girl friendly curry recipe?

[rainbowflower]

that sounds yummy, thank you AS!
quick question - T is tablespoon and t is teaspoon?

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes! Big T - tablespoon.

[zanacal]

Here's another one. The recipe is for Gobi Chana Curry. I'll post the original recipe but you'd probably want to tweak it - I think I'd replace the spring onions with leeks, use just a little garlic powder instead of fresh garlic, replace the passata with a tin of tomatoes (because I can get a tin of tomatoes with barely any sodium in but passata seems to have massive amounts in it!) and replace the cauliflower with something because I don't like it!! You'd pretty much just have to count the nutritional content of the tomatoes, chickpeas and rice (or whatever you serve it with) as everything else is vegetables:

Ingredients:
Low cal cooking spray
8 Spring onions cut into short lengths
2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp mild curry powder
1 red pepper and 1 green pepper cut into bite-sized chunks
312g/11oz cauliflower, separated into small florets
511g/1lb 2oz passata
1 tsp artificial sweetener
400g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed

Method:
Spray a pan with low cal cooking spray and cook the spring onions for 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic, ginger and curry powder and stir quickly. Then add the peppers and cauliflower and cook for a further 2-3 minutes.

Stir in the passata and sweetener and bring to the boil. Cover, reduce the heat, and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the chickpeas, season well and bring to the boil.

Remove from the heat and serve (the recipe suggests with rice, yogurt and chopped mint but whatever you like ...)

[zanacal]

A Tesco Light Choices mini naan has 150 cals/5.2g protein/300mg sodium - I'm so going to have curry and naan bread for a treat meal next Saturday night

[Mum23boys]

This is my tea tonight - ive just been to buy all the bits - now to try and keep my portion size small ...thats going to be the hard bit - has anyone got a photo of roughly how much they had that is allowed .... im a kinda fill the plate girl normally :-)

[elle82]

I'm not good at portion sizes either. What I do is work out the approx nutritional content of the recipe then eat half or a quarter or whatever portion fits into the budget and bulk it up with salad/fruit. As long as you are not going over your limits you are fine. The curry I made was sooooo good!!

[Mum23boys]

Here's another one. The recipe is for Gobi Chana Curry. I'll post the original recipe but you'd probably want to tweak it - I think I'd replace the spring onions with leeks, use just a little garlic powder instead of fresh garlic, replace the passata with a tin of tomatoes (because I can get a tin of tomatoes with barely any sodium in but passata seems to have massive amounts in it!) and replace the cauliflower with something because I don't like it!! You'd pretty much just have to count the nutritional content of the tomatoes, chickpeas and rice (or whatever you serve it with) as everything else is vegetables:

Ingredients:
Low cal cooking spray
8 Spring onions cut into short lengths
2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp mild curry powder
1 red pepper and 1 green pepper cut into bite-sized chunks
312g/11oz cauliflower, separated into small florets
511g/1lb 2oz passata
1 tsp artificial sweetener
400g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed

Method:
Spray a pan with low cal cooking spray and cook the spring onions for 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic, ginger and curry powder and stir quickly. Then add the peppers and cauliflower and cook for a further 2-3 minutes.

Stir in the passata and sweetener and bring to the boil. Cover, reduce the heat, and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the chickpeas, season well and bring to the boil.

Remove from the heat and serve (the recipe suggests with rice, yogurt and chopped mint but whatever you like ...)

How much of everything is in this so i can keep track of my targets ?
Thanks

[elle82]

I didn't make that recipe, I made Atomic's one. The whole pot I made was 1,109 calories, 40g fat, 24g protein, sorry don't know about sodium (I used the guesstimate method to work that out but think it's pretty close) and I ate a portion of that, worked it out that I ate around half of it but I had less than half but would rather be over with my estimate and eat a little less than be under and eat too much if you know what I mean.

[Mum23boys]

Thank u Atomics one is the one i actually meant why i posted the other link is beyond me - I cant even blame baby brain yet !!

[atomic sagebrush]

I didn't make that recipe, I made Atomic's one. The whole pot I made was 1,109 calories, 40g fat, 24g protein, sorry don't know about sodium (I used the guesstimate method to work that out but think it's pretty close) and I ate a portion of that, worked it out that I ate around half of it but I had less than half but would rather be over with my estimate and eat a little less than be under and eat too much if you know what I mean.

Thanks so much! Very helpful of you to work that out, thanks!