Shirataki Noodles-- Indian Style (With Pics)

Shirataki Noodles-- Indian Style

I cook, from scratch, 99.5% of the time— including when I cook Indian. I almost NEVER buy prepared food.

One exception would be these boxed dinners that I buy for 99 cents each at the Indian market:



The above are just a few of the ones that I buy and they’re surprisingly good. Most meals tend to have about 300 calories per container.

I have quite a few friends from India and one evening my friend, Krishna, spotted some of these boxes in my pantry.

“You do know that everything I cook for you guys is from scratch, right? I would never serve you boxed Indian food.”

“Oh, I know that, Chelle. Your food always tastes like what I eat back home. To be honest, though, you would find those same boxes in many Indian kitchens…!”

So I don’t feel so bad about using them, sometimes.

Most come in microwaveable pouches and are ready in 2 minutes. You can either eat them, as is, or serve them over Basmati rice.

Since I try to limit my rice consumption, these days, I’ve started using them with shirataki noodles, instead.

Is that authentic? Of course not!

Do my taste buds care? Heck no!

So if you’re bored with eating the same foods over and over again, on your diet, try some of these inexpensive-yet-surprisingly-good meals.

Here is what I’ve been doing:

I dry fry the shirataki noodles with onion and bell pepper as described in this post:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/591052-buttery-mushroom-flavored-shirataki-noodles?page=1#posts-8486934

While they cook I use the spatula to chop them up a bit to more closely approximate grains of rice.

If you leave out the butter/margarine and cream of mushroom soup and you’ll end up with something that looks like this:



Next, turn the temperature down to medium and add one package of the 99 cent pouch of Indian food of your choice. In this case I used the eggplant (pictured center, above):



Simmer for a few minutes and serve:



It’s a ton of food (food is pictured in a serving bowl) and, if you could somehow eat it all, you’d put away 445 calories— not bad for a dinner that’ll fill you up for the rest of the night!

For more of my recipes please check out my MFP blog:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/finallychelle/view/my-lo-cal-recipe-collection-195763

For my post on shirataki noodles please follow this link:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/536767-let-s-talk-about-shirataki-noodles

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