Rice with Chicken in Spanish Style

Rice with Chicken in Spanish Style
this is a good way to get vegetables into the meal plan. Serve with a mixed green salad and some whole wheat bread.
Ingredients Rice with Chicken in Spanish Style

• Olive Oil 2 Tbsp.
• medium onions, 2 chopped
• cloves garlic, 2 crushed
• stalks celery, 2 diced
• medium red/greenpeppers, 2 cut intostrips
• mushrooms, 1 cup chopped
• uncooked wholegrain rice 2 cups
• bonelesschicken breast, 3 pounds cut into bite-sized pieces,skin removed
• Salt 1½ tsp. salt (optional)
• low-fat chicken broth 2½ cups
• Saffron or SazónTM for color
• tomatoes,3 medium chopped
• frozen peas 1 cup
• frozen corn 1 cup
• frozen green beans 1 cup
• Olives/capers for garnish (optional)

Directions for cooking Rice with Chicken in Spanish Style

• cook olive oil over medium flame in a non stick pot. Keep together onion, garlic, celery, red/green pepper, and mushrooms. Cook on medium heat, stirring often, for three minutes or until tender.
• mix whole grain rice and sauté for 2–3 minutes, stirring constantly to mix all ingredients.
• Now add chicken, chicken broth, salt, water, Saffron/SazónTM, and tomatoes. Bring water to a boil.
• Cook on meduim heat, cover, and let the casserole simmer until water is absorbed and rice is tender, about 20 minutes.
• mix in peas, corn, beans and cook for 8 to 10 minutes. When everything is hot, the casserole is ready to serve. decorate with olives or capers, if desired.

recipe of Quick Meat Sauce with Spaghetti

If you desire the sauce and meat then try this easy spaghetti with meat sauce on a weekend. Serve with steamed broccoli and garlic-bread. The recipe can be enough for 8 servings. If you’re serving only four for dinner, cook eight ounces of spaghetti and freeze the leftover sauce.

1/2 kg whole-wheat spaghetti
2 T-spoon fresh olive oil
1 onion in large size & chopped
1 carrot in large size  & chopped
1 celery stalk chopped
4 clove Garlic, minced
1 tblspoon Italian seasoning
1/2 kg  lean (90% or leaner) ground beef
1 tomatoes can (28-ounce) crushed
1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
1/2 t-spoon salt
1/2 cup(s) grated Parmesan cheese
how to make Quick Meat Sauce with Spaghetti recipe
Boil a large pot of water. Cook pasta till just tender, 8 – 10 minutes or according to package instruction. Drain.
Meanwhile, heatup oil in a large skillet over medium flam. Add  carrot, onion , celery and cook, moving occasionally, until the onion is beginning to brown, 5 – 8 minutes.
Stir in garlic and Italian seasoning; cook til fragrant, about 30 to 35 seconds. Now add beef and cook, stirring and breaking-up with a spoon, til no longer pink, 3 – 5 minutes. Increase flam to high. Stir in tomatoes and cook until thickened, 4 – 6 minutes. Stir in parsley and salt.
Serve the sauce over the pasta, sprinkled with cheese.Exchanges: 3 starch, 1 1/2 vegetable, 2 lean meat Carbohydrate Servings: 3 Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin A (49% daily value), Zinc (34% dv), Iron (26% dv), Vitamin C (23% dv), Magnesium (21% dv), Potassium (19% dv)....link

Chicken Masala

chicken masala

1 lb Chicken fillets cut into 1/2 inch (1 cm) Cubes
1 small Onion finely chopped
1 leveled teaspoon Chilli Powder
1/2 teaspoon Ginger Powder
1 Clove Garlic crushed
1 leveled teaspoon salt
1/4 tea spoon Turmeric Powder
1 tea spoon Garam Masala
1 heaped teaspoon Coriander Powder
6 table spoon Cooking oil, Desi ghee or melted butter
1/2 Tin of chopped Tomatoes
2 tablespoons finely Chopped Coriander leaves
Cooking Direction

Heat the oil in a Cooking pan and fry the chopped onion, browning it a little. Add Chilli Powder, Coriander Powder , Salt, Ginger Powder, Turmeric Powder, and fry the spices for two minutes. Then addchopped tomatoes and keep stirring it for ten minutes or until the butter leaves the spices.

Now put in chicken cubes and stir them in the masala to get the chicken pieces nicely coated. Add 1/2 a cup of water and leave thechicken to cook on a low light for fifteen minutes.

take away the lid, stir the chicken and cook for further ten minutes. When butter starts to come out, add 1/4 cup of water, sprinkle Garam masala and thinly chopped coriander leaves and cover the pan for five to ten minutes.

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Mutton Chops Bhuna

Ingredients
Mutton Chops – 3lbs

For the marination
1 cup yogurt
2 inch piece ginger chopped
7-8 cloves garlic chopped
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp red chili powder
4-5 green chilies chopped
1 tblsp coriander powder

other ingredients
2 bay leaves
4 cloves
2 small green cardamom
1 black cardamom
2 piece cinnamon
10-15 black pepper
1 tsp cumin seeds
1tsp fennel seeds
2 jumbo sized red onions chopped
3 big tomatoes chopped
1 tsp garam masala
1 tblsp kasoori methi or dry methi
green coriander to garnish
Oil 5 tblsp
salt to taste

Method
Marinate the mutton overnight in the ingredients for marinade.

1. Heat oil . Add bay leaves, Cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and black peppers. Then add cumin seeds.
2. When they pop, add onions with a little salt. Fry for about 30 mins on medium heat till they turn golden brown.
3. Add the mutton pieces (reserving any marinade) and fennel seeds and fry with the onions till all the water dries up. This will take about 45 mins.
4. Now add the tomatoes ad fry for 15 mins till the oil separates. .
5. Add kasoori methi and garam masla and 1/2 cup water, salt and pressure cook for 10 mins. When the pressure drops, open the cooker and fry for five more mins. Garnish with green dhania.

The trick to this mutton is frying frying frying . The more you fry every thing, the tastier it gets. I make 3 pounds at a time and freeze it in small containers.
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