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Sunday, April 9, 2017

Slimming World Fries

By Maron 2:40 PM Featured, Fries, recipe, Recipes, slimming world

-Preparation time: 5 minutes

-Cooking time: 40 minutes

-Total time: 45 minutes

Who knew you can eat fries when you’re slimming? With our easy-to-follow recipe you can!

Ingredients

-Spray oil

-2lbs medium-size russet baking potatoes

-Coarse or kosher salt

Method

-Preheat the oven to 450°F. Spray a rimmed baking sheet with spray oil.

-Peel the potatoes, if you like. Slice them lengthwise into fries, approximately ½in thick, or cut them thinner if you prefer.

-Bring a large, covered pot of salted water to a boil. Add the potatoes and cook for 4 minutes. Drain and set aside on paper towel to dry. Dry the pot.

-Return the fries to the dry pot, cover it with a lid, and shake to rough up the edges of the fries (this ensures they crisp up in the oven).

-Transfer the fries to the prepared baking sheet, lightly coat them with spray oil, and bake for 20–25 minutes, turning occasionally, until golden brown. Serve hot, sprinkled with salt.

Source: www.slimmingworld.com

Slimming World diet cola chicken recipe

By Maron 1:34 AM Featured, Recipes

Diet cola chicken is one of Slimming World's most popular and versatile dishes. Don't miss this tasty recipe video to see how quick and easy it is...

ingredients

Low calorie cooking spray
1 onion, finely chopped
1 red pepper, 1 yellow and 1 green pepper, chopped into chunks
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
4 skinless chicken breasts, cut into pieces
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
4 tbsp tomato purée
8 tbsp passata with onions and garlic
1 tbsp dark soy sauce/tamari
1 tsp dried mixed herbs
330ml can diet cola
200ml chicken stock
200g sugar snap peas

method

Place a large pan sprayed with low calorie cooking spray over a high heat.
Add the chicken, peppers and onion and stir-fry for 4-5 minutes, or until lightly browned.
Add the diet cola, stock, passata, tomato purée, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce and dried mixed herbs and stir well.
Bring to the boil, cover, reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 12-15 minutes.
Add the sugar snap peas, stir and increase the heat to medium-high.
Cook for another 10-15 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and the veg is tender.

Tip: Try swapping diet cola for diet orange, for a tasty change.

Video: Diet cola chicken

Slimming World easy chicken curry recipe

By Maron 7:47 AM Chicken Curry (Dish), Cooking, Curry (Food), Featured, Food (TV Genre), healthy recipe, low fat food, low fat recipe, recipe, Recipe (Website Category), Recipes, Slimming World (Organization)

Recipe
Low calorie cooking spray
3 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
2 large onions, peeled and finely chopped
½ green pepper and ½ red pepper, deseeded and chopped in chunks
4 skinless chicken breasts, chopped into chunks
100g chopped mushrooms
400g tin chopped tomatoes
225ml chicken stock
2 heaped tsp of curry spice (mild, medium or hot - your choice)
Fat free natural yogurt
Fresh coriander and fresh green chilli, to serve
Method

Spray a frying pan with low calorie cooking spray and place over a high heat. Add the onion, mushrooms and peppers and chicken and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes or until starting to lightly brown.
Stir in the garlic, curry powder and stir-fry over a high heat for 1-2 minutes.
Add the tomatoes and stock. Bring to the boil, cover tightly, reduce the heat to low and allow to simmer gently for 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally until the chicken is cooked through.
Remove the frying pan from the heat, adjust the seasoning to taste and serve garnished with chopped coriander and sliced green chillies. If you enjoy a creamier curry or want to make the curry less hot swirl in some fat free natural yogurt.

