a "clean" italian meal for the fatkid

Goals for the week:

Early morning cardio (at least) three times this week. 

--> This morning I did Jamie Eason's Plyo Routine from BodyBuilding.com. Find it here.
Try two new recipes.
No drinking on the weekend.

I got one new recipe under my belt tonight :)

Since the Fatkid is Italian and I know he always wants something with pasta, sauce and cheese...I tried to compromise. He specifically told me he wanted eggplant parm, but we all know how I feel about getting my protein so.. I tricked him!

I made our very own clean eating version of Chicken/Eggplant "Parm". This makes four servings so lunch tomorrow is made.

Ingredients:

1 LARGE boneless/skinless chicken breast (I mean like a lb)

1 LARGE eggplant

4 egg whites

his: italian bread crumbs

mine: almond meal

his: provolone cheese - 2 slices

mine: laughing cow light - 2 wedges

sauce:

1 15oz can tomato sauce

2 tbsp olive oil

1 medium onion finely diced

1 medium roma tomato finely diced

2 cloves garlic minced

1.5 tbsp basil

pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Mixed all sauce ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a boil, then lower to a simmer and let cook while prepping the chicken.

2. Whisk together egg whites.

3. Flatten chicken with a meat tenderizer (or a screwdriver - I had to improvise) and cut into 4 pieces.

4. Slice 4 1/4in slices lengthwise off the eggplant, cut those four in half. You will have 8 pieces total.

5. Heat a large non-stick skillet and spray with olive oil spray 

6. his: dredge eggplant and chicken in eggs white and dip into bread crumbs, brown in skillet on both sides.

mine: dredge eggplant and chicken in egg whites and brown without any crumbs

7. Pour 1/3 the tomato sauce into a baking pan 

8. his: layer one piece of eggplant, 1/2 slice of provolone, eggplant, chicken, 1/2 slice provolone

mine: eggplant, 1/2 laughing cow light, sprinkle 1 tsp almond meal, eggplant, chicken, 1/2 laughing cow. 

9. Pour remainder of sauce over top.

10. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes.

Soooo good! The fatkid started eating his before I could even take a pic. Then asks me how fattening it was and at the last bite asks "Is there chicken in this?" - ha! I love it that he was too busy loving the sauce and eggplant to remember he is sick of chicken (insert biiiig grin). So excited I made a healthy version of one of his absolute favorite Italian meals. As for mine, the almond meal gave enough of a crunch that I didn't need breading and the laughing cow was so creamy I definitely felt like I was eating something I shouldn't. 

Unfortunately because ours were made differently I didn't figure the nutritional info out on this one, as long as you pay attention to your portions and ingredients this won't be "bad" for you.

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