Lemon and Herbs Steamed Fish

This is the 5th day of my diet and today's dinner will be another version of steamed fish - Lemon and Herbs Steamed Fish. This few days, I had been busy looking for recipes of different type of recipes for fish and also poultry for my diet menu. Since I have few more lemons sitting in my fridge, I decided to try on this recipe. The herbs gives a really fantastic aroma to the fish and with the lemon, it was indeed a refreshing and yummy meal to try on. Something different from the conventional way of steaming the fish. Worth a try.

Ingredients

2 fish fillets, cleaned and washed

1 1/2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1 inch ginger washed, peeled and thinly sliced

4 garlic cloves, peeled and washed

2 spring onions, washed and trimmed

1/2 lemon, washed and sliced into roundels

dash of Italian seasoning

salt to taste

Methods

1. Marinate the fish fillets with 1 tsp lemon juice and salt to taste. Set aside.
2. Cut spring onion into round slices.
3. Mix ginger, garlic, spring onion roundels, Italian seasoning, salt and half a cup of water.
4. Soak fish slices in this marinade.
5. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
6. Transfer fish slices into a steam pot and steam for 12 minutes.

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Lemon Garlic Broccoli with Hard Boiled Egg

Today, I broke my diet plan for lunch. I had 2 piece of my favourite Taman Eng Ann's fried chicken, of course without the skin (all given to my Hubby). I was so tempted to have a bite of them. Guess that I can't asked too much since I broke the rule at the first place. I guess the diet plan suggested meat, fried chicken are in that category too. Haha, telling lies to comfort myself. So for today's dinner, I had prepared hard boiled eggs and lemon garlic broccoli. Yum yum, especially the taste of the lemon which bring more flavour to the broccoli. A very appetising recipe indeed.

Ingredients

3 tbsp butter
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 1/2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
salt, to taste
pepper, to taste, optional

Methods

1. Steam broccoli until tender but firm, about 5 to 7 minutes.
2. Heat the butter in a heavy nonstick skillet over medium heat; add the garlic and saute for 1 minute.
3. Add the cooked broccoli, lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste, cooking briefly to combine.

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Stir-Fry Ginger Chicken with Siew Pak Choy and Grapefruit

This is the 3rd day I am trying out the Grapefruit Diet. I had simple breakfast and lunch for three consecutive days. I had hard boiled eggs with grapefruit for breakfast and hard boiled eggs with carrots and grapefruit for lunch due to time constraint and of course due to the reason I am working during weekdays. Therefore, I can't really cooked for this two meals. For dinner, I'll try to pamper myself with something special rather than having the same stuffs over and over again. If not, sooner or later I'll turn myself into a bunny, munching carrots everyday. Oh my god, I am starting to hallucinate due to all this constraint from eating all my favourite food. Hehe. Just kidding. :p Today, I had dished up stir-fry siew pak choy and chicken marinated with ginger marinade. Yum yum.. It might be a simple meal but for a person who is on diet (me), the dishes was really superb and a saviour to my hungry tummy. It was so fulfilling. What shall I prepared for tomorrow?? I am running out of idea for my dinner tomorrow. Headache, headache..

P/s: Do have a look at the last picture, guess that I am too hungry until I can finished up everything within minutes. Kakaka...

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