Oct 28 2011

Chicken in Ginger Carrot Sauce

Posted by Zuzana - BodyRock.Tv | In Featured Articles, Food And Diet, Recipes

Hi BodyRockers,

I was originally planning on posting a new recipe every day, but that somehow didn’t work out :) however I have an amazing recipe for you guys today that I did on wednesday. It’s really super easy to make, so don’t feel intimidated and give it a try at home even if it’s your first time cooking.

Ingredients:

5 cups of baby carrots, 1/2 cup of roughly chopped ginger, 2 white onions (yellow onions are ok as well), 1 orange, 1 can of coconut milk, 2 cups of chicken broth, extra virgin olive oil, cumin, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pepper and…

…chicken breasts (I used 5 pieces). Start by cutting the breasts into cubes and season them with salt and pepper.

Heat up about 2 tblsp of olive oil in a pot and add the chicken pieces. Saute until the chicken is golden and throughly cooked. Set aside, cover with a lid.

Chop roughly the 2 onions.

Peel the ginger and chop into small pieces. You should have 1/2 of a cup.

Add the onions and ginger into the pot and saute until the onions start to turn slightly brown.

Add about 1tsp of cinnamon and 1tsp of cumin and mix it well.

Now you will need 2 cups of chicken broth. There are all kinds of chicken broth that you can buy, I use the one that you have to mix with hot water.

Pour the chicken broth into the pot and stir for about a minute.

Take 5 cups of baby carrots…

…and chop them into small pieces.

Add the carrots into the pot and cook until they’re soft.

Once the carrots are cooked, add 1 can of coconut milk, mix it all well, turn off the heat and set aside.

Peel the orange and chop it into smaller pieces. Add it to the pot. Once the mixture in the pot cools down a little, you can use the food processor and make a puree.

Add the chicken into the pot, and seson with salt and pepper according to your own taste.

I added 2 tblsp of sour cream at the end just to give it really smooth flavour. I noticed that some of you guys were dissapointed to see that I use fatty sour cream and cheeses in my recipes, but I do that for 2 reasons:

1) I love it :)

2) If I didn’t eat any fat, I would have no fat to burn during my workouts.

The key is to never binge or over eat. That’s my rules anyways.

I garnished my meal with chopped green onions and a dash of nutmeg.

It looks so beautiful!

I ate my first portion just like this, but I made a basmati rice as a side dish for the dinner.

Enjoy!

Zuzka.



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  • Gerrilee Schafer

    Sounds great!!!!  I love cooking one pot meals….saves on clean up hahaha  Have a great weekend everybody.

  • tee

    I think its kind of funny that you are giving recipes of what you are eating and people are trying to change them to be less fattening!  yet they kept asking you what you eat to get so lean!  ha! ha! ha!

    so far, all these recipes are looking good to me!  thanks zuzana!

    we care so much about you, are you feeling up to a coffee talk yet?  just to reassure everyone that you’re OK?  or maybe just a quick video after you’ve made the recipe.  love ya!  have a great day!

    • Anonymous

      Hi Tee,

      I agree a coffee talk would be real nice even if it’s with her iPhone and could she update us on Erin as I’m worried about her as well.

      –Chris

    • Anonymous

      Yeah I would love to do a coffee talk. I am just trying to figure out how to make videos in a a different way then using my iphone. Freddy knows everything about video, but I have no clue so it will take some time to figure things out.

      • http://www.facebook.com/Sofia.B.LopezBilbao Sofia

        A cheap tripod and cheap video camera would do. We just want to hear how you’re doing and hear your beautiful accent again :) 

      • Anonymous

        Hi Zuzka,

        Get a girlfriend or a student at a college who knows these things to help by being the camera woman.  You can feed them in exchange for the favor.  We need to see you!  Not food!  Okay, that’s not totally true as it’s nice to drool over your pictures.  No nasty remakes please! :-) I only have pure and wholesome thoughts! O 8-)

        We miss you,
        –Chris

        • Anonymous

          Yea Zuzana! That would be great. You could geta local student . They need the experience and you can give them the oppertunity. Great dishidea. Ican’t wait to try it!

        • Carrie

          Great ideas here already. If you have a compact camera, it might have a video function on it – it probably won’t be quite the same quality as a proper video camera but we won’t mind at all :0)

      • Hazel

        You know Zu, if you ask any Bodyrocker in LA who has knowledge on how to work a camera, you’d get a video up soon. We miss seeing you on here and just want to know how you’re doing. I dont think you’d need to pay the person…just hanging out with you would be fun! I’d help if I lived anywhere nearby at least. Have a great day Zuzana!

