Healthy Recipes
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Lea’s lamb salad
Ingredients Lamb fillets Low fat potato salad dressing Lettuce greens French Dressing. Method Toss salad greens in French Dressing and arrange on individual plates. Grill the lamb fillets and slice thinly while still hot. Toss the lamb in the potato salad dressing and arrange on top of the greens Serve immediately with boiled potatoes, green … Read more
Pumpkin and orange soup
Ingredients 1kg pumpkin, diced 2 litres chicken stock 1/4tsp white pepper 3 onions, diced Rind of 2 oranges, grated Juice of 3 oranges 2 tsp sugar Pinch nutmeg Parsley, chopped Method With the exception of the parsley, combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to the boil. When the vegetables have softened mash … Read more
Lea’s minestrone soup
Ingredients 2 large onions, diced 3 rashers bacon, chopped 2 sticks celery 2 carrots, diced 2 large potatoes, diced 2 cans Watties® chunky tomatoes 1 medium jar pasta sauce 1.5 Litres water 1tsp beef stock parsley, chopped ½ cup pasta spirals 2 Tbsp hot taco sauce Method In a large saucepan combine the onion and … Read more
Curried potato soup
Ingredients 2 Tbsp Canola oil 1 large onion, chopped coarsely 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 tsp garam masala 1/2 tsp ground tumeric 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp ground coriander 800g potatoes, peeled, chopped coarsely 4 cups chicken stock 375ml water 150g pottle yoghurt Parsley, chopped Method Place the oil, onion and garlic in a … Read more
Lea’s fish chowder
This is an award winning soup recipe. I was once asked to develop a recipe using canned smoked fish. At the time I was a penniless student and was looking for a hearty soup recipe that was cheap and low in fat but high on satiety. using the potato as a base this along with low fat milk makes a creamy soup base but with out the addition of fat. Adding the taco sauce gives it a good bite but you can also use chilli or tabasco sauce if you like. I entered this recipe into a radio competition and won an electic beater which I still use to this day, Read more