Protein Power 10-Meal Kit: Creamy Garlic Chicken

 Wow - didn't realize it's been awhile since I last posted on my Tastefully Simple Blog.

I decided this morning that I wanted to try some different recipes - getting tired of fixing the same ole chicken and ground turkey meals.  So, I picked out a few meals from our Protein Power 10-Meal Kit.  As I make them, I'll post them here.

Tonight's dinner was Creamy Garlic Chicken.  Guess what!  No substitutions were made.  Very delicious.  Although, I did not pound the chicken breast pieces.  Probably should have - they wouldn't have taken as long to bake in the oven.

Now, here's the ingredients:

1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 6 pieces, pounded thin

3/4 cup sour cream or plain Greek yogurt (I used sour cream)

3/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

1 1/2 Tablespoons Garlic Garlic Seasoning

3/4 teaspoon Seasoned Salt

This takes only 15 minutes to assemble and about 25 minutes to cook.

1. 
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Place chicken in a greased 13x9-inch baking dish.
2. In small bowl, combine remaining ingredients.  Spread evenly over chicken.
3. Bake until internal temperature of chicken reaches 165 degrees F on an instant-read food thermometer, about 20 minutes.  (Note:  since I didn't pound the pieces, it took longer to bake - about 5-8 minutes).  Turn broiler on HIGH (I only have one temp for my oven).  Broil, until bubbly and golden brown on top, about 2-3 minutes.

The recipe booklet says to serve it with a low-carb green salad.  We had broccoli with butter and seasoned using Seasoned Pepper.

You can make ahead and freeze by placing the chicken in a quart freezer bag.  Place the Parmesan cheese, Garlic Garlic Seasoning, and Seasoned Salt in a quart bag.  Place both bags in a gallon freezer bag.  Seal well, label, and freeze.  Thaw completely.  Continue with step 1.

Nutrition information per serving:

Calories:  242

Total Fat:  11g

Sat Fat:  5.5g

Cholest:  93mg

Sodium:  525mg

Carbs:  6g

Fiber: 0g

Sugar:  0g

Protein:  31g

Number of Servings:  6

I was going to let you know what it comes out to point wise on WW but I'm not finding how to login on the desktop.  So, I'll let you know later.

Update:  The WW app doesn't have the Tastefully Simple products but similar products were noted in the recipe and the points came out to 5 per serving.

What's Happening?

I've been so busy  that I haven't had the opportunity to try new recipes and post them on this site.  However, that will change starting next month.

We have a new season of products that is available as of now.

Returning from prior seasons:

• Ah, Sugar Sugar! Cookie Mix
• Chocolate Ugly Cake Mix
• Creamy Wild Rice Soup Mix
• Nashville Hot Seasoning
• Oh My! Chai Drink Mix
• Peanut Butter Bliss Cookie Mix
• TS House Sauce
• Wahoo! Chili Seasoning

New this season:

• Applewood Smoked Cheddar Cheese Ball Mix
• Bold Berry Sauce
• Brown Sugar Vanilla Syrup
• Caramel Roll Quick Cake Mix
• Carmelita Bar Mix
• Chicken Parmesan Warm Dip Mix
• Chicken Tortilla Soup Mix
• Cinnamon Apple Seasoning
• Classic Ranch Mix
• Creamy Chocolate Fudge (avail 10/1)
• Everything Bagel Seasoning
• French Onion Skillet Sauce
• Maple Walnut Fudge (avail 10/1)
• Salted Butterscotch Cheese Ball Mix
• Salted Caramel Pancake Mix
• S'mores Frozen Drink Mix
• Tuscan Starter Sauce

Limited Time Offers - some of these were from prior seasons:

• Pumpkin Bread & Maple Glaze Mix
• Prickly Pear Cooler Drink Mix
• Orange Pepper Sauce
• Jalapeno Lime Hot Sauce (medium spice)
• Bloody Mary Mixer
• Caribbean Heat Wing Sauce (medium spice)

We have some interesting assortments, collections, and kits including:

• 5-Day Reset Kit
• Air Fryer 10-Meal Kit
• Breakfast for Dinner 5-Meal Kit
• Cutting Carbs 10-Meal Kit
• Healthy Swaps 5-Meal Kit
• My Main Dish 10-Meal Kit
• Skillet Dinners 5-Meal Kit
• Soups On! 5-Meal Kit

Watch for future postings as I check out some of these kits (I don't have an air fryer) that use seasonal and standard products.

Don't forget to check out my website.

Baked Orange Chicken

 Do you like Orange Chicken from Chinese restaurants?  Well, this matches it with one exception - it has some heat.  And I didn't use the full jar!  I didn't serve it over rice like the recipe indicates.  Oh, did I make a mess in the kitchen!  Warning - you need at least an hour to make this.

Here's the original recipe on our website.  Yes, I did some substitutions and other modifications based on our dietary needs.

• Liquid eggs (egg substitute)
• eliminated the salt
• Avocado Oil - reduced the amount for frying.
• snow peas instead of the red bell pepper
• reduced the Orange Pepper Sauce to about 3/4 of the bottle

If you don't like spiciness - then I would recommend using the Sweet & Sour Pineapple Sauce.

I was a little late on taking the pictures.  This is what remained of the chicken breast that was cut up into bite sized pieces.

Dredging the chicken pieces in cornstarch.