      • Anonymous

        Like everyone else suggested, get yourself a digital camera with a video record feature on it, if you don’t already have one, and a cheap tripod to hold it up. Perfect solution.

      • ۞ BodyRocker ♥ Beth ۞

        HaHa nice :D Im sure you’ll get it soon ! ;)

        <3 BR Beth

  • Anonymous

    I’m making this tonight! I also think it’s funny when people tell you you should cook differently. You obviously know what you are doing.

    I like to cook large batches & freeze portioned meals, but not all things do well with that. Zuzana, have you ever frozen the extra servings of this meal?

  • Anonymous

    Hi Zuzka,

    I just ate and your pictures are making me hungry again! :-)  I absolutely love Chicken in Ginger Carrot Sauce!  But, I still haven’t had time to make the Meat Balls dish! :-)

    Gees, I hope you are keeping to a healthy portioning and not eating all this food yourself.

    Maybe you need to open Bodyrock.Cafe!

    You rock little girl!
    –Chris

    • Anonymous

      haha Bodyrock Cafe – great idea! :)))

      • Anonymous

        Hi barbaragl, 

        And I’m serious!  I would work for her for nearly free. :-)  The furniture could be giant Ugi Balls for chairs and the tables be Dip Stations with a top. 

        –Chris

        • http://www.facebook.com/kendra.oberhauser Kendra Lee Oberhauser

          Ha!  I love this!  I give it a “LLOL” for LITERALLY laughing out loud, as I am right now. :)

  • Kirry_kaatje

    I make this allot, it’s one of my favorite recipes. I really like this curry type of dish with greek yoghurt… mmmmm!!!

  • Christine Bastien

    Soo true! I sometimes binge and overeat. I hate it. It’s a problem that I can’t seem to resolve. It always happens when I smoke pot, wich is about 2-3 times per week. Then the next day I do a lot of exercise and eat little. I know it’s not right, it’s a problem. I have to work on being able to say no to pot. Oh dear.

    • Anonymous

      I hear ya, chick. A shmoke and a pancake sounds lovely.
      I went through the exact same thing!
      No need to say no to pot, just limit your pantry.

  • Anonymous

    Mhhhh looks delicious! Today i had your Ginger Carrot Chicken Soup, its my favorite i have cooked it so many times. Tomorrow i’m gone try your Garbanzo Cookies.
    Have a nice weekend all.

  • http://delightfultastebuds.com Jos

    Agree! We need healthy fat in our diet. Fat free/low fat aren’t necessarily good for you. Besides our body could burn fat as energy.

  • http://www.dheana.com Dheana

    Your pictures are so beautiful Zuzko – but I miss seeing YOU! :) Surely you can find a friend to work the camera…?
    This recipe looks AH-mazingly delicious – I’ll definately try it. I’m also with you about fat. It’s NOT the dietary demon so many people think it is!
    Keep on keeping on lovely and know we love you. :)

    • Anonymous

      Hi Dheana,

      I would volunteer to do it if she would let me!  Run the camera that is…

      Healthy fat is not a problem as we need it.  I was finding it hard to keep weight off the last few months and was slowly gaining weight.  So I tried several things including reducing my food intake and then went thru the brother to see how many calories I was eating…it was about 1100 calories a day at the point!  Not good!!!  I almost double my intake and added more fats.  I’m back at losing weight slowly…  The body is an amazing thing and it uses fats and they do taste good!  Somebody smart said that once… :-)

      –Chris

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maria-Davleeva/100001702041662 Мария Давлеева

        Chris, please share how you counted your calories intake. maybe a link.. thank you!

        • Anonymous

          Hi Мария Давлеева,

          What I did was read the packaging and figure out my portion eaten on those things that had that sort of information and went to caloric counter on google and looked up on various charts or calculators to figure about how many calories things like a carrot or a apple is.  Not easy as the size matters and most don’t go with weight, but something less quantitative like “a small apple”.  I wouldn’t normally do this as it takes about as much time to figure how many calories you’re eating as making the food and eating it does. 

          I like how Zuzka does it.  :-)

          But, maybe someone who does count all the time can tell us of any short cuts or rules of thumb that would help.

          –Chris

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maria-Davleeva/100001702041662 Мария Давлеева

            Hi, Chris!
            thanks for the answer. I know approximately how many calories are in some products but think that cooked meal contains different calories than the raw products do. but I’ll try to calculate my best)))

    • GoustiFruit

      But I *like* her photography ! How could she take the pictures and be in front of the cam ?

