gluten, dairy, sugar free- 2nd week

Submitted by briefcandle on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 7:00am.

I thought I was getting bored with my food options (and I kind of am with the lunch & snack options, if anyone has any to recommend). But dinners have been pretty cool. I just had to pop in with this recipe I found online that fit what was left in my pantry, and my diet. We just had it for dinner and it was so amazing and yummy. Turns out coconut milk is such an amazing thing to cook with! I'm gonna have to make it more a part of my diet. Anyway, here's the Brazilian Chicken Coconut Curry, a mish-mash of two different online recipes.

Brazilian Chicken Coconut Curry

INGREDIENTS
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
dash ground cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
2 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, sliced into 2-3 inch pieces
salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger (I used 1 tsp powdered ginger)
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 tomatoes, chopped
1 (14 ounce) can light coconut milk

DIRECTIONS
In a medium bowl, mix the cumin, cayenne pepper, turmeric, and coriander. Place the chicken in the bowl, season with salt and pepper, and rub on all sides with the spice mixture. Place in fridge.
(Put on a pot of rice or pasta, whatever you prefer to serve this over)
(Prep your veggies; chop the onion, tomatoes, garlic)
Heat a few tbsp oil in large pan over med-high heat and saute onions, ginger, and garlic a few minutes, until soft and golden. Push them to the edges of the pan.
Add chicken to the center and cook 3-4 minutes on each side (until each side isn't pink), until nearly done.
Reduce heat and add the tomatoes and cook a few minutes.
Add coconut milk and simmer over low heat until sauce thickens and chicken is fully cooked. This is when I poked my meat thermometer into the thickest chicken piece to make sure they were done.
Serve hot with rice.

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Submitted by wifemotherslave on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 3:32pm.

wow, its sounds like you are doing soo great with this diet. I feel like I should do a diet challenge myself. BTW the recipe sounds delish!
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Submitted by Strange Quark on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 11:28pm.

There are lots of wheat-alternatives out there now, but I find that the quinoa pasta is awesome. The rice stuff isn't super bad either. Rice noodles are pretty delicious with peanut sauce and veggies, or some soy sauce and veggies.
I make quinoa salads or rice salads with beans and veggies/apples with nuts and dried fruit and some vinegar and oil dressing.
Lunches for us consist of lots of pate or hummus with veggies. We make a soup once a week...I get lamb or beef bones from the market and then boil those with all the veggie left overs and cuttings on Sundays and add whatever for the soup for that week. I eat that for lunch a lot.

"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself" DT Suzuki

Submitted by briefcandle on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 2:33pm.

I love soups but its too mfking hot here until at least Nov before I can make soup. But I'm on the quinoa and hummus tip, that sounds good. I've never seen quinoa pasta as opposed to just the grain, I'll have to check out the grocery store today in the healthy aisles.

Submitted by bitch-face on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 6:33pm.

it's pretty tasty
I am swisterland...switzerland? fuck it, I am swiss.

Submitted by briefcandle on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 3:14pm.

thanks! I did find it at my HEB Smiling

Submitted by thatmama on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 6:28pm.

??

here's one recipe -- I'd just do without the bread here, looks like they are using it like croutons anyway....

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/GAZPACHO-239209

Submitted by briefcandle on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 3:15pm.

oh yeah! i love that stuff! thanks for the reminder

Submitted by thatmama on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 11:07pm.

I'm really impressed with how well you are doing with this! I'll have to try your recipe -- sounds lovely.

Are you eating potatoes? my new fav thing to make is spanish style tortilla -- with added veggies and less olive oil (they usually call for something absurd like half a cup) to make it cali-spanish...

I can post details if you are interested.

Submitted by briefcandle on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 5:49am.

definitely, potatoes. post it up, i'm interested.

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