At my last WW meeting Lyds suggested I post the recipe of a dish which I credit with my 4.6lb one week loss.
This recipe will produce what WW calls 4 portions, but since the points value is quite low I double up on the portions for eating at a single meal. Each portion is 4 points, but even at 8 points if you eat 2 portions that is a very reasonable amount of points for a single meal.
- 200g ground lean pork (I’ve tried it with chicken and it works just as well)
- 6 spring onions
- 4oz chopped mushrooms
- 1tbsp low sodium soya sauce – I use kikkoman (sp?) as I find the flavour quite pleasant
- 1tbsp crushed ginger
- 4 chopped cloves of garlic
- 1/3c low sodium chicken stock
- half a pack of cellophane noodles or asian rice noodles – about 2oz (they are extremely light so it is a fair bit)
- 1tsp oil
Boil some water and then pour over the noodles – the noodles, much like couscous will “cook” while you are preparing everything else.
Fry the pork, the spring onions (finely chopped) along with the garlic & ginger. Add the soya sauce when the pork is nearly cooked through. Add in the chicken stock and then the noodles. Mix together and let it cook gently until all the liquid is absorbed by the noodles.
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Where this recipe varies from the WW recipe is that I don’t add in hoisin sauce, I find that the flavour is just as excellent without it. The original WW recipe doesn’t include mushrooms, but I love ’shrooms and I just needed to include them. Bulks up the recipe and they have virtually no points. As I mentioned, officially this serves 4 portions. But when I get home at night and I’m quite hungry I can eat 2 portions at once. Comes out to 8 points and it’s fabulous. Takes hardly any time to prepare, at the most 20 minutes, and is a great way to create a lovely meal really quickly.
