Five Spice Squid with Noodles

Here is another delicious fake away for you, a lot tastier and healthier than a take away from a Chinese.

7 syns for the whole dish.

Ingredients

2 tbsp hoisin sauce    4 syns
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp shaoxing rice wine    1 syn
½ tsp five spice
1 tsp sesame oil     2 syns
200ml vegetable stock
2 garlic cloves
1 cm fresh ginger
1 red chilli
8 oz squid cleaned and sliced into rings
8 oz oriental mushrooms sliced
1 red pepper diced
1 onion diced
½ cup edamame beans
8 asparagus spears chopped
Handful of thai basil leaves
Cooked noodles

Methods

Mix together the first 6 ingredients, set aside.
In a blender blitz the garlic, chilli and ginger, set aside.
In a wok sprayed with frylight, fry the onion for 2 minutes, add the asparagus and pepper, fry for 2 minutes, add the mushrooms and fry for 2 minutes, add the squid and fry for 1 minute, add the garlic mix, fry for 1 minute. Add the sauce and edamame beans, bring to a boil and simmer for 2 minutes, stir in the noodles, heat through and sprinkle over the basil leaves.

Stir fried Vegetables and Noodles

This is a noodle dish i made to go with the Asian Flank Steak. It is full of superfree tasty vegetables, you can use whatever vegetables you want, i used what i like and goes well with Asian flavours.

You could have this as a vegetable dish by itself or add chicken or pork to it.

It's syn free on extra easy.

Ingredients

1 onion chopped

1 red pepper diced

a small head of broccoli 

a bunch of asparagus chopped into 4

1 cup edamame beans

8oz oriental mushrooms

2 portions of dried medium noodles cook as per packet instructions

1 inch ginger grated

1 garlic clove grated

¼ cup light soy sauce

1 tsp fish sauce

1 tsp chilli flakes

handful thai basil leaves

Method

In a hot wok sprayed with frylight, fry the onion for 1 minutes, add the broccoli with 1 tbsp of water, then add the asparagus, pepper, and edamame beans, stir fry for 2 minutes, add the mushrooms and fry for 2 minutes, mix up the ginger, garlic, soy, fish sauce and chilli flakes and pour into the vegetables, stir in and then add the cooked noodles, heat everything through, tear over the thai basil leaves and serve.

Thai Basil and Seafood Fried Rice

I adore Thai food and knowing i can make it virtually syn free on Slimming World is Fab!!!

This is a quick and easy recipe and so much better than a take away, not just for lack of syns but taste too!

Just 1 syn for the whole pot on extra easy, so if you really greedy, like me it will serve two, not so hungry maybe four...

Ingredients

3 garlic cloves

1 thai red chilli (more if you like it spicy)

1 lb squid cleaned and ringed

20 raw shrimp

½ red pepper thinly sliced

½ onion sliced

1 cup edamame beans

8oz oriental mushrooms

handful thai basil leaves

1 tbsp oyster sauce (1 syn)

1 tsp dark soy sauce

2 tsp light soy sauce

cooked rice for 2

Method

Blitz the garlic and chilli in a blender.

Mix together the oyster sauce and the soy sauces

In a wok sprayed with frylight, stir fry all the veggies for 1 minute, add the chilli and garlic, stir and add the shrimp and squid stir for 1 minute then add the sauce, stir in the rice and heat it all through, take off the heat and tear in the basil. 

Season with fish sauce if needed.

Chinese Lemon Chicken

A fake away to be proud of! This dish is light and refreshing with a kick and a lot less syns than from a Chinese Restaurant, and taste so much better too!

The whole dish is only 5 syns on extra easy.

Ingredients

1 level tbsp potato flour (3 syns)
2 large skinless and boneless chicken breasts sliced
1 tbsp shaoxing rice wine (1 syn)
1 red pepper diced
1 yellow pepper diced
8 oz oriental mushrooms
1 cup edamame beans
1 onion chopped
juice of 1 lemon
200ml chicken stock
1 tsp sweetener
3 tbsp light soy sauce
1 garlic clove grated
1 red chilli finely chopped
1 inch ginger grated
1 tbsp chilli sauce (1 syn)


Method

Mix the sliced chicken with the potato flour and season.
To make the sauce mix together the lemon juice, chicken stock, sweetener, soy sauce, garlic, chilli, ginger and chilli sauce.
In a hot wok sprayed with frylight stir fry the chicken until it turns opaque then pour over the rice wine and stir fry until liquid has gone, add the onion, peppers and mushrooms and stir fry for 1 minute. Pour in the sauce and bring to a boil then simmer until the sauce has thickened and the chicken is cooked through.
Serve with egg fried rice.

Chicken Donburi Yakitori

This is a Japanese dish that was inspired from a trip to a wonderful Japanese restaurant we visit in Bristol called Yume Kitchen.
Even if i say so myself, it's not far off the restaurants dish!!

This dish is 4½ syns for the whole thing, so depending how many it serves, depends on the syns per portion.


Serves 4

Ingredients

3 skinless and boneless chicken breasts sliced
12 large shrimp
4 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 packet of medium egg noodles
2 carrots cut into matchsticks
1 red pepper thinly sliced
6 asparagus spears sliced
1 punnet of oriental mushrooms
a large handful of edamame bean (soy beans)
3 tbsp tariyaki sauce (1½ syns per tbsp)
200ml chicken stock
4 Nori seaweed strips

Method

Cook the noodles as per pack instructions.
Put the sliced chicken in a bowl and stir in the dark soy sauce.
Heat a wok sprayed with sunflower frylight and stir fry the chicken until its nearly cooked through, reserve the soy sauce, add the vegetables and stir fry for 2 minutes.
Pour in the Tariyaki sauce and stock bring to a boil add the noodles and shrimp,and if needed some of the reserved dark soy, stir fry until the shrimp are cooked and serve with thin strips of Nori seaweed snipped on top.

Asian Salmon Giant CousCous Salad

This is a very tasty salad, with all the Asian taste sensations of salty, sweet, spicy and tangy, you can have it with or without the salmon, or add any meat you like, plus any vegetables you like.


Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Serves 4

Ingredients

1 inch of ginger  peeled and chopped
1 garlic clove crushed
1 red chilli chopped
3 tbsp light soy sauce
juice of one lime

300g giant cous cous
1 lb salmon
6 spring onions
half a cucumber, seeds removed and chopped
2 roasted red peppers
handful of basil leaves chopped
1 packet of edamame beans

Method

Cook the couscous as per packet instructions, then run under a cold tap to stop the cooking.
Roast the salmon sprayed with olive oil frylight for 18 minutes
Chop up the spring onions and red pepper.
Blend all the first 5 ingredients in a blender to make a dressing.
Flake the salmon.
Put everything into a large bowl and mix.

Feeling Peckish!!

Fruit

Edamame Beans

Pickles

Here is some ideas for syn free  snacks if you're feeling peckish!

Super free snacks are even better for you, but snacking on free foods is still better than synful foods.

If you want to snack on foods to help you speed up your weight loss look for speed or super speed  foods, heres a list of some to name but a few!

Super Speed

Grapefruit, melon, strawberries, blackberries, peas.

Speed 

gherkins, pickled onions, pickled chillies, apples, cherries, kiwis, oranges, pears, pineapple, and lots more!!!

Crab Sticks

Fat Free Yogurts

Skinless and fatless Chicken

Eggs