20-minute Leftover Chicken Breast Salad

Store-bought rotisserie chicken is our saviour when it comes to meal prepping for weekdays lunch and dinner (that's 10 meals!)

Make healthy protein bowls in a jiffy such as Chicken Broccoli Sweet Potato Bowl, Chicken Cauliflower Quinoa Bowl; also save and shred chicken breast the next day for Chicken Cabbage Salad, Chicken Broccoli with High-Protein-Noodle Salad, Chicken Salad Sandwich.


No time to shred the chicken breast? Simply enjoy chunky breast meat like an entree, with freshly steamed/roasted vegetables.

This meal today takes no more than 10 minutes cook time, with another 10 minutes preparation time to slice/prep the veggies. If you already have the veggies sliced/cut in advance: Congratulations! Because dinner will be ready in no more than 20 minutes, just like this 20-minute Sous Vide Beef Salad Bowl.

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Breakfast/ Workout Snack Pita Bread Wrap (Tortilla Wrap Hack)

Type "tiktok tortilla hack" in the search box and be overwhelmed by so many savory and sweet ideas, so many that you will soon run out of tortilla (whatever is already sitting in your kitchen pantry) to cover all grounds. To start with, I belong to one of those who did not even have readily available tortilla in my kitchen when the trend started few months ago; and I am also not one of those who will go out of the way to get tortilla solely for this purpose.


But guess what? I have my regular pita bread, so I am going to conveniently do this experiment. Sweet!

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Salmon, Egg Pesto Fried Rice

In our family, recipes are typically for referencing, seldom followed to a T.  For example, when cooking a small portion of fried rice (serving 2), vs a batch of fried rice (serving 4 or more), the how-to can be tweaked. The reason to adapt, sometimes just because we are limited by size/ type of pan, wok, or pot. You will understand what this means if you cook regularly.


For example, there are several ways how egg can be incorporated into the fried rice when cooking egg fried rice.  Sometimes, raw egg is mixed with cold rice (leftover rice that has been chilled in fridge or stored in freezer) to coat the rice grain prior to frying; or other times, eggs can be cooked (scrambled) first, removed and set aside, rice added to same pan and fried, then scrambled eggs added back to the pan, fried with rice. Occasionally, especially when cooking a small portion of fried rice, the egg is added directly to the rice in the pan - create an "empty" center in the rice so the egg hits the surface of the pan/pot to be cooked partially, then mixed/fried together with rice. Ahhhh, so many ways.

The fried rice outcome may be different taste-wise but still delicious in its own way.

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20-minute Sous Vide Beef Salad Bowl

Besides ready-cooked duck, another ready-cooked item tried and tested in our family kitchen recently is this Sous Vide Sliced Grass-Fed Beef Sirloin from Cuisine Solution, sold at Costco.


If you remember our wallet-friendly Budget Steak Chuck Roast Beef Salad that demanded more prep-and-cook time, ready-cooked items like Sous Vide Sliced Grass-Fed Beef Sirloin takes about 10 minutes to reheat. SO. MUCH. EASIER. The time required, essentially, is the time to prep.(rinse & slice) and cook the vegetables. This Sous Vide Sliced Grass-Fed Beef Sirloin works seamlessly with protein-veggie bowls, making possible this 20-minute Sous Vide Beef Salad Bowl.

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