Creamy Pork Casserole

Slimming Eats Recipe

Serves 4

Original – approx 1.5 syns per serving

Extra Easy – approx 1.5 syns per serving

 

Ingredients

8 Pork Loins (fat removed)

2 sticks of celery, chopped

1 onion, chopped

3 cloves of garlic

8 large button mushrooms, sliced

1/2 butternut squash, peeled and chopped

1 400g tin of chopped tomatoes

2 tablespoons of tomato paste

dash of tabasco sauce

1 teaspoon of sugar (1 syn)

1/2 cup of chicken stock

1/2 cup of quark (left to reach room temperature”)

2 garlic and herb laughing cow lights (3.5 syns)

paprika

Frylight or Pam spray

Salt and black pepper

fresh chopped Italian Parsley to serve

 

* it is important for the quark not to be cold straight out of the fridge otherwise it will curdle as soon as it hits the hot sauce

 

Method

Preheat oven to 180c or 350f

Spray a frying pan with some Frylight or Pam spray. Add the onion, garlic, celery and butternut squash and fry until golden. Add a sprinkling of paprika and mix to evenly coat.

Add the chopped tomatoes, mushrooms, tomato paste, stock, sugar and dash of tabasco sauce. Bring to the boil.

Place pork loins in an oven proof dish and poor over the sauce from the frying pan.

Bake in the oven until the pork is cooked through (approx 30 mins).

In the mean time, add the quark and laughing cow lights to a jug add a couple of tablespoons of hot water and whisk until smooth.

When the pork is ready, remove the pork loins and divide among plates.

Add the quark mixture to the sauce/vegetables and stir till creamy.

Pour over the pork loins and top with some freshly chopped Italian parsley

Serve with your choice of side

Filed under: below 2 syns, Extra Easy, main course, Original, Pork