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This dish came about when I decided to make something completely different with one lonesome grilled leftover chicken thigh in my refrigerator. I pulled the skin off (and enjoyed that right away, as I was famished 
), chopped up the 3 oz. of smoked chicken and started throwing a few veggies into an oiled skillet. The resulting dish was filling, tasty and super easy. You could use any cooked chicken meat, but the smoke on this piece gave this a Tandoori smoke flavor that really improved it I think. This dish is Atkins Induction friendly. This is an extremely nutritious dinner or lunch, as you can see from the nutritional stats below. I suspect this recipe would be be quite good if you substituted shrimp for the protein.
INGREDIENTS:
1 T. coconut oil
3 oz. skinned chicken meat, chopped (preferably smoked chicken)
6 oz. green cabbage, cut into large shreds
2 oz. onion, sliced thin
½ c. red bell pepper, sliced or chopped
Dash salt
½ jalapeno pepper, seeded and sliced thinly
¼ tsp. garam masala spice (I used my own recipe here on the site)
DIRECTIONS: Skin the chicken and chop. Prepare all the veggies and have them and your spices nearby. Heat a large non-stick skillet (or wok) on MEDIUM-HI and stir-fry the cut-up chicken a couple minutes, until it just begins to brown a bit on the surface. Add the sliced onion and continue to cook. Add the cabbage and saute just until it begins to soften. Lower heat to MEDIUM if cabbage is beginning to brown, as you don’t want to brown it. Add the red pepper, jalapeno and spices. Cook until all veggies are tender crisp or as done as you like them. Stir continuously to avoid scorching of the veggies. Serve at once. I don’t serve anything with this dish. Chow hound that I am, I consider this to serve just 1 person. It filled a large plate. You may find it will serve 2.
NUTRITIONAL INFO: Makes 1 serving which contains:
377 calories
23.3 g fat
19.3 g carbs, 6.7 g fiber, 12.6 NET CARBS
25.4 g protein
542 mg sodium
729 mg potassium
21% RDA Vitamin A, 55% B6, 218% C, 17% copper, 18% magnesium, 24% manganese, 48% niacin, 34% phosphorous, 31% riboflavin, 46% selenium, 22% thiamin and 334% zinc.
This looks amazing. I wish I could could like this.
Welcome, Cee! You CAN this one. It’s super easy! You can even buy Garam Masala already made up if you don’t have the spices to make it up from scratch like I do. This is another Indian Cabbage dish you might like that is great with ground beef or chicken added and is equally easy to make: http://buttoni.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/spicy-indian-cabbage/
I meant I wish i could cook like this.
This dish looks fantastic! I’ll be trying this in the future
I do hope you enjoy it Laney. Oddly, it was both light and filling. And welcome to the site! Hope you’ll find other recipes here you end up trying!
Just wondering why the large carb count? It sounds wonderful! Thank you.
Cabbage is pretty high in carbs. Here’s the Fitday.com breakdown, and the carbs really are that high on this veggie combo, with only 6.7 g fiber to deduct away: http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc278/buttonbutt/Miscellaneous/Capture-1.png You could reduce the red bell pepper and onion to lower the carbs a bit.
I’m also watching calorie intake closely now to get my last 19# off. You know what they say about the last 15-20# being so hard to get off on ANY diet. So I often fix high veggie/low meat meals like this one these days. This type of dish with 2-3 oz. meat I’m doing a lot more frequently than in the beginning on Atkins. You see, I stalled at 170 for 2 solid years!! I simply had to try something to break that stall! Sticking strict LC just wasn’t working anymore for me. Lowering calories (fat and meat) is the approach I’m trying at present, but trying to keep it still as LC as possible within those parameters.