Blue Cheese Dip

This is a lovely creamy dip that goes great with Buffalo Chicken. It also makes a great salad dressing, or a snack with lots of veggies to dip!!

Unfortunately its not syn free, as it is cheese, but it does go along way. This dish is 10 syns in total on extra easy.

You can't have blue cheese on extra easy as a healthy A, but you can on Green.

Ingredients

1 tub quark

4 tbsp lighter than light mayonnaise 2 syns

2 tsp white wine vinegar

2 tsp worcester sauce

50g blue cheese 8 syns you can put in as much as you like.

Method

Couldn't be easier, just mix all the ingredients together.

Tiramisu

As a special treat on Valentine's Day i decided to make a creamy and delicious dessert. I was amazed at how good it was, for being fat free, it was really creamy and rich, with just enough coffee flavour and a touch of almond from the Amaretti biscuits.

3 syns each.

Make 2 desserts

Ingredients

1 tub of fat free quark

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 double shot espresso

3 tsp sweetener

6 amaretti biscuits 1 syn each

Method

Whip the quark, vanilla extract, sweetener and half the espresso together.

In nice glasses, place an amaretti biscuit in the bottom of each and pour over ¼ of the remaining espresso, layer over some of the quark then crumble over another biscuit, pour over another ¼ of the remaining espresso, layer some more quark. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, Overnight is even better. Crumble over the 3rd biscuit and serve.

Fruit Sundae

I had some quark in the fridge that needed to be used up so decided to make a dessert out of it. I was very pleasantly surprised at how lovely it was.

It was creamy and sweet with a sharp note from the raspberries, but you can use any fruit you like.

As i crumbled ½ a rocky road Hi Fi bar on top and ½ a piece of dark chocolate, it was only 2 syns on extra easy for the whole dessert.

Makes 2 desserts at 2 syns each.

Ingredients

1 tube of quark

1 punnet of raspberries

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp sweetener

1 hi fi bar

1 piece 5g dark chocolate

Method

Mix the quark with the vanilla extract and sweetener, layer the quark and raspberries in a glass, crumb ½ a hi fi bar on top of each then grate over the chocolate, chilli then 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.

Smoked Salmon Pate

This a rich and tasty dish, perfect for parties and dinner parties or just to nibble on when peckish. Lovely on Melba toasts and crackers, or serve with crudites as a dip.

Plus if you find yourself eating the whole thing, it is only 1 syn on extra easy.


Ingredients

400g smoked salmon
2 tubs of quark
1 tbsp horseradish sauce
salt and pepper to season

Method

Divide the salmon into two portions roughly chop one of the portions. Put the other portion into a blender with the quark and horseradish sauce and blitz.
Stir in the chopped smoked salmon and season to taste.