Healthy Old Broad

Healthy Baked Goods Recipes Made Without Gluten and Sugar

Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup

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While it is the season to party and consume rich fattening food here is a recipe to give you a very healthy food break. Great for a cold winter night meal.

Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup

Ingredients

  • 2 sweet chicken sausage (casing removed)
  • 6 chicken thighs cut into bite size pieces (of course you can use breast if you prefer) Salt & Pepper the chicken pieces.
  • 1 large yellow onion – finely chopped
  • 1 cup chopped carrots
  • 1 medium shallot – finely chopped
  • 1 yellow pepper – finely chopped
  • 7 cloves of garlic – finely chopped
  • 2 leeks – cleaned and finely chopped
  • 2 fennel heads – finely chopped
  • 7 Meyer or regular lemons (I like to use Meyer lemons when in season)
  • 1 top of the fennel fronds
  • 1 large sprig of fresh rosemary
  • several sprigs of fresh thyme (tied together with twine)
  • 2 quarts of low sodium vegetable broth (separated) *
  • 1 12oz DeLAllo gluten free orzo
  • 1 5oz bag Power Greens (baby kale, baby chard, baby spinach)
  • 1/2 bag frozen peas
  • olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  1. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a dutch oven, add chicken sausage meat and brown. Remove sausage to colander to drain. Add another tablespoon olive oil to dutch oven and add chicken pieces, saute to get color on the chicken, then remove and add to colander.
  2. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil to dutch oven, add onion, carrots, pepper, shallots, leeks, salt and pepper and saute for about 5 minutes. Add fennel and cook for 3 to 5 minutes more. Add garlic and cook for another 3 minutes.
  3. Add the juice of the 7 lemons into the dutch oven and then add the peels, the fennel frond, rosemary and thyme and 1 quart of the vegetable broth. Add the chicken and sausage back into the pot, cover and simmer for 1 hour.
  4. Remove the fennel frond, lemon rinds, fresh herb stems.
  5. Add 2 cups of vegetable broth and the orzo, simmer for about 15 minutes (until orzo is tender)
  6. Add the peas and power greens to wilt and the remaining broth from second quart. When greens are wilted your are ready to enjoy. Garnish with the trimmings of the 2nd fennel frond.
  7. *NOTE: you might want to have additional broth on hand as the orzo will drink up more of the broth when the leftover soup is stored in the refrigerator, so when you reheat the leftovers you might want to add additional broth.

Roasted Potato Salad with Herb Dressing

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If Dad is BBQ’ing for Father’s Day, how about making this very tasty potato salad. It’s light and healthy sans mayo so it can sit out at any meal without worry of the salad getting too hot.

Roasted Potato Salad with Herb Dressing

Ingredients (Roasted Potatoes):

  • 2 bags of small fingerling potatoes
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. Mix the ingredients on a baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.

Ingredients (Dressing):

  • 1 cup fresh parsley
  • 1/2 cup fresh cilantro
  • 1/4 to 1/2 cup fresh tarragon
  • 1/4 to 1/2 cup fresh thyme
  • 1/4 fresh dill
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • zest and juice of 1 lemon
  • zest and juice of 1 lime
  • 2 tablespoons capers with juice
  • 2 tablespoon Coarse Dijon Mustard
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Olive Oil – enough to make the mixture a dressing
  • Chives – chopped on top for garnish
  1. Add all the ingredients into the food processor and stream in the olive oil to mix and get the dressing consistency.
  2. ***Note: you can use any fresh herbs that you like or have an abundance of.
  3. While potatoes are still hot combine the dressing with them and you have an easy potato salad. If you don’t end up using all the dressing it can be stored in the freezer for a later use (it would also be good on fish)

Asparagus with Grilled Lemon and Shallots

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If you love asparagus or want to make asparagus a favorite vegetable of others try this easy recipe. It is a great side dish to go with any protein or on top of pasta for vegetarian meal.

