Weight Loss Recipes – Spice Up Your Diet With This Delicious Low Calorie Chicken and Vegetable Curry

Diets are one of the most popular methods to lose weight, and they can be very effective – if you do it right. Yes, you can lose weight, even a lot of weight, with a simple diet. The secret is to choose a long-term diet, meaning one that makes permanent changes in what you eat every day, not a restrictive crash diet. A restrictive diet might help you to lose weight, but as soon as you start eating “normal” again you will very likely gain it back.

If you make changes to your diet instead, you can go on a “lifelong diet” without even feeling you are on a diet. Because you will simply eat healthy, and this will almost automatically help you to maintain a healthy weight. If you want to lose weight and stay slim, then you need to find a long-term diet (or better: way of eating) that is healthy and that you enjoy.

Here’s an example how this lifelong diet of yours might look like:

Chicken and Vegetable Curry

Ingredients

 

• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 tsp. ground cumin
• 1 tsp. ground coriander
• 1 tsp. crushed chili
• ½ tsp. turmeric
• 2 tbsp. lemon juice
• 600 g butternut, diced
• 700 g skinless chicken filet, cut into 2 cm cubes
• 300 g carrots, thickly sliced
• 600 g potatoes, diced
• 200 g green beans, cut into 2 cm pieces
• 500 g red sweet potatoes, diced
• a pinch of salt

 

Steps

 

1. Heat the olive oil in a large pot. Fry cumin and coriander for approximately one minute, continuously stirring. Then add the turmeric, chili and lemon juice and mix them in well.
2. Add the chicken filet and roast it briefly until it is slightly brown.
3. Add the vegetables and mix everything well. Close the lid and roast for 20-30 minutes until the vegetables are just soft and the chicken is done. Stir frequently to prevent burning.
4. Season with salt and serve.

 

What makes this a weight loss recipe? Why is it so healthy?

 

• It contains little fat. Good quality chicken is naturally lower in fat than beef or pork, and when the skin is removed it’s an excellent diet food. Also, almost no fat is added in the cooking process, and this little bit is healthy olive oil.
• The starchy foods this curry contains (potatoes) are high in complex carbohydrates. This type of food fills you quickly and gives you constant energy for quite some time, preventing overeating and sudden hunger attacks that make you grab unhealthy foods. And unlike the simple carbohydrates in white rice or pasta, they are not likely to be stored as fat.
• It includes a large portion of various vegetables, providing you with different vitamins and minerals as well as fiber. This will help keeping you healthy and fill your stomach with fairly few calories.

 

At the bottom line, this is a low calorie recipe with many important nutrients. The various spices give it a great taste, and because it’s low in calories, you can perfectly eat a normal portion size without having to feel guilty. Does that feel like being on a diet?

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