If You Like Corned Beef and Cabbage: Weight Loss Recipes

If you like corned beef and cabbage, you will love my shredded chicken and cabbage recipe. I am doing my best to get healthy right now. After losing 40 lbs right now and gaining back 10, I have a new resolve to reach my ultimate goal. To get closer to my journey, I filled my fridge with lots of healthy foods from the cancer prevention list (another fear of mine that probably will require therapy). Today I created a recipe I will call Mock Corned Beef and Cabbage.

Ingredients for Mock Corned Beef and Cabbage weight loss recipe
3 cups Shredded chicken (mine was leftovers from the roast chicken we had yesterday)
3 large onions
1 head of cabbage
Fresh peppercorn (in grinder)
Fresh sea salt (in grinder)
Olive Oil
1 tspn Pesto
Water

Equipment required for Mock Corned Beef and Cabbage weight loss recipe:
1 crock-pot
1 wok or saut�© pan
(This equipment is not absolutely necessary, but helpful in cooking the food with as little oil as humanly possible)

Instructions for Mock Corned Beef and Cabbage weight loss recipe:
~Chop the cabbage creating bite-sized pieces, and put it in the crock-pot.
~Add 1 onion, salt, and pepper to taste. Then add more pepper. If you like red pepper flakes, add some of that too.
~Add 2 teaspoons of olive oil, set the crock-pot to high, and cover the pot.
~Stir after about 30 minutes.
~Let the cabbage cook for 2 or more hours until it starts to stick to the pot just a bit. (I like a couple of leafs to burn, it ads a nice flavor and eliminates the need for pork or fat.)
~Turn the crock-pot to warm and set aside.
~Next, put a few teaspoons of olive oil in the pan or wok.
~While the oil is heating, julienne the remaining 2 onions and add them to oil.
~Cook the onions until they caramelize, and then add the Pesto and chicken to the pan.
~Add salt and pepper to taste and saut�© the mixture for 10 minutes until the oil cooks out.
~Next, add �¼ cup of water cover the pot with a lid. Allow to it to until the water is gone, approximately 10 minutes.

Serve the chicken mixture on top of the cabbage.

This makes six servings and has approximately 247 calories, 17 grams of fat and 22 (healthy) carbohydrates per serving.

This meal is quick and easy to make as most of the work is done while you are tending to other matters, if you use the crock-pot. The chicken takes little time to prepare.

Kids’ version of Mock Corned Beef and Cabbage weight loss recipe:
Leave out the cabbage, and serve the chicken on whole-wheat tortillas, with salsa cheese and raw spinach. My kids loved these chicken wraps!