What I Ate - Waldof Salad

My mum was trying to decide what to cook for dinner tonight and we thought we'd try something a bit different! 

I nipped out to Tesco in my lunch hour for a bag of walnuts and a pot of natural yogurt and threw this together in under 15 minutes.

A quick and filling (honestly) dinner using ingredients you probably already have in your fridge/fruit bowl! 

Waldorf Salad

Serves 2

Ingredients:

60g chopped walnuts

60g celery, thinly sliced

60g seedless red grapes (or 30g raisins)

1 apple, cored and chopped

3 tbsp natural yogurt

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

Salt

Pepper

Lettuce

Method:

In a small bowl, whisk together the yogurt and lemon juice; add half a teaspoon of salt and a quarter teaspoon of fresh ground pepper; mix in the apple, celery, grapes and walnuts; serve on a bed of fresh lettuce.

This recipe serves two hungry people and works out at around 360 calories per serving.

Enjoy!

What's your favourite salad? Favourite 'throw together' recipe?

Chicken in Piri Piri Sauce

On Sunday, me and the boy had a quiet night in with a film and this lovely dinner we made out of Jamie Oliver's 30 Minute Meals Book.

Serves 2.

Ingredients:

2-3 chicken breasts sliced length ways

1 red pepper

1 yellow pepper

Fresh thyme

Piri Piri Sauce:

1 medium red onion, roughly chopped

2 cloves of garlic

Zest and juice of 1 lemon

2 tbsp white wine vinegar

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp paprika

1 red chili

Method:

Slice the peppers into large chunks and season the chicken breasts.

Griddle or pan fry the chicken breasts and peppers until the chicken is golden and the peppers are soft.

Blitz all the sauce ingredients in a blender until smooth.

Pour the sauce into an oven proof dish and lay the peppers, chicken and thyme over the top.

Pop the dish in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until the sauce is hot and bubbling.

Serve!

We ate ours with roast potatoes and a side salad. I think I over-lemoned the piri piri sauce but it was still a very tasty and filling dinner!

What have you cooked recently? What's your favourite recipe?