      About fat: any opinion on Coconut Oil ???

      • http://www.dheana.com Dheana

        Oh – me too, i *love* her photography. But maybe a friend (Chris..?) could get behind a video camera for some of these recipes too. That’d be the best of BOTH worlds! :)
        Coconut oil = LOVE it! So healthy, so yummy. It’s a gift from the heavens. While the fact that it’s a saturated fat scares some people. it’s a medium chain triglyceride, which the body uses much differently that the long-chain fats in other oils. There are lots of interesting articles on line, inlcuding this one: http://www.organicfacts.net/organic-oils/organic-coconut-oil/health-benefits-of-coconut-oil.html
        I also love the way it tastes and always lick the spoon when I cook with it! :P Go coconuts! :)

        • Anonymous

          Hi Dheana,

          I don’t think Zuzka would want my help and I live in Seattle.  But, she should know she is always welcome and could come here and I would gladly help if I can.

          –Chris

      • Anonymous

        Hi GoustiFruit,

        The new images for the old exercises are self portraits.  It takes a timer of some sort (usually the one in the camera) and a tripod.  I think what Zuzka is hesitant about doing is the editing not the shooting.  But, it would be nice to have a camera person as the images can be more dynamic.

        –Chris

  • mag

    it looks amazing! I missed you yesterday! but thanks for share this recipe today!!

  • Anonymous

    Hmmmm….another yummy looking dish!  And….I believe that I have all these ingredients on hand…..I’ll definitely have to try this one! 
    I made the garlic meatball dish…..and it was very delicious….very garlicky…..almost to the point of rather spicy.  It was really good though!  I put the parmesan cheese in the sauce….however, I just put the sour cream on my portion (the rest of my family is not a big fan of sour cream in the sauce)…..then  when I served mine up too….I put the sauce on a nice ‘bed’ of spinach…..yum!
    Another thing I wanted to add….I’ve been doing ONLY BodyRock.tv workouts exclusively since February….just about every day….other than the occasional day off….anyways, I just wanted to say a BIG HUGE THANK YOU to Zuz and Freddy…..as tonight I decided to go for a run (which I haven’t been able to do for awhile…..for different reasons)…..anyways, I’m not sure how long a distance I went….but I ran at a quite steady pace without feeling like I was dragging my feet (and no stumbles)…..for about 20-25 minutes.  And, honestly….I wasn’t winded at all and I had enough energy that I could have gone around again (figured I’d best not since it was getting on to 10pm)….unbelievable!!!!!  I LOVE BODYROCKING……even though the workouts kick my butt…..they really prepare you for everyday functional movements/activities!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    this is an old reciepe with a few different steps, I tried the old reciepe more than once and I like it allot.

  • http://www.makavelina.webnode.cz Nina_CZ

    Yay, finally something I can cook too :) (without a sour cream of course). I loved your old recipe for Ginger Carrot Soup, I made that one several times. I love ginger in every form :) Will try this for sure next week!

  • GoustiFruit

    I can almost smell it :-)

    Could you please precise the number of portions this is supposed to be ?

    • Vivi

      I don’t know but to see the 5 piece of chicken, I would think to at least 4-5 portions ??

  • J J Fitzgerald

     Like this if you want to see Zuzana start her own cooking show!

    • Anonymous

      Hi JJ Fitzgerald,

      I think she has already started it here.

      –Chris

    • ۞ BodyRocker ♥ Beth ۞

      LOL !!! course we do :D

  • AmBoaksy

    OMG OMG OMG OMG I soooo want to make this!!!  I love ginger and carrot and curry like dishes.  This is awesome!  Thank you so much Zuz!

  • JohannaMamou

    This sounds absolutely delicous, definetely going to be making it this week =) Yummy, i’m hungry now. Thanks Zuzka for your great recipes!

  • Mmghia

    This is a delicious reciepe, one of my favorites.  Glad your back in th game Z but I miss your Face!!!!

  • kat

    looks amazing =) gonna give this one a try for sure!

    Thanks Zuzka
    PS we miss you xoxo

    • Busy Mom

      from spain????(xoxo)????ehehehhehe

      • kat

        no not from Spain (Texas =)

  • Vivi

    This recipe seems really good !! I never eat or cook with ginger. But this recipe tempted me so much !!
    No carrot, no coconut milk at home so for the next week I will try this one !!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mily-Miguel/592457099 Mily Miguel

    I so want to give this a try full as it is, the problem: my boyfriend :( 
    He hates cream, milk, chocolate milk, yoghurt, grrrrrr.
    Im sure he will be ok with the coconut milk, the other day he tried it and he seemed ok.
     I know!    at the end when my bowl is served I will add the sourcream, buahahaha.
    Thanks!!!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alana-Stacy/698175600 Alana Stacy

      Mily! I have the same problem with my boyfriend, but I can get him to try stuff.. All you need to do is make it while he’s not around, get him to try it and don’t tell him whats in it unless he asks! :D

      • Anonymous

        I second that!

