Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Teriyaki Chicken, Broccoli and Brown Rice

Well HELLO again everyone!!!! It has been quite some time since I have posted a new blog so I thought I would get on it and blog a little tonight. This is something I'm throwing together for the first time tonight and wanted to do something simple and healthy.

In September I started using the website Loseit.com and also using the app on my Iphone. I had been sticking to  1200 calories a day as well as working out 5-6 days a week and I lost almost 10 pounds and felt GREAT! Well then Thanksgiving came and I ate a ton of turkey sandwiches and pumpkin pie ( My favorite) and  got off track and figured might as well not worry about it since Christmas was coming and I know which my family I would be eating a ton of Christmas cookies as well as drinking many glasses of wine. I didn't do horrible, but I sure didn't stick to my 1200 calories a day.  I started to do my calorie counting again using Loseit.com as of yesterday and I am happy to be getting back on track. If anyone is looking for a great way to help you loose weight and better yet a free way to loose weight I highly recommend this site, I learned about it from the Hubby, who also lost over 10 pounds using it, and is getting back on it again himself. Its all about making the right choices and not having to cut things out of your diet, if you mess up on something just get back on the next meal you eat. I love it and it helps make eating healthy more of a lifestyle rather than a DIET!

OKAY now for the meal and recipe! I wanted to do something simple with as little dishes as possible. I had been seeing recipes on another one of my favorite websites Pinterest forTeriyaki chicken and Chinese beef and broccoli so I thought why not mix them together and make a Teriyaki Chicken and Broccoli dish. 


Teriyaki Chicken, Broccoli and Brown rice

2 Chicken Breasts
1 lb Broccoli florets

2 cups cooked brown rice


Marinaid
1/4 cup Soy Sauce
1/4 cup Teriyaki Sauce

2 Tbls Brown Sugar

1 Tbls Olive Oil

3 Garlic cloves


Step one- Cut up chicken into bite size pieces and marinated in a bowl with the above ingredients for at least an hour in the fridge.


Step 2- If you are lucky enough to have an awesome rice cooker like me, cook up two cups of brown rice. I love this rice cooker, I use it all the time and helps us to make sure we eat our veggies! :)


Step 3- Use the steamer at the top of your rice cooker to steam the broccoli, if you don't have a rice cooker you can easily steam your broccoli in the microwave. It takes about 90 minutes for me to cook my rice in the rice cooker therefore that gave me the perfect amount of time to let my chicken marinate and  have enough time to cook up my chicken before the rice and broccoli were finished.




Step 4- Cook marinated chicken on the stove in a pan with olive oil.


Step 5- Add steamed broccoli into the chicken teriyaki when it has finished cooking this helps the broccoli get some of the yummy teriyaki flavor.

Step 6- Serve over Brown Rice, and Eat! YUM YUM!