Category: chicken

Homemade Sandwich

Sandwiches are great, but ever wonder why yours looks bad and get stuck buying one just to get one that looks and tastes great?

I’ve been guilty of it, and I know so have you, but here is the thing, you have to consider the quality of meat your using, the type of bread or bun your using, and sauce and how its going together, it really does mater.

So lets take some time and think about it.

Phase 1. The meat!

The meat is a big part of a sandwich, and often if you go to the store and buy sandwich meat, its thin, not as flavorful and just not the best quality around, so what do we do?

In our video here we used chicken, but you can use pork or a beef product, season it to what you like, pepper, salt if you must (I like low sodium myself), maybe some honey, and bake it until its cooked , but you want it moist.

When done take it out of the oven, let it cool and then slice it thin, or however you like it, many of us don’t have a meat slicer and thats ok, (who has room for that anyways.), when done put it in the fridge for a bit.

Phase 2. Veggies.

Cut up your veggies nice and thin, but remember to use veggies that are dry, cukes and tomatoes are nice and all, but they can often be wet and can make your sandwich a soggy mess, so if your going to use tomatoes make sure you are not putting seeds in, this will ruin it, take those out. you want lettuce or spinach or something similar. make sure to have several varieties or your sandwich is going to be boring.

Phase 3. Sauce.

Directly on the inside of the bun on both sides, I like just plain mayo over that, it acts like a lubricant, and helps keep the bread from going soggy, you can do a mayo mix with hot sauce, or mustard or other things to give it a bit more flavor.

You can use other sauces like BBQ sauces, or a vinaigrette, or other tasty sauces you might want to include.

Phase 4. Cheese

You need cheese, plain and simple and to be honest you do not want cheesewiz, you want something of quality, you can get cheese slices, but honestly that brings you back to just making bland crap, so you can buy a block of cheese and cut that up, or go to the deli and buy a really nice block of cheese, trust me the flavor this brings is so electric and amazing, and trust me the cheese that you get from the deli is actual real cheese, and if you’ve never had it, trust me you need to.

Phase 5. Bread

You could use whtie bread, but when you buy a a good quality sandwich is it on white bread, most often it isn’t, why not choose a multi grain, or even better a nice bun, or roll, after all you want the best quality you can get, and this is going to do it.

Phase 6. Putting it all together!

Ok, so here is the fun part, not the most fun part, that is you eating it.

Take your roll and cut it down the middle, or if its bread just use both slices, but put your mayo, or mayo mix on the bottom of each side, this will act as a lubricant, which helps from keeping the juices getting your bread product

Then put some lettuce on the bottom and layering it nicely.

Now you want to take your meat and start layering that as well, giving it a nice presentation and having enough on it to make you happy.

Now start putting your veggies on it one by one, keeping in mind not to put too many veggies on it as it will make it messy and also hard to close, this isn’t a Subway sub, they do give you lots of veggies, but not a whole lot, and in the end it does look good, but the quality isn’t there.

Now your sauce you want to use, and remember do not over load this, or it is going to be messy, you want to have enough you taste and know its there and are happy, but not so much its going to over flow.

Then your cheese, and you want enough of this, especially if its from the deli.

Then lastly some more lettuce and close your sandwich.

The only thing left to do if you really want, you can put this in a pre heated oven to toast it.

But thats all, try this out some time, and if your someone who would enjoy to bring this to your work for lunch, buy the quantities for the week, and do the math, I bet you its cheaper than buying it every day, and honestly your co workers are going to be jelous!

BBQ Chicken Pizza

BBQ Chicken Pizza just happens to be one of my wife’s favorite pizzas, she really enjoys it,. a lot, so this is one I end up making a lot for her.

Pizza is fun to make, you can buy your crust, you can make it, and I would encourage you to get a bread maker, with the price of bread these days making your own would be so much more simple and cheaper, and making pizza dough is so much easier that way.

In this recipe I’m going to let you choose how you want your own dough, I did not include a dough making recipe as I use a bread maker, and I’m aware that not everyone does.

So lets take some chicken breast chunk it up and start cooking with it, use any spice you want, its more your taste, you can make it hot, or not the choice is yours, Make sure your using some BBQ sauce as you cook it. I would say no salt, and use pepper and garlic to it.

