Share your favourite low-fat recipes here!

rubbadubbas · Share your favourite low-fat recipes here!

Several of us are starting a holiday diet challenge and I thought it would help us to share recipes that will help us drop those pounds (or stones in my case!)

I'll start off with mine..... Lots of ingredients and takes a while to make but so worth it! Make double portions and freeze half.

Kerala Beef bhuna (adapted from Madhur Jaffrey)
Feeds 2 hungry, greedy people or 4 normal people!

2 tsp whole cumin seeds
4 tsp whole coriander seeds
2 tsp mustard seeds
2 dried red chillies (optional if you like it really spicy)
2 tsp fennel seeds
2 tsps fenugreek seeds
Heat small frying pan til hot then dry fry all spices til brown. Leave to cool then grind.

1 onion
4cm fresh ginger
6 garlic cloves
Pulse in food processor to make chunky paste.

2 medium tomatoes (chopped up)

900g stewing beef cut into small pieces.
1 tblsp oil

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1. Heat oil. Add onion, ginger, garlic paste. Fry for 4 mins.
2. Add tomatoes. Reduce to thickish paste.
3. Add spices. Cook for 1 min.
4. Add beef. Stir and cook for 5 min.
5. Add 250ml water. Cover and simmer for about 1 1/2 hours.
6. In last 10 mins remove the lid and increase to hot to reduce to a paste that clings to the beef.

This makes a delicious, authentic 'dry' bhuna curry that you can eat with rice or naan. (We often eat it with just coriander leaves and spinach leaves).

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The chick pea dip I posted earlier in the year is a healthy low fat recipe. Here's the link
http://primaryresourcecentre.myfreeforum.org/about3481.html

rubbadubbas

That sounds delicious. I love Tesco's version but guess it's full of fat. Will give yours ago and try not to eat the whole lot with melba toast!

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There's about 400 calories in the whole lot!

greenteaaddict

Spicy Chicken burgers
4 chicken Breasts
One red pepper
2 cloves of garlic
1 red onion
1 teaspoon of coriander, cumin and tumeric
2 teaspoons of chilli powder
a good twist of salt and pepper
2 teaspoons of olive oil
2 slices of Bread

Whizz up in food processor and then with wet hands form into burgers. Fry gently for a couple of minutes on each side in olive oil then put into oven at 180C for about 15 mins or until cooked right through.

Prawns and Pasta

450g prawns
2 tins of tomatoes
2 teaspoons of marjoram
two glasses of white wine(any will do)
2 teaspoons of chilli powder (or to taste) we like it hot
2 cloves of garlic crushed
a teaspoon of olive oil
If you are not trying to lose weight some single cream (optional) or if you are I usually add about a cup of milk...just helps with the acidity..totally optional though
1 teaspoon of sugar (I find this takes of the acidity of the tomatoes)
Optional some parmesan cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

Gently fry garlic in oil (make sure you dont burn it) Add wine and heat up to boiling Add chlli powder and majoram Add tins of tomatoes Cook for about 20 mins (gently simmer) Add single cream if using Add a couple of table spoons of parmesan cheese and stir in until melted Add Prawns and heat through thorougly but dont overcook Season Pour over cooked pasta with more parmesan if liked

Low fat banana loaf

Low fat banana loaf
Five large ripe bananas
8oz of self raising flour
2 eggs beaten
3 oz of brown sugar
zest of a lemon and an orange

Mash bananas well add eggs, mix well, add flour and sugar and mix again. Put in a loaf tin and bake for about an hour at 150 Very moist and delicious!

Also have posted it before but the All bran loaf is lovely

1 cup of all bran soaked in 1 cup of milk for about an hour
add 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of fruit and 1 cup of self raising flour
Mix and put in a loaf tin. Bake for about an hour at 150 or until a skewer comes out clean

tui

Tomato Soup with Israeli Couscous
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2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, chopped
2 medium carrots, chopped
14 oz can chopped tomatoes
7 garlic cloves, chopped
6 c vegetable stock
1 1/3 cups Israeli couscous
3 mint sprigs, chopped
5 cilantro sprigs, chopped
1/4 tsp ground cumin
cayenne pepper, to taste
salt and ground pepper, to taste
Heat the oil over medium heat in a large saucepan. Add the onions and carrots and cook until they are soft, about 10 minutes. Add 1/2 the garlic and the remaining ingredients to the pan. Bring the soup to a boil, add all but 1 tsp of the chopped garlic, then reduce the heat and simmer for 7-10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the couscous is tender. Remove from the heat, stir in the rest of the garlic, and ladle into bowls. Serve with warm sourdough bread.
4-6 Servings

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That sounds lovely - I shall have to look up what cilantro is. Is Israeli couscous different to the couscous I buy I wonder?

rubbadubbas

think it's coriander SH. no idea about the couscous though. It does sound and look yum tui, thanks!

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Thanks rubbadubbas.

rubbadubbas

Is it millet or quinoa or something judging by the picture? Definitely not our normal couscous.

tui

israeli couscous is a lot bigger than the other couscous. it about the same size as tapioca I think. this photos may show it clearer. you could use quinoa instead.
Cilantro is coriander.

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Thanks Tui - I will have a look out for it - I don't recall having seen any before.

tui

I like it as it has more substance than smaller couscous but it is still quick to cook.

tui

http://ezinearticles.com/?Adventu...n-Israeli-Couscous&id=1007885

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That's useful Tui, I shall definitely look out for it now. Yesterday I made somehing similar with quinoa, but that sounds great.

rubbadubbas

Ahhh, thanks Tui. Don't think sainsbury's sell it but going to keep my eyes open.

rubbadubbas

Butternut Squash Soup (1 WW point per serving)
Makes 4 servings.

1 Butternut Squash
2 sweet potatoes
1 onion
2 pints chicken stock
1 tsp red chilli
2 tsp cumin
2 tsp curry powder

Chop veg into chunks. Fry onion with a spray of oil. Add stock and spices and rest of veg and simmer for about 20 minutes. Blitz if you want or leave it chunky.

I divide this into 4 containers and freeze 2 (because I get fed up having the same thing every day!).

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Your soup sounds nice I'll just substitute veg stock to make it veggie. I watched a programme recently about dieting and soup came out very well for keeping you feeling full for longer. Did you see it? They gave two groups of soldiers a meal of the same ingredients, except one group had chicken, veg potatoes as a 'plate' meal, the other group had the same portions blitzed up into a soup. The soup group felt fuller and more sustained for longer. Interesting isn't it?

rubbadubbas

Never makes me feel as full SH, unless it is very chunky veg soup. But perhaps I'm just conditioned to think that I need to munch on something? Maybe my overeating has reconditioned my brain?! Wink

I like it so much because it's only 1 point so I can have 2 bowls!!!! (or 1 bowl and ice cream later on!)

Louiw

I like homemade soup! It's a good filler and extremely low fat! I used to make soup for my daughter was going througha fussy phase! She didn't know what good stuff she was eating!!