Saturday, March 15, 2008

Can You Eat A Healthy Meal....and Make it Quick?

Sure you can. I am going to give you some tips. In fact, I will give you some guidelines that will allow you to change the items and you can make several dishes along the week.

As a few of you have found out, when you control the ingredients, you control your health. The recipe below is based on a chicken or turkey dish. I will tell you about variations down the road.

First, you will need a pressure cooker. Second, the ingredients. Chicken breast, cut into 3/4 inch wide julienne slices no more than 3/8 inch thick. I reccomend no longer than 4 inches in length. One lb feeds three people. Set this aside.

Cut potatoes, cut into one inch cubes, clean the skin and leave it on. You will want 1.25 lbs potatoes. Rinse the starchiness under cool water in a colander. Set aside.

Next cutAdd 1/2 lb onions minced. Crush 7 cloves garlic. Put these and 1 lb carrots aside.

Put your burner on med hi heat and put 1.5 tblspns peanut oil. Add the chicken after the oil swirls easily, and is quite hot, not a second before. Two minutes into it, turn or mix the chicken around. If the skin is slightly golden, reduce heat slightly and potatoes, do the same for a two-three minutes. Now add Tony Chacheres Cajun mix (2.5 tspns-1 tblspns, depending on your nerves), 1/2 tspn parsly, two tspn basil, 1 spn oregano, 1/4 tspn ginger.

Pour in onions and garlic and turn up heat to high, while mixing for two minutes. Add three cups water and carrots. Once its all boiling aggressively, add the lid and tighten. Once the pressure is rocking, turn heat to a medium, so only light puffs are coming out. Sert a timer to 10 minutes. At the end of the timer, turn off heat and let it cool gradually.

In 3 minutes, let the jigler valve release steam by going up to slight release (do not take off!).

Dinner is done.

Want more let me know. As far as I can figure no one reads this stuff anyway. Cheers.