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Chicken with veggies and greek yoghurt

I decided to share with you one of my favourite recipe: it’s perfect for the lunchbox! We are gonna prepare chicken with vegetables and greek yoghurt cream. It will take you not more than 20 mins to prepare it. The best thing of this dish? It tastes good, it makes you full and it’s really really light (no salt and low on calories and fat).

What you need:

  • 200 g of chicken (breast!)
  • 2 carrots
  • half onion
  • 2 courgettes
  • 250 g of greek yoghurt
  • curry
  • parsley

How to make it:

Cut your vegetables in small pieces and put them in a warm non sticky pan fry. Add 1 cup of hot water and cook your veggies on a medium heating for around 10 minutes or until they are tender and all the water is absorbed. You can now add the chopped chicken.

Cooking the vegetables

Keep cooking for additional 10 mins and if required add another cup (or 2) of hot water. Do not add oil or butter. Just keep stirring and add water if needed.When the chicken is completly cooked, remove the pan from the hoven and let it cool down.

Cooking the chicken

Now you need to prepare the sauce: take the yoghurt, put it in a bowl and add 1 teaspoon of curry and blend them togheter. Add the sauce to your chicken and top everything with some parseley.

Quick tip: do not cook the sauce otherwise the yoghurt will become too liquid and you will lose that lovely creamy side of the dish!

The lunchbox

It's pizza time!!!!!

Back to the Kitchen!!! Sorry folks but this Xmas Holidays got me really busy! Anyway…I’m back with one of the best things ever: PIZZA! I love it and I am sure you too!

What you need for the dough:

  • 400 g of plain flour
  • 2 teaspoons dry yeast
  • 2 tbs of extravirgin olive oil
  • 40 g of sugar
  • 1 tbs of salt
  • 250 ml of warm water

What you need for the sauce:

  • tomato sauce
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tbsp of extra virgini oil
  • mozzarella
  • anchovies, ham, mushrooms, olives and other ingredients you may like for toppings

Sift the flour with the yeast in a large bowl and add the salt and the sugar. Mix well, make a holel in the centre, add the olive oil and the warm water. Work all the ingredients quickly until you’ll have a smooth and slightly sticky ball. Cover your ball with a cloth and leave your pizza dough for few hours until it has doubled in size.

The dough

Dust your hands with some flour to avoid the dough from sticking. Start working the dough and stretch it using the back of your hands. You can help yourself by using a rolling pin to roll the dough out. There are few “rules” about how to do it but in my opinion you don’t really need to follow them. We don’t want a perfect pizza, just our pizza. So work the dough as you like and as you can: it’s gonna be ok. If not you can always try again :o)

Once the base is ready coat your baking tray with oil and sift with some flour (alternatively you can use a baking stone) and place the dough on it.

The dough on a tray

Pre heat the ove to 200°C and in the meanwhile prepare the top by mixing the tomato sauce with the salt, the oregano and the extravirgin olive oil. Cover your pizza with the sauce and add some mozzarella slices. Cook for about 20 minutes and then remove your pizza. You can now add the topping you like (basil, cherry tomato, ham, anchovies, vegetables..) and cook for additional 10 mins. Complete with some oregano and your pizza is ready.

Pizza