Sweet and Sour Chicken - 3 syns
Sometimes, just sometimes you cant beat a good old "fakeaway", I tried this the other day and it was gorgeous! Will definitely be repeated again and again. A perfect way to increase SP food would be to add cauliflower rice. This was all bunged in and skillfully left to cook for 30 minutes whilst I recovered from being caught drenched in the rain after work.
When it comes to cooking, I love doing it. But it always looks like crap. I follow hundreds *cough* thousands of Instagrammer's who all do Slimming World and their food looks like it's just walked out of a 5* hotel. I know mine will never amount to that so for now - I'm happy with the fact hat it is more than edible but actually nice! I think one of the ruts that most people find when trying to slim down is becoming stuck in a rut - cabbage soup every day for a week anyone? I love mixing things up and re-discovering old favorites.
For anyone wanting to re-create this at home the recipe is below - and trust me its as easy as phoning for a takeaway!
The recipe serves 4 & the Syns per Serving:
EE - 3
Original - 3
Green - 13 1/2
Ingredients:
Fry light - is fry light an ingredient?!
8 Chicken things - cut into bite sized pieces
1 large chopped onion (or frozen if your lazy like me)
1 green pepper (or a handful of frozen if lazy!)
3 large carrots chunked
435g pineapple chunks in natural juice drained, keep 2 tbsp of juice
1 crushed garlic clove
1 level tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
Method:
Chuck it all in and wait. Well not quite but along the same lines - place pan over high heat and spray with fry light, add chicken and cook for couple of minutes (3) - transfer chicken to plate.
Add the onion pepper and carrots to the wok and cook for 4 minutes stirring occasionally. Return the chicken to the wok and cook for a further 3 - 4 minutes until the chicken is cooked through. Or you could eat it raw and make yourself bad.. all in the name of weightloss ey? *disclaimer - I joke*
Make the sauce by mixing the pineapple juice (2 tbsp) with the garlic, cornflour, tomato puree, red wine vinegar, soy sauce and 100 ml of water.
Stir the sauce into the chicken and vegetables, add the pineapple and cook over a low heat for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with hot noodles or rice.
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