Crispy Chilli Beef

Ingredients

• 400g thinly sliced beef steaks
• 1 chilli chopped finely
• 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons cornflour
• 1 head of broccoli chopped up
• 5 spring onions sliced lengthways
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 5 tablespoons soy sauce mixed

Method:- 

Toss the meat in the cornflour until it’s evenly coated and then fry off and seal in a very hot wok sprayed with frylite
Set the meat aside and then put the garlic and chilli in the wok making sure to scrape all the meat bits and mix well
Add the spring onions and broccoli and then the soya sauce until it starts to bubble
Stir in the beef and cook for a further ten minutes

7 syns for the whole lot – serves 3

Slimming World's cranberry cranachan

Ingredients

1 level tbsp porridge oats

300g cranberries, fresh or frozen, plus fresh cranberries to decorate (optional)

1 tbsp whisky

2 tbsp orange juice

2 tbsp sweetener granules

300g fat-free natural Greek yogurt

This dessert is best made and eaten on the same day.

Method

Preheat the grill to medium. Spread out the oats on a baking tray and toast under the grill, turning occasionally, until golden brown. Remove and leave to cool. Meanwhile, put the cranberries into a small pan with the whisky, orange juice and sweetener. Bring to a simmer over a low heat and cook for 5 minutes or until the berries have popped and the juices have thickened. Remove from the heat and leave to cool.

Spoon half of the cranberry mixture into 4 tall dessert glasses. Divide half of the yogurt between the glasses and sprinkle with some of the toasted oats. Repeat the layers, ending with a sprinkling of oats. Decorate each glass with a few fresh cranberries, if using, and serve straight away.

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20 foods you'll only know if you're on the Slimming World plan

At first it's all salads and sunshine, but after a while you start to notice a pattern emerging from your kitchen.

There's frozen berries stuffed in the back of the freezer, mountains of yogurt taking a seat on your fridge shelf and Diet Coke has become your new best friend.

Scroll down to see the 22 foods you'll only relate to if you're on the Slimming World plan...

1. Frozen fruit

Random bits of frozen banana stashed in the freezer drawer. That, and failed yogurt-coated berries.

2. High Fi bars

You can only buy these from 'group' (Healthy Extra B choice). But they're just so small.

3. Frylight

If it's on offer, you'll buy in bulk! You need this in your Slimming World life.

4. Quark

Strangely tasteless, but really creamy - the perfect ingredient to stir into... well let's face it, you'll give it a whirl in almost anything!

5. Primula light cheese spread tubes

You can half a tube for a Healthy Extra A! It's kinda wrong, but kinda good in mac'n'cheese... You know what we're talking about.
6. Diet coke

The holy grail of 0 Syn drinks - you'll even be cooking with it, believe me.

7. Bacon medallions

It's a crime to cut on the tasty fat, so these beauties are Syn free and hassle free. Who else but a Slimming World shopper would choose no fat bacon?!

8. Yogurt, yogurt, yogurt

Meet your new best friend. You never can have enough fat-free yogurt in the fridge.

9. CARBS!

The world's supply of potatoes, pasta and rice just shrunk with the next slimmer joining Slimming World!

10. Fat free cottage cheese

This beauty will rescue anything from salad, to crudités, to jacket potatoes... one tub is not enough to last a week now you're on plan.

11. Mug Shot soup packs

They're 0 Syns, so get them in the trolley! So many varieties, so little time...

12. Hello Curly Wurly

I know it's not grown up, but seriously, for 6 Syns they really take ages to eat! Long lasting, 'Synful' pleasure...

13. Silly small loaves of bread

Normal loaves are for other diet groups - at Slimming World, we love two slices of really mini bread.

14. Balsamic vinegar

This can literally be splashed all over everything! You'll understand.

15. Gadget queen

You'll dig out the slow cooker, even in summer, and will wax on to all your friends how ah-mazing it is. It's changed your life! No, really it has.

16. Eggs

You'll give an egg a go in most meal scenarios... then talk at group how perhaps the weight loss has suffered because you haven't been to the loo for days!!!

