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Chaos_Theory_3

Flat_Eric wrote: »

can you share the recipe for the butternut squash and red lentil curry. it sounds very appealing

It's off the SW website. I replaced the curry paste with powder so that it's free and I added red pepper. I tend to tweak recipes anyway. This is my favourite curry and has replaced my old favourite of chickpea curry.

Serves: 4
Syns per serving:
1 Syn on Green
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 45-50 minutes

Fry Light
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
1 medium butternut squash peeled, deseeded and chopped
2 tbsp medium curry paste
1 x 200g can chopped tomatoes, drained but retaining the liquid
Vegetable stock (Vecon and hot water)
100g dried red lentils
Baby spinach
To serve
Heaps of boiled rice
Very low fat natural yogurt, if liked

1. Heat the oven to 170°C/Gas 3. Spray a heavy, ovenproof pan with Fry Light and cook the onion with the lid on for 5 minutes until softened. Add the butternut squash, tossing with the onion then cook for a few minutes again with the lid on. Stir in the curry paste and tomatoes.
2. Add the vegetable stock to the retained tomato liquid, until the tomato and stock mixture is up to 600ml. Add to the pan along with the lentils. Stir well and bring to the boil, then remove from the heat and place in the oven for 30-45 minutes, depending on the size of your butternut squash chunks.
3. The curry is cooked when the sauce has thickened and the lentils are tender but still whole and a knife slides into the butternut squash easily.
4. Remove from the oven and stir in a handful spinach. Replace the lid and leave to stand for a few minutes until the spinach wilts. Serve with the rice and a swirl of yogurt.
Tip: If you prefer a less spicy curry, you can either reduce the curry paste slightly or serve it with extra very low fat natural yogurt.

Chaos_Theory_3

nano84 wrote: »

Hey can you post the recipe for the bombay bahjis, i love a quorn curry and miss something to go with em.

Thanks
x

These are from the 100 green recipes book:

Free on Green


1 onion choped and fried in frylight until soft
170g potaotes diced and boiled
227g tin chickpeas
1 egg - beaten
1/2tsp baking powder
2 tsp curry powder ( I add more!)

mash chickpeas, potatoes and onion in bowl or food processor. Add rest of ingredients and shape into bahjis. frylight a baking tray and put the bahjis on it with a coating of frylight. Bake at 220c/Gas 7 for 15 mins or until golden. Serve with raita made by chopping some cucumber finely and adding along with finely chopped mint to VLF fromage frais or quark.

Flat_Eric

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Hi guys,

OH is away Tuesday and Wednesday night, and instead of my usual green 'alone' meal of pasta, baked beans & cheese or SW chips can someone give me another idea? Pref free and easily cookable for one (no space in the freezer). Will have some baby new pots left - can you bake them with something nice sprinkled on them?? Thanks

Ive cooked baby potatoes on the JP setting in my microwave and then I finish them off in the oven to crisp the skins up with lots of spices - paprika, cumin, chilli flakes etc. I then serve with the encona sweet chilli sauce (syn) or the encona hot pepper sauce (superfree) and very low fat natural yogurt. I top the baby potatotes with a HEB option of bacon and a HEA option of cheese. If you use the Greek 0% yogurt, this tastes (IMO) like sour cream.

I cant beat my jacket chips for my ultimate comfort food and vary this sometimes by having quorn pieces (saving the ham HEB option I usually use) and beans. or using both HEB for some gammon and synning some pineapple rings.

how about quorn sausages, baby potatoes and beans perhaps? the quorn sausages dont normally take very long to cook...

cant think of any other ideas but if I do will post them.

Flat_Eric

Chaos_Theory wrote: »

It's off the SW website. I replaced the curry paste with powder so that it's free and I added red pepper. I tend to tweak recipes anyway. This is my favourite curry and has replaced my old favourite of chickpea curry.

