What’s delicious to make for lunch? 3 healthy recipes from a nutritionist
Introduce these light meals into your daily diet and be at ease with your figure.
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“A complete meal should consist of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and fiber, namely 50% vegetables, 25% protein and 25% carbohydrates. So what can you cook to keep everyone satisfied and satiated?”
Homemade chicken fillet sausages
Ingredients:
- chicken breast or thigh fillet, or you can also take turkey – 500 g;
- chicken egg – 1 pc;
- butter 82.5% – 50 g;
- milk or cream – 100 ml;
- salt, pepper, – spices to taste.
Preparation:
- Fillet should be chopped to the state of minced meat or buy ready-made, but it is better to prepare it yourself – so you will know exactly what goes into the composition of your sausages.
- Add all the above ingredients, mix well.
- Put the desired amount of minced meat on the food film, wrap tightly and tie the edges with a knot or thread.
- The formed sausages should be put in the freezer for storage.
- Before serving, they should be boiled and then slightly fried for browning.
Hard wheat pasta or buckwheat noodles are suitable as a side dish. You can also serve a vegetable salad with butter dressing.
Lazy stuffed cabbage in a multicooker
Ingredients:
- turkey stuffing – 500 g;
- white cabbage – 300 g;
- chicken eggs – 2-3 pcs;
- brown rice or bulgur – 80-100 g;
- onion – 1 pc;
- garlic clove – 1-2 pcs;
- carrots – 1-2 pcs;
- tomatoes or tomato paste – to taste;
- salt, pepper, spices – to taste.
Preparation:
- Add well-washed rice, eggs and spices to the minced meat.
- Fry onions, garlic and carrots lightly. Shred cabbage thinly.
- Cut the skin of tomatoes in several places and scald them with boiling water so that they can be easily removed.
- Cut tomatoes into rings or slices or grate them with a coarse grater until they are puréed – try different variants and choose your favorite.
- Put a layer of cabbage on the bottom of the multicooker.
- Then form balls of minced meat and rice or boats like cutlets. Put tomatoes and fried onions and carrots on top. You can salt.
- Repeat the rows – cabbage, meat balls with rice, tomatoes and fried onions and carrots.
- When everything is laid, it is necessary to pour the bowl with two or three cups of water or broth.
- Close the multicooker, set the timer for stewing for 30-40 minutes. Serve with greens!
This meal is ideal for lunch, as it maintains a balance of calories (calories/protein/fats/carbohydrates). Satiety for three to four hours is guaranteed!
Buckwheat soup
Ingredients:
- chicken or beef – 300-400 g;
- buckwheat – 80 g;
- bell pepper – 2 pcs;
- potatoes – 3 pcs;
- onion – 2 pcs;
- carrot – 1 pc;
- ghee or coconut oil for frying – 20 g;
- water – 2 liters.
Preparation:
- Wash the meat and put it in a saucepan, cook on low heat. Bring to a boil, remove the foam.
- In a slightly boiling broth add a peeled whole onion and half a bell pepper.
- While the broth is boiling, it is necessary to peel potatoes, onions and carrots.
- Shred the potatoes, saute the onions and carrots. On average, the broth should be boiled for about an hour.
- When the broth is ready, the meat and vegetables should be taken out.
- Shred the chicken into portioned pieces, the vegetables from the broth are no longer needed.
- Add the potatoes, roast, portioned meat and buckwheat to the broth and cook until the potatoes and groats are ready. Serve with greens.
This soup is dietary. As a basis, you can take both chicken and beef broth – try to cook both options.