Save calories at lunch

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To get a healthy meal for lunch on the table, make sure that it includes low-calorie foods. For example, you can cook a chicken so that it is healthy and tasty.

Prepare a crispy chicken with low calories
Prepare a crispy chicken with low calories

What you need:

  • whole, frozen chicken (approx. 1 kg)
  • Paprika powder
  • pepper
  • Chili powder

Cooking a crispy chicken

  • A more calorie-conscious variant is if you have one chicken cook without fat. You can get it just as crispy, even without adding fat.
  • You can make a whole chicken tasty by cooking it in the microwave for a while. Then drain the chicken and continue the second cooking process in the oven.
  • This is a combined cooking option to prepare a light lunch. Alternatively, you can cook the chicken completely in the microwave.

A simple recipe

  1. The best way to make a whole chicken is to take it out of the freezer. The chicken must be thawed well. Wrap it after that thawing in a paper towel so that the excess liquid is absorbed.
  2. Now you can create your own mix of spices by mixing paprika powder, chilli and pepper.
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  3. With this spice mixture you rub the chicken completely inside and out.
  4. Now put the seasoned chicken in a saucepan suitable for microwave cooking. For a chicken weighing about one kilo, you have to cook it for 15 minutes at 800 watts.
  5. Now take the chicken out of the microwave and put it in the oven to brown at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.

You shouldn't eat the fat that ran out when you cooked it in the microwave. In order to save even more calories, you should avoid the skin of the chicken and only that meat to take in.

Save calories at lunch - so you can use leftovers

  • If you have leftover chicken, you have the option of making a light lunch, by conjuring up a chicken pot from the leftovers, which you make with numerous types of vegetables can. Make sure that you use as little fat as possible in the preparation.
  • If you like, you can also add curry to give the chicken pot an Indian touch. You can, combined with the vegetables, even fruit, such as pineapples and bananas, to the chicken.
  • In this way you can use leftovers and create a new dish at the same time. You should only make sure that hardly any sugar and fat are used during preparation. You can go with this dish rice as garnish are sufficient.

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