Chicken Jalfrezi

For tonight's dinner I made Chicken Jalfrezi from The Hairy Dieters book page 131.
The recipe was a little more intense than some of the recipes that I have tried so far.
It does not take that much cooking but it was getting everything ready at the same time. The chicken, chillies and garlic with the spices are cooked in one pan while the onion, pepper and tomatoes are cooked in another pan to then have all the ingredients put together and simmered for a while.
The ease of cooking was ok so I will give it 6 out of 10.
For taste I will give it 9 out of 10 as the heat and flavour was great.
For this meal we added 2 of the chillies with the seeds included and 2 of the chillies with out seeds and the heat was just right.
The chicken Jalfrezi worked out to be 8 ProPoints so not that bad for you.
I had 60 grams of rice with this, one Poppadum and half a naan bread.
All in all a very tasty meal and well worth the time to cook and make.

Italian Meatballs with Chunky Tomato Sauce

I made this dish for the first time last night and was very impressed with the flavour of the meatballs.
The recipe was from The Hairy Dieters book page 148.
The recipe serves 4 and was a very easy process to follow.
My daughter ate this meal and after she had finished she said the meatballs taste like the meatballs you get aboard on holiday.
I made double the mixture so that I could box up and freeze the amount left. This way I have meals in the freezer for when I get home from work late.
The meatballs take about 20 minutes to prepare and then they take about 45 minutes to cook.
We had spaghetti with them.
The meatballs work out to be 9 points per serving. to get them this low I used lean mince beef.
Ease of making 8 out of 10
For taste I will give them 8 out of ten

Slow cooked Paprika Chicken

I am cooking the Paprika Chicken in the slow cooker.
I will be putting the recipe here and how I prepared it.

Ingredients:
2 onions finely sliced
600 grams of chicken breast diced
2 garlic cloves peeled and crushed
1 tbsp. smoked paprika (or plain if you prefer)
400 gram can of chopped tomatoes
400 ml of chicken stock
2 bay leaves
1 tsp dried mixed herbs
3 large peppers red, yellow, and orange
1 tbsp. cornflour
1 tbsp. cold water
6 tbsp. half fat crème fraiche To serve
freshly ground black pepper

Method:
Place everything in the slow cooker except for the cornflour and cold water you will need to add these at a later stage. Give the whole mixture a stir and put the slow cooker on low heat and leave to cook for 8 hours. After 8 hours mix the cornflour and cold water together and add to the slow cooker mix and stir leave for another hour.

This was an easy  way to cook this meal but the next time I do it I will reduce the chicken stock down to 100 mls as there was to much liquid in the dish.

Ease of cooking and preparing 9 out of 10
Taste I will give this 7 out of 10 as the sauce was weak due to the amount of fluid.
In the hob method a lot of the fluid reduces down so the sauce is much thicker and has more flavour, in this method I need to learn the correct amounts of fluid to add.

Old El Paso Enchiladas

For todays dinner we are going to have Old El Paso Enchiladas. I am going to make these using the Old El Paso kit. We have decided to use half fat cheese so the ProPoints value will be different if you use full fat cheese.
I have gone the whole hog today by having Old El Paso Nachos as a starter. The kit works out to 7 points per serving before cheese. The cheese that I used was 50% reduced fat British mature white cheese. This added another 3 points to the starter so the total ProPoints for the starter is 10 points.
For the Enchiladas I used 500 grams of chicken breast, I also added one large onion to the mix. I followed the recipe on the reverse of the packet and changed the cheese for 50% reduced fat cheese.
The Old El Paso Enchiladas kit worked out to be 8 ProPoints per serving with out the cheese and chicken. By using 50% reduced fat cheese you need to add and extra 3 points to the meal. The chicken worked out to be an extra 3 points so the total meal per serving works out to 14 ProPoints.
For taste I will give this meal 7 out of 10
For ease of preparing I will give this meal 9 out of 10

Chicken korma left over for dinner

Today I am using one of the packs of korma sauce that I froze when I made the last chicken korma. I had three portions of sauce left so I divided them into three equal parts and froze them for a quick meal.
I have added 266 grams of chicken to the sauce and 80 grams of peas. With this I have steamed 60 grams of basmati rice.
I steamed the rice in the bowl that I am going to use to serve the meal in. I lined the sides of the bowl with the rice and then poured the chicken korma into the well made in the rice.
The korma sauce works out to be 4 ProPoints.
The chicken worked out to be 7 ProPoints
The basmati rice worked out to be 4 ProPoints
The peas work out to be 2 ProPoints
Ease of preparing 9 out of 10
Ease of cooking as it was one pan for steaming and one pan to cook the chicken korma in. I cut the chicken up into chunks and then added it raw to the sauce and cooked the whole lot in one pan. For this I give it 9 out of 10
Taste for the meal is 9 out of 10.
Total points for the meal is 19 ProPoints
This korma recipe is from the hairy dieters so here is a link to help you make this: http://www.hairybikers.com/recipes/chicken-korma/1615 to make the sauce to the value of 4 ProPoints I left out the yoghurt and chicken.
I will be cooking more elaborated meals again its just when I am at work I do not have the time to cook all the nice food. As I am off for the next two days more delights will be coming.
I hope you are all enjoying the food that I put up here.

Left overs for dinner today

For todays I meal I used up the left overs from the potato gratin and braised vegetables.
This whole meal was very tasty and easy to make. I should of added some pepper to the steak so next time I make this I will add the ground black pepper.
The potato gratin and veg was heated up in the microwave with an addition of peas.
The potato gratin worked out to be 7 ProPoints in value.
The peas added a further 2 ProPoints to this.
In the oven I cooked a 249 gram pork lion steak @ 200 degrees C for 30 minutes with out the addition of any fat or oil. The pork worked out to be 10 ProPoints in value.
The whole meal was easy to cook as it was more left overs than cooking from scratch.
Ease of preparing 9 out of 10.
Ease of cooking 9 out of 10 as most of the meal was re-heating.
Taste of the meal 8 out of 10.
Total weight watchers ProPoints for the meal 19 points.