Asparagus with Grilled Lemon and Shallots

Ingredients:

  • 1 bunch fresh asparagus (if they are the fatter ones cut in half)
  • 2 lemons – thickly sliced
  • 1 medium shallot
  • 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
  • salt and pepper
  1. Heat a large cast iron skillet on high. Add lemon slices and grill 3 to 5 minutes on each side. Remove from pan and set aside.
  2. Add the olive oil to the pan, add the shallots and lightly salt and pepper. Cook over a medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove pan and set aside.
  3. Add the asparagus to the pan and cook for about 7 to 10 minutes, until they get a nice char.
  4. Place the asparagus on a serving dish, top with the shallots and squeeze the lemon on top. Garnish the plate with the cooked lemon slices.

Lemon-Thyme Chicken with Carrots and Potatoes

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A friend of mine gave me some lemon-thyme from his garden and it is now a new favorite herb of mine.

Lemon-Thyme Chicken with Carrots and Potatoes

Ingredients:

  • 1 sweet onion diced
  • 4 to 5 tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 whole garlic cloves
  • chicken – I used the 2 breast 4 leg package of cut up chicken, but you can use whatever pieces of the chicken you prefer
  • 10 oz cremimi mushrooms sliced
  • 2 medium lemons quartered
  • 20 sprigs fresh lemon-thyme
  • 1 cup Pinot Grigio wine
  • 3 cups Vegetable broth
  • 6 carrots – chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
  • 1 lb 8 oz Dutch baby potatoes – halved
  • salt and pepper
  • 3 to 5 tablespoons drained capers (optional)
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. Heat olive oil with the whole garlic cloves in a dutch oven. When the garlic starts to turn brown remove from pan. Salt and pepper the chicken pieces. Add to heated oil and brown on all side. Remove browned chicken and set aside.
  3. Add the onions to the pot, lightly salt and saute for 3 to 5 minutes. Add the slice mushrooms and continue to saute with the onions for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the carrots and potatoes and saute for another 2 to 3 minutes.
  4. Add the wine to the pot to deglaze.
  5. Add the lemon-thyme, chicken quartered lemons and vegetable broth to the pot. Cover and bake in a 400 oven for 1 hour.
  6. Remove chicken, carrots and potatoes from dutch oven to a platter. Turn heat to high and reduce liquid to 1/2. Using cornstarch make a small slurry in a separate bowl, add to the reduced broth and cook for about 7 to 10 minutes. Strain the gravy.
  7. Put the drained caper into the pot and cook for a couple of minutes. Add as garnish to the chicken platter.

To make the sandwich

  1. Slice the focaccia in half, your choice of a lite white cheese, a lite schmear of horseradish sauce, springs greens or lettuce, tomato slices, sliced horseradish roast beef. And since it your sandwich add what you think will be good on it.

Focaccia Bread

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This is your answer to the question “is there no tasty moist gluten free bread?”  This Focaccia bread is terrific and you can finally eat a bread that you don’t have to toast to make it edible.

This is focaccia bread that is topped with shallots…see note below

Horseradish Crusted Roast Beef

Ingredients for basic focaccia bread

  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 tablespoon Xyla or 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 tablespoon active dry yeast (about 1 1/3 packets)
  • 1 1/2 cup Pamela’s Gluten Free Flour
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • non stick spray
  1. Dissolve Xyla / honey in the warm water, add the yeast and let sit for about 5 minutes. (Note you will not get a big foam since you are not using actual sugar)
  2. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, xanthan gum and salt.
  3. In another separate bowl mix the egg with the olive oil, add to the yeast mixture and mix well.
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine well. It is an easy mix that can be done by hand so no need to dirty the standing mixer.
  5. Spray a 9 by 9 in pan with the non stick spray, spread the dough into the pan, cover with plastic wrap and let sit in a warm spot for about 20 minutes.
  6. While the bread it resting preheat the oven to 400.
  7. Bake for 25 minutes, let bread cool in pan, and you are ready to serve.
  8. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine well. It is an easy mix that can be done by hand so no need to dirty the standing mixer.

Focaccia Bread topped with sautéed shallots

  1. While the bread is in the oven baking, saute thinly sliced shallots in 1 to 2 tablespoons of butter and add to the baking bread for the last 10 minutes of it’s bake (this way the shallots are cooked but not burnt).

Focaccia Bread with fresh herbs

  1. If you have fresh herbs like, thyme, lemon-thyme, rosemary, or basil: just add two tablespoons of the herb to the dry ingredients & sprinkle some on top of the dough before baking and you will have a very herby bread.