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Heart Healthy Chili
Eat heart healthy!
Heart Healthy Chili
Tonight we are having a heart healthy homemade chili, brown rice, black beans and beer cornbread.
Heart healthy chili - made with the leanest ground beef, browned and then rinsed, chili thickened with unbleached flour, lots of seasoning, no salt (you cannot tell!)Beer Cornbread - 2 c self rising flour, 2 c cornmeal, 1 tlb sugar and a beer and a half. Topped with olive oil drizzled on top....
All in the rice steamer
If you don't own an electric rice steamer with an insert I encourage you to purchase one. Rice and other grains can be steamed in the bottom while taking advantage of the steam to cook vegetables and meats. Best of all, it's quick and the clean up is minimal.
Brown rice pilaf, steamed zucchini and steamed naked chicken thighs.
Rice Pilaf had fresh tomato's, cumin, onion, green pepper, garlic. That was in the bottom with prescribed amount of water. Top insert had fresh sliced zucchini and chicken thighs with the skin pulled off and most of the fat cut off, seasoned with a little sea salt, garlic powder and pepper. Chili Dogs!!
Yes you can have chili dogs and still be heart healthy!!
Jenny O' chicken franks are pretty good and are not bad at all when it comes to good nutrition! They were the best I have found so far... only 1.5g trans-fat and very low sodium...they are quite tasty! Other chicken franks, not so much... Read your labels!
Chili is made with 97/3 ground beef, browned, drained and rinsed then added back to the pan with 2 tlb olive oil....sautee fresh onion, green pepper, cilantro, garlic. Add plenty of chili powder and cumin and fresh tomato's pureed, thicken with unbleached flour adding the black beans last.
2 oz of smoked gouda on the top of that chili dog and I think we have a winner!
You can also puree the black beans to thicken the chili or soups if you want....rinse the canned beans first for lower sodium intake...
Smoked chicken, corn and black bean soft tacos with fresh avocado.... on whole grain tortillas... : )
Remember that John grilled last night? We grilled a little more than we'd eat last night to use tonight....Chopped up the chicken and sauteed with onion, garlic and cilantro in evoo then added in 1/2 can of black beans drained and 1/2 can corn drained. Would have been really good had I remembered to put a tablespoon of lime juice in it to make it POP.
Yes, canned. Occasionally I do use it...but I drain it in a colander and rinse it...Why?
To eliminate as much Sodium as we can
Heart Healthy Chili
Tonight we are having a heart healthy homemade chili, brown rice, black beans and beer cornbread.
Heart healthy chili - made with the leanest ground beef, browned and then rinsed, chili thickened with unbleached flour, lots of seasoning, no salt (you cannot tell!)Beer Cornbread - 2 c self rising flour, 2 c cornmeal, 1 tlb sugar and a beer and a half. Topped with olive oil drizzled on top....
All in the rice steamer
If you don't own an electric rice steamer with an insert I encourage you to purchase one. Rice and other grains can be steamed in the bottom while taking advantage of the steam to cook vegetables and meats. Best of all, it's quick and the clean up is minimal.
Brown rice pilaf, steamed zucchini and steamed naked chicken thighs.
Rice Pilaf had fresh tomato's, cumin, onion, green pepper, garlic. That was in the bottom with prescribed amount of water. Top insert had fresh sliced zucchini and chicken thighs with the skin pulled off and most of the fat cut off, seasoned with a little sea salt, garlic powder and pepper. Chili Dogs!!
Yes you can have chili dogs and still be heart healthy!!
Jenny O' chicken franks are pretty good and are not bad at all when it comes to good nutrition! They were the best I have found so far... only 1.5g trans-fat and very low sodium...they are quite tasty! Other chicken franks, not so much... Read your labels!
Chili is made with 97/3 ground beef, browned, drained and rinsed then added back to the pan with 2 tlb olive oil....sautee fresh onion, green pepper, cilantro, garlic. Add plenty of chili powder and cumin and fresh tomato's pureed, thicken with unbleached flour adding the black beans last.
2 oz of smoked gouda on the top of that chili dog and I think we have a winner!
You can also puree the black beans to thicken the chili or soups if you want....rinse the canned beans first for lower sodium intake...
Smoked chicken, corn and black bean soft tacos with fresh avocado.... on whole grain tortillas... : )
Remember that John grilled last night? We grilled a little more than we'd eat last night to use tonight....Chopped up the chicken and sauteed with onion, garlic and cilantro in evoo then added in 1/2 can of black beans drained and 1/2 can corn drained. Would have been really good had I remembered to put a tablespoon of lime juice in it to make it POP.
Yes, canned. Occasionally I do use it...but I drain it in a colander and rinse it...Why?
To eliminate as much Sodium as we can
