Saturday, 20 October 2012

Syn Free Carbonara (Green day)

150g Philedelphia Light Garlic and Herb Cream Cheese
Dash of milk
100g raw bacon
Lemon juice
Salt

  1. Using frylight, grill the bacon until just about to turn crispy.
  2. Add the cream cheese and a dash of milk to loosed up the sauce
  3. Add a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of lemon juice. 
Serve with any pasta you choose (I prefer either spaghetti or fusilli but the choice is yours)

Remember this is only free on a GREEN DAY, and as long as you use your Healthy Extra choices for your sauce.

Syn Free Beef Burgers

Extra lean minced beef
1 heaped tablespoon of Tomato puree
2 tablespoons of Soy sauce (light)
2 egg yolks

  1. It's really as simple as mixing all the ingredients in a bowl (I tend to use my hands - a little messy but gets the job done great!)
  2. Mould the mixture into golf ball sized patties, squish a little and grill (preferably using a George Forman or similar), until nice and brown.
These were gorgeous served with homemade salsa (chopped fresh tomatoes, chopped jalapenos, a little garlic and a dash of lime juice), and some SW wedges.

Voila!

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Syn Free CousCous Cake

1 cup of couscous
1 cup of water
Mullerlight banana yoghurt
2 eggs
2 bananas (one chopped, one mashed)
Nutmeg/Cinnamon (one level teaspoon of each approx)
Sweetener

  1. Add one cup of boiling water to the couscous, and leave for 5 mins, until the cous cous is light and fluffy.
  2. Stir in the Mullerlight, bananas, spices and 2 tablespoons of sweetener.
  3. Whisk the eggs in a seperate bowl and stir slowly into the mixture.
  4. Bake at 180c for 25-30mins, or until golden brown and firm,
  5. Sprinkle with sweetener whilst still warm.
Voila!
 

Syn Free Chicken Tikka

1 chicken breast per person (cut into chunks)
Low fat natural yoghurt
Low fat fromage frais
Tikka spices
Tin of chopped tomatoes
2 eggs
2 Tomatoes


  1. Mix a good dollop of natural yoghurt with a heaped tablespoon of tikka spice mix, and stir in the chicken chunks ensuring they are all evenly coated. Leave to marinate in the fridge for at least an hour.
  2. Fry the chicken and mixture until the chicken is golden brown, and then add 2 tablespoons of fromage frais and the tin of tomatoes, set to low and simmer for 30mins.
  3. In the meantime, boil 2 eggs until hard boiled in another pan.
  4. When the tikka has thickened up a bit, peel and slice the egg and add to the curry, along with the two tomatoes, cut into 8ths.
  5. Serve straight away with rice.
Voila! 

This is completely syn free on EE.

Cheesecake Syllabub - 2 syns

1 pot of Quark
2 Options Wicked White hot chocolate sachets (2 syns each)
4 Alpen Light chocolate/fudge cereal bar (Healthy Extra B)
Fruit of your choice (I recommend berries, but anything would work to be honest)
Sweetener


  1. Break up the cereal bars and blast in the microwave for 20 seconds, until lightly melted.
  2. Press the gooey cereal bar into the base of your cheesecake container - I find glass tumblers are useful for this.
  3.  Mix Quark, 2 tablespoons of sweetener and the 2 sachets of Options together.
  4. Spoon the mixture onto the cereal bar base,  sprinkle with fruit and leave to set in the fridge for 30mins.
Voila! 

This recipe is 2 syns each if using cereal bars as your healthy extra.