Day 6 Recipes

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ingredients:
1 c bananas, mashed (roughly 2.5 medium bananas)
1 large egg
1/2 c applesauce
1 tbsp stevia or 1/2 c splenda
1 c whole wheat flour
1 cup regular flower
1/4 c milk (skim or 1 %)
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp semi-sweet mini chocolate chips*

Directions:
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl.  Fill 16 muffin tins or papers about halfway. 
Bake @ 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Makes 16 servings.

Nutritional Info:
Fat: 0.6g
Carbs: 16.1g
Calories: 92.2
Protein: 2.4g

**These have an interesting consistency and would almost taste better with other fruits mixed in instead of the chocolate chips.  They are pretty decent although next time I will change a couple of things up a bit.


Asian Chicken Salad

Ingredients:
2 c cook chicken, w/out skin, cut/tore into bite size pieces
4 c shredded cabbage
1 c mushrooms, sliced
1 c carrots, shredded
2 tbsp cilantro, chopped
1 cucumber, thinly sliced
3 green onions, thinly sliced
1 mandarin orange, divided into sections
1/2 c Asian salad dressing
Black pepper to taste

Directions:
In a large bowl combine chicken, cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, cilantro, cucumber and dressing.  Toss well.  Top with green onions and mandarin oranges.  Pepper to taste.

Serves 4

Nutritional Info:
Fat: 0.9g
Carbs: 19.8g
Calories: 126.6
Protein: 10.9g

Overall this was very yummy dish that we will have again.  I cheated and used coleslaw mix and added about 1/2 c of carrots.  I also used canned mandarin oranges (drained of course).  Next time I will add some slivered almonds as well.


Brown Sugar Garlic Chicken

Ingredients:
4 tsp brown sugar
12 oz chicken breast
1 clove garlic
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp salt
Black pepper to taste

Directions:
Melt the butter in a frying pan.  Brown the garlic in the butter.  Add chicken breasts to garlic/butter and cook thoroughly, adding salt and pepper to taste.  When chicken is fully cooked, put brown sugar on top of each breast.  Allow the brown sugar to melt in to the chicken (about 5 minutes).

Serves 4

Nutritional Info:
Fat: 6.8g
Carbs: 3.2g
Calories: 156.9
Protein: 19.7g

SOOOO Yummy!  I used two cloves of garlic because we love garlic and Splenda brown sugar instead of regular brown sugar. 


Wonderful Stuffed Potatoes

Ingredients:
4 medium baking potatoes
3/4 c low fat cottage cheese
1/4 c skim milk
2 tbsp sodt margarine
1 tsp dill weed
3/4 tsp herb seasoning
4-6 drops hot sauce
2 tsp grated parmesan cheese

Directions:
Prick potatoes with fork and bake at 425 degrees for 60 minutes or until fork is easily inserted.  Cut potatoes in half length wise.  Carefully scoop out potato leaving 1/2 inch of pulp inside shell.  Mash pulp in a large bowl.  Mix in by hand remaining ingredients except parmesan cheese.  Spoon mixture in to potato shells.  Sprinkle each with 1/4 tsp parmesan cheese.  Place on a baking sheet and return to oven.  Bake 15-20 minutes or until tops are golden brown.

Serving size: 1/2 potato each, 8 servings

Nutritional Info:
Fat: 2.0g
Carbs: 15.4g
Calories: 109.7
Protein: 9.3g

So mine didn't turn out so I made them into mashed potatoes.  They were pretty yummy and I'd have them again in either form  :)