PICS and recipes of some of my FAV healthy CHINESE, ITALIAN, MEXICAN and INDIAN meals!!

RainbowPonyPipedreams

Hey guys! I am regularly going to post pics of some of the meals I make and eat. These are based on recommendations that my dietician made (the recommendations are tailored for me of course so it might not apply to your specific dietary needs!). But I have high cholesterol and at the same time I am a FOODIE so need to have yummy stuff to eat! My husband and I are great Jamie Oliver and Gennaro Contaldo fans. But really, Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Indian.... you name it, we crave it. And their not always the healthiest options for take-out. But we try and make our own healthy versions of these. So going to post some of my favs over time. I lost a lot of weight eating some of these healthier versions. Hope it helps!

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Okay so hear is my low cholesterol couscous salad! 1cup cooked couscous, 1 chopped red/yellow/orange bell pepper, 1 tomato, 60g Feta, crushed garlic clove, with basil and yogurt dressing (You can also add grilled skinless chicken breast if you like)

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Jamie Oliver inspired lunch: low fat cottage cheese, crushed avo, and pomegranates on wholewheat toast! Add seasoning with a pinch of salt and lemon juice in the avo.
Delicious and filling.

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Festive season summer salad. A great side dish for when the whole family comes to dinner during the holiday. (I live in South Africa so our Christmas is during the summer.) ingredients: mixed salad leaves, cucumber, avo, pomegranate and feta. Sprinkle over a mix of salted nuts and seeds. The dressing is a bit of olive oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper.

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Berry blast breakfast: one cup frozen raspberries, 150 ml fat free bulgarian yogurt, one teaspoon honey. Blitz it all together in a blender. Then add 2tbsp of mixed seeds (any kind such as chai, sesame, pumpkin, etc) and 2tbsp of raw oat bran. Mix it all together and it's like eating frozen yogurt pudding for breakfast!

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Super healthy Mexican inspired wrap: Take one skinless chicken breast, (cut into pieces), a small red onion (chopped into very fine rings), and one yellow bell pepper (chopped into thin strips) and put these in a pan with cayenne pepper, cumin, ginger, garlic, and salt. Fry these without oil until cooked through (soft and tender). In a small wholewheat tortilla wrap, place lettuce, feta, rosa tomatoes, rocket leaves, and the contents of the pan (as much as you can so that the wrap will still fold). Add some fat free Bulgarian yogurt for "sauce".

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Genaro Contaldo inspired skinless chicken (slow cooked in our Le Creuset) with garlic, rosemary and white wine. Yummy with a side of corn and gem squash. (Gem squash is a great substitute for pasta and we also use it with bolognese sauces.)

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Going to do a burrito bowl and healthy pizza tomorrow! Ken Hom Chinese stir fry will be posted later this week!

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Pizza!!! But we make it at home using a low fat wholewheat wrap as base. The tomato sauce is hen made from crushed and canned tomatoes, garlic, salt, and pepper. Then add whatever ingredients you like on top (but careful with the cheese)! This one has tuna, onions and feta. Put it in a hot oven and bake until the base is crispy.

PKM0515

Thanks, you've definitely given me some good, easy ideas! Please keep posting.

RochelleLUnangst

The festive salad is one I'll have to try for sure. I've made a salad with pomegranate before and wasn't sure what to do for the dressing. Very pretty pictures too for all of your recipes.

courtcassiefit

Love these! Thank you

RainbowPonyPipedreams

Hey guys thanks for the encouragement!!! I was wondering if anyone actually reads these. So here is my healthy tuna salad. I place thisbone in pretty bowls because I eat with my eyes and then it feels less like diet food! Okay, so I use 120g of shredded tuna (which was canned in brine and then just drained). I use a hand full of Rosa tomatoes because they are sweeter and chop these into little pieces. Add about 100g of cucumber finely chopped and also a mix of leaves (iceberg lettuce, rocket, gem, and even basil if I have some). You can add a raw carrot or even a red bell pepper but I don't always have these at hand. For the dressing I use 2tbsp of reduced oil mayo and 2 tbsp fat free Bulgarian yogurt (cause it makes the mayo stretch a little further without loosing the taste) and I add a bit of lemon juice, one crushed garlic clove, salt and pepper. I mix everything together and finally sprinkle a bot of feta on top. Hubby adds cayenne pepper for sone burn. When I feel like a carb I put this on wholewheat toast or in a low GI wrap. It keeps me full for long! Hope this helps! Tonight is burrito bowl.

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Burrito bowl:

Grill one skinless chicken breast with a bit of marsala spice dusted over. (Or whatever spice you like).
Put half a can of red kidney beans into a pan with garlic and a splash of olive oil. Cook this for a few minutes. In a separate pot boil brown rice (enough for half a cup of cooked rice). Once done, add the cooked brown rice to the beans and mix.

In a bowl, place a handful of chopped iceberg lettuce, a handful of rosa tomatoes, the grilled chicken which has been cut into bite sized pieces, and the bean-rice mixture.

With a fork, mash half an avo with lemon juice and add a 1/4 of chopped red onion to make some guacamole. Scoop this on top of your burrito bowl ingredients and finally, to finish, I add 2 tbsp of tomato salsa (I buy my salsa which is rather hot and low in calories).

Some people might want to add corn, but I find I don't need it. I also skip the tortilla wrap cause I don't want the extra carbs. The bowl is satisfying enough without the wrap.

TR0berts

I don't see fried ice cream.

That said, my wife makes great fried ice cream, so no biggie.