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Quick diet recipe: spicy beans - quick, cheap, tasty and filling!

Posted by David Hurst in Food!, Recipes on August 19th, 2009

This is a very easy to prepare dish that will fill you up and tastes great. It only takes 5 minutes to cook and anyone can do it.

Ingredients:
1 x 300g pot of hot salsa dip (or normal salsa if you don’t like it hot) - I’m using Tesco own brand
1 x 300g can of baby carrots in water - Tesco again
1 x 400g can of Mexican style bean mix in water (pinto beans, navy pea beans, red kidney beans & black turtle beans) - ASDA this time
1 teaspoon of butter type spread - I’m using Utterly Butterly

Directions:

  • Drain the water from the carrots and beans.
  • Put the carrots in a saucepan on the hob at a high heat and add the teaspoon of butter spread (if you want to make it even healthier, drop the butter and deduct 37 kcal and 4.2g fat) - I like my carrots to be buttery, diet or no diet.
  • Once the butter has melted, add the beans and stir. Season to taste.
  • Pour the salsa in on top. Heat for about 2 - 3 minutes, stirring regularly.
  • I like my food salty, so I add a little bit of beef stock here - a quarter of an Oxo cube will do it.

You can serve this like soup with bread and butter, or with boiled rice, or just eat it on its own. The recipe will make enough to feed one very hungry man, or two people with rice.

Here’s the nutritional stats:

Full Serving (without accompaniment)
370 kcal
7.26g fat
25.68g protein
51.02g carbohydrate
5 of your “5 a day”!

Half Serving (without accompaniment)
185 kcal
3.63g fat
12.84g protein
25.51g carbohydrate
2.5 of your “5 a day”!

For me, the biggest problem with dieting is not being able to eat a proper meal. This is one recipe that helps resolve that. It’s good for you and you can have a plate full without worrying about it. It’s no Big Mac and fries on the flavour scale, but I really enjoy it and I hope you do too.

I’d love to hear your feedback, so leave a comment below!

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New adventures in burger eating with the Texican Whopper!

Posted by David Hurst in Food! on April 7th, 2009

There have been many moments of inspired brilliance throughout human history, particularly when it comes to food, and the new Texican Whopper from Burger King is definitely right up there.

The sheer genius in this case is to take a Whopper with cheese, already a pretty awesome piece of eating, and then chuck in some taco coated chilli con carne - what? Yes, you heard right. Chilli con carne wrapped in taco coating, shaped into a patty, and slapped on in there. They’ve slipped some cajun seasoning into the mayo and thrown some chopped jalapenos into the mix. The result? Spicy, orgasmic, culinary, fast food bliss!

Frankly this is almost on a par with the inspired moment when someone at KFC decided to lob a hash brown into a bun with a complete chicken breast to create the Tower.

For me, it could be improved on with a second slice of cheese, although this would increase the staggering calorific and fat values. This bad boy packs 997 calories with 60 grams of fat. Regular eating therefore is not recommended, but as a periodic venture into burger heaven, I can thoroughly recommend it.

http://www.burgerking.co.uk/menu?producttypeid=20&productid=227

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