5 Healthy Chicken Breast Recipes to Lose Weight

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Here are 5 healthy chicken breast recipes to lose weight. These recipes are budget-friendly, practical and protein-rich.

5 Delicious and Healthy Chicken Breast Recipes To Lose Weight

  • Chicken Breast with Peas

 

Healthy chicken breast recipes to lose weight

Healthy chicken breast recipes to lose weight – Chicken breast with peas recipe

Ingredients

1 chicken breast
200 grams of canned peas
1 onion
Olive oil
Soy sauce
1 carrot
1 cup of chicken broth

Recipe

  1. Chop the chicken breast into cubes.
  2. Roast the onion in olive oil.
  3. Add the peas
  4. While cooking, add the chicken cubes on one side to the flour and pour them into the peas.
  5. For the sauce, add some flour and cornstarch with chicken broth.
  6. When it thickens, add soy sauce over the cooked chicken.

  • Grilled Chicken with Mushrooms

Grilled chicken with mushrooms recipe

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts
10 mushrooms
1/2 bunch of parsley
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1 tablespoon of butter
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 bottle of mineral water

Recipe

  1. Cut the chicken breasts into two separate parts. Marinate each piece in garlic, soda, olive oil, salt, and pepper.
  2. Heat your grill and cook the marinated chicken breasts on the heated grill.
  3. While cooking, you can chop the mushrooms and then melt the butter in a pan.
  4. After the butter melts, saute the mushrooms you chopped into it.
  5. Put the chicken you cooked into the mushrooms, which are sautéed well and let the flavors blend.
  6. Finally, finely chop the parsley and add it to the pan, mix all the ingredients for the last time and take your meal from the stove.

  • Grilled Chicken Meatball with Zucchini and Yogurt Sauce

Healthy chicken breast recipes to lose weight

Grilled chicken meatball with zucchini and yogurt sauce recipe

Ingredients

1 large-size zucchini
1 teaspoon of olive oil
1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper

For the meatball

500 grams of fillet chicken breast
2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs
1 egg
1/2 bunch of parsley, chopped
2 sprigs of fresh coriander
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper

For the yogurt sauce

4 tablespoons of Greek yogurt
4 leaves of arugula
1 cucumber
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 teaspoon of lime juice

Recipe

  1. Grind the chicken breasts through a food processor and place them in a mixing bowl.
  2. After cleaning the parsley and fresh coriander, finely chop them.
  3. Add the chopped parsley and coriander, eggs, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper into this minced chicken and knead all the ingredients thoroughly until they reach the consistency to make meatballs.
  4. When your mixture is ready, shape it with your hands and prepare four large, flat meatballs. You can cook these meatballs back and forth on the grill pan or grill without oil.
  5. Then, put olive oil in a small bowl, add powdered red pepper and mix. Chop the zucchini in rings and put each piece you chopped in the olive oil mixture and cook on the grill for about 2 minutes.
  6. To prepare yogurt sauce, wash the cucumbers thoroughly and grate them without peeling them.
  7. Finely chop the arugula. Put the chopped arugula, grated cucumbers, strained yogurt, lime juice, salt and olive oil into a mixing bowl until all the ingredients are well blended.
  8. Place the grilled zucchini slices on a plate. Put the chicken meatballs on the zucchini and finally, spread the yogurt sauce you have prepared on the chicken meatballs.
  9. You can consume it with a green salad.

  • Fillet Chicken Breast With Lemon

Healthy chicken breast recipes to lose weight

Healthy chicken breast recipes to lose weight – Fillet chicken breast with lemon

Ingredients

800 grams of fillet chicken breast
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 sprig of rosemary
1/2 teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon of sea salt

For the lemon sauce

2 tablespoons of butter
1 clove of garlic
2 medium-sized lemons
1/2 cup finely ground walnut kernels
1/4 bunch of parsley

Recipe

  1. Thinly slice the chicken breasts. Then, put them in a bowl and mix them with olive oil, rosemary, freshly ground black pepper and sea salt.
  2. Take your grill pan and heat it. Then, put the chicken in the pan and cook both sides for three minutes. In this way, the water stays in the chicken.
  3. For the lemon sauce, grate the garlic and lemon peels.
  4. Finely chop the parsley. Squeeze the juice of lemons.
  5. Add the butter and finely ground walnuts to the chicken in the pan and fry.
  6. Add the grated garlic to the roasting process.
  7. Then, add the juice of the lemons and the grated lemon peel to the pan.
  8. Cook the chicken for another 10 minutes. Don’t forget to turn it back and forth occasionally.
  9. At the last stage, add the finely chopped parsley to the pan and turn it once, then take the dish from the stove. Serve hot.

  • Chicken Salad with Yogurt

Healthy chicken breast recipes to lose weight

Healthy chicken breast recipes to lose weight – Chicken salad with yogurt recipe

Ingredients

1 chicken breast
Lettuce
2 cucumbers
100 grams of low-fat yogurt
1 teaspoon salt
2 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of corn

Recipe

  1. Boil the chicken
  2. After cooling, cut into thin pieces
  3. Put the yogurt in a bowl. Grate cucumber and garlic in it.
  4. Finely chop the lettuce on a cutting board.
  5. Add lettuce, corn and chicken to the yogurt mix.
  6. If you want, you can add 1 teaspoon of mayonnaise to it. After mixing all the ingredients thoroughly, you can keep them in the refrigerator for half an hour and consume them.

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