Make sure your chickens is fully cooked.

At this time I would go ahead and pre heat your oven to 500 degrees.

Now on your pizza dough, add a layer of BBQ Sauce, now this sauce should be something you really enjoy a good flavored BBQ Sauce will go a long way instead of just a cheap flavorless one, we are not going to be using a tomato based sauce for this just a BBQ Sauce so lets make it good.

Put your chicken over it so there is a good coverage of it.

Add some chopped up onion green pepper and mushrooms over it.

And finish off with some nice shredded cheese (Please shred this your self, pre bought is not healthy and also more expensive so its not worth the money.

When the oven is done pre heating, bake the pizza for 20 minutes, or when nice and golden (Keep an eye on it, every oven is different.)

Thats it, let the pizza cool a bit before digging in, give it at least 5 to 10 minutes, then cut it up and enjoy.

We hope you enjoy this, and try it sometime, Aimee loves sharing this one.

BTW just a side note, yes Pineapple does belong on pizza, js.

Burrito Bowl

Burrito Bowls are great, they are an amazing thing to sit down and share on a cold day, one of my favorite Mexican dishes and I believe everyone can enjoy this, yes, it does take time but not something you need to have a lot of skill to make, just time!

Phase 1 Chicken

Chunk up some boneless chicken breasts, you can use chicken thighs if you’d prefer.

Mix in 2 spoons of minced garlic, some liquid smoke (You don’t need a lot, or it will taste like a shoe.)

Lots of black pepper, some Lime juice, some honey, Paprika, onion powder, and some ground cumin.

Lets this marinate covered for at least 2 hours, for best results, 24 hours.

We used the slow cooker to cook this over 6 hours on low with a bit of wine, and apple cyder vinegar and some water.

Phase 2 Mexican Rice

Take a strainer and put in 2 cups of rice and rinse until the water is clean, this will clean the starch off of your rice and then make it, we used a slow cooker.

We then used a wok to cook the rice mix.

1 Onion and Jalopino put through the food processor and then added to the rice

We used 2 cans of drained corn into the rice.

And some lime juice and then a can of crushed tomatoes.

Mix this well and cook well.

Phase 3 Black Bean Mix

We put 2 onions in a food processor, and then to the frying pan we added 2 cans of black beans, and no we did not drain them we want the liquid, and added some paprika, pepper, cumin and garlic and cooked this till the beans were nice and hot.

Phase 4 Chipolete Mayo

In a food processor we added 3 cans of chipotle peppers in adobe sauce

In a bowl with your now pureed chipolete we added some lime juice, mayo (no miracle whip guys, please.) some sour cream, apple cyder vinegar mix well.

Phase 5 Plate

I would take a huge plate, and a very small bowl, in the small bowl put your mayo in and set in the center of your large plate, and then add every piece of the meal and display well

This is a great meal, you can make guacamole and add lots of different things to it, make it your own, burrito bowls are an amazing treat, and yes they do take some time to make, but its worth every moment, I know my wife loves it!

Fettuccine Alfredo

Fettuccine Alfredo is a great dish, tastes amazing and one of the more expensive dishes you can get when you go out to eat, and how awesome would it be to be able to share this with your partner and server her a better dish than she would if you went out! I think your date would be super impressed.

Phase 1 The Noodles.

Cook the noodles as directions tell you, however when your done you want to save a bowl full of the water.

Phase 2 Garlic and Onion

Cut up your garlic and onion, start cooking them to caramelize them with salt and pepper. When they are done put them through a food processor to make them into a puree.

Phase 3 Chicken.

Cube the chicken and then cook it, just salt and pepper is fine.

Put it aside when done.

Phase 4 Lets get cooking!

Lets pour some oil in your wok (or large frying pan)

You want to have half a thing of butter, cut up to make melt easier.

Once the butter is melted or close enough dump some heavy cream in.

Then a bowl full of your pasta water (You can dump the rest now, but the flavor of the water is better than just using regular water.)

Pour in some onion and garlic puree, if you had too much you don’t have to have it all just what you want.

