Adding Chicken to Your Diet

If you are looking for lite diet recipes, then the Chinese chicken salad can serve you as a tasty and healthy recipe. This salad might be used as a lite dinner. The dish contains proteins with other salad items and it can keep you from feeling hungry. While chewing with this salad, it takes time to eat which allows your brain to connect with your stomach and you can realize that you are no longer hungry. Lentil soup with chicken lentils is another tasty lite diet recipe. This soup has lots of vegetables that are healthy and low in fat and calories. Hence, these two recipes might help you to control your calorie and serve as good diet.


CHINESE CHICKEN SALAD

The ingredients required for Chinese chicken salad are 4 boneless and skinless chicken breasts, 1 1/2 tbsp of Soy sauce. 1 medium sized shredded cabbage, 3/4 cup of olive oil, 6 chopped green onions, 2 packs of chicken flavored noodles, 1/4 cup of sesame seeds, 1/2 cup of plain sliced almonds, 1/4 cup of sesame oil, 1/4 cup of rice or white vinegar and 1 tbsp of splenda.

The procedure is Preheat your oven to 350-400 degrees. Take a foil, place the chicken breast on the foil, and uniformly pour soy sauce on chicken. Now wrap the chicken in a foil to make a packet. Bake it for around 35 minutes of until the chicken is boiled up. Now you can Remove the chicken from the oven, cool it and cut into small sized pieces. Now Toast the noodles and almonds in a non-stick vessel, slightly stirring, not leaving it to burn off. Add sesame seeds at last and toast it to light brown. Mix the seasoning packet of noodles with oil, vinegar and Splenda together. Put the onion, cabbage, and chicken pieces into a large bowl, then pour oil mixture over the ingredients in bowl, and mix well. Now you can add toasted noodles, almonds and sesame seeds to it. Then Mix again and serve it hot.

TASTY LENTIL SOUP WITH CHICKEN

The ingredients required for Lentil soup with chicken are 1 cup of dried sorted and rinsed lentils, 1 tbsp of olive oil, 1 skinless chicken breasts which is cut into 1" chunks, 1/2 cup of chopped onion. 2 medium sized yellow diced squash, 2 cups of sliced carrots, 1 cup of sliced mushrooms, 1 tbsp of basil, 4 1/2 cups of low-sodium chicken broth, 1/2 tsp of salt, 1/4 tsp of black pepper and 28 Italian-style diced , un drained tomatoes.

The Procedure is Heat olive oil in a large soup pot in medium or high heat. Cook chicken pieces with onion until chicken is no longer pink in the center, it might take about 5 minutes. Now, Stir in the remaining ingredients, except cheese and Heat to boil while stirring occasionally such it does not gets burned off .Now you can Reduce the heat to medium or low. Now cover and boil for about half an hour. Take it our and Sprinkle it with cheese when serving.