Corner Kitchen: Five Tips to Tastier Chicken

I’m not a nutritionist but I do try to eat relatively healthy. I’ve competed in two bodybuilding shows so I know what it’s like to be disciplined and step on a competitive stage. Anyone who has dieted for a competition knows how boring it can get. Many times you find yourself getting creative with the few “allowed” things on your meal plan. Here’s a couple tips you might try with your chicken that I found helped me.

Five Tips to Tastier Chicken:
1) Use Mrs. Dash to help give it some flavor. There are a ton of different flavors now available in your spices section of the grocery store.

2) Allowed Peanut Butter? Combine that table spoon with your chicken while you eat it. It’s almost like a peanut sauce on the bird.

3) Broil your chicken breasts. Cover a sheet pan in tin foil, place the chicken breasts on the pan and then use some I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Spray and spray it on the breasts. You can also put some Mrs. Dash or other spice on it. Then broil it. I broil on HIGH and it cooks fairly quickly. Flip it and spray butter on that side and put it back in to finish cooking. When I broil chicken and use the spray butter it stays juicy and doesn’t dry out.

4) Coat those puppies with some spice. I use ground red pepper and it helps give it some heat. I also combine it with a little black pepper. I’m not big on hot, spicy foods but this helps give it some kick.

5) Add a piece or two of low-fat turkey bacon on top of the chicken breast. It may not be “real” bacon but it is a pretty close alternative.

Do you have any tips or tricks for dieting or cooking?
Email me isaac @ liftstudios.com and we’ll post em up. Have a food or topic you want covered with the Corner Kitchen? Post it in the comments or email me.