Various recipes with pics from UK

joolsweb
joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
Hi All - I'm regularly putting up pics in the show me meals thread, so I thought I'd post in one place, with the actual recipes. I'll admit I'm not the best cook in the world so some are more take out cupboard and eat, rather than take out cupboard, blend, grill, combine,- eat!

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Ingredients Calories Carbs Fat Protein Sugar Sodium
Tilda - Brown Basmati Steamed Rice, 1 Pack (250g) 340 64 5 9 0 200 Ico_delete
Green Giant - Organic Sweetcorn, 1 container (165 g (drained) ea.) 165 34 1 4 11 495 Ico_delete
Cucumber - With peel, raw, 100 g 15 4 0 1 2 2 Ico_delete
Tesco - British Closed Mushrooms 100 g, 300 g 45 1 2 5 1 0 Ico_delete
Generic - Red Bell Pepper, Raw (148g), 148 g 25 6 0 1 4 40 Ico_delete
Oxo - Vegetable Stock Cubes, 1 Cube (5.9g) 16 2 0 0 0 800 Ico_delete
the English Provender Co - Very Lazy Ginger, 10 g 5 1 0 0 0 0 Ico_delete
English Provender - Very Lazy Garlic, 1.01 g 1 0 0 0 0 0 Ico_delete
Very Lazy - Lemongrass Paste, 5 g 5 1 0 0 0 10 Ico_delete
Tesco Ingredients - Lime Juice, 5 ml 1 0 0 0 0 0 Ico_delete
Schwartz - Chilli Powder (Mild), 5 g 16 3 0 1 0 0 Ico_delete
Flora - Cuisine*, 15 ml 95 0 11 0 0 50 Ico_delete
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Total: 729 116 19 21 18 1,597
Per Serving: 365 58 10 11 9 799

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  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Ignore, was busy pasting info..so first recipe easy Chicken Curry - 263 cals (without rice)

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    Chop peppers and onions and fry in flora cuisine/fry light/other low cal frying spray, add curry powder and garlic, fry for a couple of minutes. Add chopped chicken, approx 500ml of chicken stock (add more if you want it runnier) and tomato purée. Simmer until chicken is cooked (approx 7-10 mins). Serve with rice and garnish with coriander (fresh if you can get it but dried will do). I also like to add a little no fat greek yoghurt when I serve it.
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Cheesy tomato and egg bake - 293 cals

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    Pre heat oven to 190. Simmer tomatoes, herbs, garlic and chopped onions for approx 5 mins until onions soften.
    Place in oven proof bowl, crak eggs on top of tomato mixture (2 per person). Bake in oven fro 15 mins, add grated cheese and bake for approx 5 mins until cheese is melted. Serve
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Thai Style rice - 365 cals

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    Chop peppers and mushrooms, fry with ginger, garlic and chilli powder. Add lemongrass, lime juice and 500ml of veg stock. Simmer. After microwaving rice, add to mixture and continue to simmer. Chop cucumber, add this and the tinned sweetcorn at the end and just heat through. Serve
  • Looks good :) might try the bake
  • BigJayUK
    BigJayUK Posts: 63 Member
    looking good
    and great idea too
  • lauraellie10
    lauraellie10 Posts: 273 Member
    Fab work. Keep them coming xx
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Roast Turkey dinner - 611 cals

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    Cook turkey as instructed (70 mins for joint), at approx 30 mins before the end put in roast tatties. When done take out turkey, leave tatties in for further 5 mins, put yorkies in oven. Boil/Steam broccoli and make up gravy (granules with water). Yum
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Prawn Laksa (not proper version, as made from store cupboard ingredients and had with rice not noodles) - 239 cals (just laksa no rice or noodles)

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    Chop onion and pepper and fry with chilli powder, lemongrass and ginger. Add prawns and add approx 250 ml veg stock. Simmer until prawns cooked, add coconut milk just before serving.
    Tip _ I would never use a whole tin of coconut milk, so I freeze the rest - seems to work perfectly well although consistency can look 'bitty' but it doesn't curdle. Serve with rice or noodles
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Tuna, cheese, marmite and gherkin tortilla - 416 cals

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    Mix the tuna wit the mayo. Grate cheese on tortilla, then add Marmite, then out tuna mixture on top, finish with gherkins and microwave for 1 minute - gooey runny mess, but I love it. Tip - buy the tortillas and freeze them, 30 secs in microwave will defrost and slightly warm them.
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Toasted crusty roll with low low cheese, marmite and poached eggs - 438 cals (for 2 eggs/1 roll)

