Tonight’s post of golden turmeric chicken with beetroot houmous will be a test to see whether I can stick to a simple, clean recipe without any chit-chat. Remember, we’re on a break! But you lot still need to be fed, after all…
OK a super quick diversion. Anyone else as sick as I am with hearing mouthbreathers chuntering on about the bloody Aldi slimming meals and how SW will doubtless ramp up the syns value of them in order to ‘protect their sales’? Way haway, they need to give their heads a wobble, stop trying to play Vera and shut the hell up. Here’s why the logic doesn’t stack up:
- you can work out syn values on the calculator;
- if they were that vindictive, they would do the same with Marks and Spencer’s half-syn sausages, wouldn’t they;
- they wouldn’t allow Weight Watchers, their biggest rival both commercially and most likely physically, to have a wrap that qualifies as a healthy extra (and thank god right, because I wouldn’t get to see forty billion photos of wraps filled with dog food and passed off as a pasty, now would I);
- they’re in the business of weight-loss, not managing massive conspiracies. Well no, that’s a fib, I’m not convinced our Fearless Leader didn’t stumble out of the Roswell wreckage with world domination in one hand and whatever the alien equivalent of car-boot Rothmans are.
Honestly, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and in this case that cigar tastes like disappointment and horse arseholes. Let’s just calm our tits.
And what better way to calm your tits than with a gorgeous turmeric chicken breast served with beetroot and mint houmous, minty couscous, garlic spinach and a roasted red pepper? Piece of piss to make, I assure you. This makes enough for two large plates.
to make golden turmeric chicken with beetroot houmous, you’ll need:
- two chicken breasts – decent ones mind, not breasts that shrivel up to the size of a beansprout – we can help with that, because you get so many breasts in our Musclefood hamper that you’ll be as stiff as Hugh Hefner! Come take a look – it’ll open in a new window, so shush
- tablespoon of olive oil (6 syns)
- tsp of oregano
- tsp of turmeric
- one or two tablespoons of hot sauce (it’s just a spicy sauce, you can buy it from the supermarket, syns will be negligible)
- 200g of plain couscous
- a big bag of spinach
- one garlic clove
- a good handful of mint
- a portion of our syn-free houmous, but blitz a pickled beetroot into it with a handful of mint
- a roasted red pepper from a jar – you could do it yourself, but what’s the point?
to make golden turmeric chicken with beetroot houmous, you’ll need:
- stick the chicken breasts in a bag with the olive oil, oregano, turmeric, salt and a bit of pepper – knock it about a bit and make sure everything is rubbed in – longer you leave it to marinade the better it’ll be
- when you’re ready to eat, make up the houmous and set aside
- to make the couscous, cook as instructed on the packet and then stir through chopped mint
- to cook the spinach, throw it into a dry pan with just a splash of water on a medium heat and wilt it down, adding thinly sliced garlic it wilts down
- to cook your chicken:
- if using an Optigrill, keep the same setting as the onion and tomato and pop the chicken on, then close the lid and cook for as long as it takes for your chicken to cook through – but please make sure it’s cooked through – the skitters might be good for weight loss but think of your poor nipsy;
- if using the grill, same as above – cook for a few minutes, remembering to turn, and make sure it’s cooked through
- assemble on the plate!
Dead easy, and it looks proper posh so you might just get yer end away if you serve it up!
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J