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Chicken Club Wrap

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Chicken Club Wrap

I love me a good chicken club – and swapping the traditional bacon for turkey bacon keeps things healthy.  I usually favour sandwiches, but sometimes it’s good to switch things up, right?  These wraps by @latortillafactory are only 70 calories a wrap.  Whoohoo! Two wraps for lunch?  Yes please!

Serves 1

🥄  ½ chicken breast, grilled and thinly sliced
🥄 ⁣1 slice turkey bacon, cooked and diced
🥄 1 tbsp light mayo
🥄 ⁣1 ½ tbsp grated cheddar cheese
🥄 Salad greens

Fill each wrap with half the toppings, roll and enjoy!

Bacon and Potato Bowl

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Bacon and Potato Bowl

If you’re a member of @teamstronggirls, you might have seen the great turkey bacon debate recently go down.  Let me say this about turkey bacon: (a) it’s a vastly better choice than traditional bacon (b) not all turkey bacon is created equal (c) @preschoice blue menu turkey bacon is a leaner choice than a lot of other turkey bacon on the market.

If any of that matters to you, those are my thoughts, for what they’re worth.  If that doesn’t matter to you, no worries!  This dinner is still bang up delicious.  It’s perfect to put together at the last minute, and it’s so good.  You might never want to eat anything else again…

This scales perfectly, and is highly likely to be a hit for the whole family.

Serves 1

🥄 3 small/medium yellow potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
🥄 ⁣5 slices turkey bacon, chopped
🥄 2 tbsp grated cheddar cheese
🥄 ⁣2 tbsp Greek yogourt
🥄 1 green onion, sliced

Put your potatoes into the air fryer, and cook through.  Mine take about 20 – 25 minutes.  While the potatoes are cooking, put the cut turkey bacon into a frying pan, and cook over medium heat, until crisped through.  Once crispy, set aside.

Put the cooked potatoes into a bowl, top with the turkey bacon, Greek yogourt and green onion.

Enjoy thoroughly!

BBQ Chicken Poutine

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BBQ Chicken Poutine
So, I’ve pretty definitively concluded that any potato + any meat + any cheese is an ongoing winning combination for me.
Serves 1
🥄 1 sweet potato, peeled and fry cut
🥄 ⁣1 c shredded chicken breast
🥄 1/4 c BBQ sauce – I love @ghughessugarfree
🥄 ⁣1/4 c shredded pizza mozzarella
🥄 1 green onion, sliced
Cook the sweet potato in your air fryer for about 20 minutes. Once the fries are cooked, pile them onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
Heat the shredded chicken in the microwave along with the bbq sauce. Once heated, pile the chicken on top of the fries, then top with the cheese and green onion.
Pop under the broiler for about 3-4 minutes or until the cheese becomes melty.
Enjoy!

Mexican Inspired Corn Salad

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Mexican Inspired Corn Salad
Guys!! Fresh corn is in season right now!!!! This is a fleeting bit of summer goodness, so you’ve got to use it all the ways that you can. This corn salad was so perfect with fresh corn!!!

Serves 1

🥄 1 cob corn, cooked and kernels cut off
🥄 1 c shredded chicken breast
🥄 ⁣6 grape tomatoes, halved
🥄 1 green onion, finely sliced
🥄 1/2 orange bell pepper, finely chopped
🥄 ⁣2 tbsp cilantro, chopped
🥄 1/2 avocado, cut into cubes
🥄 1 like, juiced
🥄 ⁣1/4 tsp salt
🥄 1/2 tsp cumin

Gently reheat the chicken gently, then mix all ingredients together well, and enjoy this delicious salad!

Ceviche with Fried Plantain

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Ceviche with Fried Plantain
Goodness me – there is so much action happening on this plate I can barely contain myself!!!

First – let’s talk about how awesomely summer fresh ceviche is! Talk about zero heating up of your kitchen.

Next – plantain – how have I never made fried plantain at home before? I’ve had plantain while vacationing before, but never thought to make it at home. Well, joke is definitely on me…I was the one missing out. This is like the best comfort food ever!

Ok – to whip this up yourself and make 2 servings:

For the plantains:
🥄 ⁣1 plantain, sliced
🥄 Sea salt
🥄 ⁣Spray-based cooking oil

Coat the sliced plantain with a quick shot of your oil spray (both sides), then a sprinkle of sea salt. Cook in your air fryer for about 10 minutes, flipping after 5 minutes. Do not overlap the slices. If you need to, cook the plantain in two batches.

For the ceviche:
🥄 1 lb cooked shrimp, cut into bite sized pieces
🥄 ⁣4 limes
🥄 1/2 cucumber, diced into small pieces
🥄 ⁣1 orange bell pepper, cut into small pieces
🥄 10 grape tomatoes, halved
🥄 ⁣1 avocado, cubed
🥄 2 tbsp cilantro
🥄 ⁣1 fresh jalapeño (or a few pickled jalapeños, if that’s what you’ve got)
🥄 1/2 tsp salt

Set the cooked shrimp in a dish with 3 juiced limes and allow to sit in the fridge for 1-2h in order to allow the lime flavour to transfer to the shrimp. Drain the shrimp, then add to a bowl the shrimp along with all remaining ingredients (plus the juice of the remaining lime). Mix through and enjoy.

