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Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Raspberry Balsamic Topping to Complement Your Recipes

Balsamic vinegar when tempered by raspberries forms a sweet and tangy taste which can be sprinkled or topped on pancakes, cheesecake or a cheese platter to enhance the recipe or dish. You can have an idea of using raspberry balsamic topping in cooking a delicious recipe by following the below mentioned.
 
Raspberry Balsamic Topping

Buttermilk Oat Pancakes Topped with Raspberry Balsamic Recipe:
This recipe is considered healthy as oats pancakes are high in fiber and contains hundred percent whole grains with no butter used in cooking. And raspberry balsamic topping is very much healthier than the maple syrup which is traditionally or normally used.
Raspberry balsamic topping

Ingredients Required:
For Pancake: two cups of well shaken buttermilk, one large egg, one and half cups of oats, half cup of whole wheat flour, one tablespoon of sugar, one teaspoon of baking soda, half teaspoon of ground cinnamon and one-fourth teaspoon of salt.

For Raspberry Balsamic Topping: two cups of raspberries (can be fresh or frozen), two tablespoons of Sonoma Farm raspberry balsamic vinegar 25 year Old Aged and one teaspoon of ground cinnamon.

Method of Preparation:
Preparing Oat pancakes mixture:

Take a medium bowl whisk buttermilk and egg in it. Then combine oats, flour, sugar, baking soda, half teaspoon of cinnamon and salt in another bowl. Whisk or stir the dry mixture into a wet consistency or mixture by pouring in previously prepared mixture of buttermilk and egg, then keep it aside for fifteen minutes. When the mixture or batter sits you can notice bubbles in it.

Preparing the Raspberry Balsamic Topping:
Place raspberries, raspberry balsamic vinegar and one teaspoon of cinnamon in a small and heavy saucepan. Allow it to simmer over a medium heat with occasionally stirring it for around three to five minutes until the berries are mostly broken down. Then remove it from heat and cover to keep it warm.
 
Raspberry balsamic

Preparing the pancakes:
Take a large non-stick skillet with cooking spray and place it over a medium heat. Use one-fourth of the pancake batter for one making pancake, cook by flipping the cake until it becomes brown on both the sides for around three to five minutes, and likewise make two more pancakes. Be careful don’t overcook these pancakes.

Then place these pancakes on a serving plate and top it with previously prepared Raspberry Balsamic Topping. Serve this mouth-watering yet healthy recipe to your family.

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Baked Garlic Lemon Tilapia Recipe Guide

Fish is a food that is easy to cook yet is delicious and very healthy and people who love fish understand this that how easy it is to cook different things with various fishes.

Well, if you have fish in option you don’t have to think much to cook it, because each preparation is very simple and easy to follow.

So today, let’s learn to make Baked Garlic Lemon Tilapia:

Garlic Lemon Tilapia 
Note the ingredients:

•    6 tilapia filets 6 oz each

•    4 garlic cloves chopped

•    2 table spoon butter

•    2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

•    4 tsp fresh parsley chopped

•    Salt and pepper to taste

•    Cooking spray

•    Garlic olive oil

Method:

•    Preheat oven for about 400 degrees

•    Take a sauce pan and add butter to and let it melt on low flame. Add garlic cloves and sauté on low flame for about a minute. Add lemon juice to it and take off flames.

Lemmon Juice 
    Take a baking dish and spray its bottom with cooking spray now place fish on it and season it with salt and pepper. Now pour the lemon butter mixture on it and add fresh chopped parsley and some garlic olive oil on top of it now put baking dish back in oven and bake for about 15 min. until cooked.

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

How to Prepare Lemon-Infused Chicken Breast?

Food lovers love chicken no matter what happens and experimenting with food is something that is our right. There are lots of ways to cook chicken sweet, sour, roasted, grilled, steamed etc. whatever way you want to eat it. You can try various methods of cooking as per your preferences, so many ways to make chicken that you will be amazed. You can try your own cooking skills and prepare new dishes anytime you want and surprise your family.  Given below is a recipe for Lemon-Infused Chicken Breast, enjoy:

Lemon-Infused Chicken Breast
Serves: 4
Cooking time: 45 minutes.

