Serves 2
Free on Red or Extra Easy
Ingredients
2 lean round tip beef steaks (approx 250g in weight each)
2 cloves of garlic crushed
1 teaspoon of fresh grated ginger
1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce
2 tablespoons of light soy sauce
black pepper
1 red onion sliced
3 medium carrots, halved, and sliced lengthways
50g of mange tout
Frylight/Pam Spray
sprinkling of mixed herbs
 
Method
In a [...]

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Serves 2
2 HEa + 3 syns for entire recipe on Red of Extra Easy

Ingredients
2 Artichokes, medium sized
1 lemon, sliced
4 cloves of garlic, slightly crushed
56g of parmesan cheese
56g of Prosciutto (Parma) ham, approx 4 slices – cut up finely (1 syn)
splash of balsamic vinegar
 
for the dip:
4 tablespoon of extra light mayonnaise (2 syns)
splash of balsamic [...]

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Serves 6
2 syns for entire recipe on Red or Extra Easy
Ingredients
600g of chicken thigh (skinned and all fat removed)
1 medium sized cauliflower head, broke into florets
2 medium onions
4 ripe tomatoes, skinned and deseeded, then roughly chopped
4 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon of fresh grated ginger
1 large carrot, finely chopped
230ml of passata
400ml of chicken stock
8 [...]

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Serves 3
2 syns for the entire recipe on Extra Easy
Ingredients

For the Meatballs:
500g of extra lean minced beef sirloin
100g of chestnut mushrooms, chopped finely
84g of freshly grated parmesan
1 small red onion, chopped finely
1 garlic clove, crushed
2 tablespoons of mixed herbs
1/2 teaspoon of garlic salt
1/2 teaspoon of onion powder
1 egg
Frylight/Pam spray
For the Rosti’s:
2 medium baking potatoes, [...]

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Serves 4
free on Green or Extra Easy

Ingredients
1 cup of basmati or long grain rice
2 cups of vegetable stock
1 onion, finely chopped
1 yellow pepper, finely chopped
1 red pepper, finely chopped
1 small carrot, finely chopped
1/2 cup of frozen peas
1 clove of garlic crushed
1 spring onion, finely chopped
black pepper
olive oil Frylight/Pam spray
Method
Heat the stock in a saucepan and [...]

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Makes 6 chicken drumsticks
2 syns for 3 drumsticks on Red or Extra Easy
Ingredients
6 chicken drumsticks (skin and fat removed)
3 tablespoons of soy sauce
2 tablespoons of sweet chilli sauce (3 syns)
1 tsp of Worcestershire sauce
1 garlic clove crushed
juice of half a lime
1 teaspoon of brown sugar (1 syn)
1 shallot, sliced thinly
2 springs onions, sliced lengthways then [...]

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Serves 4
4 syns for a quarter slice of cake with topping on Green, Red or Extra Easy
Ingredients
2 weetabix (6.5 syns)
1/2 cup of warm very weak coffee
28g of cocoa powder (4.5 syns)
5 tablespoons of splenda
3 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla essence
1 tsp of baking powder (1/2 syn)
buttery Frylight/Pam spray
For the topping: (per 2 slices of [...]

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Serves 4
4 HEa’s for entire recipe
1 HEa per serving on Red or Extra Easy
Ingredients
200g of asparagus spears
6 slices of lean Canadian bacon
1 red onion, finely sliced
500g tub of fat free cottage cheese
4 eggs
112g of cheddar cheese
Method
Preheat oven to 180c or 350f
Spray a frying pan with non stick spray and sear the asparagus, don’t let [...]

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On a recent trip to the US, we popped to Trader Joes, a great little grocery store, which does some lovely healthy/organic type products. While browsing for some quinoa and couscous. I came across a bag of Trader Joes Harvest Grain blend, which consists of Israeli Couscous, Baby Garbanzo Beans, Orzo, Red Quinoa
Here it is:

So [...]

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Serves 4
o.5 syns for entire recipe
Ingredients
600g of stewing beef (lean cut)
800ml of beef stock
300ml of passata
3 large carrots, cut in half lengthways and then halved again
4 large mushrooms, quartered
1 large sweet onion, chopped finely
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 tsp of Italian Seasoning
2 tsp of thyme
1 tbs of tomato puree
1/2 tsp of onion powder
a couple [...]

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