Couscous Salad

serves 2, syn free on extra easy if you use your healthy A for the feta.

 
- Asda, Chosen by You Giant Couscous, Moroccan Style Sachet (free on extra easy)
- 100g Feta cheese cut into cubes
- chopped grilled chicken breast
- sliced cucumber
- handful of grapes
- handful of tomatoes
- chopped red pepper
- handful of chopped fresh coriander 



-Cook the couscous - follow pack instructions, whilst couscous is cooking cut the vegetables, feta and chicken into small chunks. When the couscous is cooked mix all the ingredients together.

For vegetarians this is equally nice without the chicken

Bang Bang Chicken

Serves 4, 1 and a half syns each


- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon reduced fat peanut butter
- 200ml chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon  soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- 1 teaspoon chilli paste
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 pack of cooked chicken fillets ( I grilled mine)
- 1 pack of mange-tout
- 1 pack baby sweetcorn
- 1 red pepper
-  handful of coriander
- 6 spring onions
- vermicelli 10 ounces


- soak the vermicelli in warm water for 20 minutes to soften it.
- finely slice the baby sweetcorn, mange-tout, red pepper and spring onions, fry in frylight for five minutes
- meanwhile mix the peanut butter, chicken stock, soy sauce, lemon juice and the spices until they make a smooth mixture
- add the cooked chicken in with the vegetables, then add the vermicelli, finally pour the sauce over the food, mix well
- serve with a sprinkling of fresh coriander on top

Three Cheese Pasta with Broccoli

Serves 4, syn free if you include cheese as part of your healthy A.

- 10 oz chilli flavoured pasta
- 1 head of broccoli
- 30g low fat cheddar
- 1 cup of low fat chive cottage cheese
- 30g grated parmesan
- 1 veggie oxo cube
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper


- cook the pasta according to the instructions
- cut the broccoli into small pieces
- in a bowl mix the cottage cheese, eggs, spices and cheddar
- drain the pasta and put it into an oven dish, add the pasta and mix in the cheese and egg mix
- bake in the oven at 220°C/ Gas Mark 8 for 25 minutes, remove from oven sprinkle on the parmesan and return to the oven for five minutes
- serve with spicy meatballs

Spicy Meatballs

The eagle eyed amongst you might recognise this as the same recipe as the cheese and bacon burgers, minus the cheese.  I made these with the left over mix from making the burgers.

About half a syn for six large meatballs

- 500g extra lean mince
- 1 red pepper, chopped finely
- 6 spring onions
- handful of chopped coriander
- teaspoon chilli paste
- teaspoon ginger paste
- teaspoon garlic paste
- 2 rashers diced bacon
- 1 egg
- splash of  Worcester sauce

- spray a frying pan with fry light and fry the red pepper, spring onion, coriander and bacon until the bacon is cooked, pour the cooked mixture into a large mixing bowl
- add the mince, Worcester sauce, garlic, chilli, ginger and egg. Mix the ingredients well.
- shape into balls
- bake in the oven at 220°C/ Gas Mark 8 for 20 minutes

Cheese and Bacon Burger

Makes approximately six burgers, less than half a syn each, use small bread roll as HE B, use cheese as part of HE A. I served this with Paprika Sweet Potato Chips.

- 500g extra lean mince
- 1 red pepper, chopped finely
- 6 spring onions
- handful of chopped corriander
- teaspoon chilli paste
- teaspoon ginger paste
- teaspoon garlic paste
- 2 rashers diced bacon
- 5g mozzarella per a burger
- 1 egg
- splash of  Worcester sauce

- spray a frying pan with fry light and fry the red pepper, spring onion, coriander and bacon until the bacon is cooked, pour the cooked mixture into a large mixing bowl
- add the mince, Worcester sauce, garlic, chilli, ginger and egg. Mix the ingredients well.
- shape into patties (I use a biscuit cutter to get the shape and size right so that it will fit in the bun)
- poke a shallow dent in the middle of the burger and fill with the Mozzarella, cover over the top of the cheese with more of the burger mix.
- bake in the oven at 220°C/ Gas Mark 8 for half an hour

Paprika Sweet Potato Chips

Syn Free

- 1 sweet potato per a person cut into thick chips
- paprika
- garlic salt
-fry light

- spray the chips with fry light, sprinkle with paprika and garlic salt
- bake in oven at 220°C/ Gas Mark 8 for half an hour

Rumble Dumble (Indian Scrambled Egg)

This is a really nostalgic food for me, it transports me back to breakfast times as a kid. It's quick, easy and best of all has a silly name. It's a recipe my Mum picked up when my parents lived in India, in my opinion it is far nicer than boring old scrambled egg. Nicest served with fresh naan bread but if, like me, you haven't got a tandoor oven to hand it goes really nicely with toast.


Serves 2, 1 syn

- 2 large eggs
-handful of chopped corriander
- six sliced spring onions or a diced small onion
- a cup full of chopped tomatoes, can be baby tomatoes or sliced tomato
- teaspoon ginger paste
- teaspoon garlic paste
- teaspoon chilli paste ( 1 teaspoon is fairly mild)

- fry the onion, coriander and tomato for a minute
- add the eggs, ginger, garlic and chilli
- keep stirring the mix until the eggs are cooked