    Ingredients:
    4 Boneless and skinless chicken breasts
    4 oz Infused Olive Oil
•    4 oz lemon juice
    1 tsp oregano dried
    1 tsp salt (according to taste)
    4 Garlic cloves

Method:
    Mix Lemon juice, Infused Olive oil, oregano leaves, salt and sliced garlic cloves together in a plastic bag or a container. Now place chicken breast into this mixture and leave this for marinating over night.

    Preheat oven to 425 degrees before you start other preparations.

    Now prepare a shallow roasting pan and add marinated chicken to it and keep it in oven for baking for about 35 minutes.

    When your dish is ready take it out and add lemon juice on top of it and some garlic mixture and garnish with lemon slices and green coriander leaves or mint leaves. Serve hot.

garlic mixture chicken breast recipe

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Garlic Olive Oil Infused Chicken Recipe

People love chicken not only for its taste, but for its healthfulness and low fat content as well. For healthy diet, chicken is the best dish you can cook and serve all to make a healthy living.

Confirming that you lead a healthy life without compromising with the taste, in this blog post, let’s learn how to make garlic olive oil infused chicken.

garlic olive oil infused chicken
Let’s note the ingredients first:

    3 cloves of minced garlic

    1/4 cup infused olive oil

    1/4 cup dry bread crumbs

    1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

    1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Procedure:

   Preheat oven and keep the temperature to 350 degrees.

•    Now blend the flavors of garlic by warming it with infused olive oil.

    After that, (in a separate dish) mix the bread crumbs and parmesan cheese.

•    Dip the chicken breast tenders in the olive oil and garlic mixture and dip into the bread crumb mixture and bake it in oven around 20 to 25 minutes until it color turns to golden brown. That is it!

Garlic olive oil infused chicken
Pretty simple, right? I hope you have learned it all by now!

Thursday, 22 May 2014

Muffuletta Hot Dogs Recipe

Sometimes when we flip through the food magazines, we find several recipe ideas. While some dishes are extremely difficult to make, some have really very simple preparation procedures. In this article, we have also come up with that similar kind of simple recipe guide, which is easy to learn.  

Please do have a look
Muffuletta Hot Dogs Recipe
Ingredients are going to need:
  • One cup sliced peperoncini with 1 cup brine
  • One cup (packed) thinly sliced red onion
  • One teaspoon dried oregano
  • Eight  all-beef hot dogs
  • Eight hot dog buns, split
  • Sixteen slices provolone cheese
  • Chopped black olive tapenade
  • Sliced roasted red peppers from jar
Preparation Procedure:
  • Mix peperoncini, brine, red onion, and oregano in a bowl and leave it for 30 minutes.
  • Now, to prepare barbecue, keep the heat of the grill at the medium-high temperature and place the hot dogs on it; also place the buns on the grills. After that grill both with 2 cheese slices until it melts (5 minutes for hot dogs and 3 minutes for bun). After that, simply place the hot dogs and bun to the plate and serve with onions, tapenade, and peppers. That is it!
Muffuletta Hot Dogs Recipe

Friday, 16 May 2014

Grilled chicken Breasts Recipe

Grilled Chicken Breasts are very simple to make and are very tasty. Not just only tasty, it is healthy as well. If you are a gym goer often spend your time at gym, make sure you restore the body after strenuous activity.

Grilled Chicken Breast is very supportive for intense workouts, helps you to maintain balance and avoids high oxidative stress levels.

Breast chicken

However, to add more health benefits, you can prepare it with Extra Virgin Olive oil and can avail vitamin E for the protection of cell constituents from oxidative damage.

Well, as you can see, there are many health benefits you can get from this food.
Now, let’s learn the preparation procedure,
First off, please note the ingredients –
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • a squeeze of lemon juice
Procedure –
Slice the chicken breasts in very thin pieces. Make it even thinner with the help of a meat pounder. After that, cook the chicken. Make sure to keep the temperature low and cover the pan for couple of minutes until the chicken turns golden brown. After that, season with salt and freshly ground pepper and top it with extra-virgin olive oil and a squeeze of lemon to serve. That is it!

Grilled chicken Breasts

Thursday, 8 May 2014

How to prepare Greek Style Garlic Chicken Breast?

When it comes to bringing twists on a classic flavor combination, Greek style garlic chicken breast always a hit! This dish is enough to give you an energy boost and is pretty simple to make. So if you are really curious to know how to prepare it then, follow the guidelines below.

