Steaming is a healthy, delicious, and especially easy way to cook a great meal. When you think of steaming, visions of overcooked, bland, food comes to mind, but this doesn't have to be the case! If done properly, steaming can be full of flavour and nutrients as opposed to boiling where the nutrients are lost in the water, and is as simple as chopping your ingredients up, throwing it into a steamer and waiting.
Steam Chicken breasts with vegetables
1 skinless, boneless chicken breast
3 new potatoes, washed with peel on
several pieces of sui choy to line bamboo steamer
bamboo steamer
Montreal steak spice (or combo of salt, pepper, paprika and whatever yummy spices you have)
1 cup of frozen veggie mix
Sprinkle steak spice lightly over sui choy and lay flat in bamboo steamer. Sprinkle more spice liberally onto both sides of chicken and rub into the meat. Chop potatoes into quarters. Throw chicken and potatoes into steamer and cover. Place steamer in a wok 1/2 filled with water, or alternately on a wire steamer rack in a large pot. Cook at med-high heat for 10 minutes until steam billows out, then lower heat and cook for another 20 minutes. About 10 minutes before chicken is done, cover frozen veggie mix with water in a pot and bring to a boil. Serve and enjoy!
Update (Feb. 11): I forgot to mention, but I also had tossed in some minced garlic (and optionally I've heard chives taste great too) into the steamer to add extra flavour!
10 comments:
yuuuuuuuuum I love vegetables!
Vegetables and Rice, um, um good! My favorites. Chicken looks delish too!
sounds yummy! i'm a little lazy & tend to boil (i know that sounds horrible!) chicken, but i dip it in corn flour first so it's actually really tender when it's cooked! not sooo lazy these days don't even do that anymore, need to start eating heathy again for my heart's sake! :)
This looks delish. I really need to get myself a steamer!
great recipe!! steamed food is definitely healthier!
i'm drooling
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I'm really trying to live a more healthy lifestyle and I'm trying to lose a few pounds b4 spring. This is great. I've really been getting into eating more good starches like potatos. I had almost the same meal yesterday. Thanks for the post.
Stay chic!
so healthy! i guess i need to learn how to cook if i want to loose some lbs & be healthy.
Oh I love gralic... I am like garlic crazy... and of course a big big big fan of chinese, korean and thai food... Loved everything you've posted here..
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