Im totally and utterly out of inspiration. What can I cook for dinner thats fairly easy, quick and healthy?

Question

I have most basic herbs and spices. Pork chops, Mince, chicken, fish and crab in the freezer and other basics like onion, garlic tomatoes pasta rice etc.
I want something tasty but not too time consuming - im running low on energy today!

Answer 1

chop it all up and put in one pan. Add water, boil and you have soup.

Coach

Answer 2

Sounds like a problem I have faced many times. A really good, healthy and quick dish that I love when I am low on energy is pasta in garlic sauce (with meat if you choose). The basics are as follows: Simply boil your pasta. Once your pasta is just about done, heat some olive oil in a pan large enough to hold your pasta. Once the oil is hot and your pasta is cooked and drained (still hot), add some minced garlic (a heavy portion is my choice, but its up to you), some crushed red chilis if you like a little heat, and keep moving the pan around in a circular motion. Once the garlic gets that nice cooked smell and looks golden and crispy, toss your pasta in the pan to coat it with the sauce. All you need to do past that is add a little salt and pepper, fresh grated parmesan, and you are good to go. To go the extra mile you can take any one of those meat items from your freezer (I would go with the chicken or fish) and grill off a little that has been brushed with a touch of olive oil, and you have added a nice portion of protein into the mix. Still very simple, healthy and quick.

Answer 3

Bonelss/skinless chickenbreast or fish - easybake style.

Thaw the meat, put 1-2 Tb olive oil in covered ovensafe dish with salt/pepper and other herbs/spices as appropriate. Put meat into oil/spice mix turn a couple times to coat. Cover & bake at 350 til meat is done (45 mins to 1 hour for chicken, less for fish) serve with steamed veges & rice or potatoes.

You can also add root veges like carrots or potatoes to the pot if you do the chicken, add cooking time.

For chicken you can add any or all: rosemary, lemon, garlic, touch of butter
for salmon, tarragon is excellent as is rosemary and or lemon
for white fish, dill and or lemon
A splash of wine in any of the above is also good.

This is an easy and foolproof dish. I do it all the time because I can throw it all in the oven in about two minutes and go back to whatever project I'm working on. Sometimes I forget about it for a while, and other than seriously overcooking white fish a couple times (it was still edible but really soft) I've never screwed it up.

Answer 4

he task of cooking a big meal after a full day of work might seem kind of daunting. You might be tempted to make a side trip to the closest fast food restaurant or maybe order a pizza. While that might be OK once a month or so, don't make it a habit. Those fast foods are loaded with saturated fats, sodium, sugar and calories. Does that mean you are doomed to spend an hour and a half in the kitchen every night if you want to feed your family healthy meals? Nope. Not at all. Some tasty and healthy shortcuts can make cooking easy and delicious. All that is required is the right kitchen equipment and a little smart shopping at your grocery store to make healthy choices. Here are some tips for healthy, quick and tasty meals: Need dinner now because you are in a big hurry? Don't go the fast food route; stop at your grocery store instead. Most grocery stores have deli sections with lots of dishes that are ready to heat and serve. Be sure to choose foods that aren’t loaded with creamy sauces or gravies, and don't buy the fried chicken and greasy potato wedges. Instead, pick up a hot fresh rotisserie chicken. These chickens are low in fat, often nicely seasoned and all you have to do is carve the bird and serve it with vegetables and a salad. The freezer section of your store has several varieties of healthy vegetables. There are blends of vegetables with their own sauces (watch for fat and sodium) as well as brands that steam right in your microwave. My favorite is Birds Eye Steamfresh vegetables. Make your own salad at the grocery store's salad bar or grab some greens and pre-cut vegetables. Wash the greens and fresh vegetables, toss and serve. Serve with low-fat salad dressing on the side.

Answer 5

Easy and delicious!!!
Parmesan-crusted Chicken

Serving: 4

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese

1 cup Japanese panko (or other) bread crumbs

1 teaspoon parsley

3 tablespoons olive oil

8 thin-sliced skinless, boneless chicken breasts

In a large bowl, combine the cheese, bread crumbs and parsley. Add a generous amount of salt (or garlic salt) and pepper.

In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add the olive oil. Place one piece of chicken at a time into the Parmesan mixture and coat with the crumbs. Add 2 to 3 chicken pieces to the pan at a time; don't crowd. Cook for about 4 minutes per side. Season with additional salt and pepper.

Serve with mashed sweet potatoes if you like.

