It’s time to cook a whole chicken again, but there is no need to get fancy with it. Get your oven ready! For the sake of simplicity, while the chicken is baking, we’ll prepare a hot and thick buttery sauce with spinach, mint, and parsley.
Is trout the ‘chicken of the fish’? Whether or not you agree with this, one thing is certain. If you prepare it well. it’s damn tasty. This is why we suggest you this grilled trout with a tangy and refreshing umami salad.
Yes, we know, a lot of ingredients needed for this recipe. This is typical for some cuisines out there, but this is a small price to pay for enjoying the plethora of aromas in these dishes. Take these stir-fried Thai noodles with beef, for example. You’ll come to appreciate the ginger, coriander, garlic, soy sauce, jalapeno, and so on, all coming together in one flavorful dish.
The big secret to adding extra-flavor to your grilled meat is to marinate it. This is exactly what we did with this pork neck. Feel free to browse the ingredient list and see what we marinated the steaks in. If you feel like there is an Asian touch to it, then you’re right.
Let’s do some braising. Hunter-style! The chicken cacciatore recipe is very suitable for that, so have a few drumsticks ready, together with canned tomatoes, vermouth, and a number of spices. And if you’re looking for the real Italian experience, then you better serve the cacciatore with polenta!
Say “Hello!” to the chicken adobo, inspired to us by the Filipino cuisine. You can choose to marinate the chicken meat for an hour or for the whole night; it depends on how fast you want the adobo on your plate. You can also choose not to marinate it at all, but some flavor will be lost in this case. It’s up to you! And what better side dish for this piece of Asian cuisine, than cooked rice?
Cooking pasta is not just about making them ‘al dente’ or not. It’s also about how you pair them or upgrade them. In this case, we prepared a delicious red pesto from baked beetroot mixed with heavy cream and flavored with dill and lemon juice. It ended up so yummy! Serve them with some cheese (crumbled or grated, that’s your call).
OK, maybe the low-fat catfish hasn’t the Omega-3 load that salmon or mackerel have, but still, he’s got enough of it and has a lot of other nutrients. Let’s sear and bake some. We’ll serve it seasoned with an incredibly flavored spinach pesto, where dill and parsley are doing their thing.
Although this beef stew is quite a hearty dish, we’d say it belongs more like to the healthier side of the food spectrum. For one, it’s not so high in calories; actually it’s right under the 400 kcal per serving limit. It’s quite high in proteins and not so high in carbs, although it crosses a little the 20 unit limit. Is this a Keto stew?
Indeed, you’ll only need 15 minutes for this noodle shrimp and shiitake dish to wait for you on a plate, all warm and full of flavors. It’s a simple stir-fry where you flavor the main ingredients with soy sauce, lemongrass, ginger, and lemon juice mainly.
Let’s use the mighty beetroot once more to prepare a nourishing and healthy creamy soup. A soup where carrot and potato also find their rightful place. Parmesan is optional. Just remember that if you want this soup the stay vegetarian you better skip the ‘parmigiano’.
Here’s an idea on how to upgrade your next noodle stir-fry and give it an Asian touch: use rice noodles and combine them with ground beef and apple. Generously flavor everything with turmeric, lime, coriander, oregano, and onion. Serve warm.
