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    Ideas for BBQ recipes?

    Posts: 55 Member
    edited December 2024 in Recipes
    I need some ideas for easy low cal, high protein recipes to grill on the BBQ. We use the barbee year round and are getting tired of chicken breasts with salsa and lemon pepper seasoned fish.

    Any new ideas would be appreciated and other options to flavor the chicken breasts and fish ( I only like salmon ).

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    • Posts: 3,488 Member
      For chicken, I usually go with classic Texas-style dry rub: chile powder(s), garlic powder, onion powder, crushed cumin, and maybe a little jalapeno sauce if I want a bit more "muddy" rub instead of dry.

      Sometimes, if I'm in the mood, I'll go Indian-- curry powder, garlic & onion powder

      Fish is fabulous with chopped green chiles and garlic.
    • Posts: 329 Member
      personally I love grilled steaks. Depending on what type you have, you could also slow-smoke some beef or pork. Lots of calorie-free dry rubs you can apply to whatever meat you are cooking. I don't have any recipes because its mainly just meat and heat.

      If you go to the grocery store for seasoning rubs, be sure to check the ingredients because a lot of the premade ones have a lot of sugar in them.
    • Posts: 331 Member
      Mackerel straight out of the sea if possible. Gorgeous bbq'ed
    • Posts: 2,248 Member
      Pork tenderloins are pretty lean, same with eye of round, London broil, turkey breasts, foil boat tilapia, shrimp on the skewer!
    • Posts: 13 Member
      Grilled veggies are great and can fill your plate with few calories. I have zucchini and egg plant marinading in vinegar and olive oil with spices right now for dinner tonight.
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      Make chicken kebabs! Just add peppers and onions (we marinate the chicken first).
      Chicken sausages are great too. Pork chops. Lean steak.
    • Posts: 2,447 Member
      This! http://www.skinnytaste.com/grilled-chicken-satay-with-spicy-peanut-sauce/ except I make my own peanut sauce with hoisin, peanut butter, soy, ginger and chili garlic paste instead of sriracha.
    • Posts: 55 Member
      Thanks everyone for the great ideas! Can't wait to try them.
    • Posts: 1,056 Member
      I like to put a dollop of pesto on my grilled salmon, delicious!
    • Posts: 55 Member
      thereshegoesagain wrote: »
      I like to put a dollop of pesto on my grilled salmon, delicious!
      That sounds good! I love salmon.
    • Posts: 1,288 Member
      Out of BBQ sauce and some other usual rub components last evening. Made this: https://youtu.be/tId3ox8MAD0
      (tarragon-hotsauce-yogurt marinade) on a lark, was very good.

      Joke in the video - "what to do when, sometime in BBQ season, you get tired of other chicken approaches?" Sounds like your situation. I have some constraints on making frequent beef - I have some no-red-meat folks in the family. So I'm always scouring around for more chicken recipes myself.

      "Food Wishes" blog and youtube series has lots of ideas. I will probably try the "Cornell Chicken" later this week/weekend.
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