Quick and easy kid friendly Asian main dish recipes with 300 or fewer calories costing less than $1.5 per serving

Steam Tofu With Fish

Very simple and yet delicious dish.Goes very well with steam white rice.

Yellow Split Peas with Vegetables (Dal Takari)

Wow, this is such a wonderful dish and so easy to cook! The keys to this dish are the yellow lentils, fried…

Asian-Style Grilled Black Bass

This fish is simply delicious. The flesh is like butter and the flavor is from heaven. I know that sounds extreme, but it's true. I was in Costco…

Grilled Flanken Style Korean Short Ribs (Galbi or Kalbi)

I adapted this recipe from one in Bon Appetit and another from Chef John (foodwishes.blogspot.com). Chef John…

Japanese Teriyaki Chicken

Buy a bottle of Teriyaki sauce? NO!! It is amazingly easy to make teriyaki sauce at home. All you need is soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. The key…

Skinny Baked Vegetarian Egg Rolls with Peanut Sauce

“Meatless Mondays” or any day of the week never tasted so yummy with these skinny vegetarian egg rolls! You…

Skinnylightful Chicken Fried Rice

I’ve shared this healthy recipe for this popular Chinese dish in the past but it’s soooo delicious I’m sharing…

Super Skinny Sweet and Sour Chicken

This sweet and sour chicken taste sensational. It’s so much healthier than take-out and my family thinks it…

creamy chicken korma

BAKED CHICKEN GARLIC

I love garlicky food. It gives so much flavor and good for health. This Indian dry dish is so tasty and succulent up to the last bite...

Stir-Fry Noodles with Vegetables

vegetarian

Spring "Risotto"

Risotto's close resemblance to Asian version (Cantonese) "wet rice",

Noodles with Cabbage, Mushrooms and Roasted Seaweed

I use instant noodles "cakes" for this. I partially cook them in boiling water prior to using, in order to get…

Tonkatsu Sauce

A sauce for Japanese pork cutlets. Used in fried rice, and yokisoba. Would probably go well on a lot of other things too!

Asian Chicken BBQ