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Come dinnertime, we sometimes may have just enough energy to cook with a can opener.<\/p>\n

\"How
It’s possible to make processed foods healthier. Try crushing up chips to bread chicken. Then eat the chicken with a big salad. Photo: Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And a shame tsunami in our heads gets its wave up: \u201cHow dare you serve and eat processed food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Certainly, processed foods by and large contain unholy amounts of salt, fat, and sugar. And it is undeniably healthy to eat home-cooked scratch meals.<\/p>\n

But the problem with shame is that it\u2019s neither sympathetic nor creative.<\/p>\n

As an occasionally exhausted home cook who also encourages people to prepare their own food, I prefer to be both understanding with others and creative in my admonitions for kitchen work.<\/p>\n

In short, what you can do with all that salt, fat, and sugar in processed foods is spread them out, dilute them, add healthy stuff to them so that they no longer dominate (nor, to be blunt, imperil) a dish.<\/p>\n

I once was staring at a bag of Spanish potato chips flavored with black truffle. Would they taste delicious one after the other, as a snack? Betcha. Crushed up, would they be even tastier than panko or regular breadcrumbs on some baked chicken tenders? Betcha plus.<\/p>\n

Another time, I looked at some jars of pre-made soup and the thought occurred that, in the main, they\u2019re exactly like leftovers, soup made one day to be eaten the next. Tuscan Italians have a great next-day dish that they call \u201cribollita,\u201d which means \u201cre-boiled\u201d\u2014 close to the recipe\u2019s directions in their entirety.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say that a single serving of some processed food, say boxed macaroni and cheese, contains 50% of the recommended daily allowance of sodium. If you tinker with that serving and stretch it out with fresh or frozen vegetables into two servings, then each serving now has 25% of the daily value for sodium. And so on.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> get cooking tips from Bill St. John.<\/div>\n

A frozen dinner entr\u00e9e in the Indian way, heavy on the sodium and even sugar? Top it with two or three soft-boiled eggs and some roasted cashews, add more cooked rice, then split it down the middle for two servings instead of one. Half the trouble that you started with.<\/p>\n

To ramen packets and their flavorings, add fresh or frozen vegetables such as nibble carrots or baby bok choy. Stretch a frozen cheese pizza with toppings of baby spinach, fresh mushrooms, sliced red bell peppers.<\/p>\n

My overall point is that the can opener isn\u2019t opening a can of worms; it\u2019s opening a can of possibilities.<\/p>\n

Chicken breast paillards<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Choose the potato chips for this recipe based on whatever flavorings they advertise; \u201cbarbecue\u201d adds BBQ flavor, \u201cjalape\u00f1o,\u201d that flavor, and so on. Makes 2-3 servings<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/h4>\n

2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
\n2 big handfuls regular (not baked or fat-free) potato chips
\nFreshly ground black pepper
\n1\/2 cup all-purpose flour
\n2 large eggs, whisked
\n2 tablespoons ghee or clarified butter
\n2 tablespoons flavorful extra-virgin olive oil<\/p>\n

Place 1 chicken breast between 2 pieces of plastic wrap (or inside a clean plastic bag) and pound to an even thickness of 1\/3 inch with a meat mallet or the bottom of a strong-walled pint glass. Repeat with second chicken breast. Crush the potato chips well and add the black pepper to taste, stirring it in well.<\/p>\n

Arrange three plates side by side, with the flour in the first, the eggs in the second, and the crushed chips mix in the third. Lightly dredge both sides of each chicken breast in the flour, then in the eggs and then the chips, pressing down on the chips so that they adhere. Over medium-high heat, melt the ghee or butter, add the oil, and saut\u00e9 the paillards 5-6 minutes on each side or until slightly browned and cooked through yet still juicy.<\/p>\n

(You also may cook the chicken paillards in the oven, avoiding the fat of the frying pan by omitting the butter or ghee and the olive oil. After the dredging steps, place the paillards on a cake cooling rack that is itself set atop a metal sheet pan covered with aluminum foil. Roast them in a preheated, 350-degree oven for 18-20 minutes.)<\/p>\n

Canned soup ribollita<\/strong><\/h3>\n

One of the greats in the repertoire of Italian soups is ribollita, a heartily dense Tuscan soup. It is one day\u2019s leftover minestrone or bean soup that is reheated the next day using the addition of chunks of stale bread. Makes 4 large or 6 medium servings.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/h4>\n

2-3 large- or medium-sized jars or cans vegetable-based soup (bean, minestrone, lentil, etc.)
\nChunks of stale hearty crusted bread
\n1\/2 to 1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
\n1\/4 to 1\/3 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
\nFlavorful extra-virgin olive oil<\/p>\n

Heat the soups until very hot. Add as much of the bread as you like, knowing that it will stretch out the soups\u2019 many flavors but also sop up a good deal of the soup\u2019s liquid. Keep the soup somewhat moist; it\u2019s enjoyable that way.<\/p>\n

Top each serving with generous spoonfuls of the cheese and parsley, as well as big swirls of the olive oil.<\/p>\n

You may reach Bill St John at billstjohn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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