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The GMG Easy to Prepare Loaded With Flavor and Healthy Recipe Contest:

I’ll rate your recipe based on three criteria: Taste, Easy To Prepare (if you can make it in an office without a stove you get bonus points, without a microwave even higher), Nutritional Value. Minus 5 points for lack of photo.

I should also add that for nutritional value I’m going for something that will reduce fat, give energy but provide enough as to not lose muscle.  A fruit salad I understand is nice and all but it isn’t gonna get me through a work day.

For The First Four Weeks I will award one prize per week from our GMG Swag Bag to the highest rated pic/recipe.

Contest winner will have to pick up their award and if not claimed within two weeks it gets awarded to the next person.

Here is Sarah’s recipe for Indonesian Barbecue:

Indonesian barbecue is my go-to, low-cal preference–modified to be lower-cal!
1 lb ground turkey
1/2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 tbs bell pepper, diced (I use more)
1 tbs chopped onion (I use more)
1 egg, beaten (or Egg Beater, or 1/3 cup low-fat yogurt)
Preheat broiler (or barbecue grill). Mix all ingredients together well. Shape mixture into 2.5″-long, football-shaped balls. Broil for about 10 minutes, turning once halfway through. Done.

Okay lets get to the ratings, and of course I’m not tasting it but I’ll give the taste grade based on if a lack of perceived blandness getting highest scores.

1-10 in each category with the cumulative score being the final and minus 5 for a lack of photo.

Taste: All those spices you gotta go with a 9 on taste with the only ding being that I might like some type of dipping sauce to go over them so they wouldn’t be dry.

Easy To Prepare: Well it looks relatively easy.   Not a crazy amount of ingredients or hard to find ingredients, you mix everything together, shape them into balls and broil them.  Pretty easy but not simple enough to do in an office, I’m going 6 on easy to prepare.

Nutrition Value: Looks like a 10 to me.  Here’s a question and I reserve the right to change this score based on my lack of fundamental cooking knowledge- when you broil this, do you use oil?

So the cumulative score based on the three criteria is a 25 minus 5 for lack of photo gives it a total of 20.  If Sarah makes the dish and submits a picture within the next couple of days I’ll add in the extra 5 points.

Week 1 in the contest ends next Sunday night for submissions.

Check out Sarah’s Blog Here- http://seagardensandglass.blogspot.com/