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Feb
08
"Friendly Feasting with Coach Lauren"
Welcome to the first FRIDAY Friendly Feasting with Coach Lauren! The new Friday format will allow me to post a recipe or two in preparation for the next week so you can do a little grocery shopping and get prepped to try them out! :) I love BBQ and have a few recipes for sauce that may just be popping up soon on the blog but for today I have a blend of a couple recipes actually, that can give you a bit of that BBQ flavor. One is from allrecipes.com and the other is from Food and Wine which are two sites I frequent a lot to find recipes. Both often require a lot of tweaking as they aren’t meant to be healthy-eating sites like vegan or clean-eating sites are, but check them out if you’re looking for something different. I will share both recipes – you’ll see they have some similarities so feel free to take the "extras" as you like to make it to you and your family's taste! I recently made the Sloppy Joe recipe but added in Miracle Noodles to make it more like the BBQ Spaghetti then figured I should at least take a pic of it on a slice of bread if you wanted to do it Sloppy Joe style so the pictures look kinda crazy!
BBQ Chicken (or turkey!) Spaghetti
(http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Spicy-Chicken-Spaghetti-II/)
- 2 bags miracle noodles
- ¼-1/2 c Worcestershire sauce
- ¼ c reduced sugar ketchup (Heinz variety - 1g sugar/serving not 4g)
- 8 oz no-salt tomato sauce
- ¼-1/2 c chopped bell pepper
- ¼-1/2 c chopped onion
- ½ teaspoon chili powder (or more)
- 1 lb grilled chicken breast or 1 lb ground turkey/chicken
Mix Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, tomato sauce, bell pepper, onion, and chili powder. Bring to a boil. Mix in cooked chicken (when I do ground meat, I brown it first then add the mixed sauce) reduce heat to low, and simmer 10 min, or until chicken is heated through. Mix in the cooked noodles, and serve warm. This is great for those no-carb days like M/Th on Level 3. The recipe makes 2 (or more) protein servings (4 servings on L4 which you'll learn more about soon). In the past I've made this with grilled chicken on long miracle noodles to seem very spaghetti like. I've also done the same but with ground meat like a meat marinara on top. Of late, I tend to keep the rice version of miracle noodles on hand and is what I used in the pics here.
Spicy Sloppy Joes
- 15-oz can tomato sauce
- ¼ cup low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 Tbsp Splenda brown sugar - sub with Splenda during bootcamp or omit!
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 chipotle in adobo+1 T sauce from can
- 1 lb ground turkey
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- Ez English muffins or bread, toasted (or miracle noodles, for carb-free meals)
- Onions or pickles, for serving (watch pickle sodium. I DO rinse pickles on the rarity I eat them)
In blender or small food processor, combine sauce ingredients and puree until smooth. Brown ground chicken/turkey and bring to a simmer over med heat. Season with your faves. Pour sauce into a large skillet and allow to mix together and simmer awhile. Spoon mixture onto Ez muffin/bread (sandwich or open faced), top with sliced onion and pickles. This makes 2 large protein servings (4 on L4, which you'll learn about soon!). If you decide to make sandwiches, 2 slices or 1 full muffin = 1 carb.
Enjoy, bootcampers! I hope these recipes help you to jazz up your meals as we wrap up week 5 and head into week 6! Until next Friday, Feast carb free or Feast sloppy, but as always...FEAST ON!!!
~Coach Lauren
