5:2 recipes. BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND RED LENTIL CURRY. Jen's Place: Summer vegetable curry. I needed a quick but filling dinner idea, and found this on the BBC Good Food website. It was really tasty, though I think I added too much thai curry paste as it burnt my mouth a little! Great flavours though, and a great way to use up leftover veg. You could use aubergine, baby corn, sugar snap peas etc instead of any of he veg I have used. 1-2 tbsp red Thai curry paste (depending on taste) 500ml low-sodium vegetable stock 2 onions , chopped 2 courgettes , diced 75g red lentils 200ml can reduced-fat coconut milk 2 red or yellow peppers , deseeded and cut into wedges 140g frozen peas 100g bag baby spinach , roughly chopped Heat the curry paste in a large non-stick saucepan with a splash of the stock. Add the onions and fry for 5 mins until starting to soften.
5:2 Fast Diet Tips Part Two and low calorie Fish Pie. Chili prawns recipe. 5-2 diet plan Nduja topped cod - a low calorie baked cod recipe. Leek and Celeriac Gratin for a 5-2 Diet Fast Day. 5:2 Diet - One Pot Southern-Style Rice. This flavourful rice dish comes from a little book by Hamlyn called Quick Cook Low Fat. It is one of a series of dinky little books. I have a set of them and have to admit I turn to them quite often for ideas. They are simple little cookbooks, each on a different theme, but all with the same layout. Each book is cut down into categories and each recipe has a two pages. Photo on one side and recipe on the other.
On the page for this rice dish, which can be cooked in 30 minutes, there was also a 20 minute Southern-Style Mixed Vegetable and Bean Stir-Fry and a 10 minute Five Mixed-Bean and Rice Salad. My rice dish took a bit longer than 30 minutes to cook, but I was cooking another dish at the same time, so that could be the culprit.
Now, the recipe says this serves 4, but come on! 232 calories per serving Just perfect for my 5:2 Diet. Oh and I nearly forgot the exciting part! I know, I know, another website. Print recipe One Pot Southern-Style Rice A quick and spicy rice dish. Ingredients 1. 5:2 Diet - Moroccan Style Potato Bake = 233 calories. This is one of my favourite new discoveries. I adore potatoes, so I knew I was going to love it. I found the recipe in QuickCook Low Fat, a nifty little book by Hamlyn which has a website linked to it. I posted another recipe called One-Pot Southern Style Rice from it last week as well as a review of the cookbook.
I find myself using these little books quite often for midweek meal ideas. As well as potatoes in this dish, there are roasted red peppers (from a jar), red onion, garlic, preserved lemon, paprika, cumin, ginger, tomato puree and white wine vinegar. Now for my changes: Potatoes: the recipe called for new potatoes, but I was still working through my Scotty Brand Kestral Potatoes, the ones I've kept in a pillowcase since early December (you can read about that in my Spicy Tattie Puffs post.), so I used them . Preserved Lemon: I had some preserved lemon in the fridge, but if you don't have any, then add the finely grated peel from 1 lemon and the juice from half a lemon. 5:2 Diet. Vegetable & Lentil Stew - 5:2 Diet = 242 calories. Sainsburys are doing a promotion for their So Organic range as part of the Soil Association's Organic September. They sent me some groceries and a challenge to create a dish using them.
The weather has been a bit dreich here, so I decided to make a comforting and filling stew. From their organic range I used chestnut mushrooms, frozen peas and carrots. As I am doing the 5:2 Diet twice a week, I decided to count the calories. There is enough stew for up to 8 servings and 242 calories a serving. We ate it with mashed potatoes and peas, two days in a row, as it was so good and popped some in the freezer for Cooper's lunches with his childminder. If you were eating the stew on a fast day, you could serve it with: ......... and the bonus is, the rest of the family are happy too (Cooper loved it), plus there are leftovers to eat the next day and some to freeze for future fast days. print recipe Vegetable and Lentil Stew Ingredients Instructions 1.
Details Total time: Yield: Serves 6-8. 5:2 diet: healthy recipes 250 calories or less.