i need an easy healthy three course meal... my parents are coming over.?

Question

not that much experience in the kitchen, can do all the basics, but wanted something a bit different to the usual pasta/pizza/roast. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Make a Mexican feast...tacos (super easy and use ground turkey with lowfat cheese, sour cream...etc), beans and rice, and some chips and salsa.

Answer 2

Start with a tossed salad. Or they have pre-packed Caesar salads, all you have to do is toss and serve.

I like to take 1/2 can cream of mushroom soup and an equal amount of cheese sauce like Cheez Whiz. Mix them together with about 2/3 cup of milk. This makes a simple sauce for pasta or rice.

Heat a skillet to medium high. Add a couple of teaspoons of canola oil. Brown on both sides a couple of chicken breasts or 1/2 breasts (depending of size of breasts, serve 1/2-1 breast per person). Reduce heat, cover and cook until the juices run clear when you stick them with a fork. Cool slightly and slice into pieces.

Cook about 16 ounces of frozen broccoli, cauliflower and carrots vegetable mix according to package directions.

Cook about 2 ounces pasta, or 1/3 cup raw rice per person. Mix with sauce, veggies and chicken. Serve with a touch of chopped fresh parsley on top.

Then, for dessert, serve a fresh fruit salad. Maybe top it with unsweetened whipped cream or a dollop of plain yogurt.

Simple and not terribly unhealthy. You could make your own mushroom and cheese sauce, and that would make it healthier, but this is much easier.

Answer 3

First course: salad.

Take a head of iceberg lettuce, remove the core, clean it, and cut it into four portions. Leave them as big chunks. Put them on salad plates, and drizzle with rasperry salad dressing, then sprinkle on bleu cheese crumbles, roasted almond slivers, and dried cranberries. Very elegant, and very tasty.

Second course: entree.

Depending on your budget, you can either make grilled chicken or grilled salmon. Marinate your protein, then grill it in the oven if it's too cold to grill outside. Serve with rice and grilled asparagus or steamed broccoli.

Third course: desert.

Vanilla flavored frozen yogurt with mashed berries. Mash the berries ahead of time, and add a little bit of sugar. Keep that in the fridge until ready to serve. Put a good sized scoop of yogurt (no fat!) in a dish, spoon on berries, and garnish with an elegant cookie, like one of those Pepperidge Farms fancy cookies.

If you do chicken instead of salmon, and broccoli instead of asparagus, I am betting you can do the whole meal for around $40.

Happy cooking!

Answer 4

One of my quick favorites it to take 3/4 of a cup of white rice (not minute rice) and some boneless skinless chicken breasts. Mix the rice with1 cup of water add a can of cream of mushroom soup. Mix it up and put the chicken on top. Sprinkle with Paprika and pepper. Cover with foil and cook for 45 mins to an hour at 365*. I serve mine with green beans and rolls or fresh french bread. Yum!

Answer 5

Appitizers:
Greens Salad, with Cucumber, cherry tomatos, and sliced onions, and serve with italian dressing or french dressing.

Soup:
French Onion Soup, served with Cheezy Garlic bread

first you saute thinly sliced of 3 pcs of onion, with 100gr of butter and two table spoon oil until the onion turs to brown, dust it 40 gr of flour, stir it well, and you add herbs like fresh thyme or oregano. gradually add 2 lt of beef stock, reduce the heat, simmer for 1 hour, adjust the seasoning. serve it with cheezy garlic bread, or other types of croutons.

for main course,
Grilled Tuna Steack, served with roast baby potatoes, and sauted vegetable (Carrots, Green Beans, Baby corn)

simple, healthy and quite interesting to try...


enjoy..

Answer 6

garden salad loaded with veggies
oven bbq ribs or chicken with baked potatoe
and strawberry or rasberry sauce dizzrled over pound cake or vanilla ice cream


easier than it sounds
salad self expanitory!
bbq ribs or chicken place in a deep pan like a cake pan or somehting like that sprinkle with pepper garlic and onion powder or slice some onions and put in in pan with a 1 cup of water maybe 1cup 1/2 (omit water for chicken)use best judgement cover with foil and cook till meat is tender and cooked thru bout 40 min uncover and brush with bbq sauce cook uncovered and brush with bbq sauce a few times in about a 15 min period not much longer or meat will dry out! you can put potatoes in oven half way thru meat cooking. when meat is done serve with potatoel your family will love this a bit of southern cooking done in doors in the winter!
the berry sauce easy put in a blender or food processer couple tsp sugar a few berries and splash of apple juice spin it a couple times poor over remaining berries in dish serve over ice cream or pound cake. hope this helps

Answer 7

hummus (bought but u can pretend u made it) wiv lotsa pitta breads and carrots/cucumbers etc then a whole salmon (just baked in foil wiv olive oil in oven) with vegs and rice or couscous is easier then either fruit salad or a really easy apple tart or somethin!! i did this for my parents last sat and they loved it!! hope it works!! its also very cost efficient to buy the whole salmon!

Answer 8

Banquet chicken (its already breaded you just stick it in the oven for one hour and its done.)
Mashed potatoes (takes approx. 30min to cook) add butter,little milk, salt, &pepper to taste.
GreenBeans add a little oil small pieces on onion and a little salt and pepper heat until it starts to boil approx. 10min

Answer 9

you can find good and really simple meal ideas and recipes at allrecipes.com
its easy and free!! i love the site