Mmmm Chicken

[motorcycleguy]

so im tryin to gain muscle mass of coarse. i pretty much eat grilled skinless boneless chicken everynight along side steamed broccoli and a glass or two of milk. My question is, what are some of the best high protein meals; or some of your favorite meals. what else should i be eating. usually have 2 protein shakes a day and a good breakfast with mainly egg whites,yogurt, and toast. thanks for your time.

 

[largepkg]

Chicken, chicken and more chicken. There are so many possibilities with it. I also love sushi. Wild salmon is great too.

Goto to an online recipe site and you'll find endless options to prepare these. I like foodnetwork but any site will do. Just remember your macros and adjust the recipe accordingly.

 

[leg_press]

so im tryin to gain muscle mass of coarse. i pretty much eat grilled skinless boneless chicken everynight along side steamed broccoli and a glass or two of milk. My question is, what are some of the best high protein meals; or some of your favorite meals. what else should i be eating. usually have 2 protein shakes a day and a good breakfast with mainly egg whites,yogurt, and toast. thanks for your time.

Dude if you wanna gain mass you cant go far wrong with lean ground beef, add some tinned tomatoes, beans, a little chilli powder, clean and easy. serve with brown rice.

 

[Marat]

Most importantly, to gain mass/weight one needs to take in more calories than you need to maintain your current weight.

If your goal has been to gain weight and you have been unsuccessful, than the most likely cause is that you have not been eating enough.

 

[Built]

Trying to gain mass? Why are you skinning the chicken - eat the skin!

 

[danzik17]

Trying to gain mass? Why are you skinning the chicken - eat the skin!

Only if it's crisp, otherwise that's just nasty

 

[Built]

Oh, of course!

 

[Yanick]

This is from a guy named PeyZS on Lyle's forum. I saw the recipe and couldn't resist trying it. It's friggin awesome.

General Tso's lean and mean chicken

(I record my macros as P/F/C just FYI)

1 lb lean chicken breast (100/2/0)

.75 oz rice vinegar (get the unsweetened stuff, just as good) (0/0/0)

1 oz rice wine (0/0/2) (you could count the ethanol, but I like to imagine it all cooks off)

1.5 oz soy sauce (0/0/6) ( I count soy sauce "protein" as carbs given that it can't be a particular complete or useful protein, just empty calories)

chili pods (I usually use 10 or so, adjust to taste) (I don't count these, can't be bothered)

10 gr canola oil (0/~10/0)

1-2 Tblsp scallions (can't be bothered)

3-6 packets of splenda (won't be bothered)

2 cloves of garlic (REALLY won't be bothered)

~6 gr cornstarch (0/0/~5)


Chicken: slice up the chicken as you like. throw into 10 gr canola oil and cook until the chicken starts to sweat. throw in chili pods and keep it going until they get browned

Sauce: Mix the soy, rice wine, corn starch and rice vinegar with the splenda and garlic (I usually just throw it all in the magic bullet as I hate chopping garlic)

Mix: when the chicken and chili pod mixture is ready to go, dump the sauce on top. let it cook till it gets nice and bubbly and you can smell the rice wine. Throw in the scallions.

Done.

I usually slop this on top of ~500 gr rice and throw some broccoli on top

I love this dish PWO as its fast and easy as hell to prepare. Sure most people prefer the batter and extra fat, but as I've said elsewhere, I'd rather blow those calories on more carbs. If you like more oil, use more oil, but its not necessary at all. This set up tastes slamming as it is.

I'd divide this up into serving info, but who am I kidding. This whole thing gets rocked in one sitting in my house lol.

all in all you end up with about:

100/12/13

plus whatever rice/starch you add to the mix.

Now I leave out a few things and change the portions of stuff to suit my own tastes/needs. I leave out the wine, only because I just don't have it around the house and isn't something that you can run to the corner store to buy. You can use whatever veggies you want, I don't always have the chili pods either. I also played around with the proportion of soy sauce, rice vinegar, splenda and I give it a touch of water because I find the taste is a bit too bitter/salty otherwise. If I'm feeling frisky, like yesterday, I'll actually coat the pieces of chicken in the corn starch, I used about 2 tbsn's and had enough to coat 2 servings of chicken (1 for me and 1 for GF).

Oh I also use sesame oil, I'm sure you can use olive or canola. This recipe is fantastic though! The batch I made yesterday, I swear tasted like real fuckin General Tso's Chicken.