Tasty and Low Calorie Barbecue Chicken

Have you been counting every calorie that gets into your mouth lately? Do you want to stay away from all those calorie packed foods and enjoy a healthy, but at the same time, tasty dish? Most of the time staying on a low calorie diet can be stressful as you won’t be able to enjoy your favourite dishes without cheating your diet or forcing you to take a break from it. No pizzas, no pasta, no processed food, not even white bread… oops… but here is happy news for all the dieters, you can enjoy a Super Tasty Barbecue Chicken and not cheat on your Diet plan.

Chicken is one food that is a dieter’s treat. It comes with the maximum amount of protein that can help you to feel full faster and reduce the carving for carbs.

Here is one Low Calorie Barbecue Chicken recipe that you can try at home, feeling good inside out because you are making your taste buds, stomach and the diet plan happy all in one.

Barbecue Chicken: the Low Calorie Version

Before you are going to start shopping for the chicken, remember Chicken breast, that is it. Nothing other than a chicken breast piece can help you to prepare the Barbecue chicken with the lowest calorie in it, so go for nothing less. Now start probing for all the magic ingredients for the dish in your kitchen.

Here is your list

• Chicken Brest piece 2
• garlic paste half a teaspoon
• honey 1 teaspoon
• pepper 1/4 teaspoon
• paprika 1/4 teaspoon
• Low calorie barbecue sauce 2 tablespoon
• tomato puree 1 tablespoon
• salt to taste
• olive oil to baste

And let’s start cooking.

You can start prepare the marinade for the low calorie chicken barbecue by mixing up everything except your chicken and olive oil in a bowl. after preparing the marinade, drop in the chicken breast in the mixture and coat each chicken breast with generous amount of the barbecue mix. Cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and refrigerate your chicken overnight or for a minimum of 3 hours so that the flavour gets locked into the chicken breast. Take out the chicken from the refrigerator and cook over the barbecue, turning sides and basting with olive oil till the chicken gets tender and juicy. Your chicken gets cooked within 15 to 20 minutes.

Let’s serve the treat.

Mashed potato may be the best companion for barbecue chicken but what goes with it also decides how healthy your barbecue chicken is. So swap the mashed potato with freshly cut vegetable salad to enjoy a less than 260 calorie barbecue chicken.

Yes it is tasty, low calorie and easy at the same time.