/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16431752]

Beginner cooker here, rate my meal and suggest improvements.
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1 pack of shirataki noodles
- baby carrots
Is this healthy enough for lunch?

[Anonymous No.16431784]

>>16431752
For me it's the mcchicken.

[Anonymous No.16431794]

>>16431752
Not bad but 2 breasts is too much, eat more carrots and roast them alongside the chicken instead of just eating them like that

[Anonymous No.16431797]

incorporate the veggies into the meal itself instead of as an afterthought, makes it easier to include a lot of fiber without realizing it.
8 baby carrots isn't doing much alongside 2 entire chicken breasts

[Anonymous No.16431802]

dont listen to the faggots in here. add a third breast and ditch the noodles and carrots

[Anonymous No.16431810]

>>16431797
Shirataki noodles are basically fiber and water.

[Anonymous No.16431814]

>>16431802
kek

[Anonymous No.16431818]

>>16431752
this could have been a million times better if you made a stir fry.

[Anonymous No.16431826]

looks like a clydesdale/10

[Anonymous No.16431856]

drop baby carrots
chop onions, carrots and garlic
sautee them
sautee the noodles in there afterwards

it would be better that way.

[Anonymous No.16431890]

>>16431752
If you put chopped green on it like chopped green onion, it will look 60% more appetizing. You can grow chives or green onion on your windowsill and snip how much you need fresh each meal

[Anonymous No.16432454]

OP, just because they're sold in those packs at the store doesn't mean you have to use them all in a single meal.

>next up: dinner of 4 chicken thighs

[Anonymous No.16433168]

>>16431752
looks pretty nice for a beginner.
>Is this healthy enough for lunch?
yes, but add more carrots,like did you just boil 7 baby carrots to add them to your meal lol? and are you an keto or some shit? (assuming because water noodles)

[Anonymous No.16434221]

>>16431752
Chop and sear the fucking carrots retard

[Anonymous No.16434237]

>>16432454
2 chicken breasts pan-fried(?) is a small amount of food for an adult man

[Anonymous No.16434244]

>>16434237
Moviebob?

[Anonymous No.16434270]

>>16431752
I'd say it's a 3/10 based on the following criterias : healthiness, presentation, taste and cost-efficiency.

> healthiness
There is too much meat (only one chicken breasts would have been highly sufficient), too much carbs and not enough veggies. Also everything looks greasy af.

> presentation
There is some kind of structure but the plate is too small for the amount of food in it. The noodles look kinda messy, they usually look better in bowls or put together in a round plate. You could have at least aligned the carrots together to make them look a bit presentable. Given the amount of meat it would be kinda difficult to integrate them well in such a small plate, but I think it would have been better if you had put them on top of the noodles, while spreading the noodles so that they take up half of the plate with even height. That way it's less messy and you get the bonus juices that mix with the noodles.

> taste
The meat looks nicely toasted, perhaps a bit burnt but at an acceptable level. The carrots look really sad, but what's really lacking though imo is some kind of sauce to put everything together. Right now the only things added to the raw ingredients seem to be oil and pepper, which is pretty weak for asian style cuisine.

> cost-efficiency
Two chicken breast were one would have been sufficient is pretty wasteful, even on a protein standpoint. The baby carrots add nothing to the meal and are usually more expensive than real carrots, so there's money to be saved here as well. Same for the noodle, cheap rice or standard noodles would have given the same result for way cheaper.

There is at least a good base though, everything seems pretty well cooked and the different elements go together well enough, but there is a lot to be desired on every aspect that makes a good meal, in my opinion. Also the plate in which you put the food is very important, even though it can tend to be ignored at first. Keep practicing.

[Anonymous No.16434285]

>>16434270
Correction : after correction shirataki noodles seem to be mostly water so there isn't too much carb I guess. I've never had them so I'm curious on how it can replace a portion of pasta or rice though

[Anonymous No.16434320]

>>16434221
>Chop and sear the fucking carrots retard
>cope and seethe fucking carrot retard

[Anonymous No.16434582]

>>16431802
also ditch the knife and fork and add 2 more breasts

[Anonymous No.16434672]

OH GOD IM BEGOOOOOOONING

[Anonymous No.16434686]

>>16431752
chicken breast looks inedible
try fattier cuts of meat when starting, chicken breasts are a bad place to start with for meat. very easy to ruin

[Anonymous No.16434708]

>>16431752
tree fiddy/3.50
add nuts or avocado

[Anonymous No.16434785]

The noodles look like they came out of my cats butt.

[Anonymous No.16434802]

>>16434672
dont know why i kekd so hard at this

[Anonymous No.16434838]

>>16434785
A cat is fine too.

[Anonymous No.16434879]

>>16434285
Im curious about shirataki noodles too