Sweet Chilli and Lime Noodles

I tried this for the first time at a food fair in Manchester UK, it surprisingly tasty for such few ingredients and really quick and easy to make.

Ingredients

dried Noodles (quantity depends on how hungry you are)
Lime Juice (you can use fresh lime juice or bottled from your supermarket)
1 tbsp Sweet Chilli Sauce (you can you shop bought brands like Encona Sweet Thai or Blue Dragon)

Preparation

Take a saucepan, fill it two thirds with water and bring to the boil. Once the water is boiling turn off the heat and add your noodles. Leave the noodles in the hot water for about 4 minutes to soften.

Once the noodles are cooked and softened, drain the water from the saucepan and place the noodles into a bowl, add the chilli sauce and lime juice to the noodles and mix together.

Taste, if you need more lime juice then add, likewise with the chilli sauce but remember the chilli sauce has sin values.

Place the noodles into individual bowls and serve.

You can add to this dish by sprinkling spring onion on top or crushed unsalted peanuts to give it texture, again peanuts have sin values and beware of allegies.

Sin value per serving:  Green Day - 1.5 sins (for the chilli sauce)

Chinese Turkey Skewers

Ingredients

150g/6oz Turkey
1tsp Tahini Paste
1 tsp Garlic granules/powder
2 tsp Chinese Five Spice
2 tsp Dark Soy
1 tsp Honey
1tsp Water
Fry Light

Preparation

Slice the Turkey meat into small strips or chunks (strips are thinner so will absorb the marinade easier) and place into a bowl with all the other ingredients. Mix well, cover and place in the refrigerator for at least an hour but overnight would be ideal as the ingredients need to marinate the meat.

Take out some bamboo skewers and place into water for about 30 minutes, this will stop them burning when you grill the meat.

Preheat the grill, medium high

Take the bowl out of the fridge and thread the lumps of Turkey onto the bamboo skewers, you could thread chunks of onion, pineapple and green peppers in between the Turkey for variety and to bulk out the meal.

Take a baking tray and spray with Fry Light, place the skewers onto the tray, if there is any mixture left spoon it over the skewers as you grill on both sides, grill until piping hot and cooked all the way through.

Sin Value - Red Day - Honey 1 sin, Tahini Paste 1.5 sins

You can use this recipe with chicken or Pork, I had Turkey Steaks in the fridge on this occasion.

Here's a picture of the kebab skewers before I put them under the grill, I left some plain too and sprayed them with fry light.

Thai Fish Cakes

Ingredients

75g/3oz Prawns
275g/10oz Cod Fillet
2 Spring Onions
1 clove of Garlic
1 red Chilli
1 stalk of Lemongrass
4 tbsp fresh Coriander
Freshly ground Salt and Pepper

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 190c/375f/Gas Mark 5.

Peel and crush the Garlic clove, trim and chop the Spring Onions, deseed and chop the Chilli, peel and chop the Lemongrass stalk and roughly chop the Coriander leaves. Place these ingredients along with the Salt and Pepper into a food processor and blend to mix.

Take out your Prawns (you can use frozen Prawns but the must be defrosted thoroughly) and your Cod Fillet (you can use other fish such as Coley for this recipe, which I suggest as I am a great believer in sustainability of fish species), pat them dry and add them to the food processor containing the other ingredients, blend until the mixture is roughly chopped.

Take a baking tray and spray with Fry Light Oil. Dampen your hands and divide the mixture into 12 portions, roll each portion into a ball and then flatten into a patty/disc shape. Place the patties onto the baking tray and cook for 12- 15 minutes, make sure they are piping hot and cooked through. Turn the patties over half way through the cooking time.

Serve with Thai Chilli Dipping Sauce and salad leaves.

Sin Value: Red Day - FREE

Thai Chilli Dipping Sauce

Ingredients

2 red Chilli Pepper
2 Shallots
1 tbsp freshly squeezed Lime Juice
3 tbsp Thai Fish Sauce
1 tbsp freshly Coriander

Preparation

Peel and finely chop the Shallots, deseed and thinly slice the Chilli Peppers, cut a fresh lime in half and chop the fresh Coriander.

Place all the ingredients into a bowl, stir and leave to marinate for at least 15 minutes.

Sin Value: Red and Green Days - FREE

Suggestions:

If you want it hotter, don't deseed the Chilli Peppers, if you want Sweet Chilli Sauce then add sweetener to your own taste. If you want to use this as a glaze you could add a small amount of Honey instead of sweetener but you will need to count the sin value of the Honey.

Spring Rolls

Ingredients

1 sheet of Filo Pastry
glass of Water
1 tsp Chinese Five Spice
1 clove of Garlic
Fry Light
2 tbsp Light Soy Sauce

For the filling you can either go to the supermarket and buy a stir fry mix or alternatively you can make it yourself with individual ingredients, the mix is up to you. I have given some suggestions, you don't have to use them all or can use alternatives. You can also add meat to the recipe, such as shredded chicken or spiced beef mince:

Half Red Pepper
1 small Carrot
Handful of Beansprouts
3 Mini Corncobs
2 Spring Onions
finely shredded Cabbage ( I didn't have any in my cupboard so I shredded some spinach)

Method

Wash, peel and chop your chosen vegetables and place in a bowl. Peel your clove of garlic and finely chop, add that to the bowl along with the Chinese Five Spice and Soy Sauce. Mix all the ingredients together, heat a frying pan and spray with fry light, fry for a few minutes to soften the vegetables, then put the vegetables back into a bowl, leave to cool then cover the bowl with film and place into the refrigerator to marinate. If possible leave overnight, if not an hour or so should do.

Preheat the oven to 190c/375f/Gas mark 5, and line a baking tray with Baking Parchment, alternatively spray the baking tray with Fry Light, to stop the rolls from sticking to the tray.

Take the bowl with the marinated vegetables out of the fridge and place nearby, working quickly take out a sheet of Filo Pastry, cut in half width ways/horizontally, then cut each half into three even strips lengthways/vertically. Lay the 6 strips onto a clean work surface and brush each strip all over with water, this will stop the pastry drying out and also makes it easier to work with.

Place a spoonful of marinated vegetables at the bottom of each strip, fold over at the sides and roll up the pastry to the end. Place each roll onto the baking tray containing the parchment and spray the top of each roll with Fry Light.

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until crisp and golden. Serve hot or cold with a Sweet and Sour Sauce or Sweet Chilli dip. (recipes for both of these to follow)

Sins per roll - 1 syn per Spring Roll

A sheet of Filo pastry is 6 syns

Tweak this recipe to suit your own taste. I also had a go at making wonton type purses, see the photo below.

Blogger Notes

Hello,
once again it's been a while, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and I also hope that you will have a fantastic New Year.

First month of the year, was January and I've been celebrating the Chinese New Year in style with lots of yummy treats, of course as usual I will be posting the recipes on the blog.

So keep watching for my tasty takeaway alternatives. x

Weetabix Cake (Malt Loaf)

Ingredients
2 Weetabix
113g Sultanas
142ml Skimmed Milk
142ml Water
113g Self Raising Flour
Mixed Spice
14g Sweetener
1 Egg



Sins per serving: 3.5 syns both days


Grateful thanks to Dawstopper for youtube vid