“Modern Cajun Cooking” author and food blogger, Leigh Ann Chatagnier shares three easy meals for the new year
>> Welcome back to some like >> Welcome back to some like it. When Eagles for 2024. Is to hit the reset button on the foods you eat same. You cannot go wrong with a healthy home cooked meal. This is one of my resolution to cook more at home for sure. And a lot
Of people think that eating healthy is bland. It’s boring now eating healthy does not mean you have to sacrifice flavor or spend a ton of time. >> In the kitchen cookbook, author and My Diary of us blogger Leigh Ann Chatagnier is here with easy and healthy recipes packed with flavor Lee.
And we’re chatting before the show. I was on your Web site earlier today. Just kind of scoping out the recipes to see what you’re making drilling. Oh, yeah, but you’re saying that this vegetable soup is a hit. Your head. >> It is. It’s so full of flavor. And that’s part of the
Reason we’re not going to a boring anything morning in the new year is going to be healthy. And the veggie soup is just one example of that. That’s amazing. And I mean, salad, you think, okay, I’m salad, you think, okay, I’m going to be really healthy. Salad. Sounds good tacos out?
Can you make a taco salad healthy? Can I tell you, OK, let’s do that. So I’ve already made the beef here. I use lane ground beef. You can also use ground Turkey if you want to come up tofu and do this, if you want to make it vegetarian,
I like to add some black beans and corn to the bike beings and fiber some. Just to have you guys build this right, OK, let’s build. The one thing is you want a good protein night. We’ve got our beef here, layer by layer leave. I like to make my own taco seasoning second
Hole. The sodium and all of that sort of thing as well. You’ve got a black beans and corn in tier as well. >> Yeah, I kind of beef up your protein and then also adds that fiber in there as well. And then you can use whatever toppings you like on a salad.
I like a crunchy cucumber. Onion. These all look delicious. Little tiny avocado for Tessa. OK? Yeah, I’ll do right away. Their food crime reason. I mean, I guess if you like to mix your salad ingredients altogether, you can put in a ball and it’s giving you make it a chopped salad
Situation. And then some Pico de Gallo salsa on top of it. And if you want to add some cilantro, you can use fresh or pickled jalapenos as well. And then I like to add, even just like a smidge of like creaminess you can use like Greek yogurt, sour cream, a
Little ranch dressing like whatever you want. But I’m I’m bo of the salsa with the creamy is really great. Pickled jalapenos. By the way, I love them because they’re not quite as spicy. Look at that and how it smells amazing and what’s greatly about this. It seems like this is something you
Could prep ahead of time. Put them in separate containers in the refrigerator. And then when it’s mealtime, you put it together just as fast as though the Great Easy lunch or dinner. If you do that, that’s awesome to see. And we’re going to get okay. Now I’ve been hearing about this soup all.
>> All afternoon here and telling it smells great. It is. It does will really flavorful here. How do you get it started and how do we wrap it? Okay. So I like to start by saute some onion, celery and carrot. Okay. All will garlic. >> Salt and pepper. Now we can
Just add in our eye is miso paste here. Okay. Made OK? So here’s that means I don’t really build an ice base to the soup. It’s going to get that Miami flavor so delicious. And he’s so. >> Oh, sorry to interrupt, but you’re saying to me, so it’s like you’re must have been
Great. >> I think that’s what takes a special suit to the next level. It makes it extra flavorful and not boring. >> Pearson Park says Howell now 88 years old and he always has for 2nd half. >> Yes, he loves it. I usually make him a grilled cheese to go
So feel free to do that. Here. Not on a such a healthy moment as well. So and is there any right like you want to add one of these before? Another like I the zucchini. You just kind of want to get your miso paste and tomato paste, vegetables. Just go all in.
We have a can of tomatoes. The uni as well. Roger was and those details have not been boiled it all. There was totally wrong. They’re going to cook right in the soup here. Yeah. And the green beans. And this is something that, again, I’ve been looking at your Web site all morning.
You say that if someone has a leftover vegetables in their fridge that are about to go bad like that. So you have cail or whatever you can just throw that into. You can really mix at these veggies. However, you like whatever you have on hand at some chick peas and just
Wrote 18. Yeah, a little hard to hear some corn and some pressure. So >> time and they leave go out and and really good stock is key. Here is the weather that special bostock chicken stock be stock just can call the stock makes a We’ll take out before you serve as yet, right?
That’s down. Everything’s tender flavorful. And you’re good to go. Got an amazing is finished product right there. So delicious. Beautiful, gorgeous. Okay. The slow cooker. This is a huge time saver. Yeah. So this is so great whether you’re running errands, if your home busy, whatever it is, we’re going to
Add all this into one pot. So are you okay? Confines in here? This is red curry paste grandad that and you literally just dump it and start to turn it on. And you just forget about it. Okay. This is Trump garlic, chopped garlic and ginger. Granted the red curry
Paste Leon. I’m just the Asian throughout your grocery store. A grocery stores have to have an agent about and that the miso paste you can find their to think okay. Right now. Yes. Meat paste as well. Yeah. It makes a nice and creamy. Yeah. And we have a
Little bit of chicken stock as well here and then we have bell pepper and onion them using a whole bell pepper in a hole. And, you know, you know, right into the mix there. So this is how I would do it. I was in a hurry. Hurry, I got to get this
Plan. That would basically you can do. You got to get out the door, right? Right 100 to be done. And we have a little salt, a little sugar and a little bit of fresh. Well, okay, salt and sugar. That sugar just really balances out all those flavors interest to
Have that little acidity from the lime. And guys, it just stirs a put it online in or out. >> Out out. Yes, just as we just want the juice. Okay. Just going to talk to and you can serve this over rice or you can just serve it with really beautiful green vegetables and
Rice salad. And you have a healthy, delicious. more the temperature on the slow cooker was set? >> More what either low for 6 hours are high for 4 hours. Just depends on how much time you have. Oh, my God, they’re one will work there. And they it’s so good. My husband is one
Of his favorite meals right here, OK? It’s also so nice if you all haven’t cooked with a slow cooker and a while you come home and the whole house and I mean, it’s like you’re anticipating this delicious dinner before you take the first by what about when it’s
Done? Can you freeze this and preserve it for a while? You can and you can also meal prep this in advance like at extra chicken in their double the recipe. Keep in the fridge and again, you can make a batch of rice that the beginning of the week. And you’ve got dinner
A few night. See when you said, right? I think a lot of people think that meal prep asked to be a little boring. It get. >> Chick in, it’s kind of just a basic vegetable than your protein. But yeah, all of this is a a meal prep slammed on
Every because you’re going to have something you actually really enjoy. That’s not just land in flavor has its. We’ll read some. You have to be very sad. This is at Woods called this an exciting, happy meal prep and you can get them, you know, different ways throughout the week. So maybe one night
With Rice next, right? Maybe you’ve just seen some broccoli to go with that same thing with a taco salad one night, the salad, maybe the next time you make actual talk us out. >> Or you could do. A Rice bowl are right Yeah. And so many many as one of those days.
I wish our viewers could just taste his food because the way our studio smiles is incredible. Leigh Ann Chatagnier, great to see you see guys, happy New Year. What have you back to us? More often, by the way, a reminder lands cookbook, modern Cajun cooking is available on Amazon. A highly recommended
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