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CHINESE CHICKEN SALAD

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Chinese chicken salad is great for using leftover roasted chicken pieces, whole rotisserie chicken or boneless grilled chicken breast. Using your imagination, you can add many fresh ingredients (contemporary textured vegetables). Use Arugula, swiss chard, spinach besides the basic iceberg shredded lettuce. The sweet-tangy and savory lime dressing gives the salad a unique “freshness”. This healthy recipe is a quick on- the- go hearty meal on a KETO diet.

Asian Fusion flavored cuisine and Asian-style lettuce salads appeared in the 1950s to 1970s as a new trend. Healthy popular cookbooks added more garnishes on a basic green lettuce salad. Chinese chicken salads have basic dressings with Asian flavors of soy sauce, garlic and ginger, Chinese five-spice is a substitute for ground cinnamon, broiler fryer chicken marinated in wines, shredded lettuce, green onions, cabbage, cilantro, cashews or almonds and an exotic dressing. Today there are many versions of the salad, with added Mandarin orange slices, peanut- sauce and bean sprouts.

FOR A QUICK MARINADE RECIPE FOR CHICKEN, use (4) large boneless chicken breast. Whisk together (1 TBSP) rice wine vinegar, (1 TBSP) minced garlic, (1 TBSP) sesame oil, (1 TBSP) ground ginger, (1 tsp) ground pepper, (1 TBSP) soy sauce and (1TBSP) honey or brown sugar. Use a gallon size zip plastic bag and add 4 chicken breasts to mixture and marinate overnight. Use a cast iron fry pan and add 2 TBSP grapeseed oil. Heat pan to medium heat and grill each side of breast until caramelized. Cook until juices run clear (13-15 minutes each side). Let cool and refrigerate before shredding.

PLEASE SEE PREVIOUSLY POSTED CHICKEN RECIPES AS AN OPTION FOR (SHREDDED CHICKEN) TO BE ADDED TO SALAD

ROASTED CURRY GINGER CHICKEN

SOY SAUCE CHICKEN

Fresh Ingredients for salad

Fresh Arugula greens

Thinly sliced Napa cabbage

Mix Arugula and Napa cabbage greens

Thinly slice veggies to be added to salad… adding a “colorful-flavorful-texture” to the salad!

Prepared roasted chicken to be shredded for salad (see my previously posted chicken recipes). Make sure chicken is well cooked and refrigerated before shredding.

Remove skin and shred or dice chicken

Juice one large lime

Add fresh lime zest to juice

Add dry ingredients to liquid

Whisk juice liquid, add dry ingredients – slowly add oils and emulsify. Mix ingredients thoroughly, chill dressing before drizzling over salad

Add 2 TBSP grapeseed oil to pan and brown sliced almonds

Toast sliced almonds quickly…be careful not to burn almonds

Toasted almonds – cool before adding to top of salad

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ASIAN STYLE BEEF SHORT RIBS

admin — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 05:55:35 +0000

Asian braised short ribs when slow cooked for hours, are tender, juicy and literally fall-off the-bone great! Make sure you get a meaty short rib with delicious marbled fat. This creates a lot of flavor in a small bite and is flavorful on a KETO Diet! There are two popular ways that they are cut, English style and Flanken. For a Chinese Asian-fusion twist to the above recipe, add ¼ cup fresh orange juice and ¼ cup hoisin sauce and 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice and 2 teaspoons finely grated orange rind.

Where All Short Ribs Come From

All short ribs are from a rib section that contains three to four ribs. Depending on where it is cut from, it can be three to five inches thick, and contains meat interspersed with a lot of muscle, fat, and tendon, which give it a lot of strong beefy flavor.

Flanken

In the flanken style of short ribs, this thin cut, which is about 1/2 inch thick, goes across the bones so that each slice contains a few pieces of bone. This is a popular way to cut the short ribs if you are going for a Korean barbecue kalbi-style result. This cut is mainly found at an Asian grocery store, you most likely have to ask your butcher to cut these to order.

English Cut

The English style of short rib cuts between the ribs to separate them, leaving a thick piece of meat sitting on top of one piece of bone. These ribs can be left as is in one long piece or cut into smaller, approximately 2-inch long pieces. Boneless short ribs can sometimes be found, which mean that the meat is cut off the bones of an English-cut short rib.

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VEGETABLE EGG FOO YOUNG -“CHINESE OMELETTE”

admin — Sun, 26 May 2019 20:59:02 +0000

Chinese takeout restaurant favorites have a “westernized” menu of egg foo young, chow mein, beef and broccoli, egg drop soup and egg rolls…the typical cooked dishes are full of oil and sodium. I’ve prepared a vegetable egg foo young recipe “take – out” version at home that is low fat, high protein, low carb dinner option –cooked in 30 minutes. Use your imagination and load your stuffed omelettes with extra vegetables on a KETO DIET!

