Garlic prawn with tomato sauce with linguine or spaghetti

I have fallen in love with this dish! I cannot believe that something so simple can be so delicious.  I hope you love it as much as I do!

Serves 4

Syns per serving
FREE

Ingredients:
525g of raw king prawns
800g of cherry tomatoes
5-8 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 bunch of parsley, finely chopped
1/2tsp dry chillies
400-500g of linguine or spaghetti

Method:
Cut the tomatoes in half, put in a bowl and crush with your hands so some of the juices come out.

In a pan fry the garlic with fry light for 1-2 minutes, add the tomatoes and chillies and turn down the heat so that the tomatoes can cook slowly and the sauce can thicken up. I cooked mine for about 15-20 minutes. Half way through, get a potato masher and gently mash down the tomatoes so that they can soften and more juice can be released.

In the meantime boil some water and cook the pasta.

Once the sauce has thickened up add the prawns and cook for 7-8 minutes or until they have turned pink and they are not transparent anymore.

Once cooked take off the heat, add the parsley and stir.

Serve immediately with the pasta and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese.

Enjoy!

Slimming World Campfire Stew

This is a syn free, deliciously hearty meal (and cheap too). 

Serves 8

Syns per serving 
FREE

Ingredients:
1 small gammon / pork joint (all visible fat removed)
1 chopped onion
3-4 crushed garlic cloves
2 tins of baked beans
2-3 chopped peppers
1tsp chilli powder
1tbsp smoked paprika
6tbsp tomato puree

Method:
Place all the ingredients in a slow cooker and cook for 5 hours on low. Shred the pork and cook for a further hour. (total of 6 hours cooking time)

Serve with any of the below:
Slimming world chips, mash potato, vegetables or salad

Enjoy!

Salmon fish cakes

I thought I would try something different with these fish cakes so rather than use bread to help bind it all together I used organic oats. Oats are a good source of energy and help keep you fuller for longer. They came out pretty good :)

Serves 4

Syns per serving
FREE (when using oats as your HEB, otherwise add just over 1 syn for each fish cake)

Ingredients:
2 tins of salmon (or other fish) in water
20g of oats
1 egg
2 tsp wholegrain mustard 
1 shallot
Small bunch parsley, chopped
Salt and pepper

Method:
Mix all the ingredients together and form into 4 even balls and gently flatten with your palm.

Spray a non stick baking tray with fry light and place the fish cakes on the tray.

Cook in a 200c oven for 15-20 minutes. 

Serve with a bean or vegetable salad.

Enjoy!

PS: If you want to get the top of the fish cake crispy, I would spray that with fry light before putting in the oven.

Slimming World Raspberry Roulade

I have been wanting to do this for a while now and I am so glad I did. It did not disappoint.

Serves 8

Syns per serving
Less than 0.5 syn

Ingredients:
4 eggs, separated
2 x 250g quark
3tbsp sweetener
1tsp baking powder
1tsp vanilla extract
200g raspberries
1 sachet Options white chocolate

Method:
Beat the egg whites until stiff. In another bowl mix together the egg yolks, 250g quark, 3tbsp sweetener, 1tsp baking powder and 1tsp vanilla extract. Fold in the egg whites carefully.

Cover a baking tray with baking paper (I used a silicone sheet, as its easier to peel off once its cooked). Poor over the mixture and bake in a 180c oven for 20 minutes.

Once cooked let it cool down. In a separate bowl use the remaining 250g of quark and mix in the white chocolate options. 

At this point you will have to peel off the sponge from the baking paper, very careful, and then flip it back over so that the side that was facing down, is still facing down (thats the prettier side and its the side you want to see once it's rolled up).

Spread over the quark/white chocolate mixture, spread over the raspberries and carefully roll up. 

Cut into 8 even pieces and enjoy!

Note: If you are not using a silicone baking sheet, you will need to spray some fry light on to the baking tray so that the baking paper sticks down, before pouring over the mixture.

Slimming World friendly Cinnamon, Jam and Nutella Swirls

I couldn't believe how easy and quick it was to make these. And I must say they are not far off the real thing 

Serves 25

Syns per serving
Cinnamon - 2.5 syns
Nutella - 3.5 syns
Raspberry Jam - 3.5

I have listed all the syns for each ingredient below so you can cut the pieces as small or as big as you like. As long as you take into consideration the syn values below as a whole. I managed to get 25 out of it

Ingredients:
1 packet of puff pastry light ready rolled (60 syns)
1 tbsp cinnamon and 2 tbsp sweetener mixed together (No syns)
2.5 tbsp nutella (10 syns)
10 tsp raspberry jam (5 syns)

Method:
Roll out the puff pastry and score into 3 sections.

In section 1 spread out evenly the cinnamon / sweetener mix.
In section 2 spread out evenly the jam.
In section 3 spread out evenly the nutella.

Roll it all up, cut and discard the ends. Cut in even slices and place on a baking tray.

Bake in a 180c oven for 15-25 minutes or until the pastry is lightly browned.

Enjoy!

WARNING: It is very easy to eat the whole lot!!

Slimming World one pot lasagne

This one pot lasagne recipe is a hit in any home, especially when time is not on your side but still want something as hearty as this.

Serves 6

Syns 

Free (add 6 if not using the mozzarella as your HEB)

Ingredients :

500g 5% mince beef 

1 onion, diced

2 cloves of garlic, minced

1 bottle of passata 

1 beef stock

1tsp Italian herbs

Up to 500g mozzarella light, grated

Method:

Preheat the oven to 190c. Brown the onions and garlic for about 3 minutes or until softened. Turn the heat down to a medium heat, add the mince meat and cook until brown.

Add half of the passata and stock and turn the heat up stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes. 

Remove from the heat and pan. Assemble the lasagne sheets in the same pan, cutting any pieces needed for the edges. Add the filling and more lasagne on top.

Next, add the remaining passata and sprinkle with the mozzarella.

Cover and cook in the oven for 20 minutes. Remove the cover and cook for a further 10 minutes to brown the cheese.

Serve with a fresh salad.

Enjoy!

Slimming World Weetabix brownie muffins

These are delicious and so low in fat/sugar/syn, you can please the whole of the family whilst staying healthy.

Serves 6

Syns per serving
Just under 0.5 syn (if using the weetabix as your HEB, otherwise add another 1 syn for each one)

Ingredients:
2 Weetabix
10g coco powder
6tbsp sweetener
1 small carrot, grated
2 eggs
1 level tsp baking powder
a dash of skimmed milk

Method:
Blitz the weetabix in the blender for around 1-2 minutes. Add the sweetener and coco powder and blitz some more until well combined.

Add the rest of the ingredients and again give it a good blitz until all the ingredients are combined well with no traces of any dry powder.

Give it a good stir with a spoon to create some air and divide into 6 muffin cups.

Bake in a 190c oven for approximately 20 minutes or until the knife comes out clean.

Let them cool down before removing from the muffin cups.

Enjoy!

These are nice served with some fromage frai or quark and rasberries.