Tonight it was mushroom stroganoff and rice for tea. Mushroom stroganoff contains a heap of my favourite ingredients, and because I'm keeping an eye on my calorie intake just now it's pretty healthy too. Yes, it would appear that if you sit on your bum being lazy but stuff your face with lots of good food, you put on weight! Imagine! I lost a couple of stone last year but it's starting to creep on again so I'm nipping it in the bud now before it's all back on again. I use a website called Weight Loss Resources to keep track (http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk), it's basically a huge food database so you log everything you eat and it works out how many calories you have had each day. It takes your personal height/weight info and rate of weight loss you want and sets you a daily allowance. You also log your exercise and it's got me into the habit of doing exercise if I want to 'earn' more calorific foods. Or I just don't have them. The lovely people at WLR have kindly given me permission to use the nutritional info from their database to include the details to my recipe blogs.
Anyway, here's the recipe I used for tonight's meal...
Because I'm logging everything just now I had to measure how much of each ingredient I was using. I'm usually a chuck it in and hope for the best kind of girl but this has really made me pay attention to how much I'm eating!
Ingredients: (serves 2, or 1 hungry person!)
250g chestnut mushrooms, sliced
1 medium onions, sliced thinly
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp tomato puree
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1.5 tbsp vermouth
1 clove garlic, crushed
juice of half a lemon
1 tsp paprika
100g half fat creme fraiche (or sour cream)
chopped fresh parsley
Method:
Heat the oil in a large pan on a med-high heat and saute the onions and mushrooms for about 5 minutes until they soften. Add the garlic and paprika and fry for about 30 seconds, stirring it through the mixture. Add the tomato puree and allow it to cook out for 30 seconds or so. Add the mustard, vermouth and lemon juice and cook out for another 30 seconds or so. At this point you can either save the mixture for later, or finish it off to serve immediately. Lower the heat and stir through the creme fraiche and some chopped parsley. Serve with pasta or rice, adding a blob of creme fraiche on top, if you like, and a sprinkling of chopped parsley.
I served ours tonight with a packet of microwaveable long grain rice between the 2 of us and the nutritional info for the meal is:
Nutrition Per Serving:
Calories (kcal) 307.4
Protein (g) 6.8
Carbohydrate (g) 26.7
Sugars (g) 5.9
Fat (g) 17.4
Saturates (g) 6.5
Fibre (g) 2.9
Sodium (g) 0.1989
Not bad for a tasty dinner. And if you're starving you could eat the whole lot yourself and still have a very healthy meal for 600 calories (if you care!).
I'd love to know if you have any great, quick, healthy dinners you can recommend. Leave me a message, or pop over to my Facebook page and say hi there :o) https://www.facebook.com/PotsofLove
