Fast and Easy Cooking Recipes - A Healthy Meal

Now a day we are all busy with our work and we do not have much time for cooking. In order to be right on time in office we try to avoid cooking and eat unhealthy food from outside. It could affect your health if you eat food regularly from outside. Here are some easy cooking recipes which will be easy for you to cook as well as it will help you to have good health.

Recipe 1: Vegetable Brown Rice Noodle Salad

Ingredients: 

• 8 ounces brown rice vermicelli noodles (Maifun)
• 1 tablespoon garlic chilli sauce
• 1 teaspoon low sodium soy sauce
• ½ teaspoon brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
• ½ teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 large carrot
• 1 small cucumber, cut into short strips
• ¼ cup baby bean sprouts
• â…“ cup frozen shelled edamame, thawed
• 2 hard boiled eggs, halved
• 4 seaweed snack strips
• 4 sprigs cilantro leaves (optional)
• ¼ teaspoon sesame seeds (optional)

Directions:

• First of all fill hot water in a large bowl and boil the noodles and cook it about 5 minutes until the noodles are soft. Then drain the water from the noodles.
• Beat r garlic chilli, sauce, brown sugar, and soy sauce together until sugar dissolves. Then mix the noodles in sauce and divide it in portion into two different bowls.
• Then whip rice vinegar and sesame oil together. Peel the carrots into long strips by using a vegetable peeler and mix it with rice vinegar mixture.
• You must decorate each bowl with equal portion of sprouts, edamame, 1 egg, cucumber, marinated carrots and 2 seaweed snacks. You can also drop some sesame seeds to it and garnish with cilantro, if you wish.

Recipe 2: Chilli and Lemongrass Chicken

Ingredients:

• 1-2 long red chillies, chopped
• 1 lemongrass stem (inner core only), finely chopped
• 3cm piece ginger, chopped
• 3 garlic cloves
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 1 1/2 tablespoons mirin (see note)
• 3 teaspoons fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
• 700g chicken breast fillets, sliced
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 cup (200g) SunRice Jasmine Fragrant Rice
• 2 spring onions, thinly sliced
• 1/2 cup Thai basil (see note) leaves, roughly chopped
• 1/2 cup coriander leaves, roughly chopped
• 200g snow peas, blanched, refreshed, thinly sliced

Directions:

• Step 1: Grind chilli, lemongrass, ginger and garlic into a paste in the grinder. You can add honey, mirin, fish sauce and 1 tablespoon oil and whisk it until it is combined together.
• Step 2: Take chicken in a bowl and marinade the chicken with the paste and chill it for about 15 minutes. Then you can add soy with remaining marinade and keep it aside.
• Step 3: In the mean time cook the rice and keep the rice warm.
• Step 4: Then in the large pan heat 2 teaspoons oil in medium-high heat. When the oil is hot put half the chicken and cook it for about 5-8 minutes until the chicken is browned and sticky. Add with remaining 1 teaspoon oil and chicken. Keep warm.
• Step 5: Now add spring onion, basil, coriander and snow peas and sauté it with the rice.
• Step 6: Put the rice into serving bowls and top it with chicken and serve it with reserved sauce.