Showing posts with label bacon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bacon. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Sexy Chicken and Bacon Pasta - 2pp/ 12pp

I LOVE pasta, but being on Weight Watchers I just refuse to eat the stuff. A lot of points for not a lot of food and it just leaves me hungry and disappointed. On filling and healthy though you can eat "unlimited" wholewheat pasta (though I still can't stop weighing things. I can't trust myself not to over eat) so I decided to have a bash at a low ProPoint pasta dish.

What makes this so scrumptious is the sauce is actually tomato soup. Yum!

Now I can't take full credit for this little stroke of genius because it is actually down to my husband. I do all the cooking in our house (I know, how retro) but I had gone for a tattoo session last week and came back to my tea on the table. Bless. He'd done some Gordon Ramsay, just throwing things together sh*t and made a lovely pasta dish which I really enjoyed!

So I based mine around his tomato soup/ sauce concept but bulked it out with a bit more veg and it was gorgeous! Well done Mr T!

2pp on Filling and Healthy or 12pp if pointing


Serves 1
Ingredients
75g wholewheat pasta - 7pp 
1/2 tin WW tomato soup - 1pp
100g chicken (raw) - 2pp
2 x bacon medallions - 1pp
Cherry tomatoes
Spinach
1/2 brown onion
20g Tesco half fat mature cheddar - 1pp

Method
1. Cook pasta in salted water. Drain.
2. Preheat oven to 200°c.
3. Fry chicken for a couple of minutes, add bacon, onion and tomatoes and fry until onions are soft. Add spinach and wilt.
4. Add frying pan contents along with the soup to pasta and stir.
5. Pour in to baking dish, grate over cheese and cook in the oven for 15-20 mins.

Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Breakfast Boats - 10pp

One of the best breakfasts I have had in a looooooong time. A few more points than I would usually spend in a morning but I only tend to have "brunch" at a weekend so I need something more substantial. Reminds me of a McDonalds breakfast wrap. Mmm....


  

Serves 1
Ingredients
1 x medium egg - 2pp
2 x WW sausage (cut into small pieces) - 3pp
2 x bacon medallions (cut into small pieces) - 1pp
2 x Old El Paso Stand N' Stuff tortillas - 4pp
15g ketchup - 0pp
1 x tin plum tomatoes - 0pp
Mushrooms (sliced)
1/2 brown onion (chopped)
Spinach
Cherry tomatoes (quartered)
Fry light

Method
Spray a frying pan with Fry Light, set to medium heat.
Fry sausage for a few minutes until browning.
Add bacon and cook for another couple of minutes.
Add mushrooms, tomatoes and onion and cook until soft.
Add spinach.
In a cup, mix your egg and sprinkle in salt and pepper.
Once the spinach has wilted, add egg to the pan and stir for around 5 minutes until the egg has coated all the ingredients and it turns into some kind of scramble.
Spoon into tortillas and squirt over some ketchup. 
Heat plum tomatoes in a microwave for around 2 minutes.

Done!

Monday, 24 August 2015

Bacon Wrapped Chicken with Roasted New Potatoes - 10pp

As my long suffering husband gets stuck eating the same meals as me every night (I cook so he gets what he's given. Albeit larger portions or extra sides. I'm a feeder...), it makes me extremely happy when he really enjoys my "diet food" and this is one of his favourites.




Serves 1 
Ingredients
140g chicken breast - 3pp
2 x bacon medallions - 1pp
2 x laughing cow light cheddar triangles - 1pp
1 clove of garlic
270g new potatoes - 5pp (you get more new potatoes for your points than normal potatoes. I only found this out the other day. #win)
Fry Light
Salt
Green beans or any 0pp vegetable of your choice

Method

1. I cook potatoes in my Breville Halo. Spray the bowl with fry light, put in the potatoes, spray again and sprinkle with salt. Cook for around 35 minutes. 
2. If you want to oven cook, par boil the potatoes until just soft enough to insert a knife, drain, put on a baking tray, fry light and salt and cook in the oven at 200°c for 40 minutes.
3. Put your chicken breast in some cling film (just fold over once, don't wrap tighly or it won't flatten) and hit with a rolling pin or any other heavy, blunt object which takes your fancy (you can imagine that the chicken is your boss/ husband/ mother-in-law. Very therapeutic.) You want the chicken to be around 1cm thick-ish. Just easy for rolling without falling apart. 
4. Lay out your bacon medallions, place the chicken on top. In the middle of the squashed chicken put your laughing cow and garlic then roll up to make a nice bacon-chicken-parcel. 
5. Cook in the oven on 200°c for around 30 minutes. 
6. Boil or steam your veg. Done!