      • Anonymous

        I second that!

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mily-Miguel/592457099 Mily Miguel

        hahaha thank you, the problem is that as soon he sees something “thick” he ask “Did you put milk? Did you put cream?” but I will say no :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alana-Stacy/698175600 Alana Stacy

    Mmmmm! Zuzka, your recipes looks so fantastic! I definitely need to try this! And all of them! I seriously love you! hahaha

  • mystrina

    Hi Zuka,
    you shared this recipe a while back but it is so awesome I’m so glad you shared it again because it is so wonderful. I have started to use it when I feel pressed to impress the guests. (I happen to live in a tourist town and there lots of chefs it is very intimidating at times) but I had to share that it is the most happy food a person can create  :)

  • BodyRocker_Bonnie

    Zuzka, this is right up my alley – - these are some of my favorite ingredients.  I can’t wait to try it.  Thank you!! 

    P.S. - if anyone is a ginger lover like me, try a homemade lemon-ginger tea.  Dice up or shred a small heap of fresh ginger (1 tbsp +), juice 1/2 lemon and add in a cup with honey to taste after pouring in boiling water.  Keep a spoon handy to eat all that wonderful ginger as you drink up. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/kendra.oberhauser Kendra Lee Oberhauser

    I think I’m going to make this for dinner tonight!  Off for a walk, then back for a bodyrock and dinner. :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJJI6SPNRUINPFKBU6S6TX6LJI Pav

    Mnam. Zuzko co takle udelat nejaky cesky recept, ale zdravejsi zpusob? Pamatuju jak jsi kdysi delala ty bramborove placky :). Cauko

  • http://www.facebook.com/kendra.oberhauser Kendra Lee Oberhauser

    I just made this and it’s DELICIOUS!  However–I used about 2 lbs of chicken and I only needed half the amount of sauce, so plan accordingly! This makes A LOT, but I’m looking forward to eating the sauce tomorrow with more chicken, or even as a soup.

  • debrockerottawa

    this looks awesome and something that my picky kids would eat  – thx!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maria-Lanier/100000216811315 Maria Lanier

    Oh, I made this recipe several times already. I love it… Yes, I agree, we need fats but have to eat it moderately. Thanks, Zuzka… :)

  • http://delightfultastebuds.com Jos

    Here’s my adaptation :) http://delightfultastebuds.com/2011/10/30/chicken-with-pumpkin-ginger-gravy/

  • DeoneBe

    This is so on the menu for dinner during the week~!  Thanks for sharing and caring.  Hugs 8^])

  • Jenn

    This looks really good!  As soon as the massive quantity of marrow bone biriyani I have gets finished, I’ll make this.  I have a lot of carrots that need to be used soon (I bought them for their tops- carrot leaves are yummy in smoothies).

  • Anonymous

    Aussie Aussie Aussie is back :))
    greetings – missed your funny comments for a while…

  • Anonymous

    Your finished meal always looks so pretty! I wish my food came out looking that pretty

  • http://daintydarlings.wordpress.com/ Sam

    I did it but I didn’t use enough carrots so it wasn’t as thick as it was supposed to be :(. It was still tasty and I’m taking it to work as a ginger carrot chicken soup/stew!

  • Mmghia

    Best way to peel ginger???  Use a SPOON!! works like a charm, learned it off of a cooking show.

  • Bodyrocker_Audra

    Yum!  I didn’t have carrots so I used a can of pumpkin and it worked great!  So tasty Zuzka!

    • Mmghia

      would never have thought of that subsitution in a million years, good job! I’ll try it next time

      • Bodyrocker_Audra

        Thanks!  I got the idea from Jos only I didn’t have a fresh pumpkin and a pressure cooker.  Also, I bought 2 bags of baby carrots from the grocery store and when I got home they were no where to be found lol.  I hate when that happens haha!  I already had the chicken cooked and onion and ginger when I was like, “Ok, soooo where are my carrots ?”  I panicked and then I saw the can of raw organic pumpkin in my cupboard. Aha moment.  It also made the cooking time quicker since I didn’t have to boil the carrrots til soft.  Let us know how you liked it.  Thanks for the idea Jos!  You’re a savior!

