Culinary Arts Part Deux

    Well I'm a little late but since this past week was my first week of school I have been extremely busy. I was so excited to make my first Weight Watchers recipes especially because they were Indian cuisine. I took photos and documented my experiements.

Tandoori Chicken: 4pts per serving

2 TBSP tandoori spice mix

1 medium onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 cup plain, fat-free yogurt

1 TBSP fresh lime juice

1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast 

 

I gathered all of my ingredients for the 2 recipes

 




I couldn't find Tandoori Spice mixed so I improvised

 

The improvised spice mix recipe is:
1 TBSP Ginger
2 TSP cumin
1 TSP paprika
1 TSP salt
1/2 TSP pumpkin pie spice

The final ingredients before combining for a 24 hour marinade

 

Ready to nap overnight

 

When I was ready to cook the chicken the next night I turned on the broiler. I covered a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and placed the coated chicken on the pan. I cooked the chicken for 20 minutes.

 

 

The final results:

 

I served the chicken with South Indian Slow Cooker Lentil Stew (too awful to recommend the recipe) and steamed white rice. The lesson I learned? The Tandoori chicken was delicious but I shouldn't have prepared a whole crock pot full of the lentil stew :(.

 

I suppose everyone has to learn good and bad recipes and on Thursday night i found one of each. I'm excited to continue working to become a better cook and overall I'm happy with how this went.