Egg foo young is derived from fu yung egg slices, a mainland Chinese recipe from Guangdong, literally meaning “Hibiscus egg”. This dish is prepared with beaten eggs and most often minced ham. Most traditional Asian restaurants use up leftovers a combination of minced vegetables, eggs and small pieces of meat, seafood or poultry cooked into an omelet-style pancake.

The Chinese omelette egg mixture usually has some type of protein (prawns, shrimp, lobster or pork) with traditional Asian vegetables: bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, cabbage, water chestnuts.

Most Chinese “Take Out” restaurants prepare a well-folded omelette with non-egg ingredients embedded in the egg mixture. It is covered with a sauce or gravy. American-Chinese restaurants in the Midwest serve a sandwich which is an egg foo young patty served with mayonnaise, dill pickles with lettuce, tomato between two slices of white bread

EGG MIXTURE

COOKING EGG MIXTURE

GRAVY PREPARATION

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SPICY LEMON SKILLET PORK CHOPS

admin — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 23:28:54 +0000

Do you cook pork chops that are dry and flavorless? This “SPICY LEMON PORK CHOP” recipe makes a juicy and tender pork chop full of flavor with little preparation time. Only 35 minutes and a great meal on a KETO DIET!

COOKING TIPS FOR PORK CHOPS:

-Don’t cook chops straight from the refrigerator…Thirty minutes before you plan to cook chops, take the meat out of the fridge. The time out of the refrigerator lets you bring the meat up to room temperature, which helps the pork cook evenly throughout.

-Season the chops with salt and pepper half-an-hour before cooking…salt has a chance to improve the flavor and texture of the meat.

-Rub chops with spices. Prepare your favorite spice blend on chops to seal in moisture.

-Sear one side of the pork chop until browned (seared) then flip them, turn down the heat to low heat and cover the skillet with a lid. Flip the chop to the second side and turn down the heat, slowly cooking to a golden brown…with the lid on the chop is cooked thoroughly in the middle. The chops remain juicy and become tender.

-Let the cooked chops rest. After cooking immediately, transfer them to a plate and allow 5 minutes. Keep warm in the oven before serving.

-While the chops rest, add chicken stock to the pan drippings. Simmer and reduce by half, swirl with butter.

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SPICY BLACK BEAN-CHILI PORK BACK RIBS (Asian Style BBQ)

admin — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:35:53 +0000

Spice up pork back ribs with an “Asian Flavor” – A change from the sweet traditional BBQ sauce. Great inspired flavor on a KETO DIET! Traditional Cantonese barbecue recipes produce a sticky-sweet-salty meat that has a reddish color (ketchup that seeps into the meat), caramelized crust…full of sugar! American Chinese “TAKEOUT” restaurants present ribs as an appetizer. This pork rib recipe is a main course served with an Asian vegetable (bok choy) or a specialty green salad with a riced cauliflower or quinoa.

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PORK SHOULDER CHINESE STYLE BBQ

admin — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 19:51:47 +0000

Explore this quick to prepare recipe with a wonderful Asian- inspired BBQ flavor…slow roasted tender pork with a crusty flavorful fat top. KETO Cooked.

Pork shoulder, also referred to as pork butt, starts out as a mass of tough meat (tough connective tissue) wrapped in a thick fat skin. My recipe starts the pork in a high heat oven to crisp up the skin and sear the meat, then cooking slowly in a low oven for a leisurely eight-hour roast. I use a le creuset braising pan or large dutch oven. Slow cooking a pork shoulder gently breaks down the marbling resulting in mouth-watering flavorful tender meat.

Serve your pork with a pan sauce, using the juices and left over cooked marinade (drain the fat), add one cup of white wine and chicken stock. Add a chili oil and make a sweet and spicy or Chinese style BBQ flavor sauce.

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CHINESE THREE INGREDIENT SOUP WITH BROCCOLI SLAW “NOODLES” – KETO COOKED

admin — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:19:55 +0000

This filling one-pot “Chinese Three Ingredients Soup” dinner is quick and easy, prepared in 20 minutes, KETO cooked with broccoli slaw instead of Chinese mein noodles in a simple aromatic broth that is packed with flavor. In moments you’ve got a steaming hot bowl of soup! This can also be prepared as a vegetarian gluten-free meal with assorted vegetables without the meat and seafood.

Many Chinese soups are based on chicken broth. In China, a traditional Chinese chicken soup is made from old hens and is seasoned with ginger, scallions, black pepper, soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil. By 2000 BCE, wheat had arrived in China from western Asia. These grains were typically served as warm noodle soups instead of baked into bread as in Europe.

Chinese herbal soups – homemade remedies with herbs or adaptogens (ginseng) to help heal specific health concerns.

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