Guest Chef Time!

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Thanks so much to Randi for being willing to step up and spare the MizFits another installment of Did she just say she eats plain hard boiled egg whites for a snack?!

Randi invented this recipe when she was trying to increase her fiber intake (many reasons but mainly in an attempt to reduce her cholesterol).

*MizFit is also upping her fiber—many reasons but mainly because her Doctor-crush, Mehmet, thinks it’s a good idea.

Randi started out by crushing bran cereal, but then was struck by a revelation: what has more bran than bran?

As a result this recipe was born:

Randi’s Fiber-is-your-Friend-and-so-is-Chicken Chicken Strips

Ingredients:

chicken breasts

bran (like the kind you bake with–it’s called Bran)

some crushed Fiber1 cereal

some ground flax seed

(Half a cup of bran has approx. 13 g of fiber. About half of what you need for a whole day.)

Directions :

cut chicken into strips. Skinny or fat, nuggets or stars.

(Some people say that it’s easier to cut when chicken is partially frozen.)

Feel free to dip the chicken in eggs or milk or *something* pre-coating. I never do and it still works pretty well as long as your chicken is nice and slippery before hand.

I usually put the bran and add-ins on a plate and just roll the strips in it to coat (make more of the mixture if you run out/have lots of chicken)

You can also put the chicken in a bag and do the “shake & bake” thing too.
Put on a baking sheet sprayed with non-stick spray or canola oil spritz (the pan not the chicken).
Bake 350 for 30 minutes.

I eat mine with honey mustard dipping sauce I make myself.

Also good with BBQ sauce, ranch dressing, sweet and
sour sauce etc.

Very good to serve with homemade french fries (cut a potato up in strips, drizzle with a bit of oil, salt if you must. bake with chicken) and a salad.

It’s great—feels like a total treat but is completely healthy.

Short version? chicken coated in bran. cook.

There you go, People, it’s the POINT, CLICK, SHIP! (anyone else know that commercial?) of meal-making.

Got questions? thoughts? hit us up in the comments.

And please, give Randi some love while you’re at it for taking the time to share.

One note: when Chef Randi says Fiber1 she doesnt mean the Honey Clusters kind even if it is the only type you have in the house and you dont feel like wrastling the Tornado into her car seat & dragging her ornery ass to the grocery.

just FYI.

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Comments

  1. Hmm…that Randi sounds both intellegent and beautiful. Why I think anything she says must be great advice and if it’s something Randi would eat, well then I’m sure it’s nothing but delicious and nutritious and I ought to be eating it too!
    😉

  2. dear (Fingerquote) Randi (unFQ),

    please to cease & desist impersonating my favorite fantabulous fit fenomenal foodcreator (f)extraordinaire Randi.

    I know she’d never leave a comment without adding in the fact that she has FREAKIN BEAUTIFUL arms, a fantastic way with the written word, & is funnily obsessed with baby clothes.

    M.

  5. The MizFit is a child.
    coated chicken immediately made her envision chicken breasts wearing teeny tiny ll bean jackets.

    (or MizFit is Amelia Bedelia. Anyone?)

    M.

  6. “she doesnt mean the Honey Clusters kind even if it is the only type you have in the house and you dont feel like wrastling the Tornado into her car seat & dragging her ornery ass to the grocery.”
    LOL!!

    Recipe sounds great. I’m already a Randi fan so I will try it next time we make the nuggets. We love us some nuggets round here.

  7. Ah, dinner. No thinking.

    Now how about that “self”-made honey mustard sauce recipe, please.

  8. I love homemade honey mustard. I also love putting chicken in a bag with seasoning and shaking it! I always think of the old-school commercials: “It’s shake N bake, and I hey-ulped!” You can have way too much fun cooking, that’s for sure!

  9. I’ll definitely have to try that recipe–I’m chronically um… blocked.

    Oh, and I loved your comment–I totally DID Dr. Phil myself! Awesome!

  10. Oh – homemade honey mustard. Take mustard, add honey. Seriously that easy. Then you can make it more honey or more mustard, or add hot sauce or can use mustard powder or whatever too. But all you need is honey and mustard.

  11. Well actually you can use mustard seeds that you and your father harvested from his mustard field last year, and crushed and ground them yourself, with your knuckles because that of course offers the most perfect degree of grainy-ness and darkens it a bit due to the blood from your bleeding hands.

    😛

    Actually my dad used to have mustard fields, but I’ve never made my own. You totally could though. And a friend of mine’s father kept bees, but they were leaf cutter bees and made bad honey (not like honey bees). So it’s completely possible to do this totally homemade and organic if you lived on a farm in saskatchewan. (plenty of people raised chickens, and bran is just a part of wheat!) Wouldn’t that be cool (and a heck of a lot of work)?

  12. Im so laughing here.

    First? Gena? I always think of that. Then I think of how few people probably remember that. Then I get depressed and feel old. Then I find people who remember that and feel better (repeat as necessary).

    Jen, love that you overshared. LOVE!

    and Randi? Girlfriend you should have lied to us and spun a yarn all about how you have to harvest the honey from a nest of ornery bees and often get stung in process but how worth it the experience and freshness is yada yada yada but that WE WIMPS can use plain ole honey.

    🙂

    thanks for swinging back by to answer—–

    M.

  14. Amelia B. was and is one of my all time faves. “Draw the Drapes” comes to mind.

    Love. LOVE!

  15. so I am now envisioning raw plucked cleaned chickens, dancing in a line a la rockettes, wearing fleecy vests.

    and laughing!

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