10-05-2005, 12:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2005, 12:11 PM by [wcip]Angel.)
Yesterday, as I was sitting on my Schwinn during a spinning session at
the local gym wrestling the knots in my stomach from having polished off 6 tacos
15 minutes before heading out, I was thinking "there has to be an easier way
of sating this hunger". I'm trying to eat healthy (yet tasty) food as often as I can,
with the occasional burger-morale booster once every other fortnight.
With a slight cringe in my stomach I decided that I would stop eating full dinners
before going to the gym and rather fix me up a light lunch-like meal to keep the
metabolism going steady. I realised that I could so something fun with chicken
filléts and salads. With the appropriate marinade, fried chicken with a side salad
might actually be rather tasty (and not too heavy) for a pre-work out meal.
I quickly came to the realisation that I know very few recipes for marinating
chicken fillets. Cue The Lurker Lounge and its gourmet-like patrons! (Da-dadda-da!)
I suppose I could scavenge the web looking for recipes for marinades, but I
thought I'd ask you for some tried-and-tested options. I'm looking for something
that's tasty, yet not terribly unhealthy (no suger-marinated chicken filléts in other
words). Also, if it doesn't have tons of garlic in it, that's also a plus.
Any ideas?
Just to get the ball rolling, I have included the one and only marinade I know of.
(Courtesy of my brother)
Chicken marinade (for filléts)
* 2 tablespoon of olive oil
* the juice of 2 oranges
* 3 tablespoons of curry
* 1/2 tablespoon of ceyenne pepper
* Some salt and pepper
* 1-2 tablespoons of sugar
* 1 finely chopped chili.
It gives the chicken a nice juicy hot flavour.
Let the cookery commence!
the local gym wrestling the knots in my stomach from having polished off 6 tacos
15 minutes before heading out, I was thinking "there has to be an easier way
of sating this hunger". I'm trying to eat healthy (yet tasty) food as often as I can,
with the occasional burger-morale booster once every other fortnight.
With a slight cringe in my stomach I decided that I would stop eating full dinners
before going to the gym and rather fix me up a light lunch-like meal to keep the
metabolism going steady. I realised that I could so something fun with chicken
filléts and salads. With the appropriate marinade, fried chicken with a side salad
might actually be rather tasty (and not too heavy) for a pre-work out meal.
I quickly came to the realisation that I know very few recipes for marinating
chicken fillets. Cue The Lurker Lounge and its gourmet-like patrons! (Da-dadda-da!)
I suppose I could scavenge the web looking for recipes for marinades, but I
thought I'd ask you for some tried-and-tested options. I'm looking for something
that's tasty, yet not terribly unhealthy (no suger-marinated chicken filléts in other
words). Also, if it doesn't have tons of garlic in it, that's also a plus.
Any ideas?
Just to get the ball rolling, I have included the one and only marinade I know of.
(Courtesy of my brother)
Chicken marinade (for filléts)
* 2 tablespoon of olive oil
* the juice of 2 oranges
* 3 tablespoons of curry
* 1/2 tablespoon of ceyenne pepper
* Some salt and pepper
* 1-2 tablespoons of sugar
* 1 finely chopped chili.
It gives the chicken a nice juicy hot flavour.
Let the cookery commence!
