Recipes with Lemon juice

Baked Lemon Pepper Chicken
RecipeBaked Lemon Pepper Chicken

Dietary, satisfying, and tasty chicken breast is suitable for preparing many healthy dishes. The easiest option is to bake chicken fillet in the oven with lemon juice and spices. Chicken meat marinates well and becomes very soft and juicy. Tender chicken breast meat itself has a neutral taste, which is why it is so well complemented by all kinds of spices and additives. The dish is prepared very quickly and simply, even a novice hostess can handle it. The breast is prepared without the addition of sour cream, mayonnaise, or other fatty sauce, which makes the dish light and dietary. Chicken fillet turns out so tasty that it is quite suitable even for a festive table. At the same time, it can be used to prepare various salads and snacks.

Hawaiian Pork (in a Slow Cooker)
RecipeHawaiian Pork (in a Slow Cooker)

This sweet, smoky, salty and tangy hawaiian pork is out of this world delicious! The extraordinary combination or pork, vegetables and pineapple flavors make this dish taste anything but usual! The best thing about this hawaiian pork that it is packed with healthy nutrients! Onion, red pepper, celery and pineapple compliment the taste of the pork and give you your daily dose of vegetables. The second best thing about this dish is the sauce. It’s a combination of pineapple juice, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, brown sugar, lemon juice, oregano, salt and pepper. Want to make it even healthier? Replace the brown sugar with honey. Cooking this dish in a slow cooker makes the pork especially tender, every piece gets soaked in sweet and tangy sauce, that simply melts in your mouth! This hawaiian recipe calls for canned pineapple. However, we recommend you to try using a fresh pineapple if available in your area. It will make the dish taste even more exotic and flavorful! Serve this dish fresh over soft buttered rice or other grain of your choice. The leftovers can be stored in the fridge for up to 3 days.

Easy Chicken Drumsticks
RecipeEasy Chicken Drumsticks

You will love these easy chicken drumsticks from the first bite. They are so easy to prepare and toss in the oven or microwave. Coated in a simple and flavorful marinade, chicken drumsticks will make a perfect addition to your finger-food party, your simple lunch or delicious dinner. Chicken drumsticks are an inexpensive cut of meat to cook, but you can also try cooking chicken thighs, wings or even chicken breast using this recipe. The chicken spice mixture used in this recipe is made from the basic ingredients, available in most of homes. However, if you have a store-bought one available sitting on the shelf of your kitchen cupboard, then you can use that one instead and save even more time preparing these easy and delicious dish. The marinade used in this recipe makes the chicken so juicy and tender that your whole family will love! This virtually hands-free chicken drumsticks recipe calls for a zip-lock bag to marinate your meat, however, it is not completely necessary. Make sure to remove any air from the plastic bag, then, massage the marinade into the chicken for a few seconds to coat. You can also marinate the chicken in the airtight container, making sure that the drumsticks are well-coated before closing the lid and putting the container into the fridge. You will want to refrigerate the chicken for as long as possible at this point. Thirty minutes minimum is fine, but two to twelve hours is best. Cook your drumsticks at a high temperature of 400 degrees. For easy cleanup simply place them on a baking sheet lined with foil, then sprayed with non-stick cooking oil. Then you bake them for 30 minutes on one side, flip them over and bake for another 10 minutes. Alternatively, you can cook the drumsticks in you microwave if it have an oven-built function. Put the chicken into an ovenproof dish, sprayed with non-stick cooking oil without a lid on, and put it on oven+microwave mode for 15-20 minutes at 375 degrees.

Spinach and Feta Stuffed Chicken Breasts
RecipeSpinach and Feta Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Need something a little extra special for dinner tonight? Something that is foolproof to make and that tastes delicious? These Stuffed Chicken Breasts make a the perfect dish and use rather simple and affordable ingredients. All you need to do is butterfly a chicken breast, flatten it, then stuff it with feta cheese and cooked spinach, forming a roll. Then you pour creamy tangy sauce over the chicken, put it into the oven, and 45 to 50 minutes later something wonderful comes out. And the leftover sauce in the pan is perfect for spooning over rice or steamed vegetables.

Beet Salad with Feta and Pear
RecipeBeet Salad with Feta and Pear

This healthy and colorful salad can be a perfect addition to meat dishes, and also serve as a nice meal on its own if you prefer to pursue a vegetarian lifestyle. Beet is well-known for its indispensable health benefits. Betacyanin, a colorful pigment in beet, is an antioxidant that can significantly help your liver get rid of toxins, and thus improve its main function to keep your body clean by absorbing all the harmful chemicals from your blood. Beet also contains betaine, a substance can be used to help with some forms of depression due to its ability to relax your mind and improve general sense of well being. For healthy reasons we prefer using homemade sauces and condiments to those bought in a supermarket. There is value in making something from scratch, and you can always control what comes in a recipe and what quality product comes out of it. We used homemade pickled red onions for this beet salad. We recommend marinating some onions at the same time as you start cooking beet, or even some time in advance, it can be perfectly stored in the fridge and used for other dishes. We know that a lot of people out there like beet but don’t like to bother with cooking it because the process seems time and energy consuming. If you are one of those people, we invite you to check out our *How to cook beet* (or Easy ways to cook beet). We hope you like this beet salad as much as we do, and will learn to love beet not only for its health benefits but also for its taste and color!

Traditional Chicken Salad
RecipeTraditional Chicken Salad

Traditional chicken salad recipe just never grows old, doesn’t it? Nowadays there are many variations of traditional chicken salad, and every second family prefers to add a bit of a personal twist to the classic recipe. Today we would like to suggest to you trying this simple recipe that adds green peppers, fennel seeds and lemon juice to the basic recipe you are probably so familiar with. You can serve it on a bed of mixed greens for additional esthetic look, you can eat it straight out of the bowl if desperately hungry, or spread it on whole wheat bread if you want to have a low-carb lunch. It is also ideal for picnics and potlucks, too! Just be sure to keep the salad chilled, when transporting it to a picnic or party, as it tasted best when chilled. In this recipe the chicken is chopped in small cubes, which makes it more present in the salad when you bite it. However, you can shred the chicken for a more subtle effect. For the dressing, instead of a store-bought mayonnaise, we decided to make our own! It takes only a few minutes to make and tastes soooo good! Try our Homemade Mayonnaise recipe and discover a new way of eating even healthier. Traditional chicken salad can be served immediately or stored in the refrigerator, tightly covered, for 2 to 3 days.

Meatball pasta in creamy green sauce (with kale)
RecipeMeatball pasta in creamy green sauce (with kale)

This meatball pasta is ready in 30 minutes, and with a short list of ingredients you have a healthy, creamy, vibrantly green, and absolutely delicious dish on your kitchen table. The meatballs are full of delicious flavor, and the creamy green sauce makes them even softer and juicer. A secret ingredient in the creamy sauce makes this dish healthier than ever! That’s right! Kale - one of the healthiest greens on the planet - adds plenty of vitamins, fiber and color to the creamy sauce for meatball pasta. What a clever way to make your children get the healthy nutrients they need!