Saturday, February 28, 2009

Recipe Ideas For The South Beach Diet

By Ron C George

Trendy weight loss programs like the South Beach diet are sure to have many South beach diet phase 1 recipes. There are many delicious low-carb foods that are acceptable to use on the diet. From the USA to Italy, from Mexican to German, the South Beach diet recipes take on many forms. Here are just some of the fantastic meals you can eat on the South Beach diet.

Chicken Marcela is on the listing of South Beach diet phase 1 recipes. Add chicken broth, minced parsley, half cup of Marcela wine, olive oil, mushroom slices to boneless, skinless breast of chicken. Flatten chicken and cook it in the oil until it's done.

Cook onions and mushrooms until they're tender, after that add the wine and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. If you require additional liquid at this point add a little bit of the broth. Now pour the sauce and vegetables over the chicken, and the recipe is complete. It's low calorie and low carbohydrates 336 calories, three g of carbs.

Another of the fantastic South Beach diet recipes takes us to the east, in Thailand. This is Thai style chicken salad. It's a combination of chicken breast with a variety of vegetables and spicy Thailand sauce. Straightforwardly add the chicken to the other ingredients and toss it like a salad. It makes four platefuls and has 8 g of carbohydrates in 297 total calories. It really looks delicious.

How about we go south of the border with South Beach diet phase 1 recipes? This recipe is for fajitas and includes a soy sauce, a good word from a cook in a Mexican restaurant. The ingredients are an onion, chili powder, wine juice, bell peppers, soy sauce and two pounds of skirt beef or chicken cut into strips.

Let the meat marinate in the liquid ingredients for at least an hour. Cook the meat until brown and the vegetables to liking. Talk about low calorie at 307 and low carb 4.5 grams correspondingly.

With South Beach diet recipes like these, anyone would be excused from thinking that you were not even on a diet. As you know most of us relate diet food to very bland food well its definitely not the case on this diet. - 15438

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