(Shredded) Chicken Breast with Curry

This yummy chicken breast can be use for so many recipes.  Although it takes a little time to cook, once it is ready you can add to sandwiches, chicken tortillas, chicken quesadillas, pastries, omelets, and anything you want to create with chicken.  It is also very good to freeze.

What you will need:

2 free-range chicken breasts (boneless and skinless)

1 tablet vegetable bouillon

1 can chicken stock or water

Salt to season

2 tablespoons Curry powder

1 tablespoon paprika

2 tablespoons of coconut oil or extra virgin olive oil

3 chopped garlic cloves

1 chopped shallot onion

1 cup chopped celery

½ cup chopped green scallion

½ cup chopped Italian parsley

¾ cups sliced green olives

1 tablespoon Tabasco pepper (optional to add some spicy)

How to make:

Wash and clean the chicken breast and remove all left over skin.  In a small bowl add salt, curry powder, paprika, grated vegetable stock and mix all dry ingredients.  Add the clean chicken breast inside a big Ziplock bag, add all dry ingredients and mix them all together.  Shake until is well mixed.  Let it marinate in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. 

In a medium hot iron skillet add coconut oil or extra virgin olive oil.  Add the marinate chicken and let it cook on each side of the chicken.  Cover the pot with the lid letting a little opening for the steam.  Cook until is brownish, about 7 to 10 minutes each side.  Add chicken stock or water until it covers the chicken and let it cook for about 45 minutes. After the cooking, the water should be almost if not completely evaporated. 

When is all cooked, take the chicken breast off of the pot and let it cool.  Do not throw away the liquid in the pot since it will be add to the chicken latter.  When is cool enough, use a fork to shred the chicken.  You can also use a mixer to shred the chicken. 

In a medium heat skillet pan add olive oil, chopped garlic, onion, and celery and cook them until the onion turned golden brown.  Add more salt to taste, add shredded chicken, scallions, parsley, green olive, mix all of theses ingredients and add the Tabasco sauce and the left over liquid from the previous chicken. Let is cook until most of the liquid to incorporate with all the ingredients.  If there were too many liquid left let it cook until it evaporates. 

            Try the Shredded Chicken in a Tortilla Wrap 

Tip: You can also add chopped tomatoes, hearts of palms, corn, and peas. However, if you intend to freeze the shredded chicken you don’t want to add these ingredients since they don’t taste as good after being frozen. Instead you can defrosted your chicken and add these other ingredients to the shredded chicken latter.  

Enjoy!

My Version of Taco Salad

       I don’t remember when exactly I had my first “Taco Salad”, but since then this became my favorite of all salads.  Here is my own version of Taco Salad without the tortillas and sour cream. Enjoy!

My own version of Taco Salad (1 portion)

3 lettuce leaves (I like red leaf lettuce, but you can pick your favorite)

½ cup ground taco beef (recipe)

½ cup kidney beans with chili (recipe)

¼ cup shredded cheese (cheddar, mozzarella or other) 

¼ cup sour cream substitute (recipe)

½ cup tomato salsa (recipe)

Of course if you add the tortillas that will make your salad so yummy! 

1 day worthy of healthy food

      Have you noticed that most of the time due to a busy life full of commitments, we fail to have one day worthy of healthy food.  How many times we have left the house without our breakfast? Then we skipped lunch and we grabbed the first fast food on our way back home.  We surrender to the famous burger with extra-large combo.  To be healthy, we need to prioritize what we eat.  Here is an outlook of an entire day worthy of healthy food.  Even if you don’t have much time to prepare your meals, you can plan ahead and bring your healthy food with you. If you eat out, select healthy food that will do well to your body.

breakfast
1 scrambled eggs, ½ banana with cinnamon, 2 strawberries, grits
lunch
salad with lettuce and 1 sliced tomato, 6 olives, 3 sliced maple glazed turkey breast, 1 cupped hand of shredded mozzarella, 1 tablespoon of salad dressing
snack
6 raw carrots, 1/2 sliced apple, 1/4 cupped hand of raisins, a few pistachios
dinner
1 cupped hand of rice, 2 drumstick stew with curry and potatoes, 2 sliced cooked beets
dessert
4 strawberries, 1 teaspoon of ricotta, a few raisins

About the Blog

I have a passion for cooking, specially when the subject is cooking healthy meals.  This blog is to learn with you and to share with one another all the healthy flavors of this life.