Thursday, February 12, 2009

Discover Some South Beach Diet Recipes

By Carry Go

Many people are on the South Beach diet and therefore are always on the lookout for South Beach diet recipes. The reduced carbohydrates called for in the diet don't mean that food has to be bland. From American to Italian, from German to Mexican, the South Beach diet recipes take on many forms. Here are just a few of the delicious meals that can be found on the South Beach diet.

The first of the South Beach diet recipes to examine is chicken Marcela. It includes chicken breasts, and other ingredients such as parsley, olive oil, mushrooms, and onion. Brown the chicken in the olive oil. After softening the onions and mushrooms cook for about two minutes in the wine. Add some broth as liquid is needed. The vegetables and sauce go over the chicken. The calories and carbs will surprise you - 336 calories, and 3 g of carbohydrates

Some South Beach diet recipes take us to the Far East. It's time for some chicken salad from Thailand. It's a combination of chicken with various vegetables and spicy Thailand sauce. It's very simple to make - mix together the salad ingredients, mix together dressing ingredients, then toss them together. It makes four servings and has 8 g of carbohydrates in 297 total calories. It really looks delicious.

How about south of the border with South Beach at recipes? Oddly, fajitas can include soy sauce according to one Mexican cook. The ingredients are an onion, chili powder, wine juice, bell peppers, soy sauce and two pounds of skirt steak or chicken cut into strips.

Combine all the liquid ingredients, added to the meat strips to marinade for about 30 minutes. Cook the meat until brown and the vegetables to taste. Each serving includes only 307 calories and 4.5 grams of carbs.

With South Beach diet recipes like these, you may as well not even be on a diet.

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