Chicken Valdostana is a fantastic dish and one you will get in a lot of Italian restaurants. Though they will have their own take on it I recommend you try this version.
It is Syn free if you use the cheese as you HEA choice, plus it serves 4 and is ready in about 30 minutes.
It is another amazing version of the recipe donated by Jamie Davison and it tastes divine. You will need the napoli sauce/tomato sauce recipe here for this dish
Chicken Valdostana – Syn Free on Slimming World
Kung Pao Chicken
Ingredients
3 large skinless chicken breast fillets, cut into bite-sized pieces
4 tbsp white wine vinegar
6 tbsp soy sauce
6 dried red chilies, broken into 1in lengths and seeds shaken out
2 tsp Szechuan peppercorns, lightly crushed
2 tbsp sweetner
3 tbsp tomato paste
10 fl oz chicken stock
Low calorie cooking spray
8 scallions/spring onions, diagonally cut into 1inch lengths
3 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
1 red bell pepper, deseeded and roughly chopped
2 x 8oz cans bamboo shoots, drained
2 x 8oz cans water chestnuts, drained
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
3½ baby spinach leaves
Italian chicken pasta bake
This is a fab easy one pot dinner, I love Italian flavours of tomato, garlic and basil but you can vary the herbs if you don’t like basil try oregano or even mixed herbs if you like them or if that’s what you have in the cupboard.
I used chicken thighs as I prefer the flavour but if you like you could use chicken breasts if you prefer them. I measured the pasta in mugs as I have always done this as I usually average one mug of pasta makes enough for two people.
Ingredients :
- 8 boneless chicken thighs ( skin and fat removed) cut into bite sized pieces
- 1 large onion (chopped)
- 2 mugs dry pasta (I used penne but any shape will do)
- 2 cloves garlic (crushed)
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 x 500g pack passata
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 160g low fat grated cheese
- low cal spray oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
Cook the pasta in plenty of salted boiling water until just cooked then drain and set aside.
Spray a large frying pan or wok with the spray oil and place over a medium/high heat and add the chicken and onion cook for about ten minutes until the chicken is browned and cooked through and the onion is soft.
Add the garlic, basil, tomato puree, passata and salt and pepper. Mix well and cook for another five minutes then add in the cooked pasta and mix again.
Place in a large ovenproof dish and sprinkle the cheese on top.
Bake at gas 6 /200/ 400 for about 20-30 minutes until the cheese is melted and browned.
Serves 4
Syn free on extra easy if using the cheese as a healthy extra
Credit : http://vicki-kitchen.blogspot.com/
Chicken, Lemon & Honey Roast
Serves 2
Ingredients
1 lemon, use rind & juice (ss) (sff)
2 Chicken breasts (s) (ff)
2tbsp honey (2.5 syns per person)
2tbsp light soy sauce
2 sprigs of rosemary
4 garlic cloves (sff)
4 rashers of smoked bacon, with rind removed (ff)
Shake of Garlic salt
Method
In an ovenproof dish sprayed with Fry Light place 2 chicken breasts, each with a sprig of rosemary and then covered with 2 rashers of bacon with the rind removed, wrapped around each chicken. Stab small slits into each chicken.
Preheat the oven to 180c, make a marinade of lemon juice, honey & soy sauce in a small bowl, coat the chicken and then add the garlic cloves, sprinkle with garlic salt, slice the lemon into slices and lie across each chicken breast, cover in Clingfilm and refrigerate. Marinade for at least 2hrs.
Remove from the fridge, allow returning to room temperature, remove the Clingfilm and cook for 10 mins remove from the oven, re-coat the chicken & return to the oven, repeat after another 10 mins, continue until the chicken is golden in colour & cooked. (About 30 mins in total, depending on the size of the chicken)
Serve with a bowl of rice and a side salad.
Slimming World Cookies
A Slimming World friendly recipe for choc chip cookies using 4 syns per portion with your healthy extra B allowance
by : Holly Anne
Slimming World Couscous Cake
Syns:
Choc shot- 0.5 syns per teaspoon
Nutella – 4 syns per tablespoon – use 2 tablespoons
Lemon curd – 0.5 syns per teaspoon
Mincemeat – 0.5 syns per teaspoon
Mashed banana – 4 syns per 100g – use 200g
Essence/flavourings – free – but you will need sweetener – 0.5 syns per tablespoon – use 6 tablespoons
SOURCE : Holly Anne
Hot cross baked oats – Recipes
Enjoy the spiced hot cross bun flavour without all the Syns, with our tasty breakfast treat.
ingredients
- 40g plain porridge oats
- 1 tsp sweetener
- 1 small egg
- 90g fat-free plain yogurt
- Few drops of vanilla essence
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp mixed spice
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 25g sultanas
- ½ tsp icing sugar, for dusting
Method
- Preheat your oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6. Mix everything except the icing sugar in a bowl and stir well.
- Transfer the mixture to a small ovenproof dish/ramekin and bake in the oven for 35 minutes, or until browned.
- Create a cross on top by sprinkling the icing sugar through a cross-shaped stencil. Serve with lots of Speed Free Food fruit.
Tip: To save ½ Syn, create your cross with fat-free plain yogurt or plain quark.
SOURCE : https://www.slimmingworld.co.uk/recipes/hot-cross-baked-oats.aspx