Please note the ingredients first,

    Four skinless, boneless chicken breast halves

•    One cup extra virgin olive oil

    One lemon, juiced

•    Two teaspoons crushed garlic

•    One teaspoon salt

•    One and half teaspoons black pepper

•    One third teaspoon paprika

Procedure:
    First off, to penetrate, cut 3 slits in each chicken breast to allow marinade. Take a small bowl and mix olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt, pepper, and paprika for 30 seconds. Now take a large bowl and place chicken breasts and pour marinade over it. Using your hand work marinade into chicken and cover and refrigerate overnight.

•    After that preheat grill for medium heat with lightly garlic olive oil and then cook the chicken until meat is no longer pink. That is it!

Greek Style Garlic Chicken Breast

Saturday, 26 April 2014

How to prepare Chicken and Baby Spinach with Raspberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette

I feel, person like me who loves to eat should learn cooking. It is not like that everyone should think like the way that I do, but still, when you really know cooking, it becomes very easy to enjoy your favourite food everyday without depending on anyone or spending couple of dollars in the restaurants.

Literally speaking, cooking is not difficult, but all you just require is learning it, that is it. In this is article, I will be guiding you on how to make Chicken and Baby Spinach with Raspberry-Balsamic for dressing and for salad. If you are one of those a foodie like me, thinking, you should try your hand at cooking, then follow through the reading just from below to give yourself a simple and easy start.

Note the ingredients that we require –


 For dressing:

•    1/2 cup lite balsamic vinaigrette

•    1/2 cup fresh raspberries

•    3/4 teaspoon sugar

For salad:

•    8 cups baby spinach

•    1/3 cup red onion, thinly sliced

•    1 cup fresh raspberries

•    1 cup sliced cucumbers

•    1 1/3 cups cooked store-bought chicken breast, cut into strips

•    1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese

•    1/4 cup chopped pecans

•    Freshly ground black pepper

Procedure –

•    For dressing: First off, mix up vinaigrette, raspberries, and sugar in a mixer. And keep blending it until it gets smoother.  Well, this is how you can make it for dressing your food items. This procedure is pretty simple and easy and you can use it to give your food a sweet and elegant touch.

•    For Salad: Take a large bowl and add all of the ingredients i.e. together spinach, onions, raspberries, cucumbers, and half of the vinaigrette. After that, divide the mixture between 4 chilled plates. Then add chicken strips to the mixing bowl and toss with dressing. And then garnish it with feta, pecans, and black pepper and serve!

Well friends, this is how you can prepare Chicken and Baby Spinach with Raspberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette.

Chicken and Baby Spinach

Note that, the above guide is pretty easy and simple to follow. If you are really a foodie person and often love try different dishes, then I am sure, this cooking guide can help you to add more taste to your foods.

So what are you waiting for? Give yourself try on learning this Chicken and Baby Spinach with Raspberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette.

Friday, 18 April 2014

How to prepare Coconut Cookie Dough Oatmeal?

We all know, for healthy living we need healthy food. So in this article, I will be guiding you how you can prepare fast and healthy breakfast cereal or high-energy snack - coconut cookie dough oatmeal. Let me tell you, like any oatmeal recipe, the preparation is very simple and it takes only few minutes to get this dish ready.

Check out the ingredient suggestions below for the recipe –
  • One and half cup oats
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • Sweetener (i.e. sugar, stevia, etc.)
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce or banana
  • Four drops coconut extract (optional)
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup liquid of choice (nondairy milk, water, coconut milk, etc.)
  • 1 or 2 T pre-melted coconut butter or butter coconut oil
Preparation –
  • First off, preheat the oven to 380 degrees. Mix-up all the dry ingredients and after that mix-up the wet ones!
  • Pour all that in a small baking pan and cook for 20 minutes or more (as necessary, until it gets firm).
  • After that, set oven to “high broil” (at about 500 degrees) and bake for 5 more minutes to give it nice crust. That is it.
Coconut Cookie Dough Oatmeal

Note: (If you want your cakes to pop out, make sure you have sprayed ramekins to it beforehand.)
So friends, this is how you can prepare coconut cookie dough oatmeal and can enjoy this fun and flavorful yet still healthy breakfast.