Crockpot Chicken Curry Tikka Masala

 

This makes over a week's worth of dinners for the hcg very low calorie diet. It would be considered a rogue recipe because it mixes veggies and proteins.

Crockpot Chicken Curry Tikka Masala

1 small chopped onion
2 small chopped tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon pink Himalayan salt
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 cup fat free cottage cheese or cream base
1 cup of fat free, low sodium chicken broth
1 teaspoon paprika
12 chicken tenderloins (50g each)
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
5 drops of liquid Stevia 

In blender or food processor, blend the cottage cheese and chicken broth together and transfer to crock pot. Stir in tomato paste and spices. Add tomatoes and then finally the chicken.
Cook on low 4 hours or until chicken is cooked through and tender.
Carefully remove the chicken tenders from crockpot as to keep them intact, and package into 8 freezer portions. Ladle remaining into each portion, using the food scale to be sure each is the same weight.
Now the meals can be transferred from the freezer to fridge the night before to thaw.
This makes 8 servings containing 1 vegetable and 1 protein each.

(I got inspiration for this recipe from here.)

P2 Shrimp Alfredo over Ribboned Aspargus

P2 Shrimp Alfredo over Ribboned Aspargus

100g  Asparagus Ribbons
20g    Alfredo Sauce
80g    Cooked Shrimp


Using a vegetable peeler or asparagus peeler (even better) to make thin ribbons of asparagus, running lengthwise down the stalk. Blanche them in salted boiling water for 4-5 minutes, strain, and set aside on a plate.
I use precooked, deshelled, deveined shrimp in the 61-70/per 2lb size. Heat your shrimp and top the asparagus with it. Gently heat the alfredo sauce to luke warm, because too hot will cause it to separate and curdle. Top the shrimp and asparagus with sauce and enjoy!

P2 Alfredo Sauce

P2 Alfredo Sauce

100 grams of cottage cheese or P2 Cream Base
1/2 tsp diced garlic
1/2 tsp vinegar
Salt and Pepper to taste

If making from cottage cheese, process it to creamy in a blender or food processor before adding in additional ingredients. TIP: It's much easier to have cream base on hand already, as there are many uses for it in P2 cooking.

p2 Cream base

Create a cream base for use in creamy p2 recipes. Empty the contents of a whole container of cottage cheese into the food processor and process until very smooth. If you know you will be using it for recipes requiring a thicker cream paste (like p2 cheesecake for instance), strain the curds first. Transfer the processed cream base back into the container and store in refrigerator until needed. This has many applications. It can be used to make sweet things, like a crepe filling or cheesecake, or savory items like faux alfredo sauce or fish taco sauce (recipes to follow). It's important to note that this counts as a protein, so always measure out the cream base in grams on your food scale and reduce your meat portions by that many grams.

Mexican Baked Fish- *PF* *R*

This is my go-to recipe for fish in P2. I've tried fish several ways and always come back to this.

Mexican Baked Fish:
Preheat oven to 375*

100g of white fish
Lemon juice (or Lime juice if rogue)
Fish taco seasoning
Salt

Put fish on a piece of foil large enough to wrap it up with. Sprinkle fish with lemon or lime juice until there is a small puddle around the fish. Sprinkle fish with fish taco seasoning and salt and wrap up fish lightly, but preventing any leaks. Bake
in preheated oven for 15 min.

Now, I usually use lime juice myself because I personally feel it compliments the seasonings better. I also often top the fish with shredded cabbage and pica de gallo which is mixing veggies and is considered rogue. I'll post my pica de gallo next.

Fish Taco White Seasoning *PF*

My first recipe post will be a fish taco seasoning that I created and have been using for years now for the white sauce I put on my fish tacos. It is protocol friendly. I make a whole container of this at a time and keep it in my spice cupboard.
Fish Taco Seasoning:
1 part cayenne
4 parts oregano
4 parts cumin
4 parts dry dill
I personally put my mixture through my coffee grinder because I like it a finer powder, but it is not necessary.
Great on baked fish.


P3 Fish Taco White Sauce:
1/8 cup (28g) Full Fat Greek Yogurt
1/8 cup sugar-free mayo
1/2 tsp Fish Taco Seasoning
This is absolutely wonderful on fish, especially when paired with pico de gallo.

Update 5/2014: I've come up with a great P2 alternative for the white sauce that is totally protocol friendly

P2 Fish Taco White Sauce
28 grams of  Cream Base (processed cottage cheese)
1/2 tsp of  lemon juice (or lime if you'd like)
1/2 tsp of Fish Taco Seasoning

I've gone rogue!

I'm on R1P2 of the HCG diet. I've flirted with that forbidden territory known as going off protocol. Many other people who have also gone off protocol, call this Going Rogue. I started out the diet following protocol to a "t", but as with just about any diet, small tweaks are sometimes needed. A lot of things have changed since the 1950's. One specific thing that's changed is chicken. Chickens have been genetically modified since then. Modern commercial chickens (think Foster Farms or Tyson) reach adulthood in half the number of days and have breasts twice as large and fatty as the 1950's. Watch the film Food Inc. It talks more about this. One thing I've done rogue since the beginning of the diet is vitamins and supplements. Our entire food supply and overall diet as a nation has become depleted of vitamins. Even the soil is becoming depleted of nutrients. Dr. Simeons may have been correct for the 1950's in his belief that you could go a whole round of VLCD without becoming deficient in nutrients, but that was based on the nutritional state of the nation at that time. Most fat people today have gotten fat on empty calories...their sodas and chips and chocolates and such. I believe most people (myself included) start this diet already deficient on nutrients. Anyway, all of the above said, I do want to make it clear that the whole point of this blog is to see what works for us individually, and going outside of protocol if neccessary. If you choose to try any of the recipes I share, you are not following Dr. Simeons original protocol, and do so at your own risk. Something that works for one person won't work for all. If you have your own personal recipe to share, please feel free. And if I ever share another person's recipe, I will do my best to credit the creator. Happy Reading!