Slimming World sides: macho peas & orange and carrot mash

chubbycubs

6 years ago

Sometimes we have recipes that don’t really warrant a post of their own – usually they’re simple side dishes – so tonight I’m bundling two for the price of one into the same post. You might worry that your inbox can’t handle two at once but I’m sure if you bear down and push out, everything will be tickety-boo. The macho peas recipe is a variant on the Nandos staple and the orange carrot mash was found in a BBC Good Food magazine that I found in the dentist. I’m not saying the magazine was out of date, but when they kept referring to getting in the carrots before the Luftwaffe wrecked the carrot fields, well…

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So not farting about: straight to the recipes. Both recipes make enough for two large sides. Obviously the orange carrot mash doesn’t refer to orange carrots, but rather the fresh orange juice you use in the recipe! First, macho peas!

to make macho peas, you’ll need:

three big handfuls of frozen peas – or fresh, if you’re fancy
one finely chopped onion
a nice big red chilli pepper or a teaspoon of chilli flakes
a good bunch of fresh mint (hell, use mint sauce if you want) (but it won’t taste so good)
for the first time in my life, I recommend a little knob – of SALTED BUTTER! AND THE CROWD GOES WILD! 10g of salted butter will make all the difference – 3.5 syns, and what’s that between friends? You could leave it out but I remind you: it’s two bloody syns each

to make macho peas, you should:

get a pan of water bubbling and throw in your peas – cook until softened slightly but not mush
pop your onion – finely chopped mind – into a pan, pop it on medium and sweat them down
whilst they’re cooking, chop up your mint nice and fine together with the chilli if not using flakes
drain your peas, mash them slightly stir in the butter, onion, chopped mint and chopped chilli
serve!

See? Gorgeous! And now…

to make orange and carrot mash, you’ll need:

500g of fresh carrots
250ml of fresh orange juice (we use Tropicana 50/50 – 1 syn per 100g – 2.5 syns)
500ml of vegetable stock
chopped parsley
1 tsp of fennel seeds
1 tablespoon of fat free greek yoghurt

to make orange and carrot mash, you’ll need:

peel your carrots and then thinly slice them
spray some oil into a decent pan, heat it up and then pop the fennel seeds in until they pop
chuck in the carrot slices
add the orange juice and vegetable stock and bring to the boil
allow to simmer for thirty minutes until most of the liquid has disappeared and the carrots are soft
mash those carrots with lots of black pepper and a spoonful of fat free greek yoghurt