Meals & Recipes: Winter Squash & Chicken
Your Bowl. Scoop out the cooked inside of 1/4 of the squash, chop it up, and mix with a handful of chopped roasted peppers, a handful of sautéed mushrooms, 1/4 sliced avocado, one slice of chopped red onion, 3 pinches of sea salt and 1 - 2 tbsp of ghee. Line the rim of the bowl with 1/2 chicken breast chopped into bite size pieces. Use the homemade sauce for dipping.
Buon Appetito!!
Cooking Instructions:
Chicken Breast. Buy organic free range chicken breast (pasture raised is best if you can get it). Preheat the oven to 425. Put the chicken breast into a Pyrex. Rub them down in olive oil. Rub them down with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder and a touch of cayenne pepper. Add a little water to the dish. Cook at 425 for 25 - 35 minutes depending on the thickness of the breast.
Delicata Squash. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Slice squash in half length wise. Use a spoon to scoop out the seeds (save and clean seeds if you’d like to roast them later). Scoop out the stringy meat inside. Coat the entire squash in olive oil and sprinkle salt inside. Place on baking sheet with the skin up. Bake for 20 minutes at 350 or until tender (easily pierced with a fork).
Peppers, Garlic, Onion. Bring a pan to medium-high heat. Chop 1 slice of onion, 2 cloves of garlic and 1 jalapeño pepper. Add to the pan with 1 tbsp olive oil and two pinches of salt. Cut out the core of three peppers (red, yellow and orange) and slice into 1/8 inch strips. Toss in a bowl with 1 tbsp olive oil and 2 pinches of salt. Add to the pan once the onion, garlic, jalapeño combination starts to give off an aroma. Cook for 15 - 20 minutes depending on how you like your peppers, flipping every 5 minutes.
Sautéed Mushrooms. We like organic baby bellas. Bring a pan to medium-high heat. Add a tbsp of olive oil. Slice the mushrooms into quarters, toss lightly with olive oil (1 - 2 tbsp) and salt (2 - 3 pinches, and add them to the preheated pan. Add a few splashes of water and cover. Leave undisturbed for 5 minutes, then toss and let sit for another 3 - 5 minutes.
Homemade Sauce. 1 tbsp Primal Buffalo sauce, 1 tbsp olive oil, 1/2 tbsp red wine vinegar, 1/2 tbsp fig balsamic vinegar, 2 pinches of sea salt.