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November 10, 2014. Filed: Recipes, Uncategorized

Chicken Kebabs With Spicy Couscous Salad.

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Kebabs, couscous, haloumi, and chilli. Four things I love! An easy recipe with a good amount of protein and flavour which doesn’t keep you in the kitchen for very long. Check it out below.

For the Couscous salad:

Method:

1. Bring stock to boil in a saucepan over high heat. Place couscous in a large bowl and pour the boiling stock over. Stir through with a fork. Leave covered for 5 minutes and stir through with a fork again to separate the grains.

2. Cut up haloumi into smaller pieces. Heat saucepan with oil over medium heat, and add haloumi. Cook for approximately 1-2 minutes each side or until golden brown.

3. Add haloumi to couscous along with spring onions, chilli, and chickpeas.

4. Make the dressing: whisk lemon rind, 1/4 cup lemon juice, paprika and oil in a bowl until properly combined.

5. Pour dressing over salad. Serve!

 

For the chicken kebabs:

Method:

1. Preheat a BBQ or pan on medium high, cook the kebabs while turning until properly cooked through.

2. Serve!

September 22, 2014. Filed: Nutrition, Recipes

September Pasta Recipe: Tuna Pesto Pasta Bake

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Who doesn’t love pasta?

Using wholemeal pasta for extra fibre (more than double fibre content of normal pasta), we combined basil flavoured tuna with a bunch of vegetables to make this. Pasta is more calorie dense than other foods and is often vilified, but eaten in a sensible serving is completely fine.

May have included a couple of Tim Tams for dessert… 😉

Ingredients:

  • 500g wholemeal pasta
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 4 stalks of spring onions, finely chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 2 sticks celery, finely chopped
  • 250g cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 120g baby spinach
  • 1/4 cup basil pesto
  • 4 95g cans of Sirena Basil Infused Tuna 
  • grated light mozzarella cheese to coat

 

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling, salted water, following packet directions, until tender. Drain.

2. Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add onions, garlic and celery. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until onion is soft. Add tomatoes. Cook for 2 minutes. Add spinach and pesto. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until spinach just wilts. Add pasta to pan with tuna (undrained). Season with salt and pepper. Toss gently to combine.

3. Spoon mixture into a ceramic baking dish. Top with cheese. Bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and golden. Stand for 5 minutes before serving.