17. Mushy peas

You never felt the need to put them in your trolley before Slimming World, but now you know they're 0 Syn, you fancy them with most meals, or the ones that you don't include baked beans in that is...

18. Jelly babies

To make Slimming World jellies, of course... it's one of the best Slimming World secrets you'll discover.

19. Pasta 'n' sauce

Hello again student days! This quick snack is just the ticket if you haven't got time or energy to cook. Lazy and 0 Syn - hurrah!

20. Butternut squash

Get rid of all those other veggies, butternut squash is the one for you! Cutting it up is a workout in itself.

Credits : www.goodtoknow.com

Slimming World Weetabix Cake

#1 Ingredients:

2 Weetabix
110g sultanas
150ml skimmed milk
150ml water
110g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon mixed spice
15g artificial sweetener
1 egg, beaten

#2 Method:

 Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C Fan/Gas Mark 4.
Put the Weetabix and sultanas in a bowl. Pour the milk and water over the top and leave to soak up all the liquid.
Stir in the flour, mixed spice, sweetener and beaten egg.
Spoon the mixture into a 450g lined loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for 1¼ hours, until cooked.
Cool on a wire rack before serving, then cut into 12 slices.by: witwitwoo

Amazing Slimming world Hunters chicken

credit : http://vicki-kitchen.blogspot.com/

I used this sauce that I made previously to make this Hunters Chicken, I'd like to thank Nicola in my Cwmbach slimming world class for giving me the idea (she made it first!) after she made my BBQ sauce. Such an easy and simple idea and if you use the cheese as your healthy extra its syn free too.

If not using the cheese as a healthy extra 25g reduced fat cheddar is 4 syns but if you  use it as a healthy extra you can have 40g reduced fat cheddar as a 'B' choice.

Ingredients: 

1 chicken breast per person

2 tbsp slimming world friendly BBQ sauce per portion

25g or 40g reduced fat grated cheese (see above)

Smother each chicken breast with a the BBQ sauce then sprinkle the grated cheese on top. Bake in the oven at Gas 5 /375/190for 25-30 minutes until cheese is melted and browned on top.

Slimming world Kheema curry

This is a fab really quick and easy curry, It's economical too using extra lean minced beef, It's a great one to make after work as it's all made within 30 minutes. (A real 30 minutes not a Jamie Oliver 30 minutes!!)

If you want to you can leave out the cumin and coriander and just use curry powder but I love these  extra spices they don't make it hotter but more fragrant.

Kheema Curry 

1lb extra lean minced beef

1 large onion (sliced)

1 can chopped tomatoes

2 tbsp tomato puree 

2 tbsp curry powder (less if you don't like it too spicy)

2 tsp ground cumin

2 tsp ground coriander

1/2 tsp chili flakes

1/2 pint beef stock

2 cloves garlic (crushed)  

2 tsp grated fresh ginger (I use frozen)

6oz frozen peas 

1/2 tsp salt

spray oil

In a large pan or wok spray with the oil and add the minced beef, onion, garlic, ginger and chili. Fry over a medium/high heat until beef cooked through and the onion is soft.

  

Add the curry powder, cumin, salt  and coriander  and fry for another few minutes then add the tomato puree, tomatoes and beef stock. Stir well and then add the frozen peas and bring to a simmer and cook for about 20 minutes until the sauce is thicker and reduced.

credit :  http://vicki-kitchen.blogspot.com/

Syn free on extra easy :)

Half syn strawberry mousse

serves 3 (1.5 syns in total or 0.5 syn per serving)

1 x mullerlight strawberry yoghurt

250gm of natural yoghurt/fromais frais or quark

1 x sachet of sugar free hartleys strawberry jelly

make up the jelly sachet with only 60 ml of boiling water add the mullerlight yoghurt and 250gm of natural yoghurt/fromais frais or quark and whisk together. leave to set in fridge and after is is set top with fresh strawberries and sprinkle of sweetener.