Losing those extra inches might make you stressed, in turn making it harder to lose weight. However, you don’t have to worry when you have tasty food!
In this modern era, one of the main concerns of people from all over the world is obesity. No, they don’t have any connection with making you look bad, just like how the media portrayed for so many years. Beauty has nothing to do with how you look, but it would be careless to say how you look and feel has nothing to do with how you feel. On top of that, being overweight might come with so many other challenges, including life-threatening diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, liver disease, and more.
One of the main reasons why people tend to fail to lose those extra pounds is due to the lifestyle and the food choices they make. Even if you try to eat healthy, the time and energy that it takes to cook meals would make you feel otherwise. Which is usually we resort to take outs. However, what if there were easy recipes that are both tasty and healthy and also do not require you to do much? Let’s get into this and lose weight like a pro with these 4-meal recipes.
- High-protein overnight oat
This one portion of overnight oats contains 17 grams of protein, which is a must if you are trying to stay full for a long time. The recipe contains ingredients like soymilk, peanut butter, and Greek yogurt. If you are a fan of sweet breakfasts, this is naturally sweet with bananas and contains a fruity flavor all thanks to the added blueberries. Let’s see what you need to take this easy, and tasty bowl of overnight oats.
Ingredients –
- 1 cup of nonfat Greek yogurt
- ½ cup unsweetened soymilk
- 2 ripe medium bananas
- ¼ cup natural peanut butter
- 1 cup rolled oats, old-fashioned
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
- 1 cup blueberries, more if you want to garnish
Recipe –
First, take a bowl and place 1 banana. Start to smash it with a fork until smooth. Now add ½ cup soymilk, 1 cup yogurt, ¼ cup peanut butter, 1 tablespoon maple syrup, and just a pinch of salt. Stir the ingredients together until they are combined. Now stir in 1 cup of oats and add 1 cup of blueberries. Cover the bowl and put it in the refrigerator overnight, or at least for 6-8 hours. When it is time, slice up another banana and top the bowl of oats with the slices. Take some blueberries if you want to garnish the bowl and make it look pretty. The entire bowl would approximately contain 17g Protein, 62g Carbs, 14g Fat, and roughly 419 Calories.
- Chicken satay salad
This easy bowl of salad is fulfilling and takes only 15 minutes to make. Pretty easy right? Well, it is fulfilling too! This is a no-fuss dish, once you try this, you will get back to this at least once a week. Let’s see how you can make this delicious bowl of chicken salad.
Ingredients –
- 2 skinless chicken breast fillets
- 1 tbsp crunchy peanut butter
- 1 tbsp tamari
- 1 garlic clove, finely grated
- 1 tsp medium curry powder
- 1 tsp honey
- ¼ tsp ground cumin
- 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
- sunflower oil
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- ¼ cucumber sliced
- 2 Little Gem lettuce hearts, cut into wedges
- Chopped coriander
- 1 banana shallot, thinly sliced
- ½ pomegranate seeds
Recipe –
Take a large dish and put the tamari in it. Now stir in the curry powder, garlic, cumin, and honey. The next step is slicing the chicken breast in half horizontally to make 4 fillets in total. Add them to the marinated sauce and coat well. Set aside the chicken breast in a fridge for at least an hour or two. This will allow the flavors from the spices to really penetrate the meat. When you have the meat aside, mix the peanut butter with the chili sauce, and lime juice, and add 1 tbspof water so that you can make a spoonable sauce. When the chicken is marinated well and ready to be cooked, take a non-stick frying pan and wipe a little sunflower oil. Add the chicken and cook well for 5-6 minutes with covered lids. Now set aside the cooked chicken and in the meantime toss the lettuce wedges with the cucumber, shallot, coriander, and pomegranate seeds. Now pile the salad onto plates, put a spoon of sauce slice the chicken, place them on the salad, and then spoon over the remaining sauce. The best time to eat this salad is when the chicken is still warm. With approximately 353 calories, this bowl of chicken contains only 10 gms of fat, 24g of carbs, 7g of fiber, and 38g of protein.
- Buffalo Chicken Chili
If you love buffalo chicken, this might be your favorite of all, and you will come back for this recipe every week with a guarantee. The flavor in this warm and hearty chili is to die for and all that flavor comes together in a slow cooker. The heat gets cut down with the sour cream but you can also use Greek yogurt if available. Here is the recipe.
Ingredients –
- 1 can no-salt-added and rinsed black beans
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 1 can no-salt-added and rinsed chickpeas
- 1 can of diced tomatoes
- ½ medium onion, finely chopped
- ⅓ cup Buffalo sauce
- 1 cup unsalted chicken broth
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- ¼ cup crumbled blue cheese
- ¼ cup sour cream or Greek yogurt
Recipe –
Take a slow cooker and add in chicken, beans, chickpeas, tomatoes, tomato sauce, onion, and chicken broth, with Buffalo sauce, oil, oregano and garlic powder. Now cover the cooker and cook on high flame for 4 hours straight. For this, you would need a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. Once the cooking is done, remove the chicken and place it on a plate on the side. Let the chicken cool slightly and then shred the meat with two forks and then return them to the slow cooker. If you are using blue cheese and sour cream, stir them in and your dish is ready!
- Chicken tacos
Who does not love love tacos? What if we tell you that you can still eat chicken tacos while you are still dieting and it can aid in your weight loss journey!!! Yes, you heard that right. Not only these tacos are extremely delicious, but they are also easy to make and take surprisingly less time. The preparation time is only 30 mins and in another 30 mins, you can get a plate full of fresh, hot, and tasty chicken tacos. Let’s see the recipe.
Ingredients –
- 5-6 skinless chicken breasts, sliced
- 250g plain flour
- 2 tbsp taco or fajita seasoning
- 2 tbsp rapeseed oil
- 3 limes, 1 juiced, 2 cut into wedges
- ¼ red cabbage, finely shredded
- small bunch of coriander, finely chopped
- 400g frozen sweetcorn
- 400g can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 4 tbsp fat-free yogurt
- Chili sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
Recipe –
Take a bowl and combine the flour with a small pinch of salt and half the oil. Now pour 125-150ml warm water and knead it into a soft dough using your hands. Cut the dough into six equal pieces and then cut four of those pieces in half. Now you have eight small pieces and two large pieces. Roll all the dough pieces on a floured surface until the pieces are as thin as you can get them. Now take a frying pan and heat it over a medium-high. Cook the tortillas for roughly 2-3 minutes on each side until the pieces are toasted and golden. Now leave the large tortilla pieces aside so that you can use those for lunchboxes later. Keep the small tortillas in a foil to keep them warm.
Now, let’s get into the filling. Take a bowl, place the chicken, and sprinkle the taco seasoning over them. Toss the meat to columbine with seasoning well. Take another bowl and toss the cabbage with lime juice, some seasoning, and half of the coriander and leave them to pickle. Now, heat two frying pans on high heat and divide the remaining oil to fry the sweetcorn. Add a pinch of salt until sizzling and turning golden. You want the sweetcorns to be charmed slightly which adds to the flavor. While the sweetcorn cooks to your liking, fry the chicken until cooked through and golden. Once the sweetcorn is cooked, put the black beans and garlic into the and stir them. Take two lime wedges and squeeze them over. Now, it is time to serve the tacos with the filling. Put the chicken, sweetcorn, and beans into a large bowl alongside the cabbage, yogurt, lime wedges, remaining coriander, chili sauce, and tortillas. Time to dig in!
