc.). Ooh yes, also … candy, chocolate, pastries, crispy crackers and snacks during the diet should not be consumed.

I remember, I have been following a simple diet plan and the sample menus are as follows :

Breakfast : a slice of white bread and baked spread marmalade (making marmalade does not have to use sugar) and one boiled egg (or half done)

Snacks / snack between breakfast and lunch: one apple or pear (xiang li), or star fruit (star fruit)

Lunch : one scoop pressed white rice, one slice of sweet marinated tofu or soybean (may not fried),  a piece of grilled fish, and small bowl of clear vegetable (spinach)

Snacks between lunch and dinner : same as above.

Dinner : the measure is the same as lunch, but the main dish is replaced by a grill or other cooking liquid which is important not fried or not cook with coconut milk.

Drinking much mineral water (hot or cold, it is up to your taste).

If we are discipline, the results will not be a drastic weight loss but quite good.  I lost 1.5 kg within a month. not bad,  right? ...  

During the programme, you may feel heavy and sleepy for about two or three of the first day but afterwards, it will not be a problem.

Diet Menu : Steamed Fish & Vegetables for Crab Wrap

Here is an example of a healthy diet rich in protein, high-fiber vegetables, low in calories. Steamed Fish and Vegetables for Crab Wrap portion of one person one meal (lunch or dinner); eaten without white rice.

Ingridients :
4 sheets of white cabbage leaf width
125 gr white fish meat
125 g crab meat
1 slice ginger
3 / 4 teaspoon salt
1 / 2 tsp sesame oil
1 egg white

Sauce :
75 ml broth
1 tablespoon oil
1 clove garlic chopped
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
a little sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
25 gr carrots
1 tablespoon green peas

How to make :

1. Sprinkle cabbage with boiling water so that Indian mustard become soft and not broken to wrap fish and crab meat.

2. Roughly chop the flesh of fish. Finely chopped ginger. Enter the fish and ginger in a bowl. Enter salt, egg white, sesame oil, and crab meat. Mix well.

3. Place 2 pieces of cabbage leaf on a flat base. Pour the fish and crabs in the middle of the leaf, roll tightly. Do the same on the other 2 pieces of leaf mustard.

4. Steamed fish rolls and crab in a steamer containing boiling water for 10 minutes. Remove and place on plate.

For Sauce:

1. Peel the carrots, thinly sliced thick box 1 / 2 cm.
2. Heat oil in a skillet, saute the minced garlic.
3. Enter the broth, carrots, peas. simmer
4. Enter the soy sauce, oyster sauce, and sugar. Stir.
5. Pour the cornstarch solution, stirring until thickened.
6. Remove and pour into the fish and crab rolls mustard packets that have been cut into pieces.

Low Calorie Diet Menu

Fish is one of the types of foods low in calories. Similarly, the crab meat. The reason people choose fish as a diet is because of the high protein content in fish that are useful for a balanced diet. Of course, how to cook an important role when the purpose of dieting is to lose weight. Avoid cooking fish with a fish fry in oil that much (deep-fried). One of the best ways to cook for those who want to lose weight is by steaming.

Chinese cabbage is a vegetable rich in fiber with a high water content and contain antioxidants that can prevent cancer. Because fiber-rich, chicory can launch a bowel movement and inhibit tumor growth. Chinese cabbage is a good food choice for dieters because of its low calorie (25 kcal per 100 grams) and also because they contain many vitamins and minerals (potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, zinc, fostor, boron, nitrates, beta-carotene, vitamin C, E, K, B1, B2, B6, folic acid and nicotinamide).

Carrots also have fairly low in calories (30 kcal per 100 g) making it suitable for dieting. Content of antioxidants is high so that the carrot carrots good for preventing cancer. High in fiber provide benefit launch defecation. Number of vitamins and minerals in carrots make this vegetable bulbs provide benefits for the eyes, skin and bone. Nutrient content of carrot protruding from the bulb in sodium, potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, copper, zinc, aluminum, phosphorus, chloride, boron, bromide, and nitrate. The content of vitamins are useful for our body is beta-carotene, alphakaroten, vitamin E, B1, B2, B6, C, nicotinamide, pantothenic acid and folic acid. Among the class of vegetables, carrot has the amino acid content (protein) is quite high.

Bean pods have a high fiber content so good to smooth bowel movements. Pea also has benefits of lowering cholesterol levels in the blood.

Steaming is a kind way of cooking food cook with steam. It takes special equipment such as cormorant, or steamer which consists of 2 bunk pan, where the bottom filled with water and food placed in the bottom pot holes. Steaming can maintain flavor, color, and nutrient content in cooked foods (vitamins) are not lost because soluble in water. Steaming is the best cooking methods for fish.

Tomorrow I will post an example of a healthy diet rich in protein, high-fiber vegetables, low in calories.