The BOY and I came back from our grocery shopping trip today with plenty of fresh fruits and veggies, lean meat, and healthy snacks. As always, Monday is prep day for the week ahead. For this week’s meal plan, I had to simplify things a bit. Last week was way too busy and crazy for me to be making dinner each night, so I made things a little easier with some store bought stuff. And I know that I can always eat leftovers for lunch.
Monday: Indian Spiced Chicken Burgers (recipe below)
Tuesday: Orange Ginger Salmon
Wednesday: Almond Butter Stirfry
Thursday: Store Bought Chicken Sausages with Roasted Mushrooms
Lunch: Leftovers and Carrot, Chickpea, and Barley Soup*
Snacks: Coconut Balls
*Do you ever make soup and it tastes great but doesn’t picture well??? Well that’s what happened with this orange creation. I was planning on dedicating an entire post to this soup, but since my photos didn’t turn out, I scrapped that idea.
But you can find the recipe for this wonderful soup at Shape Magazine. This is an old recipe that I have been making for years, and I just discovered that you can find fresh carrot juice at Mariano’s. Enjoy!
Moving on to tonight’s dinner…
The Indian-Spiced Chicken Burgers were the BOY’s suggestion.
He found them in the Martha Stewart’s Great Food Fast cookbook.
I modified the recipe a bit to make it easier and quicker, and it turned out just as good!
The BOY tucked his burgers into a toasted pita with sour cream cumin sauce (sour cream, cumin, lemon juice, salt, and pepper). As always, he rapidly began assembling his sandwich, so I had to snap my photos quickly to keep up with him.
One bite into dinner and a big smile spread across his lips. For those who know him, the BOY has a VERY picky palate, so his rave reviews of this dinner were great to hear!
Instead of a sandwich, I decided to eat my burgers with a huge salad and a side of roasted broccoli.
I couldn’t agree with the BOY more! These chicken burgers are full of flavor, and I can’t wait until this summer when we can cook them up on the grill! Warning: you might see these at our next BBQ!
And with that…I’ve gotta run and catch the second half of the Biggest Loser Finale!
Indian-Spiced Chicken Burgers
From Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food
Ingredients
1 1/2 pounds ground chicken breast
4 scallions, thinly sliced
3 tablespoons chopped fresh ginger (or ground ginger)
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon paprika
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon cardamon
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Salt and pepper, to taste
For Sandwich:
4 pitas (6 inch)
1 cucumber, halved and thinly sliced
1/2 cup fresh cilantro sprigs
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a medium bowl, place the chicken, scallions, ginger, lemon juice, paprika, cumin, cardamon, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper; mix well with your hands to combine. Set aside to marinate for at least 10 and up to 30 minutes.
Gently form the mixture into sixteen 3/4 inch patties (about 3 tablespoons each). Season the patties with salt and pepper (if desired) and place on a foil lined baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray.
Bake for ~15 minutes, turning once mid way until chicken is fully cooked.
For sandwiches…halve the pitas crosswise (toast on the grill, if you like). Into each pocket, place 2 chicken patties, cucumber slices, and cilantro sprigs. Serve with cumin yogurt sauce (1/2 cup plain yogurt + 1/2 tsp cumin).
Note: I made some changes to the original recipe for ease and time. Read the Recipe as Written
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Bookmarked! THose look amazing in a pita
They are!
They make a fantastic lunch or dinner…enjoy!!!
Those look really good! I love Indian, so I’ll have to give this a shot. I’d plate it up just like you, protein and veggie style to minimize the carbs 🙂 I’m bookmarking too.
So glad that I am not the only who loves my burgers sans the bun. I think they compliment the salad perfectly (I had leftovers for lunch today)!
Thanks for the comment!
yum! did you see the winner on biggest loser is a local girl? how fun is that, I don’t watch BL, how old is she?
your menuplanning sounds great… have a good week@
25 and she is from Wheeling.
I want to make her my friend!
I love Indian dishes!!! Especially spicy ones!! Yum!
We love Indian too!
We just got a Groupon for Indiana House in HE and can’t wait to go! The buffet is the best.
I love Indian spices, so this is perfect! I can’t wait to get the grill going and use this recipe!
I can’t wait to bust out the grill either! Will spring ever get here??? Hope you enjoy them!!!
These look absolutely delicious!
Thanks girl! I hope you guys like them!
Can’t wait to see you and Baby Max tomorrow!
WOWZA that plate looks amazing. Look at all that green and color! YUM!
Yes, Costco has one amazing organic salad for a fantastic price. We bought tons of veggies yesterday and I actually had the time to chop them up. Hooray!
Looks delicious!
Thanks for the comment! I had leftovers today and they were just as tasty!
Those look really great! I love that Martha Stewart cookbook….everything comes out really good
The magazine is the best and this is a fun cookbook because it goes by season!
I’m catching up on The Biggest Loser right now…the makeover edition. Your side salad looks great; I love the colors and glad the chicken burgers turned out so well. I’ve got a couple food posts which I’ll never publish because the pictures didn’t turn out. Well unless I make it again and retake them all. Such work.
That is way too much work and my basic cannon with no lighting assist can only do so much! So glad to know that I’m not the only one : ) Good thing I didn’t reveal the BL winner. It was one of my favorite seasons because everyone worked together!
You are so adventurous with food! My boy would never eat any of that stuff. He is so picky! Wish he would branch out every now and then.
I have one picky guy too! It sucks!!!
I’m lucky though because although he shuns everything healthy, he likes international food. I think you have to start easing them in slowly : )
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These look amazing!
They have been great leftovers all week too! I ate them with salad, sandwiches, AND broke them up in soup.
Hope you enjoy them!
Minus the barley (because I hate the texture!), I pretty much want to make everything on your menu this week! And, these burgers… YUM! And, isn’t roasted broccoli delicious!?
Love roasted broccoli! I can’t wait to fire up the grill! I made more last night and was raving about my leftovers at lunch today. My coworkers must think I am nuts : ) Because I used my immersion wand in the soup, you don’t get the barley texture. It’s just a sweet thick soup, which is still needed for this cold start to spring!
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