Healthified Chicken with Creamy Cucumber Sauce
Healthified Chicken with Creamy Cucumber Sauce
Provided by: live better america
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90% less fat • 51% less sodium than the original recipe see the comparison. Love savory sauces, but hate the fat? Now you can enjoy thick, creamy sauce without worrying about the consequences.
Ingredients
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (1 to 1 1/4 pounds total)
- 1 cup chopped, seeded cucumber
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- Fresh mint leaves (optional)
- 3/4 cup fat free plain yogurt
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced green onions
- 2 teaspoons snipped fresh mint or 1/2 teaspoon dried mint, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
- In a medium bowl combine yogurt, green onions, snipped or dried mint, cumin, salt, and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Transfer half of the yogurt mixture to a small bowl; set aside. For cucumber-yogurt sauce, stir cucumber into remaining yogurt mixture.
- Sprinkle chicken breasts with 1/8 teaspoon pepper.
- Place chicken on the unheated rack of a broiler pan. Broil 4 to 5 inches from the heat for 6 minutes. Turn chicken. Broil for 6 to 9 minutes more or until chicken is tender and no longer pink, brushing chicken with reserved yogurt mixture during the last half of broiling.
- Serve chicken with the cucumber-yogurt sauce. If desired, garnish with fresh mint.
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