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I feel like I'm in a total rut of ideas for relatively quick, relatively healthy meals to cook for the fam every night. I figured I'd post one of my favorite quick meal recipes, in hope that others will do the same and I can get some new ideas! Here is mine:
Pasta with spinach and ricotta-- this is the only way I can get my son to eat spinach! 1 package of pasta (I use whole grain rotini) cooked Bag of fresh spinach Fresh garlic to taste 1 1/2 cups Ricotta cheese (I use whole milk ricotta for the kids and low-fat ricotta for me) 2-3 tomatoes, diced Fresh grated parmesan/pecorino-romano, etc. Coat a skillet with cooking spray and sautee the spinach and garlic until the spinach is cooked. Finely chop the spinach, return it to the pan, and add the ricotta. Sautee the spinach/ricotta mixture long enough to cook some of the liquid out of the ricotta (otherwise the pasta becomes really gloppy), about 4-5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and cooked pasta until warmed through. Garnish with fresh grated cheese and freshly cracked pepper. Serve with a salad and it's a pretty good, healthy, quick meal! |
Anonymous
| I really feel that my slow cooker has saved my life. One of the easiest dishes I make -- which my child loves -- is black bean/salsa chicken served over brown rice for us but for my child in a tortilla. Its just chicken breasts, one jar of salsa, one can of black beans, one onion, cooked in the slow cooker all day until the chicken is shredded. Then served over rice or tortilla, with avocados, tomatos and lettuce like a fajita. |
Anonymous
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The black bean salsa chicken sounds great! Any other slow cooker recipes like that? I am a huge fan of the slow cooker.
My current slow cooker recipe is: - a bag of beans (not yet cooked, you choose your favorite) - some sausage / kielbasa - a frozen corn / pea mix - onion - garlic - yam or potato - a lot of water - salt, pepper, etc. This makes a yummy and healthy soup. |
Anonymous
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OP here. Thanks so much for the ideas so far. They all sound delicious. I'll add a slow cooker recipe since I'm also a big fan of that type of cooking:
Moroccan Chicken Thighs with Chickpeas Two (16 oz) cans chickpeas, drained One (15 oz) can diced tomatoes, drained 1 red bell pepper, seeded and cut into approx. 1 inch pieces 1 red onion, chopped 1/4 C. golden raisins 2 tbsp. tomato paste 2 tbsp. water 1 1/2 tsp. ground cumin pinch of paprika 4 boneless, skinless chicken thights cut into 1 inch pieces 2 tbsp. creamy peanut/almond/cashew butter Put everything except the peanut butter into the slow cooker, stir well, cook on the low setting for 6-7 hours. Stir in the nut butter. Serve with couscous and garnish with chopped fresh cilantro. |
Anonymous
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I also use the crock pot a few times a week. I like to cook a pork tenderloin w/ bbq sauce & some brown sugar all day. We have pulled pork for dinner w/ baked potatos.
Also cook stew meat or sirloin w/ soy sauce, terriyaki sauce, garlic, brown sugar, pepper and green peppers for very tender pepper steak. Just need to cook rice. |
Meconbear
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If you have leftover white rice from Chinese food or whatever, fried rice is quick and has most of the food groups in it!
2 C. White Rice 1-2 stalks green onion or a bit of diced onion 2-3 T. veg or canola oil 1/4 C. Diced ham or cooked meat of your choice 1/2 C. frozen peas and carrots mix 2 eggs, over easy and cut up Soy sauce Pepper Heat oil in pan. Put in rice, peas, carrots and onion until all are heated through. Toss in meat and put in enough soy sauce so everything is kind of brown (stir frying), add cut up eggs and sprinkle some pepper and you've got a meal in 15 minutes! |
Anonymous
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My kids love this one.
4 pork loins 2 cups chicken both 1 1/2 cups rice 1 bag of frozen collards or mustard greens. dash of red pepper Brown chops in a little oo remove, add broth, greens, rice, pepper. bring to boil, place chops on top, cover, reduce to simmer 30 mins. yummy one pot meal. And for those of you who do not like collards, this may change your mind. 
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Anonymous
| If you cook chicken (or most anything else) in a wet clay pot in the oven, it comes out unusually moist, and kids will eat more than usual. I use a Romertopf brand pot, soak the top and bottom in water for 15 minutes, put in a whole chicken -- about 5-6 pounds, put the pot in a cold oven, turn the oven on to 450 degrees, and set the timer for 85 minutes. My 8 year old daughter, who usually just picks at anything resembling meat, will eat an entire chicken breast if cooked this way, and then the other breast cold for lunch the next day. Sometimes I put an onion in the cavity and throw a few cut up potatoes or sweet potatoes into the pot, too. I have a pot just big enough for one chicken, and another big enough for two chickens or up to a 17 pound turkey. Sometimes I sprinkle some spices onto the chicken, and sometimes I don't bother. It always comes out melt-in-your-mouth moist and tasty no matter what I do. I bought the big Romertopf on Amazon for a good price. Just be careful not to injure your back when you put the pot into the oven and take it out, because it's very heavy. |
Anonymous
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Just saw this one in the Washington Post on-line and it looks great!
Sautee an onion, green pepper, garlic, and a sliced up kielbasa. Add can of white beans, can of chicken stock, can of diced tomatoes, 2 cups of water, a cup of rice. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 20 minutes. That's roughly the recipe. I just kind of make it up as I go. |