Blackened Chicken; Diabetes Friendly Thursday

Amongst the nonvegetarian people inwards this world, ane of the most unremarkably consumed nutrient grouping is chicken. One could laid upward chicken inwards a hundred ane G m ways; salubrious together with unhealthy. While it comes to appetizers that involves chicken, frequently it is fried inwards oodles of oil. Does it conduct hold to live that way? Absolutely not!!! There are many ways that chicken could live cooked amongst zero fossil oil together with yet live absolutely delicious. The best method for it is to grill or bake the chicken. I dearest anything that is grilled or baked: vegetables, fish or chicken. This calendar week the DFT squad brings to you lot a diversity of grilled together with baked dishes that are salubrious together with delicious! My contribution to this number is ane of my favorites: Blackened Chicken.

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One would wonder what it could live when ane hears " Blackened Chicken". Has the chicken been burnt?? What just is blackened chicken?? Well, allow me tell you lot this: this is ane of my favorite recipes. There are some recipes that you lot revisit over together with over again.. This is ane of them. This is my blogger friend Ruchi Airen's recipe. I conduct hold made this before amongst boneless chicken which came out really good together with serves every bit a smashing appetizer. You tin detect that recipe here. The pictures inwards that item postal service are variety of sad.. I volition update it ane of these days when I detect some time. Needless to say, I similar to cry back that I conduct hold come upward a long agency inwards damage of my pictures from where I began. I notwithstanding am continuing to exercise my iphone for pictures for this weblog without much editing. I produce non cry back my schedule could grip the additional steps of using a DSLR camera!! If I have been posting less frequently now, thence you lot may rarely run across me!! May live when my kids grow upward or I conduct hold retired, I could start re-doing all the pictures on this blog!! :) Until then, delight become ahead together with relish the recipes.. Trust me.. they are fool proof fifty-fifty if I state so..
Coming dorsum to the chicken inwards hand,the fun of eating spicy drumsticks is solely different. The best agency I could depict this to my non-Indian friends is that it looks together with tastes to a greater extent than similar Jerk Chicken.While Ruchi's recipe which you lot tin detect here, is cooked over the stove top, mine is a modification of the recipe inwards which at that topographic point are only 2 steps: 1.marinate the chicken, 2. Throw it inwards the oven together with forget well-nigh it until the timer dings!! How slow is that. This plant perfect for parties when you lot are cooking several other items. Try this recipe for yourself together with allow me know. I am positive you lot volition autumn inwards dearest amongst it! You tin grill it on an outdoor grill too..

Servings: 3-4 ( 1-2 pieces per serving).

Ingredients:

Chicken drumsticks or thighs: 2 lbs( six drumsticks/ thighs)
Ginger garlic paste: 1 tbsp
Soy sauce: 1 1/2 tbsp
Vinegar: 1 1/2 tbsp
Garam masala powder:2 tsp
Salt: to taste
Red chilli powder: 1 tsp ( you lot tin conform the amount based on your spice level)

Method:

Clean the chicken thoroughly together with brand 3-4 slits inwards each drumstick for ameliorate marination. Add them to a large ziplock( plastic) bag.

Now add together all the balance of the ingredients listed higher upward to the ziplock( plastic) bag. Seal the handbag together with milk tremble it nicely thence that all the ingredients mix good amongst the chicken. Marinate it for at to the lowest degree xxx mins. I similar to marinate mine overnight.

Preheat the oven to 375 deg F. Place the marinated chicken on a baking tray or baking sail together with bake for 30-40 mins or until the chicken is done, turning ane time inwards between.

Serve hot. You tin serve it amongst some variety of dip if you lot prefer.I conduct hold served mine amongst peanut chutney/dip.

Enjoy! Iam bringing this to Angie's Fiesta Friday!! I dearest her fiestas together with await forwards to every Friday. Josette @thebrookcook together with commencement fourth dimension co-host Julie @hostessatheart are co-hosting this week. I am certain everyone volition relish the salubrious grilling options together with recipes presented here.

Cooking made easy:

Whenever you lot conduct hold a gathering or party, excogitation the carte du jour inwards such a fashion that you lot conduct hold some items that tin live made ahead of fourth dimension similar dips ; some items that involve stove -top cooking together with a few items that tin live baked/grilled , similar this blackened chicken which tin live marinated almost a calendar week before together with left inwards the freezer. On the evening of the event, conduct hold it from the freezer together with set it inwards the refrigerator thence that it thaws. Then all you lot conduct hold to produce it throw it inwards the oven together with travel out it at that topographic point until it is laid upward to live served. When I intend to give off the chicken inwards the oven for longer, I trim back the cooking temperature to 350 deg F.

Footnotes (Tip for salubrious living):

Out of all the meats, chicken is healthier every bit it is white meat together with depression inwards fat.The fatty content tin live reduced fifty-fifty to a greater extent than past times discarding the peel together with fatty layers before cooking. Since skinless chicken thorax has only ane gram of saturated fatty per 100-gram (3.5-ounce) serving, chicken offers an slow agency to eat poly peptide land keeping consumption of saturated fatty to a minimum.Chicken is a smashing root of poly peptide comprising of 8 of the essential amino acids.A serving of 100 grams (about iii ounces) of cooked skinless, boneless thorax has only ane gram of saturated fatty together with less than 4 grams of full fat.100 grams of skinless, boneless thorax has 31 grams of poly peptide – to a greater extent than than one-half the recommended daily allowance of 46 grams of poly peptide for an adult female.
A unmarried three-ounce serving of chicken (an amount well-nigh the size of a deck of cards) provides to a greater extent than than one-half the poly peptide recommended for a typical day.Chicken is also a adept root of niacin (vitamin B3), which aids inwards metabolism; vitamin B6, of import to immune organisation together with blood saccharide score maintenance; biotin (vitamin B7), which helps jail cellular telephone growth; together with vitamin B12, which is involved inwards nervus jail cellular telephone together with crimson blood jail cellular telephone maintenance. Chicken also contains atomic number 26 (oxygen carry together with jail cellular telephone growth) together with zinc (immune organisation performance together with deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis).

References:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/341375-why-is-chicken-healthy-to-eat/
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/NutritionCenter/HealthyEating/Eat-More-Chicken-Fish-and-Beans_UCM_320278_Article.jsp

http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/chicken-the-preferred-protein-for-your-health-and-budget/
http://www.naturalfoodbenefits.com/display.asp?CAT=3&ID=89

Disclaimer:

I am non a nutritionist or dietitian. My noesis together with data is based on my interrogation and reading from unlike resources. Please consult your MD or dietitian before making any changes to your diet.

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