Have some grated cheese, I prefer to use blocks and just shred it on my own and on this I would use 1 block, you can use 2 half blocks of different cheese if you like.)

Add the cheese in slowly until its melted, and its important to keep stiring.

Add your chicken (if you prefer to do this vegan just skip the chicken all together.)

Now add your noodles, and at this point let it cook and simmer for another 5 minutes.

This is an awesome meal, and one to impress, its really not a lot of work, but to someone else it may seem like it, I hope you like, what do you think.

Chicken Biryani

Do you like Indian food? Do you like it hot and spicy, do you want a taste of something authentic Indian? Chicken Biryani is one of the best dishes you can make, and it tastes amazing, and is super easy and simple to make!

Phase 1 Biryani spice mix.

In a small bowl (Or re usable container you can store spices in mix some

  1. Cuming.
  2. Coriander.
  3. Ginger.
  4. Tumeric.
  5. Cinamon.

Mix that together.

Phase 2 Cube the chicken.

Cube up some chicken breasts, or chicken thighs, either works well, chicken thighs offer more fat and gives a bit more flavor, but breasts will work well too.

Phase 3 Prep work.

Cut up some ginger, and 4 onions and a few cloves of garlic and have 2 cups of rice made on stand by.

Phase 4 Cooking.

  1. Fry up and caramelize 4 onions and garlic.
  2. Add chicken cubes make sure its cooked down, no raw chicken.
  3. Add the spice mix.
  4. Mix everything very well.
  5. Add plain Greek yogurt.
  6. Add a can of crushed tomatoes, you can use tomato soup if you have that.
  7. Add a bit of water, and keep mixing well.
  8. Add some chili sauce.

Serve on top of rice.

We hope you enjoy this, we really enjoy this dish, its a good pick me up and honestly, with its flavor and amazing taste, its something you and your family will really enjoy!

Butter Chicken

This is our butter chicken video, one of the older videos, and honestly it was one of my favorites, who doesn’t like butter chicken, it tastes amazing, and you can make it hot, but you don’t have to, and I think anyone who likes Indian food will tell you they love butter chicken.

I would always encourage you to try to make this if you never had it before, as it is one of those dishes that is simply amazing!

A few things to note, when marinating the chicken you can add some plain fat free Greek yogurt, and when it comes to salt there is a low or no sodium salt you can use and it does make a difference.

Phase 1 Marinating the chicken

Ingredients for phase 1

Boneless chicken thighs

Salt

Garlic Powder (or minced garlic)

Ginger Powder (Or minced ginger)

Onion Powder (or minced onion)

(You can optionally add plain Greek yogurt)

Phase 1

  1. Cube up the chicken thighs.
  2. add the above spices and yogurt if your going to use it.
  3. Let this marinate between 20 minutes to 24 hours.
  4. If your going to add some hot peppers or spice the longer its marinated the hotter its going to be and the better flavor youll have!

Phase 2 Gravy part 1

Ingredients for Phase 2

  1. 2 Onions.
  2. Extra virgin olive oil.
  3. A whole garlic.
  4. Garam Masala.

Phase 2

  1. In a large frying pan put the heat on with some extra virgin olive oil let it heat up.
  2. Chop up the onions and garlic.
  3. Add the onions and garlic and we want to get the onion caramalized.
  4. Mix in the garam masala mix.
  5. Mix everything

Phase 3 Cooking the Chicken

This is simple and easy just fry up your chicken, get it fully cooked, you don’t want to be eating bad chicken.

Phase 4 Finishing up

Phase 4 ingredients

  1. Rice wine vinegar
  2. 2 cans of crushed tomatoes
  3. Half a box of butter
  4. Red pepper flakes
  5. Whipping cream

Phase 4

  1. In your pan with the carnalized onions, add some rice wine vinegar.
  2. Add in 2 cans of crushed tomatoes.
  3. Take this portion and add to a blender or food processor to make smooth and then replace back into the pan.
  4. Chop up the butter into smaller sticks and add it into the gravy and make sure the butter is melting down.
  5. Put the cooked chicken in.
  6. Add some red pepper flakes.
  7. Add some whipping cream in.
  8. Make sure to keep stirring.

