A Recipe For Healthy Chicken Casserole And Dumplings
With the weather getting colder, we are looking to eat food that warms us up and nothing does that quite like a stew. You may think that stews are heavy, full of fat and calories. This is not the case you can have a healthy stew and not pile on the pounds.
Serves: 5
Nutritional information:
340 calories
7.4g fat
45g carbs
Ingredients:
2tsp Olive Oil
3 Sliced Chicken Fillets
1 Chopped Onion
1 Sliced Pepper
1 Crushed clove garlic
2tbs Plain Flour
2tbs Paprika
400g Tin of tomatoes
2tbs Tomato puree
2tbs Balsamic Vinegar
2tsp Brown sugar
1 pint Vegetable stock
1 Bay leaf
1tsp Dried Mixed Herbs
3 Medium parsnips
4 Carrots
Pepper to Season
300g Frozen green beans
Dumplings
100g Plain flour
Pinch of Salt
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2tsp Mustard powder
50g Reduced fat Cheddar or Edam
75ml Skimmed milk
2tsp Mixed herbs
Pepper to Season
Method
1. Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan and gently brown chicken fillets.
2. Add the onion, pepper and garlic and cook until softened. Sprinkle over plain flour and paprika and cook briefly.
3. Stir in the tin of tomatoes, tomato puree, balsamic vinegar, brown sugar, vegetable stock, bay leaf and dried mixed herbs.
4. Add parsnips, carrots, season with pepper, cover and simmer for around 35 minutes. Add a little more water or stock if necessary.
5. For the dumplings, sieve the flour, Add a pinch of salt, baking powder and mustard powder into a large bowl.
6. Then stir in cheese and season with black pepper and mixed herbs. Pour in 75ml of skimmed milk and combine all the ingredients with a fork to form a soft dough. Transfer this to a lightly floured surface and knead lightly for a few minutes.
7. Divide into 10 and roll each portion into a round dumpling.
8. Add 300g frozen green beans to the casserole, top with the dumplings and continue to cook for 15 minutes or until the dumplings have risen.
9. Finally serve topped with a spoonful of low fat natural yoghurt.
It’s Nearly Christmas, Here is Novembers Update From Dietreviewzone
Every year we accept that over December our weight is more than likely going to go up and we head into January resigned to the fact that we will have to go on yet another diet in the New Year. Well not this year! This year is going to be different at Dietreviewzone we have prepared for you some
Healthier Christmas Dinner Tips along with recipes for low calorie Christmas Pudding and low fat Christmas Cake.We have also pulled together Proactols top tips for easy weight loss over Christmas.
We have also taken a look into how best to keep in shape over Christmas, as one of the biggest reasons for putting on weight over the festive period is because we stop exercising! To help you get through the minefield of exercise DVDs and exercise equipment including the WII Fit we have put together our top choices.
For any of you that have visited Dietreviewzone previously you will have seen my own weight loss journey whilst taking Proactol, with My Proactol Diary. Has the weight stayed off,click here to find out if I lost weight,stayed the same or gained weight.
As the nights close in and the weather gets colder one thing definitely suffers and that is our skin. To help you have healthier looking and acne free skin this year check out our, Tips To Help You Have Healthy And Acne Free Skin This Winter. Of course one thing that is not helping the look of our skin at the moment are the stresses and strains of the credit crunch, here to help you is information on beating the stress of the credit crunch.
Finally this month we have updated our Review Page, making the sections much easier to find and meaning you are easily able to find reviews such as Proactol versus Hoodia Balance and our new review of Acai Berry where you are able to claim your FREE Acai Berry.
I Am Putting On Weight Not Losing Weight For My Wedding
September 22, 2008 by Ros1e
Filed under Wedding Tips, Info and Product Reviews
I can’t imagine I was the only one this happened too. Little over 18 months ago I got married. Leading up to the wedding I thought great at least I will shed a few pounds with the stress of organising it and wanting the day to be perfect.
After all, every other bride I had seen was saying that the weight was just falling of them on the run up to the wedding, alas not me.
Now don’t get me wrong I didn’t put lots of weight on, but it didn’t help with the fact that I could have done with losing a bit of weight so that I could put it back on during the honeymoon, which was a week of eating food to die for and with calories to match!! So by the time I got back from honeymoon I was out of my comfort zone with regards to my clothes, they did still fit but not as nicely as before.
Anyway back to the wedding. I am really not sure what happened. Why didn’t I lose weight like everyone else?? Maybe when I get stressed out instead of my body burning more calories off my body actually slows down. Who knows what is for sure. I wish I had acted on the fact I was putting on weight and not just let it go.
As you will have seen if you have had a look through Dietreviewzone. I am writing My Proactol Diary. Which If I knew what I know now I would have put into action back then and got myself in much shape for my wedding and been at the weight I wanted to be.
You are able to read My Proactol Diary by clicking here
If you are looking to lose weight for your wedding day or to take a supplement that will help you not put on weight on your honeymoon. Then click here and take a look at our reviews of some of the weight loss supplements available today.