Saturday, March 28, 2020

Chicken Stir Fry

Chicken Stir Fry with Veggies and Garlic Sauce {Paleo, Whole30}

This easy chicken stir fry is better than takeout, so much healthier and quick to throw together for a weeknight dinner.  The garlic sauce is packed with flavor and made with Paleo and Whole30 friendly ingredients.  Delicious served alone or over fried cauliflower rice, kid approved and packed with veggies!
Author: Michele Rosen
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Course: Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine: Paleo, Whole30
Servings: 5

Ingredients

Sauce, blend:

Veggies:

  • 2 cups broccoli florets
  • 1 medium bell pepper thinly sliced
  • 1 cup snow peas USED MY OWN VEGGIES
  • Handful shredded cabbage or slaw mixture*
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp coconut oil or olive oil

Chicken:

  • 1.25 - 1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs sliced into 1” pieces
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp coconut oil or olive oil
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. Make sure chicken and veggies are sliced/chopped as needed before beginning.
  2. In a high speed blender or food processor, blend all sauce ingredients until smooth. Place sliced chicken in a large bowl and pour 3-4 Tbsp of sauce over chicken, toss to evenly coat.
  3. Heat a large nonstick skillet or wok over medium-high heat and add oil once hot. Once skillet is fully heated, add 1 1/2 Tbsp oil. Add all the veggies and stir to coat. Cook, stirring to avoid browning, about 3 minutes - do not overcook at this stage. Veggies should just begin to soften. Remove veggies to a plate or bowl and cover with foil, set aside.
  4. Add remaining 1 1/2 Tbsp oil to skillet and keep heat set on med-hi/hi. Add all chicken, leaving any marinade in the bowl. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt and pepper. Cook, stirring to brown evenly, about 3-5 minutes or until cooked through (the thinner you sliced your chicken, the quicker it will cook.)
  5. Lower heat to medium and pour all sauce over chicken, then add veggies back in. Stir, and allow to simmer another 2 minutes or until sauce thickens and veggies are crisp-tender. Serve hot, alone or over cauliflower rice. Garnish with scallions, sesame seeds or a bit of crushed red pepper for spice. Enjoy!

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Bazilla Rooz


Ingredients:

1 can crushed tomato
1/2 can tomato paste
1 bag sweet peas
1 bag carrots
1 onion
2-3lbs beef stew
Lebanese pepper
Cinnamon
All Spice Salt
Sugar to taste

Sear beef and onions
Add crushed tomato and tomato paste
Set instant pot for 30-40 minutes
While boiling, add peas, spices, and sugar

Tabouli

1. Use the fine bugarlue, not coarse.1/2 cup.
2. Two organic American bunches of parsley to one Italian bunch of parsley. Too much Italian parsley is bitter.
3. 1/2 bunch of mint
4. Start with ten small vine tomatoes. Must be Campari tomatoes (costco or bjs). Other tomatoes have s terrible taste in tabouli. Use ten tomatoes. Smell the tomatoes to make sure they smell fresh not moldy.
5. Use minute maid 100% pure lemon juice found in freezer section. Defrost it and put it in fridge for up to a month. Or, use fresh lemons, which are the best.
6. Pompeian oil is found at Walmart. Make sure it is see through olive oil, not musty.
7. If you're going to make it the day before, wait and put bugarlue in the next day.
8. Wash bugarlue by soaking it and getting rid of water twice.
9. Note: if you see that tabouli is dry, you can add a little water.
10. Use one small regular onion (not sweet).
11. Never put warn water on any kind of vegetable.
12. (Soak)  see photo
13. Cut onions thin and small
When the parsley at whole foods is too hard or yellow or slimy, don't buy it. Go somewhere else.
Never put it in a silver bowl, use glass. You don't want the tin taste to your food...better to use glass instead of aluminum or plastic.
Wash parsley several times in strainer. Dry parsley in spinner. Same with mint.
Squeeze out bugarlue if it's been soaking. Poor half of it over the tabouli.
Put a small handful of dry mint and crush it over tabouli.
Use little bit of lebanese all spice , grind it yo get the flavor. Use a few pinches. Eyeball salt and lemon juice.
Try half quarter of lemon juice and oil to taste. Mix. Add more ingredients to taste.

Friday, February 21, 2020

Dairy-free chilli


Prep Time

10 min
Cook Time
40 min
INGREDIENTS
  1. 1 pound 93% or higher lean ground beef
  2. 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
  3. 1 tablespoon olive oil
  4. 1 large yellow onion, diced
  5. 1 green bell pepper, diced
  6. 1 red bell pepper, diced
  7. 1-2 Bulgarian carrot peppers or serrano chili peppers, diced
  8. 2 cloves garlic, minced
  9. 2 cans no salt added diced tomatoes
  10. 1 can unsalted tomato paste
  11. 2 cans no salt added kidney beans, rinsed and drained
  12. 1/4 cup red wine such as Cabernet Sauvignon
  13. 1/4-1/2 cup water or low sodium beef broth
  14. 1 bay leaf
  15. 2 tablespoons chili powder
  16. 2 teaspoons sea salt
  17. 1/2 teaspoon paprika
  18. 1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper
  19. 1 tablespoon white sugar
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. In a large stock pot over medium heat, sprinkle the black pepper onto the ground beef and cook meat until browned and no pink remains. Carefully drain excess fat then return pot to stovetop.
  2. Add olive oil, onion, peppers, and salt to the pot. Stir and cook for five minutes, or until onions and peppers begin to turn translucent.
  3. Make a well in the middle of the pot ingredients and add the minced garlic. Cook garlic for no more than 30 seconds before stirring with the rest of the mixture.
  4. Add the diced tomatoes with liquid, drained and rinsed kidney beans, tomato paste, wine, water or broth, sugar, spices, and bay leaf into the pot. Set on medium high heat to start the boiling process.
  5. Once the mixture starts to bubble, reduce to medium low heat and cover. Simmer for thirty minutes, stirring occasionally. If you make it in the Crockpot, cook on low for at least six hours or high for four hours. Salt to taste