        • Anonymous

          Hi Audra, 

          Jos is a pretty good cook herself and squash is a really good veggie that lots of recipes could use.  I also liked your use of the Pumpkin as a substitution.  Did you ever find the carrots?

          –Chris

          • Bodyrocker_Audra

            Nope, twas a mystery and I remember bagging them myself so I must have left them with the cashier haha. Oh well. I knew it would work as soon as I found the pumpkin tho.

          • Anonymous

            Hi Audra, 

            Funny how that happens!  I wonder what they do with the stuff we leave behind?

            –Chris

  • Oscar

    Looks delicious!

  • Vic

    You would like this recipe I bet. I like some of the substitutions I read above. I did everything almost to the book except I used LIGHT coconut milk… it still has fat just not as much. I almost forgot to add it entirely. It still tasted good though.

    I haven’t tried the meatballs yet! Next I’m going to make the “cookies”.

  • Tanya

    This dish was awesome!  My West Indian hubby raved over it and requested that I make it again!

  • Carrie

    Just made this – full amount of ingredients, except the chicken (used two chicken breasts, for me and the boyf) and there’s tonnes of sauce, so I’m going to freeze it for lunches as a soup… oh, and it is really tasty! Thank you for helping me eat so well this week – I’ve had your meatballs and spicy peanut shrimps this week and it’s all been a delight! Since I have a big bag of shrimps in the freezer, it’ll be gazpacho next. Please keep up these fab recipes!

  • Bungle_is_evil

    I love that you include cheese and sour cream in your recipes, it just proves that you don’t have to survive on just rabbit food to look like you do. Plus I couldn’t give up cheese it’s too yummy xxx 

  • Anonymous

    just finished cooking using this recipe!  It turned out delicious! Thanks! 

  • Jenn

    I made this tonight- yum! It was really good (even though I didn’t have any sour cream, and I only had beef broth to use in the recipe).

  • Jenn

    I made this tonight- yum! It was really good (even though I didn’t have any sour cream, and I only had beef broth to use in the recipe).

  • Anonymous

    Hi elizabeth williams, 

    Unless you’re allergic to onions and garlic try them.  Just like many foods they are good for you and taste good in the recipes, but are sometimes an acquired taste.  Trust us and try them! :-)  Leeks are related to garlic and onion and are in the family Amaryllidaceae.  They are a bit like giant green onions.  They taste very good in all the recipes Zuzka has offered up that I’ve made.  She is one good cook!

    –Chris

  • Anonymous

    Hi Zuzka,

    I made this!  Next time I think I will cut the recipe in half as my pans were almost over whelmed the volume of sauce!  It tastes pretty good and I will make this gain, but not soon as I have at least a weeks worth now! :-)  BTW, it should read season to taste not seson…

    –Chris

  • ۞ BodyRocker ♥ Beth ۞

    Hi guys !

    Am I the only one who had a bad experience w/ coco milk? I donna know if to buy it again ot not… it’s kinda smelly/too fatty for me LOL
    it’s also very exp in our area !
    Any suggestions anyone?

    Ok thanks & have a great day !!!

    BTW this recipe looks SO GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    <3 BR Beth

    • Anonymous

      I used light coconut milk.

  • Anonymous

    This was DELICIOUS!!  I will make this again.  I was out of oranges, so I used 1 lemon (juiced) & ~ 1 tsp of brown sugar instead of an orange.  When my husband saw this unknown orange stuff ontop of rice, I could tell he was apprehensive.  He ate all of it, & said he’s like if I made it again.  :)  I only made 1/2 of this recipie, & I wish I had made the full batch.  Thanks Zuzana!

  • kms77

    OMG.. I am going to cook this TONIGHT! It looks divine! :)

  • bodyrocker Peta

    I made this today for dinner….AWESOME!! thanks a lot lovely lady…keep the recipes coming

  • Margarita

    I tried this today and it was absolutely delicious! Love to see more recipes on the site :)

  • http://kenjibankhead.posterous.com/ ashtromanius

    I have a bs/ms in holistic nutrition and that’s basically what I tell my clients. It works for some ppl but others need a hand to hold!

  • moe

    i’ll buy u cup of coffe

  • Adria

    I made this and the ginger was a tad bit strong, arso strong we had a hard time getting it down and had to throw most of it in the garbage rats! I’ll use about half next time around, or maybe just two tablespoons only, otherwise, it was delicious as always!

  • Debbie Ley

    Im going to try that sauce over cauliflower…. looks so nice