Chicken and Mushroom Thai Curry

            Serves 4 Ingredients: - Thai curry paste - 4 chicken breasts, already cooked and sliced - 400g mushrooms, sliced and precooked - 1 tin of light coconut milk - Handful of chopped coriander   1) Heat a little spray oil in a pan and add the Thai curry paste and cook for 2...

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Calzone

  Fancy a pizza but want something a little different? Try a calzone. It is a folded pizza and tastes great!         Serves 2: Ingredients: - 1 portion of pizza dough - 100-150ml of marinara - Pizza toppings of your choice. I went with mushrooms, red peppers and prawns. - 3 slices of light...

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Prawn, Tomato and Coconut Curry

Serves 2 Ingredients - 250g King Prawns, defrosted - 1 large onion, chopped - 8 mushrooms, chopped - 2 cloves of garlic, crushed - 500g tomatoes, quartered - 4tbsp desiccated coconut - 1 small pack of green beans - 1 tbsp garam masala - 1 tsp chilli powder (more if you like it spicier) - 1 tsp ground coriander - 1 tsp cumin - 1...

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BBQ Chicken Pizza

Pizza is one of the ultimate comfort foods. There is so much variety that is it hard to choose which toppings you want. This one if one of my husbands favourites.       Serves 2 Ingredients: - 1 ball of defrosted pizza dough - Half a carton of passata - 2 garlic cloves, crushed - 1 cooked BBQ chicken breast (I...

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Whole Wheat Pizza Dough

Finding out how to make the perfect pizza dough is a great achievement for anyone who loves to cook. Being able  to make a pizza as healthy as possible, well, that makes me very very happy. It means there is no guilt after eating it and I haven’t had to spend £20 after Domino’s delivers me one. Making a pizza from...

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Oven Baked Onion Rings

If you are having burger and fries (home-made of course), then you have to have some onion rings on the side. When ordered in a restaurant, 99% of the time they will be deep-fried, which is such a shame because it makes them VERY unhealthy, when they don’t need to be, and they just end up tasting of oil. Try this recipe...

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Aubergine “Pizza” Stacks

Aubergines (or Eggplant if you are reading this from across the pond) are awesome! They are such a meaty vegetable and you can do so much with them. The fact that they manage to stay so firm when they are cooked means they are great for layering and stacking, which is exactly what I did with them. These are very low in calories...

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Portobello Mushroom “Pizza”

Do you love pizza? Who doesn’t! Sadly, eating pizza all the time is not good for us, so, I have come up with this great alternative recipe. Portobello mushrooms have a really meaty texture (well, as close to meat you can get with it being a vegetable) and you save all the calories of not having a flour base that you can...

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