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    Another favourite for brunch (can you see a Marmite theme - honestly i don't work fro them!).
    Fill shallow frying pan with water and bring to boil, break in 2 x eggs. Meanwhile split crusty roll in half, squish down and put in toaster (squished so it doesn't catch on the toaster). Poach the eggs (I don't add vinegar or anything, just hard simmer the water and splash the water over the yolks, fresh eggs help a lot). Take roll out of toaster, spread with low low (or philly) cheese, squirt of marmite (the squeezy bottles help here) and then spoon poached eggs on top.
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Home made tomato pasta soup - 316 cals

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    Put tomatoes into saucepan and blitz with had held blender (or leave chunky, or use other method to blend them), add approx 1 litre of beef stock (I just use one oxo cube in hot water). Bring to boil and return to simmer, add in dried pasta and frozen veg. Add Worcestershire sauce and mixed or Italian herbs (sorry forgot the herbs on my recipe calculator). Simmer until pasta and veg are cooked.
    Serve with grated cheese and lots of black pepper.
  • grrrlface
    grrrlface Posts: 1,204 Member
    Lovely recipes! :)
  • nhenryoliver
    nhenryoliver Posts: 112 Member
    Bump
  • clairyA
    clairyA Posts: 6
    lovely looking recipes, more please x
  • awfuldaring
    awfuldaring Posts: 21 Member
    I love your style, thanks!
  • swati37
    swati37 Posts: 145 Member
    Ignore, was busy pasting info..so first recipe easy Chicken Curry - 263 cals (without rice)


    Chop peppers and onions and fry in flora cuisine/fry light/other low cal frying spray, add curry powder and garlic, fry for a couple of minutes. Add chopped chicken, approx 500ml of chicken stock (add more if you want it runnier) and tomato purée. Simmer until chicken is cooked (approx 7-10 mins). Serve with rice and garnish with coriander (fresh if you can get it but dried will do). I also like to add a little no fat greek yoghurt when I serve it.

    awesomeee.... bump for more.... love your idea...
  • loulou_1979
    loulou_1979 Posts: 22 Member
    BUMP! Thanks for these!
  • rebamay87
    rebamay87 Posts: 103 Member
    I love this idea! fantastic! can others add in this format too? Since I think this is way better than just showing the meals done up.

    Or are you thinking of this as more your own resource?
  • natty1408
    natty1408 Posts: 62 Member
    Thank you and bump.
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    I don't mind, quite happy for people to add - but its more for any pals who want to see what sort of thing I eat regularly as i don't have my diary open
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Steak with Philadelphia mushroom sauce, rice, broccoli and mushrooms - 674 cals

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    Fry steak in a little bit of fry light, if thin steak just do 2 mins each side. Meanwhile put water onto boil and pop the broccoli in. Remove steak from frying pan and add mushrooms, add a little bit of water to help them sautee/simmer so you don't need any more fat/oil. fry/Simmer for approx 5 mins until tender. meanwhile put rice in microwave for 2 mins. Once broccoli tender, take off heat. Add steaks back into frying pan, remove mushrooms, add philly sauce and simmer for 2 mins. Serve and enjoy.
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Bistek - 396 cals (less rice)

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    Cut steak into strips and then marinate steak in soy sauce, lime juice and pepper for at least an hour (I'd actually advise less soy as we found it a bit too salty).
    Chop onion into rings and stir fry, set to one side. Add steak (not mixture, rather dry) to pan and stir fry for approx 3 mins til steak browns. Remove then stir fry the garlic until cooked but not brown, put back in pan steak and marinade and simmer for approx 10 mins until steak tender, you may want to add some water as you go along to keep the consistency as a sauce. Finally add onions. Microwave rice and then serve!
  • DeadsAndDoritos
    DeadsAndDoritos Posts: 267 Member
    That turkey dinner looks tasty. I am a Brit living in Norway so I can't take the shortcuts with the frozen Yorkies and turkey joint, have to do it all from scratch. Can't beat a nice roast though. :smile:
  • TheCakeIsALie86
    TheCakeIsALie86 Posts: 17 Member
    Love the "very lazy" range of chopped herbs and things for cooking. Saves so much time and money :)

    These are really awesome by the way :)
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    Sorry all been of the plan, but more meals to come soon, including mushroom lasagne, and Sunday is date day with a pirate theme, so who knows what might appear!
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
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    Linguine and meatballs in a tomato and pancetta sauce - Cals = 844

    Bring pan of water to boil and add linguine. Defrost frozen meatballs for 5 mins, meanwhile cut and fry (flora light) mushrooms and peppers.
    Add meatballs to frying pan and cook for a few minutes to brown, then add sauce. Simmer on a low heat for a couple of mins until linguine is cooked. drain linguine and then serve, add grated Parmesan to taste.
  • joolsweb
    joolsweb Posts: 81 Member
    A few more just pictures from a while back:

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