Spice up your Chicken
Chicken. You can’t escape it. And it gets old. If you are a normal person you can flavor it with things like cream sauces and seasonings. If you are a clean eater you can use things like olive oil and white cooking wine. If you are diabetic you can add a dash of natural sea salt. Also, you can eat bread.
If you are a bodybuilder you can look at your plain chicken and sigh. *Sigh*
But I won’t let boring chicken get me down! I decided to use different herb and spice combos to give my taste buds some variety and then pretend I’m eating the real recipe.
Here are the combos I used:
- Lime juice and pepper
- Sesame seed and ground ginger
- Paprika, thyme and pepper
- Parsley and ground sage
Are you a cleaning eating/diabetic/bodybuilder type? How do you make your chicken taste better?
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Cayenne Pepper but I a little zip to my chicken!
That might wake me up!
Lemon, oil and garlic.
Sage, oil and garlic.
I like to roast boneless chicken thighs in the oven marinated in spices, oil etc. It works well with breasts, also.
You can go towards a more oriental spicing–ginger is a must–and make a stir fry with chicken and a ton of veggies. Maybe brown rice? If you have a healthy-ish sauce, it can be even tastier.
I’ve never tried sage with garlic. Will try that next week. Thanks!
THanks for the suggestions. I am somewhere between “clean” and “body builder”….and my husband is French (and naturally skinny like most europeans) so I can’t let him do the cooking, otherwise it’s like (after I’ve eaten) well, I just added some cream to it, or he’ll say I saw your chicken cooking and it looked a little dry so I drenched it in olive oil and butter….Gaah!
LOL! My husband is like that too. Makes me jealous!
I just made chicken! With fresh rosemary and garlic and of course salt and pepper! It was yummy and the house smells so good, now! I seriously love me some chicken.
Haven’t used rosemary in a while. Will add to my cooking list for next week. Thanks!
Tamari, lemongrass, ginger, chili and garlic. 🙂
Hmm. Never even heard of tamari. Will check out at grocery store. Thanks!
i coat my chicken in riceflour with a herb concocion. lemmon peppe is good, as is season all
Never heard of concocion before. Thanks for the suggestions!
oh gawd, talk about terrible spelling – herb concoction and Lemon Pepper
Great blog! I know your pain of getting bored with chicken. Great spice combos I love are:
-Cajun seasoning (Emril makes a great one)
-Adobo pepper sauce (buy the adobo peppers canned with sauce), which is EXCELLENT with butternut squash as well,
-and my recent favorite Tandoori chicken. You can substitute greek yogurt in the marinade to make it healthier. Delicious, and still low-cal/low-fat!!
Good luck!
I miss Indian food! Will have to try the Tandoori chicken. Do you have a recipe you like?
Oh! and don’t forget the Jerk chicken! It’s all about seasoning (low fat/low cal/low carb) and can satisfy your cravings for gourmet!
Mmmm. Must try it! Thanks!