Liver and Bacon Sauté with Roasted New Potatoes

This may not be a dish for everyone as a lot of people don't like liver, but personally I love it and would encourage you to try it!
There is so much flavour to this dish and it is very low in syns. As the whole pot is 1 syn on extra easy.

Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Ingredients

1 lb new potatoes
4 spring onions sliced diagonally
2 thick bacon chops, all fat removed and diced, or 1 large gammon steak
2 tsp paprika
250g liver sliced
200ml hot vegetable stock
1 tsp flour 1 syn
salt and pepper
4 tbsp fat free natural yoghurt

Method

Halve the new potatoes and boil until tender, let them dry, then lay them on a baking tray sprayed with frylight and spray them again then roast for about 20 minutes until they are golden and crispy.
Meanwhile in a large pan fry the bacon until it is golden. Season the liver with the paprika, salt and pepper and stir in the flour. Add the liver to the pan and fry until cooked to your liking. Add the spring onions and potatoes to the pan to warm through. Then divide between 2 plates.
Add the stock to the pan and scrap all the brown bits from the bottom of the pan to make a very tasty gravy, pour over the meals, dollop 2 tbsps of yoghurt on top of each and sprinkle with coriander.

Sweet Quinoa with Fruit and Yogurt

As i have now joined the gym i figured it was about time to start eating breakfast. Yes i know i should always have breakfast but i really can't face food first thing in the morning.

One dish i do like for breakfast is granola, but as it's synful, and i've yet to find a syn free recipe, i thought i'd try something else. I didn't want to use up my healthy A & B allowance on breakfast so i figured i'd try quinoa, i've seen some recipes floating around for breakfast so decide to make up one of my own. Its very simple and surprisingly tasty!!

You can use any yogurt you like and any fruit, but this is what i used.

Syn free on extra easy

Ingredients

1 cup of quinoa

½ cup fat free greek yogurt, or any syn free yogurt you like.

Handful strawberries sliced

1 banana sliced

3 tsp sweetener

1 tbsp maple syrup (optional 2 syns)

Method

Cook the quinoa as per packet instructions using water, you can use milk but that will make it synful or use your healthy A, add the sweetener to the water before cooking. Let the quinoa go cold. This should make enough for 3/4 servings. Store in the fridge.

Then it's as simple as layering it all or just mix it up in a bowl. If you use maple syrup pour over the top and serve.

Lasagne

We love lasagne in our house, but because of the fattening, high syned cheese sauce we have been giving it a miss, well not anymore!!

I have created a very tasty cheese sauce which is syn free on extra easy as long as you use it as your healthy extra A.

It is not a runny sauce as the eggs set it, to stop it from splitting, so make sure you make a lot.

So as long as you use the cheese as your Healthy extra A, the dish is syn free!

Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Serves 6

Ingredients

1 batch of bolognese sauce

1 box dried lasagne sheets

1 tub quark

1 large tub fat free natural yogurt

2 eggs

¼ tsp nutmeg

salt and pepper to season

60g parmesan cheese grated

160g low fat cheddar cheese

Method

Whisk together the quark, yogurt, eggs, nutmeg, salt and pepper and grated parmesan till smooth.

Layer the bolognese sauce with the lasagne sheets and cheese sauce, start with bolognese, then lasagne, then a layer of cheese sauce followed by more lasagne then more meat sauce, then more lasagne, then more meat sauce, more lasagne, then top off with the cheese sauce and sprinkle over the cheddar, bake in the oven for 50 minutes, if the top starts to get to brown cover with foil.

Jalapeno Coleslaw

I was planning my weekly menu and decided that jalapeno coleslaw would be good with a meal i was preparing, so i set about making a syn free one.


Ingredients

½ red cabbage
½ white cabbage
1 large carrot
1 large onion
1 cup pickled jalapeno slices
1 tube quark
4 tbsp fat free natural Greek yogurt
1 tbsp tomato puree
salt and pepper to taste

Method

Shred the cabbage, carrot and onion, mix together. Finely chop the jalapenos, mix together the quark, yogurt, and tomato puree, stir in the jalapenos and season to taste, mix into the vegetables.

Coronation Chicken

I've found lots of recipes for coronation chicken, but not a syn free one.
My adaptation isn't quite syn free but the closest i could get, without having to use a mullerlight yogurt.

It is thick and creamy, with a great kick, theres a crunch from the apple and it has so much flavour.

1.5 syns for the whole batch.


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

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts seasoned and roasted for 20 minutes, then diced.
1 apple peeled and diced
1 onion diced
2 tbsp quark
6 tbsp fat free natural yogurt
1 tbsp mango chutney
1 tsp madras curry powder
salt and pepper to taste
handful chopped coriander

Method

Mix all the wet ingredients together with the curry powder, then add the chopped, chicken apple and onion. Stir in the coriander and season to taste.

This dish is great served in a sandwich, on a jacket potato, with pasta or rice.