Today I experimented with my husband's dinner.

Instead of having this:



I made him this:



I made the doner meat following this recipe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEF354SpSxg

The only tweaks I made to the recipe and method were to use 5% fat beef, fat-free yoghurt and a mixture of olive oil and butter (5mls/5g of each) for frying the meat. I served it in a wholemeal pitta with lots and lots of salad and a drizzle of sriracha.

For the apple turnover, the filling was bramley apples stewed with half a tsp of brown sugar and seasoned with cinnamon, which I made into a turnover using a plain white tortilla (sealing the edges with a little milk). Baked in the oven, dusted with half a tsp of brown sugar mixed with Stevia and served with a scoop of frozen yoghurt.

Delicious, filling, healthy. The kebab was 650 calories (he stuffed it with loads of meat); dessert was 300 calories (and the turnover was huge, as the tortilla was the size of a dinner plate). You could cut down the calories by having a more modest amount of meat and omitting the pita...or (heaven forbid) sharing the turnover....

If you're wondering why I didn't have the same for my dinner, I'd defrosted some chilli which needed to be used up, so I had that instead. Luckily we have plenty of doner meat safely stowed in the freezer, so I won't miss out. And I only had the one tortilla left in the pack, so I fell on my sword and generously gave it to my husband, as apple turnovers are his all time favourite dessert. He loved it, so I'll definitely be making more....