Yummy Grilled Chicken!

Sheesh Tawooq? Grilled Chicken? Name it whatsoever, it's just tasty and quick! AND PRO-DIET!

Ingredients:

*Boneless Chicken.
*Yogurt.
*Carry.
* Turmeric.
*Garlic Salt (Instead: you can use minced garlic or garlic powder and regular salt)
*Ground Black Pepper.
*Oregano and Thyme.
*Olive Oil.
*Chili. (optional, you can add paprika instead)
*Onions
*Bell Peppers.
*Tbsp. of tomato paste (optional)

How is it done?
1-Clean your chicken and cut it into big cubes.
2- Get a big bowl and put into it the following: Yogurt, olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic salt, thyme, oregano, chili, carry and turmeric, with the tomato paste, and mix quite well.
3-Marinate the chicken over night or for couple of hours in this bowl.
4-Cut you onions into big rings, as well as your bell peppers julienne. Mix them with a tbsp. of olive oil and a small pinch of salt.
5-Get the tray you'll pop into the oven, cover it with your cut onions and bell peppers.
6-Now put your marinated chicken, get it out of the yogurt sauce.
7-Cover your tray with aluminum foil, and let it cook for a while.
8-When the chicken seems to be cooked, remove the foil cover, and turn your oven into broil to give the chicken a nice colour now.
9-Serve it with sour cream and tortilla.

et Bon Appetit.

Side notes:
*You can just not cut it into cubes if you wish too. And do the same steps.

*You can put it onto the grille.

*Instead of the oven and grille, get a pan with a small piece of butter, and grill the chicken in it. Heat it really up first, add your chicken a min. for each side so as to get a goldish colour, then lower the heat temperature, and let it cook for a while.

*You can add the cubes onto skewers, et Voila it's Sheesh Tawooq!

*Instead of sour cream and tortilla, have it with pasta, rice or even bread!

*Garlic Salt? It's different than garlic powder (you can add that too) but it's just like salt with garlic flavour. As said above, if it's not available use garlic, or garlic powder and regular salt. But if you find garlic salt, it's so yummy in the food.!

*Trick: After cooking, try getting a piece of charcoal, heat it up, get a piece of foil, and add a bit of oil in there and put it in the middle of your chicken tray, set the heated charcoal in the foil wrap, and cover the whole tray. The charcoal fumes will give a nice grilled taste to your chicken.

Tuna Pasta

Note: This recipe is pro-diet (ay walahy :D)

Story behind it: Kalimat told me about it like 5 years ago, and I have been doing it since then. I modified a bit along the way, and here you go.

Ingredients:

*Pasta (Penne I prefer, or spaghetti)
*a can and a half of Light Tuna (soaked in water)
*Tbsp. of olive oil (or vegetable oil if you'd like)
*Diced Tomatoes.
*2 Bell Peppers.
*Mushrooms.
*1 Carrot.
*2 Onions.
*Salt and Pepper
*Oregano and Thyme
*Dried Basil
*Dried Mint.
*Soy Sauce.
*Paprika.
*Chili. (optional)
*Lime juice or half of a small fresh lemon.

-Serves 4-5 people (and there will be plenty of it)

How is it done?

1- Boil some water, and add the pasta to it, with a pinch of salt, cook for almost 7 min.
2-While you're waiting for the pasta to cook, start cutting the onions julienne or in thin rings.
3-Then cut the Bell peppers julienne as well (You can throw coloured peppers in here to).
4-Dice the tomatoes and then make a pile of carrot thin peels.
5-Check the pasta, you'll find it almost done now.:)

Making the Sauce:

1- Heat the tbsp. of oil in your pot.
2-Add the cut onions to it..and stir till it starts to get yellowish a bit and change colour (do not fry the onions!)
3-Add few drops of soy sauce to the onions; and add the mushrooms, then stir.
4-Directly add to them the cut bell peppers and the carrot peels.
5-Add extra few drops of Soy sauce to the whole pot of vegetable.
6-Cover the pot till the vegetables are half-way cooked.
7-Once you find the peppers are getting softer, add to the pot the tomatoes.
8-Directly after that, add the spices: a reasonable pinch of salt, a small pinch of ground black pepper, the oregano and thyme, a good pinch of dried mint, paprika and chili, and the basil.
9-Let the tomatoes cook till it gets juicy a bit (The below pic. shows how the vegetables will look like now!)

10-Now drain the tuna from its water, don't leave it in chunks, use a fork to make it smooth in small pieces.
11- Add the tuna to your pot of deliciously smelling vegetables, and stir.
12-Add the tbsp. of lime juice, or squeeze half a lemon to the mix. and stir.
13-Let it set for a minute.
14- Now mix with the pasta, or serve it on top of it, et Bon Appetit.

Side Notes:

*If you want your sauce to be more juicy: After almost cooking the tomatoes  add a tbsp. of tomato paste to it with half a cup of water, and let the sauce cook through a bit.

*You can cut the carrots julienne, instead of peeling it off.

*If you are a fan of olives, add some when adding the bell peppers and carrots.

*You can make the same dish, but instead of adding tuna, you can add sausages, chicken, or minced meat. However in this case, do not add the lime juice at the end.

P.S. I cooked it today. This has always been my favourite dish since forever, and my saviour when I was staying alone.