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.

Corned beef Hash

Another dish you thought you couldn't eat while being on Slimming World!! Comfort food at it's best!!

Unfortunately it is not syn free, but it is low in syns, as the only syns are in the corned beef.

The whole dish is 4 syns.

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

Ingredients

1lb potatoes peeled and diced

1 tin lean corned beef 200g

1 onion finely chopped

1 tbsp tomato puree

1 tbsp worcester sauce

1 tsp smoked paprika

1 tsp cayenne pepper

2 fried eggs to serve.

Method

Lay the diced potatoes on a baking sheet sprayed with frylight and season and spray with more frylight, bake for 30 minutes, tossing and spraying again half way through.

In a frying pan sprayed with frylight, fry the onion until soft and golden, add the corned beef and fry till soft, add the tomato puree, worcester sauce, paprika and cayenne pepper, fry for 5 minutes, stirring often, add the potatoes to the pan and mix together, then serve with a fried egg on top.

Spicy BBQ Sauce

I got the inspiration for this recipe from one of my favourite American Chefs Ina Garten. I have adapted it to be as Slimming World friendly as possible.

As she put it it is a fusion of world wide BBQ sauces, a bit of Indian, Chinese and American, with a touch of Britain in it too!!

The whole pan is 7 syns on extra easy, so it's up to you how much you eat.......

Ingredients

3 shallots sliced 

2 garlic cloves finely chopped

1 tub passata

¼ cup soy sauce

2 tbsp hoisin sauce (4 syns)

1 tbsp honey (3 syns)

3 tbsp worcester sauce

2 tbsp tomato puree

2 tsp english mustard powder

¼ cup cider vinegar

2 tsp cumin powder

1 tsp chilli flakes

1 tsp hot chilli powder (more if you want more spice)

Method

In a large pan sprayed with frylight, fry the shallots till golden and soft, then add the garlic and fry for 1 minute, put into a blender with all the other ingredients and blitz till smooth.

Return the sauce to the pan and bring to a boil then simmer for 20 minutes until it has darkened and thickened. Season to taste.

Then serve with whatever you like....

Goes great on Hunters Chicken, as a dip for chips, with a juicy steak or even pulled pork..

Ceasar Salad

Who'd have thought you could have a creamy dressing on your salad! It's tangy, creamy and very tasty, in fact i would say it tastes better than a full fat dressing!!

2.5 syns per 35g serving on extra easy.


Dressing Ingredients

⅓ cup of lighter than light mayonnaise - 2.5 syns
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp olive oil - 6 syns
1 tsp dijon mustard - 0.5 syns
2 tsp red wine vinegar
2 tsp worcester sauce
1 tin sainsburys anchovies in oil drained
½ tsp ground black pepper
1 garlic clove
30g parmesan cheese - 6 syns

Method

Put all the ingredients into a blender and blitz into a smooth creamy dressing.

Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Salad Ingredients

1 large romaine lettuce chopped
2 slices wholemeal bread from an 800g loaf
30g parmesan cheese grated

Method

Chop the bread up into 1cm cubes and lay on a baking tray, spray with frylight and bake for 5 minutes to crisp and golden.
Mix the lettuce with the dressing and sprinkle with the croutons and parmesan.