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Night 1: Greek Chicken Bowls
-chicken
-rice
-cucumber
-feta cheese
-lettuce
-tomatoes
-taziki
(marinate chicken w/ olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, garlic powder, minced garlic & paprika)

Night 2: One Skillet Salmon with Lemon Orzo
https://www.servingdumplings.com/wprm_print/one-skillet-salmon-with-lemon-orzo/
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[Music] what’s up guys welcome back to my channel if you’re new here my name is Julia I’m a certified personal trainer and I share all things Health Fitness and My Lifestyle on here on Instagram and on Tik Tok so make sure to subscribed and follow along I am currently on my way to Whole Foods because in today’s video I’m going to be sharing my dinners from tonight and tomorrow night because they’re both super easy healthy and also delicious without being super boring tonight we are doing some Greek bowls basically and then tomorrow night we’re doing this like lemon parmesan salmon orizo Bowl I’m super excited for both I’m going to Whole Foods now to get the groceries for those two meals and I will show you guys exactly how I make each of them and I am going to put the full recipes and instructions for both of these meals in the description box below I already have some of the ingredients I need but while I’m in there I need to pick up salmon chicken rice Tomatoes red onion yellow onion chicken broth shredded Le taziki cucumber garlic cloves spinach orzo dried thyme grated parm and then these three things are not for the recipes but we’re out of our Frozen tropical fruit Cameron’s favorite chocolate chip waffles and some Olli pops so that’s what we’re going in for and then there are other ingredients needed for the recipes that I already have but like I mentioned I’ll have everything listed down in the description [Music] select payment type grocery shopping done I did forget to get rice which is needed for tonight’s Greek chicken bowls but I’m pretty sure we have enough at home to cover tonight’s meal we’re just probably going to be out after tonight so my camera’s dying let’s go home all right groceries are put away switched out my camera battery it is Scotty and I chilling in the kitchen so if you hear something wrestling around or that noise it’s my puppy but it is now time to marinate the chicken for these Greek chicken bowls if you’ve seen my gyro recipe I’ve shared it in a few full days of eating and it’s also on my app it’s basically the exact recipe we’re making however instead of serving this like as proper Gyros on peab bread I’m going to do it in a bowl over rice so I have my chicken breast here I’m going to cut them up a little bit thinner and then I’m going to marinate them in this shallow bowl I like to marinate with olive oil a little bit of fresh lemon juice if I have it minced garlic and garlic powder some salt pepper and paprika it is so delicious so easy and don’t worry if you don’t have a ton of time sometimes I marinate this combination for 10 minutes sometimes it marinates for a little bit longer like 1 to 2 hours but never anything crazy so however much time you have marinate it for that long all right so as you can see I sliced the chicken into like thin little tenders and then I like to marinate with my olive oil which I am almost out of a little bit of fresh lemon [Applause] juice some minced garlic black pepper garlic powder paprika and salt and I feel like I need a little bit more pepper and then I just mix that all up and as you guys can see I do not measure anything there’s no particular Rhyme or Reason I just season as I please so that’s how I always suggest you guys do it as well put the lid on this and I will pop it in the refrigerator and that right there was probably like the hardest and most timec consuming part of this entire recipe it is so simple so quick and easy I actually just cook my chicken right on the stove top but you can also Grill it if you prefer to I would just suggest marinating and Grilling like the full chicken breast and then slicing it up after it’s already cooked but once the chicken is cooked I’m just going to throw it in a bowl over rice with some chopped Red Onion tomato cucumber some feta cheese drizzle some taziki if you like olives feel free to add those I know that’s a very Greek thing I for one am not an olive gal but feel free to add them it is your recipe it is your dinner you do what you want with it I’m just sharing how I’m making this and giving you guys some inspiration I also just kind of spoiled the entire recipe in dinner but I’ll see you guys when I’m actually putting everything together I do have to measure this just because it’s a ratio of rice to water so I’m going to do 2/3 cup of rice and then double that for the water I think I’ve made it very clear I’m not good at dicing usually I use a little dicer but I was trying to look cool so it kind of backfired all right rice is cooking Scotty baby as cute as ever and then everything else is prepped we’ve got our taziki f cheese Red Onion lettuce cucumber and then I diced up a few tomatoes and I’m going to be honest I am not a tomato person Cameron is not a tomato person but I knew that my bowl would be more aesthetic if it had tomatoes on it and honestly if it’s something like this with all the good things mixed together I can tolerate them especially when they’re diced up super small all that’s left to do is cook the chicken so I just grabbed it out of the fridge My Pan is heating up I’ve got some olive oil in the pan and I’m just going to toss this in I don’t even really time anything honestly my pant’s not even hot enough to be putting this on yet but oh well and honestly this chicken Cooks so quickly especially when you slice it thin like this so just a few minutes on each side I don’t even time it I just kind of keep flipping it and then eventually I cut one open and once they’re fully cooked I take them off all right my Greek chicken bowl is assembled and is looking so delicious I can’t wait to mix this up and dig in all right I’m going to devour this and I will see you guys when I’m cooking dinner tomorrow all right we are back in the kitchen evening number two making our easy healthy dinners and I’m going to be completely honest I’ve never even made this recipe before but I already know I’m going to be obsessed with it because I absolutely love every ingredient