Answer 6

Here is a quick healthy recipe
Self-crusting Quiche

1 lge onion chopped
2 cloves garlic chopped
1 tbsp butter
3 eggs
1 cup milk
seasoning (eg dried or fresh herbs, mexican seasoning, parmesan cheese, dash sweet chilli sauce)
salt & pepper
1/2 cup self raising flour
2 cooked potatoes, cubed
1 cup cooked veges (i use frozen veges zapped in microwave for a couple of mins)
1 cup grated cheese
couple of bacon rashers if you have them

Preheat oven to 220 degrees.
Cook the bacon, onion and garlic in butter until soft.
Combine eggs, milk, seasonings and salt and pepper and beat with a fork. Pour into a large bowl containing flour and stir until just combined. Add veges and cheese and pour into well greased pie or quiche dish.
Cook for 30 mins then cool for 5 mins before cutting.

Answer 7

Easy Egg Fried Rice (for 4)

200g prawns
Rice (240g) basmati is best
Frozen peas or petit pois
Onion
Garlic (2-4 cloves crushed to your taste)
Soy Sauce (2 tablesoons)
Thai fish sauce (1 tablesoon)
Thai red curry paste (4teaspoons)
2 eggs, beaten
Oil or low fat cooking spray for frying

Put rice in pan and add 480ml water. When boiling cover with lid and cook for 10 minutes. Meanwhile chop and fry onion (use a wok or big pan), add garlic tcook until softened about 5 minutes. When rice is cooked add all the ingredients except the eggs and stir for about 4 minutes to heat through. Push the rice to one side of wok, then add eggs. Stir until they look like scrambled eggs, then mix through rice. Serve straight away. Sprinkle on chopped fresh coriander if liked.

Answer 8

Hi,
Put a large cleaned and forked potato in the microwave,and cook (turn it over after 3or4 mins, then grate some cheese,
Take 3 eggs add herbs salt fresh ground black pepper, mix in a bowl till slightly fluffy, take a lightly oiled nonstick pan and heat until the oil is slightly smoking, pore egg-mix onto oil, using a plastic spatula move the egg that has set and tip the pan to refill the space caused, do this until no egg mix is left and add you cheese, then fold the omelet over the cheese,once! tip the pan over the edge of your plate and fold the omelet onto your plate.
This sounds a lot but the omelet takes less time than the potato, and you could go wiled with the filling.
Regards GIG

Answer 9

"Cordon Bleu" Manicotti
1 pkg (12) string cheese snacks
12 slices each deli sliced ham and chicken breast
12 manicotti shells
1 jar pasta sauce
3/4 cup water
shredded parmesan cheese

Roll ham and chicken slices around each string cheese snack and slide into mannicotti shells. Mix water with pasta sauce. Pour a little sauce into bottom of baking dish. Place Manicotti in baking dish and pour remaining sauce over shells. Bake covered with aluminum foil (or if baking with covered dish, cover with lid) bake at 350 for 50 minutes or until pasta is tender. Top with parmesan and serve.


CHICKEN WITH CUCUMBERS
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tbsp butter
3 chicken breasts
1 large cucumber
1/2 an onion, sliced thin
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/2 tsp. ground mustard
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup chicken stock ( 1/2 cup water and 1 chicken boullion cube works too)
3 tbsp. sour cream

Heat oil and butter in skillet. Add chicken to pan, cook thoroughly. Take cucumber and peel, slice in half, seed with a spoon and dice small. When chicken is cooked golden brown, remove from pan. Add onion and cucumber. Cover and cook 1-2 minutes. Add chicken stock, garlic, cumin and mustard. Cook 5-7 minutes more until onion and cucumber are tender. Stir in sour cream. Serve cucumber sauce over chicken.

Answer 10

A bag of frozen prawns and some coconut milk powder are really handy to have in stock.
You can fry some onions, garlic, red chilli (or chilli powder) and ginger in a pan.
Then mix the coconut powder with some boiling water, put it in the pan, bring it all to the boil and then chuck in your frozen prawns and any veg you have eg. brocolli, sweetcorn, peppers, mange-tout etc....
Cook some egg noodles separately then add them to the pan just before they finish cooking so they thicken up the coconut milk.
Serve it all in a big bowl.
Takes about 10 mins, my lifesaving recipe when I can't really ve bothered to cook.
Can use chicken also but takes slightly longer to cook.

Answer 11

Cube some steak(venison is nice-very lean) and kidney and throw it into a pressure cooker with water spuds,onions,carrots. Steam for 30-40 mins boiling peas separately. Release pressure and remove lid when safe. Add peas and lots of HP sauce stirring well.
There's nothing like a nice tasty hotpot-very healthy too if you have used all organic.Add other veg to taste.