The fast-digesting white carbs in the roll-with-a-hole make it an ideal post-training lunch, if you’re wondering what to eat after a workout, helping to replenish your glycogen stores and drive the protein from the chicken into your muscles. This tasty chicken and avocado bagel packs in a whopping 51g of protein, to help your muscles recover and grow after a heavy training session. It also contains healthy fats from avocado and olive oil as well as plenty of nutrients in the kale.
It’s an ideal lunch if you’re following a muscle-building training plan – you won’t finish the meal hungry or need to raid the snack cupboard an hour later.
Biceps-Building Chicken and Avocado Bagel
953 calories
How to Make It
- Season the chicken breast with a little salt and pepper, then grill under a medium heat until cooked through (or just sprinkle pepper on some supermarket pre-cooked chicken pieces).
- Finely chop the chilli and kale and add to a bowl with the almond butter and olive oil.
- Once the chicken is cooked through, slice it into small pieces, add it to the bowl and mix thoroughly with the other ingredients.
- Cut the bagel in half and toast it.
- Crush the avocado into both sides of the halved bagel, then sprinkle the togarashi on top.
- Place the chicken and kale mixture on the avocado and press the bagel halves together.
Ingredients (Serves One)
- 1 bagel
- 1 chicken breast
- 10g almond butter
- 2tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 red chilli
- ½ an avocado
- 30g kale
- A pinch of togarashi spice
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Nutrition
We used the calculator on Myfitnesspal, one of the best weight-loss apps for calorie counting, to estimate the nutritional values of this lunch. Each serving contains 953 calories, providing 65g carbs, 53g fat, 51g protein and 9g fibre.
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