If the words lettuce and tomato strike the fear of God into you, then you might be like my husband and class yourself as a 'salad dodger'. I will give you two of the simplest methods of throwing together a quick, delicious and dare I say healthy meal, that do indeed involve the normally sneered at couple of salad items. It's been a long time since we had a takeaway in our house other than fish and chips-well you have to take advantage of the amenities on your doorstep, right?-The one thing we do love,especially the teenager, is a char-grilled chicken kebab with all the trimmings. She's going through that phase, where a delicious and nutritious meal means a pot noodle. The lower half of her face is sponsored by Walkers and Cadbury, as she can be seen most days with one of their products hanging out of her mouth. So imagine the sheer look of joy on her face when I presented her with a chicken kebab, okay she grunted something and didn't look suicidal, for a second there was a glimmer of hope in her eyes. So if you want to trick your family into eating something healthy here are a couple of ways, just make sure to hide the lettuce and tomatoes in the salad drawer under the chocolate....
B.L.T
I love a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich but mine has to be on seeded bread. I love Aldi's seeded loaf it goes perfectly with this!
2 slices of bread
2 slices streaky bacon
Sliced tomato
Shredded iceburg lettuce
Mayonnaise
Grill the bacon until crispy
Spread the bread generously with mayonnaise
Line the bottom slice with lettuce and tomato
Top with the bacon and the top slice of bread
Eat it somewhere where nobody can look at you, like my son does, with those eyes that say feed me please mummy I'm starving-even though he's had a five course breakfast, still has half a banana hanging out of his face and chocolate round his mouth!
Chicken kebab
Chicken cubed
Pitta bread
Lettuce shredded
Tomato thickly sliced
Pickled cabbage
Chilli sauce
Garlic sauce
On a really high heat in a griddle pan, barbecue or grill cook the chicken until almost blackened on the outside
Heat up the pitta bread and slice open
Plate up the salad and sauces
Fill the pitta with chicken and serve. I also managed to get extra healthy points serving it with corn cobs.
No comments:
Post a Comment