Speed Soup

Exactly what it says on the tin. Quick to make, quick to eat. Keeps you full and it tastes just like Heinz Tomato Soup but with a lot more flavour!

Slow Cooker Chilli

I got in from work tonight and really couldn't be bothered standing in the kitchen preparing a chilli, so I whacked all the ingredients into the slow cooker once I'd browned the mince and 2.5 hours later tucked into a lovely SYN FREE Chilli.

Used Muscle Food's beef mince and then pretty much made it up to how I like it.
Added onions, peppers, chopped tomatoes, passata, baked beans, tomato puree, garlic, cumin, paprika, coriander, chilli flakes, salt and pepper and a beef stock cube. It's as easy as that. And my other half loves it too which is always a bonus! Leftovers for tomorrows lunch too which is good!

Chicken & Spinach Lasagne

Took this recipe from the latest issue of the Slimming World magazine. Theres a few tweaks I'd make, more for personal taste really, but it was lovely and a big change from stuff I normally have. Full of speed food I probably wouldn't normally have aswell.

Serves 4 and is 3 syns per portion, although I'd happily divide into 8 at 1.5 syns each and then make my plate up with other bits and bobs. Personal choice really.

Slow Cooker Chilli

Slimming world, slow cooker chilli for tea last night. So easy and so yummy and full of speed veg and completely Syn free. Woo!

So easy to do, I just added 5% mince, onions, peppers, passata, chopped tomatoes, garlic, cumin, chilli powder, paprika, 1 beef stock cube, 1 tin of baked beans

Will most likely get a minimum of 4 BIG portions out of this, or 6 smaller ones for using with a jacket etc

Syn Free Chilli

I need to learn how to portion properly! Massive portion of chilli on a tiny jacket, but it was all Syn free, 4.5 syns for the crisps! 

Salt and Pepper chicken

Better than a Chinese! And only 2 syns for a massive portion!

Recipe is in a previous post but here you go for ease:

This was amazing.

Ingredients 

Chicken breast, cut into chunks 

Plain flour (25g is 4 syns) 

Salt & Pepper 

Garlic granules 

One egg, whisked 

Fry Light 

A pepper, thinly sliced 

An onion, thinly sliced  

Soy sauce 

White wine vinegar 

Sweetener 

Method 

Preheat oven to approx 180 degrees.

 

Combine Four tablespoons of flour in a bowl (25g is 4 syns), with half a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of pepper, along with half a teaspoon of garlic granules. 

In another bowl, whisk your egg and add a splash of soy sauce to season. 

Pop your chicken chunks in the egg and then in the flour mix. 

Once this is all done, arrange on a nonstick baking tray, sprayed with some Fry Light first. 

Then spray the chicken with Fry Light - this will help it to brown. 

If you're using the oven, leave the chicken for 15 minutes, and turn over, and then give it another spray of Fry Light and then give it another 10 minutes, or until golden. 

When the chicken is on the second round of cooking, in a non-stick pan, gently soften your peppers and onion. 

I'd add a splash of soy sauce for extra flavour. 

Once everything is soft add your cooked chicken from the oven. 

Mix together two teaspoons of sweetener with two tablespoons of white wine vinegar and stir until the sugar has dissolved. 

Add this to the pan and stir on a gentle heat. 

This will be quite dry, as Salt & Pepper chicken is, but that vinegar/sugar mixture really makes the dish. 

Taste and add some further salt and pepper if it needs it. 

The only syns are for the flour - I used 25g so 4 syns and 2 of us had it so was only 2 syns each! could easily divide between 4 and make it 1 syn per portion!

Syn Free Quiche

I made the quiche at the start of SW but I wasn't a fan. Tried a different recipe last night so hoping I'm a fan of this as it's a fab way to get all your speedy veg etc. 

Ingredients:

Syn free cheese and Chive fat free cottage cheese

3 eggs

Onions

Peppers

Tomatoes

Mushrooms 

Stewed Steak

Had a tin of the stewed steak so decided to use it as it was, and added a load of winter veg so I was still getting my speed! Absolutely lovely and a yummy winter meal!
ALL SYN FREE

Make sure you check the syns in yours as some are quite high! I used the ASDA Chosen By You Stewed Steak (brown tin) and mine was SYN FREE!

Italian Chicken & Tomato Soup

This recipe is freezer friendly too!

Ingredients

1 onion peeled and finely chopped

2 carrots peeled and grated

2 lean back bacon, all fat removed, cut into small pieces

2 chicken breasts cut into thin strips

600g chopped tomatoes

400ml chicken stock

1tbsp chopped rosemary

Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon

Salt & pepper to taste

Parsley to garnish

Method

Place the onion, carrots and bacon in a saucepan and stir fry for 2-3 mins. 

Add chicken, tomatoes, stock, rosemary and lemon zest/juice. 

Bring to boil and cover then simmer on medium heat for 15 mins stirring occasionally. Season to taste and sprinkle with chopped parsley then serve. 

Lovely!