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.

Oyster Chicken with Ginger and Mushrooms

This is a very tasty Chinese dish and you can make it as spicy as you like.

Serve it with noodles or rice.

8 syns for the total dish on extra easy, 4 syns per portion.

Serves 2

Ingredients

2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts diced

Salt and pepper

1 tbsp potato flour  (3 syns on extra easy)

1 tbsp Shaxoing rice wine (1 syn on extra easy)

1 punnet of oriental mushrooms

1 head of broccoli

2 tbsp light soy sauce

2 tbsp oyster sauce (2 syns on extra easy)

2 tbsp chilli sauce (2 syns on extra easy)

1 inch ginger grated

200 ml cold vegetable stock

Method

Mix the chicken, salt and pepper and potato flour together.

Mix together the soy sauce, oyster sauce, chilli sauce and the grated ginger with the stock.

In a hot wok sprayed with frylight brown the chicken for 3 minutes, then sprinkle with the rice wine.

Add the broccoli with a tbsp of water to create some steam to help it cook, cook for 2 minutes, add the mushrooms and fry for 1 minute then stir in the sauce and simmer till the chicken is cooked through and the sauce has thickened.

Serve with rice or noodles.