Serves: 4
Cook time: Ready in under one hour
Ready in: 30-60 Minutes
Syns per serving:FREE
Freezer friendly

How to make Soft Chapati / Phulka / Roti | Chapati Recipe | Phulka Recipe

By Maron 7:21 AM Chapati Recipe, Featured, Flat Bread Recipe, Phulka, Phulka Recipe, Recipes, Roti, Soft Chapati

Chapati's or flat breads are made from whole wheat flour and water. oil and salt may or may not be added. i add some salt and oil to the dough. the whole wheat flour which is used in making these indian breads are hard to semi hard wheat durum wheat. the wheat is finely ground. this wheat flour is called as “atta”.

Phulka Chapati Roti Recipe

Ingredients

500 gms Wheat Flour

01 tsp Salt

01 tbl Spoon Vegetable Oil

400 ml Water

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Phulka Chapati Roti Recipe

Cooking Instructions

1) To a skillet add the Wheat flour, salt, Vegetable oil and water and knead well, cover with a damp cloth (slightly wet cloth) and keep aside for 5 minutes, this helps in releasing gluten from the dough.

2) Knead the dough again for 2 minutes atleast to make a stiff/tight though soft dough.

3) create round shaped balls and using a rolling pin roll them into circular shaped flat breads, roughly the diameter would be the distance between your pinki/little finger and the thumb when your palm is completely stretched.

4) on a hot pan but which is at a low flame, drop this flat bread / phulka / chapati / roti and let it cook for 50 seconds and then you flip it over to cook it again for 50 seconds.

5) Serve this flat bread / phulka / chapati / roti's with any side dish of your choice, enjoy with family and friends :)

Chicken Manchurian (how to make chicken manchurian)

By Maron 10:31 AM Featured, Recipes, Videos

Chicken pieces cooked in spicy Chinese sauce. This is taken from one of the websites. Made this with Chinese fried rice and sweet corn soup. This dish is quite delicious

Chilli Chicken Recipe | How to make Chilli Chicken | Chicken Recipes

By Maron 1:23 PM Featured, Recipes, Videos

Video from here

Chilli Chicken Recipe is an Indo-Chinese recipe, popularly served as a starter dish at Chinese restaurants across India, Chilli Chicken Recipe is served along with mayonnaise and mint sauces, most important sauce being the red chilli sauce which goes into this dish, it's very easy to prepare, come let's make a note of the ingredients

Chilli Chicken Recipe, How to make Chilli Chicken

Ingredients

Marination :

500 gms Chicken Boneless (Breast)
01 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Black Pepper Powder
1/2 tsp Ajinomoto (MSG)
01 tsp Sugar
1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
01 tbl Spoon Sesame Oil
1/2 tbl Spoon Dark Soy Sauce
1/2 tbl Vinegar
150 ml Water (Luke Warm)
01 Egg
1/2 Cup Corn Flour
01 Cup All Purpose Flour

Preparation :

500 ml Sesame Oil
05 Green Chillies
08 Garlic Cloves
01 inch Ginger
01 tsp Corn Flour
01 Onion (Diced)
01 Red Bell Pepper
01 Yellow Bell Pepper
01 Green Capsicum
01 tbl Spoon Soy Sauce
01 tbl Spoon Vinegar
02 tbl Spoon Red Chilli Sauce
1/2 tsp Black Pepper Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
01 tsp Ajinomoto (MSG)

Chilli Chicken Recipe, How to make Chilli Chicken

Preparation Method :

1) Add the Boneless Chicken Breast pieces to a bowl, and wash them throroughly.

2) Marinate the Chicken, by adding the ingredients mentioned in the marination process except egg, corn flour and all purpose flour, leave for 15 minutes.

3) Now to the marinated chicken pieces bowl, Add Egg, Corn Flour and All Purpose Flour, mix well.

4) Fry the Chicken Pieces in Sesame Oil at medium flame until they are 70% cooked, keep these chicken pieces aside while the Oil in the Wok gets hot.

5) Once again add the 70% cooked chicken pieces to the Hot Sesame oil in the Wok, and cook them until they turn Crisp from the outside.

6) In the same Wok which you used to deep fry the chicken above, remove excess Sesame oil and only retain 1 Laddle of Sesame Oil for preparing our Chilli Chicken Recipe Sauce.