This is basically it, there are other spices you can add, and you can make keep improving this, and this is a yummy base for making an amazing meal!

I would serve this with rice and some nan bread, and honestly it is an amazing meal! Enjoy Bon Appitite.

Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai

Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai is an amazing dish, easy to make with a bit of work at the start, but it is amazing and also very easy to make into a pure vegan dish if you wanted.

This is an absolutely amazing meal, tastes so amazing and very rewarding to eat, and you will be proud of yourself!

Phase 1 Spaghetti Squash

To start preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and get yourself a very sharp knife and cut your squash into quarters.

Clean out the center of the seeds and garbage like you would a pumpkin.

Put it on a baking tray and lightly oil the tops and bottoms of your squash.

Bake it at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Once done put it on a cooling tray, and leave it cool off for 30 to 60 minutes, there is no rush on this, as it stays very hot and will burn you.

After the squash is cooled off enough take a fork, maybe 2 and pull the insides apart, like your pulling pulled pork, it will look like spaghetti noodles, very amazing once you see this for the first time.

Put the noodles in a container and set aside.

Phase 2 Chicken

Take 1 chicken break cook it up with pepper, ginger, and if you have low or no sodium salt you can use that too.

Once that is cooked up cut your chicken breast into small pieces.

Remember this is not the main part of the meal, so its not a big deal here, if your looking for a vegan option just leave it out.

Phase 2 veggies

Ingredients

  1. Ginger
  2. Green Peppers
  3. Onions
  4. Cucumbers
  5. Radishes
  6. Peanut butter
  7. Spinach
  8. Hot sauce – you can replace this with another type of sauce or dressing if you are not into heat

Dice your veggies up and then start to fry them with your spinach being last make sure you have the amount of sauce you want, you can use more than 1 type if you want.

Finally put in your spaghetti squash mix it up nice and good.

And now your ready to serve this delicious healthy meal!

Orange Chicken

Orange chicken is a great and healthy meal, very easy to make and is a crowd pleaser!

It does take some time to prep for, and unlike the meal you order from your favorite Chinese restaurant this isn’t deep fried so tends to be a lot healthier, and yeah it packs a punch and tastes amazing!

For the chicken you can go with a whole chicken, chicken breasts or chicken thighs, any would be a great choice!

Phase 1 Broccoli

Cut your broccoli to just heads and cut it down to the size that you want it to be. take a frying pan and put some water in it, enough to cover your broccoli and start to simmer it until the broccoli is nice and soft then drain it and rinse in cold water so that it stops cooking put it into another container with cold water and set aside.

Phase 2 Chicken

Cut your chicken to small bites, pepper it, (if you want salt use that, but we recommend you use Lo-Salt or a low sodium alternative.) and put in corn starch mix together well, in a frying pan with some extra virgin olive oil fry the chicken up until fully cooked then drain your broccoli again and cook it a bit more with the chicken and then set aside.

Phase 3 Orange Sauce

Ingredients

  1. 2 cups of orange juice
  2. 2 table spoons of corn starch
  3. 3 cloves of garlic
  4. 2 table spoons of ginger
  5. A splash of rice wine vinegar
  6. Some honey to taste
  7. Some soya sauce (We like sweet soya sauce)
  8. The orange rind from 1 orange

In a pot on a burner set to medium high add each ingredient one by by one stirring after adding aside from the orange rind, do not add that yet but take your time and stir each ingredient in so that its incorporated once done, cook down for another 5 to 7 minutes until it reduces, then take it off of the heat.

Now mix in the orange rind and stir again, then pour it over your chicken and broccoli mix, now stir in the sauce with the rest of it, and your done, this is best served with cooked rice, you can go all fancy and make some stir fried rice if you wanted to as well!

We hope you like this and enjoy it, and some take aways, is that we don’t need salt (I don’t use any unless its a no or low sodium alternative, honest is a good replacement for sugar, its natural and better for you.

Rinse your rice, cook it and let it sit in the fridge over night for better results.

Chicken thighs offer more fat and better flavor, however chicken breasts are far more healthier, and some times you can get a whole chicken cheaper and would work better, you do have options, so take some time and think about it.