Crab and Prawn Singapore Noodles

I love Singapore noodles from the Chinese, so when i came across a recipe for them i decided to adapt it for Slimming World, so instead of using lots of syns, i have created a syn free noodle dish with all the taste and flavour of what you will get from a Chinese takeaway, in fact i would even say it tastes better.

It went really well with a big bowl of Crispy Kale

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Ingredients

1 packet of vermicelli noodles
½ tsp turmeric
2 tsp sweet curry powder
4 spring onions sliced diagonally
1 red chilli
1 garlic clove
1 red pepper sliced
200g crab meat
20 cooked prawns
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 egg beaten
handful coriander leaves

Method

Cook the noodles as per packet instructions.
Blitz the chilli and garlic in a blender or finely chop.
In a wok sprayed with frylight pour in the egg and swirl around to make a thin omelette, toss and cook on the other side until set. remove and chop up.
In a wok sprayed with frylight, fry the onions and red pepper, add the garlic and chilli, turmeric and curry powder and fry for 1 minute, stir in the noodles and stir together, then stir through the crab, prawns, egg and coriander until warmed through, pour in the soy sauce and mix together then serve.

Chilli Crab Linguine

This is a lovely light and refreshing dish, the sweetness of the crab with the bite of the chilli and tang of the lemon juice complement each other perfectly!

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Serves 4

Ingredients

1 packet of dried linguine
1 red chilli
1 garlic clove
finely grated zest of a lemon
2 tbsp capers
200 ml fish stock
2 tbsp lemon juice
small handful basil leaves torn
2 tins of white crab meat ( i use ½ tub which i get from Costco)

Method

Cook the pasta as per packet instructions.
Chop the chilli and garlic in a blender or finely chop.
Heat the stock, chopped chilli and garlic with the lemon zest in a large frying pan until it boils then simmer over a low heat, add the capers and lemon juice and gently stir in the crab meat and basil. Add the cooked pasta to the pan and gentle mix together.
Season to taste and serve.

Eggciting Omelettes

Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese

Excuse the pun, but these omelettes get your taste buds salivating!

An omelette is so quick and easy to make, and the fillings are never ending!!

Here are a few to get you started.


Basic Omelette Ingredients

3 eggs (i like duck eggs)
salt and pepper

Method

Beat the eggs with the salt and pepper till light. Heat a frying pan, spray with butter frylight and pour in the eggs.
When they start to set, with a spatula pull the eggs towards the middle until its nearly all set.
Add your filling to one side and fold over and serve.


Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese

The title says it all, just fill your omelette with fat free cream cheese or you daily healthy A portion of cheese spread and smoked salmon, i like to add some capers to mine too.

Wild Mushroom and Low Low

Wild Mushroom and Low Low
Ingredients

2 Punnets of oriental mushrooms
½ tub of Low Low cheese spread (i used the red pepper and chilli)
Butter Frylight

Method

Spray the pan with the frylight then fry the mushrooms till golden, set aside.
Make the omelette.
Spread the low low on one side of the omelette then add the mushrooms.
Fold over and serve.

Asian Crab

Asian Crab Ingredients

Crab meat
1 chilli finely chopped
3 spring onions finely sliced
1 tsp grated fresh ginger
2 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp fish sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce (optional) 1 syn
Handful of coriander leaves
Tabasco sauce to serve.

Method

Make the basic omelette, but add the soy sauce and fish sauce to the eggs before cooking.

Mix the crab with the ginger, chilli, coriander and spring onions. lay on one side of the omelette and fold over, serve with the oyster sauce drizzled over it and sprinkle with Tabasco sauce.

Roasted Red Peppers and Goats Cheese

 Roasted Red Pepper and Goats Cheese Omelette

This is another "it does what it says on the tin" omelette.

Basically just chop up 2 jarred red peppers and lay on one side of the omelette, i added a few capers. Then add 30g of goats cheese (your daily Healthy A), fold over and serve.

Mediterranean

Mediterranean Omelette Ingredients

1 Tin plumed tomatoes
1 tbsp capers
Handful of basil roughly torn
45g mozzarella cheese roughly chopped.

Method

Make the basic omelette. Drain the tomatoes and cut them open to get rid of the seeds.
Chop the tomatoes, mix with the capers, basil and mozzarella, lay on one side of the omelette then fold over and serve.

Seafood Kedgeree

This has got to be one of my favourite dishes of all time, and when i realised i could make one syn free and it tasted just as good, if not better than before, i was over the moon!!
Again you can make it as spicy as you like, and add whatever fish and seafood you like.


Preheat oven to 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Serve 4

Ingredients

2 eggs beaten
1 inch of ginger peeled and roughly chopped
2 garlic cloves
2 chillies roughly chopped (deseeded optional)
1 onion roughly chopped
2 tsp curry powder
1 dsp ground cumin
1 dsp ground coriander
1 lemon juiced
Handful of coriander leaves
3 cups cooked rice
8 oz salmon fillet
8 oz smoked haddock fillet
Tin of white crab meat (optional)
20 large raw or cooked shrimp
1 tbsp light soy sauce
Tabasco sauce to serve

Method

Spray a sheet pan with frylight and lay the fish on it, then spray the fish, season and roast it for 10 minutes. Flake and set aside.

In a blender whiz together the ginger, garlic, chillies, onion, cumin, coriander, curry powder and a dash of water till its smooth.

Spray a wok or large frying pan with frylight and cook the eggs by pouring the egg in the pan and swirling it around so it is like a thin pancake, toss it and cook the other side for 10 seconds. Roughly chop it up and set aside.

Spray the wok again and when its hot add the curry paste, cook it out for 2 minutes, then add the cooked rice and gently mix together.
Add the flaked fish, shrimp and crab meat, with the lemon juice, coriander, egg and soy sauce, Gently mix again, being careful not to break the fish up to much. Season to taste.
When the prawns are cooked through or everything is to temperature, serve.

Thai Crab Cakes

These are Absolutely Delicious!!!

There is hardly any filler so full of crab meat, they are moist on the inside and crispy on the outside, light and zingy to the taste. Delicious served with syn free chips and a mixed salad.
They are also FREE on extra easy, if you use your healthy extra B.


Makes 6 crab cakes

Ingredients

600g crab meat
1 stalk of lemongrass, tough outer leaves removed
1 red chilli, deseeded if you wish
2 spring onions
A handful of coriander roughly chopped
1 lime zested and juiced
100g fresh wholemeal breadcrumbs
1 egg beaten

Method

Blend the lemongrass, chilli and spring onions till its coarsely chopped.

Mix with the crab meat and the chopped coriander, add the lime zest and juice, mix together, then bind with the egg and bread crumbs.

Make into 6 patties and chill for 30 minutes, to make them firmer and easier to handle.

Spray a pan with fry light and fry each side for 6-8 minutes over a medium heat, don't fiddle with them as they will fall apart.

Serve when crisp and golden.