Guilt-free chicken recipes for your weight loss diet

If you want to lose weight then there is no need to eliminate chicken from your diet. In fact, chicken can help you lose weight. It is packed with protein, low on carbs and low in calories, provided you do not fry it or pair it with cheese or other high calorie foods. Here are some healthy and delicious chicken recipes, perfect for your weight loss diet.

Wash the boneless chicken, pat it dry and slice it into bite-sized chunks. For the marinade, take a large bowl and mix yogurt, lemon juice, garlic ginger paste, salt, garam masala, red chilli powder, black pepper powder, and turmeric. Add mustard oil, gram flour and tandoori masala and mix once again. Coat the mixture well on the chicken pieces. Cover the bowl and refrigerate overnight.

Cut the onion and capsicum into cubes and let them marinate in the chicken mixture for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Thread the marinated chicken in the skewers along with onion and capsicum. Line the skewers on a foil lined baking tray. Grill for 10-12 minutes. Rotate the skewers and grill for another 10-12 minutes. Serve topped with lemon juice.


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Take a pan and put 2 tsp oil. Now, add onion cut in long slices, cinnamon, bay leaves, cardamom, and garlic paste. Saute till the onion becomes brown. Once done, let the onions cool down and then blend them with chopped tomatoes and yogurt into a smooth paste.

Saute chicken in the leftover oil in the same pan. When the chicken is almost done, add the paste and cook. Add red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and green chillies slit from the middle and de-seeded. Finally let chicken cook until the oil starts separating. Garnish it with coriander leaves before serving.

Marinate chicken slices in yogurt, garlic paste and all the spices. Let it marinate for at least 4 hours. Fry the chicken on a pan. Take a pita bread and add the cooked chicken along with chopped tomato, sliced onion, green chillies, parsley and hung curd. Make a firm roll and serve.