Then dipping them in the egg & Garlic Pepper Seasoning mixture.

Frying the chicken pieces.

Draining the fried chicken on a paper towel.

Placing the cooked chicken and the snow peas on an aluminum foil lined cookie sheet.  Covered with the sauce.  Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

The recipe says it serves 8 - I didn't dish up very well - had 2 servings leftover and we didn't have seconds!

We did enjoy it - even though there was a party going on in our mouths!

Pesto Turkey Burgers

 We love eating burgers.  However, we're not into all the bread with having to watch carbs and gluten.  Yeah, we had fried potatoes - that's kind of why we eliminated the buns.  I probably should have prepared a vegetable like green beans but spaced out on the time.

Original recipe is on a previous blog post from 2016 or you can print it out from our website.  Here are the modifications:

• Avocado Oil instead of the Olive Oil
• 99% fat-free ground turkey instead of lean
• regular bread crumbs instead of the panko bread crumbs
• Liquid egg substitute instead of regular egg
• sliced medium cheddar cheese instead of mozzarella cheese
• didn't mix the pesto with the mayonnaise
• no extra salt & pepper (not listed in the ingredients but mentioned in the instructions)

Oops!  I just noticed that the parmesan cheese was to go into the pesto and I had added it to the ground turkey.  Oh well, it was still delicious.  The pesto that was supposed to be mixed with the mayo, I sprinkled on top of the burger while I was grilling it before adding the cheese slices.

This makes 6 patties (except I only made 5).  Grilled 2 of the patties and froze the rest for a later meal.

This was the Dried Tomato & Garlic Pesto Mix with water.  Microwaved.  The Avocado Oil was added afterwards (another oops!) 

Here I was mixing the ground turkey, bread crumbs, egg, half of the pesto, and the parmesan cheese before forming into patties.

This is "grilling" the patties along with the potatoes.  After flipping, I topped it with the remaining pesto mix.  Then the cheddar cheese slices.

The whole meal took about 30 minutes. It's kind of nice to look back at some of the old recipes and make them again.

Bayou Pork Fried Rice

 Another delicious dinner prepared in about 30 minutes.  Of course, I did some modifications.  That's the neat thing about our Tastefully Simple recipes, they can be modified to meet your own tastebuds!

The original recipe is on our website.  My modifications include:

• 
  using our Avocado Oil instead of the vegetable oil
• using liquid eggs instead of whole eggs
• using Madagascar Pink rice instead of white or brown rice (note:  this takes longer to cook)
• eliminating the green onions

I also didn't use salt and pepper as the directions indicated.  I didn't use as much of the Bayou Bourbon Glaze or broth (actually used half the amount called for as I had ran out of the Bayou Bourbon Glaze).

Scrambled the eggs while waiting for the rice to cook.

browned the pork that was cut into strips.  I screwed up and bought chops that had bones instead of the boneless.  So didn't have as much meat as the recipe called for.

added the rice and frozen veggies.

added the sauce then the scrambled eggs.

This makes 6 servings.  Because I didn't fix another vegetable to go with it, we ended up having a second helping.  I froze the remainder to have at a later date.

Citrus Herb Chicken with Strawberry Salsa

Oh my!  This was delicious!  I plan on using the leftover chicken and salsa on my salad for lunch today.  This recipe came from our Dairy & Grain Free meal kit a couple of years ago.  Perfect Weight Watcher's recipe - it is only 2 Personal Points (due to the avocado oil).

The original recipe can be found on our Tastefully Simple website.  I did some modifications - actually I eliminated a couple of items that we don't care for.

• sliced green onions
• jalapeno pepper

This recipe calls for advance preparation - marinating the chicken at least 2 hours before cooking.

I also made up the salsa right before cooking the chicken so it had a chance to mingle the flavors.

We didn't grill the chicken but "fried" it on the stovetop.

I served it with steamed broccoli seasoned with our Seasoned Pepper.  This recipe makes six servings.  We will be using the leftovers for our lunches.  You could easily freeze the marinated chicken (before grilling).  Not sure what you would do with the extra salsa as that wouldn't freeze well.

You could use pork instead of chicken.

Bon Appetit!

Asian Beef & Veggie Skillet

 

I made the above recipe from our 14-Day Reset Program Guide.  We've had this a couple of times before.  I decided to try it again and this time it was much better.

Original recipe is on our website.  I did the following modifications:

• 99% lean ground turkey
• eliminated the sweet peppers
• used 1/2 tablespoon of the Si Si Cilantro Seasoning

Next time, I will probably only use one teaspoon of the seasoning as my husband could still taste the spiciness.   I sliced whole mushrooms instead of buying a package already sliced.  I also grated my own carrots.

The recipe said to use a large skillet.  But as you can see, mine was more like a medium size.  Here, I'm browning the ground turkey.

I then added the veggies and seasoning.  As I was stirring, I ended up cutting the mushrooms into smaller pieces. 

 

I then added the riced cauliflower.  Mixed it in real good and allowed it to heat up.  While that was happening, I did the thickening sauce.

Using a one-cup measuring cup, I used a low-sodium beef broth and added the coconut aminos to it.  Then using a small whisk, mixed in the cornstarch.

I then poured the liquid into the skillet and stirred frequently until the sauce had thickened.

This makes five servings.  We actually had seconds.  I was able to dish up a couple of small containers to freeze for later eating.