Monday, March 30, 2015

Greek Chicken


Ingredients:
3 lbs boneless, skinless Chicken Breasts
1/2 cup of Greek Seasoning (make your own)
2 Tbsp of Coconut Oil

Optional Ingredient: Juice of 1 Lemon

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Cube chicken & place in olive oil coated large pyrex dish (we use an olive oil mister)
3. Melt coconut oil in microwave (approx 30 sec) & drizzle over cubed chicken
4. Sprinkle Greek seasoning over cubed chicken & squeeze lemon on top
5. Bake for approx 30-40 min until chicken is fully cooked (we recommend using a meat thermometer)

Chicken Salad


Ingredients:
6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 1/4 cup Greek yogurt
4 Tbsp unsweetened vanilla almond milk
1 cup celery
1 cup onions
Bunch of organic grapes (approx 2 cups)
Sea Salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste
Onion powder (optional)
Pecans or Walnuts (optional)

Directions:
1. Boil your chicken breasts until cooked through. This is a very important step.  I boiled ours as listed here with organic chicken broth, minced garlic, sea salt, and pepper.  It is very important to not over-cook your chicken!  Boiling instead of baking the chicken for the recipe makes a huge difference!
2. Dice celery and onion. Place aside.  You could also half or quarter your grapes.
3. Let chicken cool to room temperature. Once cooled, shred (I just used my hands) or cut into pieces.
4. Combine Greek yogurt and unsweetened almond milk using a whisk.
5. Add chicken to a large bowl and cover with Greek yogurt/almond milk mixture. Stir.
6. Add grapes, sea salt, black pepper, and onion powder (optional). Stir.
7. Garnish with pecans or walnuts (optional, this will add healthy fats).
8. Refrigerate for 30-45 minutes before serving.

He and She Tip: The longer this stays in the fridge the better it is!  It is really good the next day!

Macros (with grapes/without nuts):
Calories - 169
Protein - 31 g
Carbs - 10 g
Fat - 2 g

Macros (without grapes/without nuts):
Calories - 153
Protein - 30 g
Carbs - 5 g
Fat - 2 g

ANOTHER COACHES: 

4 oz poached chicken 
1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt (dannon okios triple zero flavors)
1/3 cup diced apples 

1/3 cup celery. 
Put over bed of spinach

Shred chicken, cover in Greek yogurt. Add remaining ingredients! 

Refreshing Green Juice


Ingredients:
1 organic English cucumber, sliced
2 lemons, peeled if not organic
2-3 cups organic spinach and/or kale
2 cups water

Directions (using a Vitamix):
1. Place all ingredients in a Vitamix (in order listed above).
2. Turn Vitamix on variable power, speed 1 and gradually increase until all ingredients are blended. Add more spinach and/or kale if possible. Turn on variable power again. Then, turn Vitamix on high power and let juice for 30-60 seconds until mixture is in juice consistency.

Makes 2 servings. I usually split this up over 2 days. (heandshe)