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Quick Fried Rice

May 6, 2012

Filed under: Recipes — sclark @ 7:06 pm

Quick, easy & very nutritious

Serves 2,  Prep 5 mins Cook 7 mins, Ready in 12 minutes, Low-fat

Ingredients

2 tsp oil, 1 egg , beaten, 2 rashers bacon , chopped, 175g mushrooms , sliced, 200g frozen peas , 1 garlic clove , crushed, small knob of fresh root ginger , grated, 2 tsp dark soy sauce , plus extra to serve, 1 tsp sugar, 250g cooked basmati rice

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a frying pan, then tip in the egg. Leave to set for 30 secs-1 min, swirling every now and again, then tip it out and finely slice. Add bacon and mushrooms to pan, then fry until golden, about 3 mins. Add peas, garlic and ginger, then cook for 1 min.
  2. Mix the soy sauce and sugar together. Turn up the heat, add the cooked rice to the pan, heat through, then splash in the sweet soy sauce. Stir through the egg and serve straight away, with more soy sauce if you like.

Per serving

355 kcalories, protein 18g, carbohydrate 48g, fat 11 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 6g, sugar 6g, salt 1.81

Healthy Rice Pudding

January 19, 2012

Filed under: Recipes,Top tips — sclark @ 11:34 am

•  2 1/2 cups nonfat milk
•  1/2 cup arborio rice , uncooked
•  1 cup nonfat milk
•  1 cinnamon stick , about 3 inches long
•  3 tablespoons sugar
•  1 teaspoon lemon zest , grated
•  1/2 teaspoon vanilla
•  ground cinnamon

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Carrot and Potato Soup

January 12, 2012

Filed under: Recipes,Top tips — sclark @ 9:11 pm

Ingredients: three potatoes; two large carrots; 3oz lentils; one onion; chicken/vegetable stock; salt and pepper; vegetable oil for frying

Instructions: fry the onion in some oil, then add the veg and fry some more. Add water (just enough to cover everything) and the lentils and bring to the boil. Add a stock cube and season to taste. Simmer until everything is cooked and blend down. If it’s too thick, just add water.