7) When Sesame oil is hot enough, Add Ginger & Garlic followed by Onions, Red & Yellow Bell Peppers, Capsicum, Green Chillies, and saute` while the flame is on High.

8) Mix a tsp of Corn Flour with 1/4 Cup of Water and add it to the Wok as a thickner.

9) Reduce the flame to Low, and Add Soy Sauce, Vinegar, Red Chilli Sauce, Salt and Pepper for Seasoning, Ajinomoto and saute` at a low flame.

10) Serve Chilli Chicken Hot, Enjoy :)

★ Veg Sweet Corn Soup | How to make Soup | Soup Recipes

By Maron 1:11 PM Featured, Recipes, Videos

Sweet corn soup recipe - a comforting, healthy and delicious mixed vegetable sweet corn soup. This can be had anytime for the day, for breakfast, as part of the meal, starter or for evening snack.

Vegetable Sweet Corn Soup

Ingredients

01 Cup Sweet Corn Kernels
1.5 Litre Water
10 gms Butter
02 Garlic Cloves
01 Spring Onion (Scallion)
01 Cup Carrots and Beans
01 Cup Vegetable Stock
02 tsp Salt
01 tsp White Pepper Powder
01 tbl Spoon Corn Flour

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Vegetable Sweet Corn Soup

Cooking Instructions

1) Blend 10% of the Sweet Corn Kernels in a blender and keep aside.

2) Add butter to a cooking pot, and cooking at a low flame add garlic and spring onion white and greens when the butter melts, saute` for a few seconds and add carrots and beans including the Sweet Corn Soup Kernels from step 1.

3) Also add the rest of the Sweet Corn Soup Kernels and saute` for a few seconds.

4) Add Vegetable stock and water and bring to boil.

5) Add salt and white pepper powder, and cover with a lid and let it simmer at a low flame.

6) Add the Corn Flour Slurry (Corn flour mixed with Water) and cook for another 2 minutes while your soup now thickens.

7) Server Sweet Corn Soup Hot, enjoy :)

Spicy KFC Fried Chicken | How to make KFC Chicken at home | Snacks | Chicken Recipes

By Maron 12:50 PM Featured, Recipes, Videos

Video from here

Spicy KFC Fried Chicken is a renowned fast food recipe across various countries in the world, in this KFC Fried Chicken recipe above, I have tried to imitate the original version to as closest as possible to relish your taste buds

Spicy KFC Fried Chicken

Ingredients

For Spicy KFC Fried Chicken Marinate

1 Whole Chicken (with Skin)
02 tbl Spoons Water
02 tbl Spoons Curd
01 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Baking Powder
01 tsp Red Chilli Powder
01 tsp Sugar
01 tsp Ajinomoto (MSG)
1/2 tsp Onion Powder
1/2 tsp Garlic Powder
1/4 lime Juice
1/2 tbl Spoon Oil

For Spicy KFC Fried Chicken Egg Wash

02 Eggs
01 tbl Spoon Milk
1/2 tbl Spoon Red Chilli Sauce
1/4 tsp Salt
1 Cup All Purpose Flour (Maida)
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Garlic Powder
1/2 tsp Onion Powder
1/4 tsp Baking Powder

Spicy KFC Fried Chicken

Cooking Instructions

1) Add all the marinated ingredients to a bowl and mix well, then drop the chicken pieces with skin and keep this bowl in a fridge for 1 hour.

2) In the meanwhile prepare the egg wash using the ingredients above and the dry mix as well.

3) Retrieve the marinated chicken pieces from the fridge, grab each piece gradually and add it to the dry mix , then egg wash and dry mix again for a double dip and deep fry them in Oil.

4) While deep frying make sure you maintain a medium flame for cooking the KFC Fried Chicken for 7 minutes and retrieve the chicken by keeping it in air for 2-3 minutes and then increase the flame to very high and again add these 7 minutes cooked chicken as batches in the hot hot oil to cook them for another minute, this time they would get a great texture and crunchy coating at the top.