Serves: 4
Syns per serving:
1 Syn on Green
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 45-50 minutes

Fry Light
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
1 medium butternut squash peeled, deseeded and chopped
2 tbsp medium curry paste
1 x 200g can chopped tomatoes, drained but retaining the liquid
Vegetable stock (Vecon and hot water)
100g dried red lentils
Baby spinach
To serve
Heaps of boiled rice
Very low fat natural yogurt, if liked

1. Heat the oven to 170°C/Gas 3. Spray a heavy, ovenproof pan with Fry Light and cook the onion with the lid on for 5 minutes until softened. Add the butternut squash, tossing with the onion then cook for a few minutes again with the lid on. Stir in the curry paste and tomatoes.
2. Add the vegetable stock to the retained tomato liquid, until the tomato and stock mixture is up to 600ml. Add to the pan along with the lentils. Stir well and bring to the boil, then remove from the heat and place in the oven for 30-45 minutes, depending on the size of your butternut squash chunks.
3. The curry is cooked when the sauce has thickened and the lentils are tender but still whole and a knife slides into the butternut squash easily.
4. Remove from the oven and stir in a handful spinach. Replace the lid and leave to stand for a few minutes until the spinach wilts. Serve with the rice and a swirl of yogurt.
Tip: If you prefer a less spicy curry, you can either reduce the curry paste slightly or serve it with extra very low fat natural yogurt.

thank you so much. ive added a butternut squash to my Mr T order and look forward to making it :-)

Skint_Catt

Thanks - the Branston thing sounds good. Judderman - I love baked bean lasagne but always make it too big - and I'd probably eat the lot, but thats another idea I might use OH is away Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday so I've got to stop myself from binging (I do mostly on free food but once I get one naughty thing in there's no end.... )

Anyone found a good yummy low syn (pref free!) alternative to garlic bread? Nimble doesn't really cut it as garlic bread! :rotfl:

ikkle87

penguin83 wrote: »

Evening everyone - do you mind if I join your thread too? Just been looking through for some meal ideas while my SW chips are in the oven. I joined on the 05/11 and have my 3rd weigh in on Weds. I have lost 13lbs so far so really hoping for my stone award this week!

x x x

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Skint_Catt wrote: »

Anyone found a good yummy low syn (pref free!) alternative to garlic bread? Nimble doesn't really cut it as garlic bread! :rotfl:

I did a small bap (HE) with garlic mixed with LF spread and popped it under the grill. nearly as good and had it with a Syn free salad.

xxp00

ikkle87

I guess we are all a bit down in the dumps today. I was really good all day today and then it got to tonight and I picked on a few things that I shouldnt have. :( I think most of it is cos I'm depressed and a bit upset. Plus I think that part of me is thinking that seeing as at 12noon tomorrow I have to go nil by mouth till Wednesday so figured a few syns wont hurt and that I should still get a loss, even if it is only little.

Breakfast
Omellete (Milk from HEA) 2 wm nimble (HEB) 1 lean bacon 2syns

Dinner
Boiled potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cauli, swede, roast pork (HEB)

Snack
2 satsumas, grapes, kiwi fruit, apple.

Tea
Mugshot,

Pudding
Syn Free Rice Pudding (HEA)

Snack,
Pickled Onions, Optifit Fat Free Yoghurt, Mini Marshmallows (4.5 syns)

I suppose looking at it that way I didn't actually do too bad I just feel bad, probably nerves.

Skint_Catt

Thanks Flat Eric. Not sure if I've got any quorn sausages in (will have to go hunting in my well overpacked freezer) and if I bought some I'd have to use them all (no room in said freezer as one freezer broke so I've got two freezer worths of food in one!) I have quorn fillets, quorn cracked black pepper fillets (now there's an idea - I haven't tried them yet!), quorn pieces and mine (I think!). Might also use up some chicken stock and make a sweetcorn and noodle soup! :j

Just planning my first week back on SW after a short break. (Haven't lost anything on Slimfast after three weeks so I'm off to see the Doc :rolleyes:)

Kandipandi

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Thanks Flat Eric. Not sure if I've got any quorn sausages in (will have to go hunting in my well overpacked freezer) and if I bought some I'd have to use them all (no room in said freezer as one freezer broke so I've got two freezer worths of food in one!) I have quorn fillets, quorn cracked black pepper fillets (now there's an idea - I haven't tried them yet!), quorn pieces and mine (I think!). Might also use up some chicken stock and make a sweetcorn and noodle soup! :j

Just planning my first week back on SW after a short break. (Haven't lost anything on Slimfast after three weeks so I'm off to see the Doc :rolleyes:)

Im sorry that didnt work out for you Skint_Catt, perhaps having had a break and starting fresh on SW it might be the boost you needed! Good luck I hope you get back into it and get some results next week.