Last night, I made lemon-apricot chicken..
Take chicken breasts and pound flattish (think parmasean chicken)
Coat with a breading made of flour, garlic powder and lemon zest:
bake until done, turning once.
Make a glaze with apricot preserves, soy sauce, lemon juice, and ginger
cut chicken on the bias into 1/2 inch slices…glaze with sauce.
yum!
(weirdly enough, I used a microplane on a green plastic plate, which ended up looking almost exactly like this picture…but I this is someone else’s picture! small world)
probably wouldn’t have been bad for the diet…each entree included:
1 breaded chicken breast (about 150-160 calories)
1/10 cup of apricot preserves (about 80 calories..yikes!)
spices & soy sauce in tiny amounts (about 1 calorie for the 1/3tsp soy sauce per breast)
Entree calories: about 241.
side dish: honey and ginger glazed carrots
1/2c carrots: 26 calories
1tsp butter (35 calories)
2/3 tbsp honey (about 50 cals)
big pinch of powdered ginger (no calories)
Total for side dish: 111 cals
Total caloric content for meal 352
not too shabby compared to a big mac at 560 calories (not counting the fries!)
I tend to get bored at work and snack on a candy bar in the mid afternoon, so I try to knock out a couple hundred calories at dinner time to make up for it
