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Love Pizza, want to cut on carbs? Try this recipe, its very delicious and looks very fancy! Yasir’s Mumtaaz aunt and Qam uncle from Toronto, were visiting us a couple of months back and she showed me how to make this. Mumtaaz aunty is great at cooking, baking, interior decorating, gardening, I think she can do anything .

You can make this recipe with one vegetable or all listed below. Every veggie will contribute a different taste to this recipe.

Ingredients:
8 Eggs (2 per person- we have big appetities ),
10-12 Mushrooms, sliced
1/2 bell pepper cut into small pieces,
olive cut into rings,(optional)
1 tomato cut into slices,
1 onion, sliced
salt, pepper as per taste
About 2-3 tbsp oil(any kind)
couple of handfuls of grated cheese (mozarella, swiss, or feta/turkish/bulgarian cheese for a different taste)

In a big bowl, crack open the eggs, and beat them till light yellow(the more you beat them, the fluffier the omelette becomes). Add salt to this. Use a big non-stick frying pan (preferable oven safe, if it has a plastic handle, wrap it with aluminium foil)

First fry the mushrooms in a little oil, till the water evaporates. Then remove them and keep aside. Add the beaten eggs to this frying pan and let the base get cooked a bit. Then with a spatula, try to lift the pieces of it like you would to a pizza, this will make the uncooked egg on the top, go to the bottom of the pan. Do this all around the omelette. Keep it on low flame, add the veggies one at a time, the olives, mushrooms, onions, and the peppers sprinkled randomly and finally the tomatoes. Arrange the tomatoes in a circle. Sprinkle grated cheese generously. Then transfer the pan to the broiler (on high for a couple of minutes). Watch, or else, the cheese will burn.

When the eggs raise a bit and the cheese browns, it is done!

While serving, cut like you would cut a pizza. Eat with bread toasts, or croissants, or garlic bread, or just plain for ‘Carb free meal’!

note: if you add turkish cheese/feta cheese, reduce the salt.

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I made this last night for dinner. I was thinking of baking chicken, but then since I had lots of mushrooms, green onions, and bell pepper (they were a little old), so I thought of looking up recipes with these ingredients. I found a couple of recipes, and naturally I didnt have all the ingredients needed for those recipes, so I mixed some of them, added some new ingredients and the result was fantastic!

Ingredients:
For roughly 3 chicken boneless breasts, (cut into bite size pieces)
Marinade:
2 tbsp cornstarch,
2 tbsp Rice vinegar, (the original recipe called for rice wine)
2 tbsp lemon juice,
1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce,
3/4 tbsp of maple syrup, (if you dont have maple syrup, add more honey)
1/2 tbsp of honey,
1 spoon of hot pepper sauce,
1 1/2 tbsp freshly grated ginger,
1/2 tbsp garlic.

3-4 tbsp toasted sesame,
2 tbsp sesame oil, (if you dont have this, its ok)
2 tbsp vegetable/corn oil,

8 oz mushrooms, sliced
1 big bell pepper, diced into big chunks,
4-6 green onions(scallions), chopped in 1/2 inch size pieces

Marinate chicken for atleast an hour (4 hours would be great). To toast the sesame seeds, place them in a toaster oven/ regular oven for a couple of minutes. If you dont have oven, you can dry roast them in a pan, on the stove for a couple of minutes.

In a wok, or a big pan, put the two oils, heat it. Add the chicken pieces to it(there will be some marinade left, keep aside), and fry them on a med-high flame, till brown. Remove the pieces of chicken in a plate. Add the mushrooms first, fry them on a high flame for about 2-3 mins, stirring frequently. Then add the bell peppers and then the green onions. Fry this for another 3-4 mins. Then add the chicken pieces to this, with the reserved marinade. You might need to sprinkle some salt at this point(first taste though). Cover and cook till the marinade thickens up and the chicken pieces are all done!

Sprinkle the toasted sesame seeds while serving and a little black pepper powder.

Eat with steamed rice. (Thats what we ate with last night )

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