This delicious side dish has a few components to it, but they’re all easy.
Whew that was so hard… not!
P.S. Make extra vinaigrette and use it on salads or sandwiches.
Here’s another recipe from Cooking Light magazine, which I adapted to make even healthier. The original recipe used pork but I made it vegetarian by using chickpeas instead. I also swapped out the regular dairy milk and used light coconut milk, and swapped the white flour to millet flour, although it would probably be just fine without any flour at all. I added garam masala and increased the amount of curry powder because the original was bland. I think the result is a really nice vegan meal. Having pre-cooked rice and chickpeas on hand makes it a super-fast weeknight meal. Continue reading “Curried Chickpeas with Rice”
This meat-free dinner is adapted from a recipe my husband found on his favorite cycling podcast website. So you know it’s got to be good if it was developed with athletes in mind, right? Well, we made this and dug into it and thought we went to heaven. The spicy smoky flavor of the black beans combined with the creamy sweet potato is a marriage of flavors that’s meant to be. I’m not kidding, try it and if you don’t see angels I will eat my cycling socks. Continue reading “Black Bean and Salsa Stuffed Sweet Potatoes”
“Bowls” are a newly popular concept, and for good reason. They are fresh, generally quick to put together, tasty, and relatively inexpensive.
Think Chipotle, SweetGreen, or pretty much any of the “healthy fast food” franchises popping up in malls across the country. Essentially it’s a pile of stuff in a bowl, with lettuce/greens on the bottom, and stuff on the top. Hm… sounds kind of familiar, right? Like a salad bar? Yep, exactly like a salad bar. The difference is in the marketing, and the proportions. it’s a little bit of salad with a lot of “stuff” arranged in a colorfully pretty selection of “wedges” around the edge.
Literally, it’s just a bowl of different wholesome, nicely flavored ingredients, that you then pour some sauce on and mix together, like… well… like a salad. Yeah.
When you roast chicken thighs with the bone in and skin on the result is a much more flavorful meal. This recipe calls for adobo seasoning and pico de gallo so it has a Spanish flavor, but using different combination of seasonings and toppings you can achieve a wide variety of flavors.
This recipe came from AllRecipes but I modified it to use toasted whole grain bread instead of untoasted white bread, less fat, and smaller amount of scallops. I also added spinach because, well, I like spinach. Spinach goes great with garlic and it seemed like a good match (it was!). As usual I also “fixed” the prep time to include chopping and thawing, etc.
When served with steamed veggies this is a hearty but healthy complete meal that can still be made in less than 30 minutes.
