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 marinade...

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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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Peshwari naan

This is goes great with a curry. Serves 2 Ingredients - 125g wholemeal flour - 1 tsp sugar - 1/4 tsp salt - 1/4 tsp baking powder - 60ml skimmed milk - 1 tbsp olive oil - Hand full of raisins - Sprinkle of coconut  flakes 1) To make the dough, sift the flour into a bowl and add the salt, sugar and baking powder. Make a well in...

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Healthy Korma

Most people don’t think of curry as being healthy, and that’s because usually there are not. There is so much Ghee (a type of butter) used, and if you go for the creamy curries, lots of cream used, that you can soon rack up the calories. Once you add in all the sugary chutneys and greasy naan bread, it is easy to...

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Mushroom and halloumi burgers with sweet potato wedges

Ingredients: 2 sweet potatoes Paprika Cayenne pepper 2 portobello mushrooms 4 slices of halloumi cheese Peel the potatoes 2) Cut into chips/wedges   3) Boil the chips for 10 minutes 4) Drain them and put onto a baking tray, spray with fry-lite and sprinkle with paprika and Cayenne pepper and bake at...

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