Orange Chicken

Sometimes I have this urge to cook something so fresh even if the weather is so cold, and since as usual I don’t have enough time to cook I had to come up with really quick fix meal that require 15 min to cook. It was pretty good , it just needs to marinate overnight.

Ingredients:

Orange Chicken - My Little Healthy Twist

 2 halves chicken breast

1 Orange

1 Red Pepper sliced

1 Yellow Pepper sliced

1 Green Pepper sliced

2 Cups white button mushroom sliced

¼ cup fresh Coriander roughly chopped

1/4 Teaspoon salt 

1 Tablespoon Olive Oil

1 Teaspoon black pepper

Directions:

Season the chicken breast with salt/pepper and orange juice (use the juice for the marination and the zest for garnish) for overnight.

Heat your electric grill or grill pan on medium high and grill the chicken for 10 mins or until cooked through.

Heat a non-stick pan to medium add the oil and then mushroom and don’t let it cook without stirring until the mushroom is caramelized on one side then stir and allow to caramelize, this way you will not have to add extra oil to the pan. When the mushroom half cooked add peppers and cook until soft enough, season with salt, pepper  and half of the orange zest and serve hot and garnish with Coriander and half of the orange zest.

Recipe makes 2 servings of 935 g

Calories per serving are 576, saturated fat 1.2 g

This recipe is good for you because:

Very low in saturated fat

Very high in niacin

High in phosphorus

Very high in selenium

High in vitamin A

Very high in vitamin B6

High in vitamin B12

Very high in vitamin C

Tune Steak

Since I moved to Poland I was craving Tuna, but never had the luck to find anything good, but once when I was at Biedronka for my surprise I found a good looking Tuna steak. I had my doubts eventually I wouldn't count so much on the quality of food there because it is cheap super market so I decided to make Tuna steak without too much of spices or anything to be able to judge the quality of the Tuna, and I have to say I was very surprised. The Tuna was pretty good but unfortunately I didn't see that Tuna again in Biedronka :/

Ingredients:

Tuna Steak - My Little Healthy Twist

 250 g Tuna steak

1 Avocado

½ Red Pepper sliced

½ Yellow Pepper sliced

½ Green Pepper sliced

¼ Cup fresh Coriander roughly chopped

1 Teaspoon grounded Cumin

1/4 Teaspoon salt 

1 Tablespoon Olive Oil

1 Teaspoon Cayenne pepper

1 Teaspoon orange juice

Directions:

Season the Tuna with 1/8 teaspoon of the salt and ½ teaspoon of Cumin.

Heat a non-stick pan and add 1/2 the tablespoon oil on Medium high and sauté the Tuna 4 mins in each side, remove the tuna add the rest of the oil and the pepper sauté until tender but didn't lose the color, add the rest of salt and cumin and turn off the heat.

In a bowl cut the avocado into medium cubes and season with little salt and the orange juice.

Serve hot, layer half of the peppers, then half of the avocado then the tuna steak and again half of the peppers and the avocado and garnish with fresh coriander.  

Recipe makes 2 servings of 693 g

Calories per serving are 982, saturated fat 13.1 g

This recipe is good for you because:

·        Low in sugar

·        High in niacin

·        High in selenium

·        High in vitamin A

·        High in vitamin B6

·        Very high in vitamin B12

·        Very high in vitamin C

Chocolate Pancake Hearts

It is not Valentine's , but I wanted a beautiful delicious breakfast, so what a better option than to start the morning with pancakes but since the regular pancakes never fill my craving I had to come up with equally fulfilling and healthy recipe and that result was cute.

Ingredients:

Chocolate Pancake Hearts - My Little Healthy Twist 

1 2/3 Cup fine Oatmeal

2/3 Cup quality Cocoa powder

1 Cup Soy milk

1 Large Egg

2 Tablespoons unrefined brown sugar

1/4 Teaspoon salt 

1 Teaspoon intense coffee

1 Teaspoon baking powder

1/2 Teaspoon baking soda

Directions:

Mix all dry ingredients and add all wet ingredients and mix (nothing fancy) don't mind if the batter is not smooth enough just don't over mix.

Heat a pan on medium low and use heart shaped spring form to make the heart shaped pancakes, spray the pan and the form with little oil and pour the batter into the spring form, leave it to cook around 1 min remove the spring form and flip the pancake carefully without distorting the heart shape. Repeat until all the batter is gone.

Recipe makes 2 servings of 8 pancakes.

Serve with fresh strawberries and banana <3

  

Calories per serving are 456, saturated fat 3.9 g

This recipe is good for you because:

·        High in dietary fiber

·        High in iron

·        Very high in manganese

·        High in magnesium

·        High in phosphorus

·        High in selenium

·        Lactose free

*Tips: Try to find high quality Oats so you make sure it is totally gluten free because                  some of the cheap oats are processed with other grains and might have small                percentage of gluten.