that’s going into this but tonight we are making one Skillet salmon with lemon Oro I just found this recipe on Pinterest the other day so I cannot take credit for it it’s actually what inspired this YouTube video because you guys are always asking for new healthy dinner ideas and I always say this in my full days of eating I’m such a creature of habit I’m constantly eating the same things over and over again which is probably really boring for you guys to watch so today I’m giving you something new something fresh and something that I know is going to be delicious and it seems like you really can’t mess this recipe up I have all of my ingredients laid out in front of me so I’ll quickly flip this camera around we’ll talk through each of them and then I may as well just read off the instructions because there’s literally only five steps in this meal all right this right here is everything you need for this recipe I’ve got my salmon I already minced up my three garlic cloves already cut up my entire yellow onion lemon butter parmesan cheese chicken broth orzo garlic powder black pepper thyme paprika salt red pepper flakes olive oil and baby spinach all right step number one is to get your prep done before you start cooking grate your parmesan cheese chop your onion mince your garlic I did all that Pat the salmon fillets dry with a paper towel that is done season both sides with garlic powder paprika salt and pepper I still need to do that so let’s do that now I’m not going to measure any of my seasonings just because I feel like that’s way too difficult so I’m just going to wing my seasonings like I always do if you’ve seen any of my other videos or you’ve watched me cook any meal you know that I really never measure but I will be measuring the other things in this recipe just because I want to get it right because like I said it looks so incredibly delicious so I just put salt on each of the salmon fillets now I am shaking some pepper onto them you guys can’t even see what I’m doing but oh well once I flip them over to season the other side I’ll lower the camera angle so you guys can actually see and last but not least a little bit of thme if I am remembering correctly not thme garlic powder this is why I need the recipe shaking some of that on and now we’ll lower you guys so you can watch me do it on the other side also sorry it is so dark in here I really should have turned some lights on I’ll do that in a second garlic powder on each [Music] one black pepper I like things really seasoned if you couldn’t tell [Applause] salt and paprika oh it’s really dark right now because a random thunderstorm is currently rolling through if you can hear it I don’t know if you can but I’ll turn some lights on much better all right moving over to the stove top for step number two which is to heat your olive oil and butter over medium high heat in a large non-stick pan or skillet add your salmon FL and sear 3 to 4 minutes per side remove from Skillet and set aside I’m not going to measure out my olive oil or butter but let’s get cooking the salmon this might be too much but it’ll be delicious all right just took the salmon off the pan and I’m actually just going to read you the next few steps because they’re pretty time sensitive step number three reduce the heat to medium add your garlic and onion cook until soft and fragrant for about 2 minutes then stirring your time remaining salt and pepper and add your orzo to toast for 1 minute step four pour in your chicken broth and bring to a boil to maintain a simmer reduce the heat to medium low cook on covered while stirring occasionally to prevent the orzo from sticking until almost Al Dente and most of the liquid is absorbed about 8 minutes step number five add your spinach stir and simmer until welted for about 2 minutes stir in your lemon juice and Parmesan add more broth if needed taste and adjust salt after that return salmon to the skillet simmer for 2 to 3 minutes or until the salmon is heated through then enjoy Also optional you can top with fresh ground black pepper and chili flakes if you want [Applause] [Music] we all know how much spinach Cooks down [Music] all right it’s basically all put together I didn’t add any more broth in the fifth step it says to add more broth if needed after you do the lemon juice and parmesan I didn’t add more because it isn’t even like fully soaked up yet but this smells amazing I just have to wait like 2 to 3 minutes for the salmon to kind of get rewarmed up and then we get to dig in I’m so freaking excited and obviously I need to do a little taste test because like I said I haven’t even made this recipe before so I need to do my due diligence oh my gosh this is so freaking good this is going to be the new recipe that you guys are sick of seeing because I’m just going to make it constantly holy cow I can’t wait to eat dinner I seriously just can’t get over this she is stunning there’s our little one pan meal in all her glory I wish you guys could smell and taste this through the screen it is so freaking good I haven’t even tried the salmon yet but the orzo combination is to die for I know that as soon as I put it into our dinner bowls it’s going to be way less aesthetic so just soak it in just soak that beauty in I cannot wait to dig in all right that was seriously so freaking good we almost finished the entire thing the recipe is supposed to feed four we each had two pieces of of the salmon because those pieces of salmon are a little bit smaller than the salmon we typically get at Costco but the salmon was cooked to Perfection the orzo was so freaking good we do have a little bit of leftover orzo so I’ll probably sauté up some shrimp tomorrow and add it to the rest of that orzo and have it for lunch or dinner cuz that was delicious highly recommend that recipe as well as last nights I know last nights wasn’t like an actual recipe it was just kind of stuff thrown together in a bowl but those are the best kinds of dinners and now that I know this is a one pan meal that is that easy to make I will be making it constantly that was so freaking good I need to clean up the kitchen and then go play with my puppy outside so I’m going to wrap this video up here I really hope you guys enjoyed seeing two easy healthy dinners if you want to see more videos like this don’t forget to give this one a like make sure you’re subscribed and I will see you all next time bye