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.

Fajita Boats - 10pp

Serves 1

Ingredients

1/4 sachet Old El Paso Original Smoky BBQ spice mix - 1pp

50g salsa (I use Tesco mild)  - 0pp

180g chicken breast (raw) - 4pp

Sliced peppers (any colour you fancy. I like a mix)

1/2 brown onion (chopped)

2 x Old El Paso Stand N' Stuff Tortillas - 4pp

2tbsp half fat soured cream - 1pp

Fry Light

Method

Spray a frying pan with Fry Light, cut chicken into strips and cook for 10 minutes. Add onion and peppers and cook for a few more minutes until soft. Sprinkle over spice mix, stir through and cook for another minute. Add to your tortilla boats and top with salsa and soured cream. 

If you can spare extra points, sprinkle with cheese. Mmmm....

I had mine with some roasted butternut squash for 0pp. Sprinkle with salt, paprika and chilli flakes before cooking. Takes away some of the sickly sweetness.

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!

Slow Cooker Bruschetta Chicken - 6pp

It's bruschetta... but on chicken instead of bread. I know, awesome!

Serves 1
Ingredients
180g chicken breast 4pp
1/2 red onion, chopped
4 x tomatoes, chopped
fresh basil
2 cloves crushed garlic
1tbsp balsamic vinegar
Fry Light
30g half fat grated cheese 2pp (I use Tesco Half Fat Mature Grated Cheddar)

Method
Cut all fat off your chicken breast. Spray some fry light into the bottom of the slow cooker (you can use oil if you like but it will be PPs), top with your onion, tomatoes, garlic and balsamic and slow cook as you normally would (usually about 6 hours for me). The first time I added the basil before cooking but it goes a bit soft and mushy so you might want to sprinkle over when serving. Top with your grated cheese. 

I have mine with roasts or chips for an extra 5pp. 

Sticky Chicken Wraps - 11pp

I think that I stole this recipe from Slimming World a long time ago and it has since been a staple in my household with some tweaks to make it more Weight Watchers friendl :) It's quick and easy to make and tastes amazing. Is also good with rice and vegetables for a Chinesey feel!

Serves 1

Ingredients:

140g chicken breast - 3pp

15g honey - 1pp

15g balsamic vinegar - 0pp

15g soy sauce (I use dark but I don't think it matters) - 0pp

2 x Weight Watchers tortilla wraps 6pp

45g Tesco half fat soured cream - 1pp

Lettuce, tomato, cucumber

Dice your chicken breast (I do mine quite small as, psychologically, it seems like more!) 

Add the chicken to a sauce pan with the honey, balsamic and soy and cook on medium until the liquid had reduced to a sticky coating on the chicken. 

Top your wraps with salad, your sticky chicken and soured cream and done!

Tip: Use Old El Paso tortilla boats for less points (2pp each)