Technically (and traditionally) you can do this with raw shrimp and allow the acidity from the lime juice to cook the shrimp, but I erred on the side of food safety and stared with cooked shrimp. It was still perfectly delicious!

Grilled Shrimp and Caesar salad

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Grilled Shrimp and Caesar Salad

Yummy…so perfect for summer!

 

I love @skinnytaste Caesar dressing, so no need to improve upon perfection!

 

Grill some shrimp, toss your chopped romaine with Caesar dressing, and enjoy all the summer perfection!

 

Kale Slaw Taco Salad

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Kale Slaw Taco Salad

This week I realized that I had been wanting taco salad but didn’t have any romaine lettuce, which is what I usually use.  However, I seemed to have an abundance of kale slaw.  Turns out a little twist on an old fave was quite nice!

Serves 1


🥄 ½ bag kale slaw
🥄 ⁣½ c brown rice, cooked
🥄 1 c ground turkey, cooked and flavoured with taco seasoning

Toppings:

🥄 ⁣shredded cheddar cheese
🥄 salsa
🥄 ⁣sliced green onion
🥄 sliced green onion
🥄 ⁣lime juice
🥄 plain Greek yogourt

Put the kale slaw into a large bowl, and microwave for 2 minutes to soften.  Add the cooked rice and turkey.  If you need re-heat it, put the whole bowl back in the microwave for another minute.  Top as you like, mix and enjoy!

Watermelon & Cucumber Salad

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Watermelon & Cucumber Salad

This salad is so perfectly fresh and cool on a hot summer day!

Serves 1

🥄 ⁣¼ English cucumber, sliced and cut into quarters
🥄 2 c watermelon, seeded and cubed
🥄 ⁣¼ c goat cheese, crumbled
🥄 1 tbsp fresh mint, sliced
🥄 ⁣1 tbsp fresh basil, sliced
🥄 1 tbsp white balsamic

Mix together and enjoy!

Pork Carnitas

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Pork Carnitas

I was super craving Mexican last week, and these awesome pork carnitas were fully the answer!  I also tested out Crepini egg white wraps with these for the first time, and they were great.  I was really wanting rice and beans IN my wrap, which meant it would be a challenge to keep my carbs in check while enjoying a all of this.  These Crepini wraps were the perfect solution, as they are all protein!  I did find, though, that once wrap was too thin for the load I was putting on it.  Once I doubled up the wraps, they were perfect!

Serves 2

🥄 1 pork tenderloin, trimmed of visible fat
🥄 ⁣1 tsp oregano
🥄 1 tsp smoked paprika
🥄 ⁣1 tsp cumin

🥄 2 c chicken broth
🥄 ⁣1 sliced yellow onion
🥄 2 tbsp pickled jalapenos
🥄 ⁣4 cloves garlic, crushed
🥄 Salt & pepper

Combine together the oregano, paprika and cumin.  Rub the tenderloin all over with this mixture.  In the base of your pressure cooker combine the chicken broth, onion, jalapenos, garlic, salt and pepper.  Add the tenderloin, and cook according to your pressure cooker’s instructions.

Remove the cooked pork and shred with two forks.  Once the pork has been shredded, crisp it up in a frying pan over medium heat.

For each carnita, top two Crepinis with:

🥄 ¼ of the crisped pork
🥄 ⁣¼ c r cooked brown rice
🥄 2 tbsp black beans
🥄 ⁣Sautéed onions and peppers
🥄 Greek yogourt
🥄 ⁣Salsa

Roll and enjoy!

Grilled Chicken and Tabbouleh

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Grilled Chicken and Tabbouleh 

Tabbouleh is packed full of yummy mint and parsley.  Here I’ve eliminated the bulgur to reduce the carbs in the salad itself.  I did this so that I could enjoy more pita on the side!  I’ve also reduced the olive oil a bit and upped the lemon juice to make it a bit lighter on the fats.

Serves 1

🥄 2 c packed parsley, finely chopped
🥄 ⁣¼ c fresh mint, finely chopped
🥄 1 green onion, sliced
🥄 ⁣5 – 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
🥄 2 tsp olive oil
🥄 ⁣1 lemon, juiced
🥄 ¼ tsp salt
🥄 ⁣A dash of allspice
🥄 A dash of cinnamon
🥄 ⁣A few grinds of black pepper
🥄 1 grilled chicken breast
🥄 1 pita bread

Chop the parsley and mint, and place in a bowl along with the green onion and the cherry tomatoes.  In a small dish, mix together the remaining ingredients.  Pour the dressing over the salad and toss together well.  Toast a pita bread then cut into sixths.  Enjoy together the salad, chicken breast and the pita bread.