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Grilled chicken with yogurt sauce: light and refined flavor – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

The grilled chicken with yogurt sauce it’s a light second course, widespread in many global cultures since time immemorial. This quick and easy recipe it is renowned for its combination of delicate and refined flavours. The secret that enhances its tastes lies in the marination of chicken meat. It includes a mixture of chopped aromatic herbs, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper. Making a good emulsion allows you to add depth of flavor to the chicken, while also making it more tender and succulent. Subsequently, grilling allows you to cook the meat evenly, obtaining a light browning on the surface.

There Yogurt Based Sauce, with its creamy texture and fresh, acidic flavour, pairs harmoniously with grilled chicken, offering a pleasant contrast and adding a touch of freshness to the overall dish. Bring this grilled chicken with yogurt sauce to the table, making lunches or dinners more delicious in the warmer months, when light and nutritious meals are particularly appreciated.

Grilled Chicken with Black Bean Mango Salsa

Grilled chicken breast, seasoned with cumin and spices and topped with a fresh salsa made with sweet mango, protein-rich black beans and lots of lime and cilantro for flavor.

Let’s face it, grilled chicken can be pretty boring, but not if you serve it with this zesty salsa. You may want to even make this salsa on it’s own, it makes a fantastic dip if you serve it with chips – seriously good! Sometimes, I even throw in some diced avocado – yum!

This is perfect to make for a weeknight dinner, it’s quick and light, high in fiber, protein, and gluten-free.

Grilled Chicken with Black Bean Mango Salsa
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Servings: 4 • Size: 3 oz chicken, 2/3 cup salsa • Old Pts: 5 • WW Points+: 6 pt
Calories: 261 • Fat: 6 g • Carb: 24 g • Fiber: 5 g • Protein: 30.5 g • Sugar: 8 g
Sodium: 71 mg (without salt) • Cholest: 0 mg

Ingredients:

16 oz (2) boneless skinless chicken breasts, trimmed, sliced in half lengthwise
salt and fresh cracked pepper, to taste
3 cloves minced garlic
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
juice of 1 lime

For the Black Bean Mango Salsa (makes about 2 1/2 cups):

1/4 cup red onion, chopped
3 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt, to taste
1 cup black beans, rinsed and drained
1 ripe mango, peeled and diced
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, minced
1 jalapeño, chopped (keep seeds if you want it spicy)

Directions:

Season chicken with salt and pepper and place in a large non-reactive bowl with remaining ingredients, toss well to coat and refrigerate at least 1 hour.

In a medium bowl, combine the red onion, lime juice, olive oil and season with salt, to taste. Mix well then combine with the remaining ingredients; refrigerate until ready to serve.

Heat the grill or a grill pan to medium high, discard the chicken marinade and grill the chicken breasts about 3 minutes on each side, or until the center is cooked through. Transfer to a cutting board and slice the chicken on the bias. Serve the sliced chicken topped with mango black bean salsa.

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Homemade Sazon Seasoning Mix

Making your own Sazon spice blend is EASY to do – and the best part, no MSG!

Sazon is like the magic spice blend in many of my Latin dishes. It’s commonly found in the supermarket in small envelopes that you add to stews, beans, rice, etc. It gives yellow rice that yellow color and basically makes anything taste good! Goya is the most popular brand, but I stopped buying it years ago when I realized it had MSG, and started using Badia Sazon, but it’s not easy to find so now I make my own which I keep stored in a small spice jar, so instead of using a packet of sazon, I use one and a half teaspoons of this in it’s place.

The key ingredient in this spice mix is ground annatto (achiote)^[1], the spice that gives yellow rice that yellow color. Annatto is derived from the seeds of achiote tree. In India it’s referred to as sindoor, and in the Philippines, it is called atsuete. I can find it in hispanic markets, but you can also find it on Amazon^[2]. If you can’t find this, turmeric would be a good substitute.

What do I make with Sazon? I always season my wings with it, I use it on my grilled chicken wings, in Mom’s Chicken and Rice^[3], Sofrito Chicken Stew^[4], Chicken and Lentil Soup^[5], Arroz con Gandules^[6], and many more dishes! Tomorrow I will share one of my daughter’s favorite dishes with this spice.

Homemade Sazon Seasoning Mix
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Servings: 12 • Size: 1 1/2 teaspoons • Old Points: 0 pts • Points+: 0 pts
Calories: 7 • Fat: 0 g • Protein: 0 g • Carb: 1 g • Fiber: 1 g • Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 281 mg

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon ground coriander
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon ground annatto^[7] seeds (achiote) or turmeric
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon kosher salt
2 teaspoons oregano
1 tsp ground black pepper

Directions:

Combine all ingredients and mix well. Store in an airtight container. 1 1/2 teaspoons of this mix equals one packet of commercial sazon.

References

^{^} ground annatto (achiote) (www.amazon.com)
^{^} Amazon (www.amazon.com)
^{^} Mom’s Chicken and Rice (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} Sofrito Chicken Stew (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} Chicken and Lentil Soup (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} Arroz con Gandules (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} ground annatto (www.amazon.com)