damn yall need to learn to cook.
Cast iron grilled chicken with sauce:
Heat cast iron pan to hot (cast iron is crucial, or use a grill).
Pat dry chicken breast, season and rub with Special Shit seasoning (best I've found by far).
Olive oil spray the breast and pan, toss in pan (slightly offset pan from heat to have larger center of breast in center of heat, and edges away). Set heat to low.
Then cut up a red pepper, add. Small yellow onion, add (cut into slices vs chunks). Handful of baby bella mushrooms. Yes we are sinning by 'crowding the pan', but convenience, and secondly, that high heat from earlier ensures a sear and the breast will shrink by the time we flip it.
Flip when chicken halfway cooked. Let cook until it hits 148*F (perfect temp imo, 145 is just a bit low, 150 is good, 155 is too much). Pull chicken, let rest.
Set heat to high, deglaze pan with a good pour of apple cider vinegar (or acid of your choice). Let cook for ~5 minutes with good occassional stirring.
Then, the big awesome piece, is sauce time. Here are some good sauces:
* Japanese curry roux. Just need like 1/4 of a block, add water.
* Donna maria chocolate mole roux. Add water of course.
* Frenchies Dijon Mustard (has no added sugar, stronger flavor than other brands). Easy and simple and delish.
* Naked PB or PB2 peanut sauce, with water. Can use coconut milk and soy sauce to make it 'thai' style, can add cocoa powder or cayenne to make a oaxaca mole style
* Ghiradelli dutched cocoa. Friggin delish.
* Kimchi
* Gochujang Korean style
* Sourkraut
* LOTS of hungarian sweet paprika (important it's a quality hungarian style, not shit paprika from store), make a gulyas leves style traditional hungarian ghoulash soup).
* BBQ sauce
Pour into big bowl, slice chicken, lay on top, garnish with parsley. I make this every day and rotate sauces. Besides the bbq, curry and donna maria mole, they are all very low calorie (even those are fairly low since we don't need much).
The mushrooms are a great filler food for basically zero calories, you can add more vegetables to fill up, much better than rice, bread, or pasta. But if you are dirty bulking you can do those too.
Super easy to make, since we are cooking low and slow, you can pretty much just set it and forget it and check every once in a while you shower, study, post here, do errands. You aren't going to burn it. Takes maybe 30 minutes but total time at the kitchen is 5 minutes.
Comes out with a beautiful grill-style seared chicken breast with an amazing sauce.
This, a month's worth of meal-prepped pressure cooker stew roast (chuck vs round if bulking vs cutting) with various stews rotated, and a ground turkey/eggwhite/onion/greenpepper/tomato/parsley meal prep I bake in a pan, and that's 3 good high protein meals for the day.
