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With an abundance of veggies and fibre-rich whole-grain spaghetti, you’ll never miss the cream sauce – or the calories
Total time: 30 minutes
Makes: 4 main-dish servings
2 leeks or spring onion greens
1tbsp extra virgin olive oil
450gm thin asparagus
350gm whole-grain/wheat spaghetti
1 cup frozen peas
1 packet cherry tomatoes (approximately 10), each cut in half
¼ cup packed fresh parsley leaves, finely chopped (use dried parsley, if is not available in the nearby market)
¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2 tsp each salt and pepper
• Heat a large enclosed pot of water to boiling on high. Meanwhile, trim and clean leeks, cutting the vegetables laterally in half, then diagonally into ¼-inch wide slices.
• In a pan, heat oil on average until hot. Add leeks and ¼ tsp each salt and pepper; cook for 9 to 10 minutes or until tender and golden, stirring infrequently. While the leeks cook, trim asparagus and cut into 1 ½ -inch-long pieces.
• Add pasta to steaming water: cook as the label directs.
• At the same time as pasta cooks, increase heat under the pan with leeks to medium-high. Add up the asparagus and ¼ tsp each salt and pepper; add peas, tomatoes, and ¼ tsp each salt and pepper. Cook for 2 minutes or until peas are bright green.
• From saucepot with pasta, scoop 1 cup water; pour into the pan with vegetables. Cook for 5 minutes or until the liquid has reduced and the tomatoes have softened.
• Exhaust the pasta; transfer to a large serving bowl. Add the vegetable mixture. With tongs, toss until well shared. Separate among serving plates, and top with parsley and Parmesan.

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Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 5 to 7 minutes
Makes: 4 servings
500gm tender French green beans, topped and tailed
1cup hazelnuts or almonds, halved
2tbsp olive or hazelnuts oil
For the dressing
2tbsp olive oil
½ cup onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
2tbsp balsamic vinegar
1tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley
2 tbsp honey
1. Heat up the olive oil and sauté the onion and garlic for a minute.
2. Put into a bowl along with the rest of the dressing ingredients.
3. Boil the beans in boiling salted water until just tender, about 5 minutes. Drain. Toss with dressing.
4. Assemble the warm beans in a platter.
5. Heat up the olive oil and toss hazelnuts for a few minutes, until lightly toasted.
6. Pour the nuts add oil over the beans. Serve up at room temperature.
Each serving: 788.8 calories, 28.9gm protein, 90.9gm carbohydrate, 36.5gm total fat (1.5 saturated), 35.4gm fibre, 0mg cholesterol, 24.3mg sodium.

Preparation Time: 25 minutes
cookery Time: 15 minutes
Makes: 8 servings
4tbsp butter
½ cup plain flour
1 cup milk 1 leftover tandoori chicken breast, roughly chopped
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 egg, beaten
1 cup clean white breadcrumbs
Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
Salt and ground black pepper
Fresh parsley, to garnish
Lemon wedges, to serve
1. For the essential white sauce: soften the butter in a tiny pan over a low heat. Add up the flour and cook quietly, rousing continually, for 1 minute.
2. Slowly add milk, whisking to make a smooth, very thick sauce.
3. Put chicken into a food-mixer and process until finely chopped. Do not over-process to a paste. Stir the chicken into the sauce, mixing it well.
4. Season with garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Leave to cool completely. Shape the mixture into eight even-sized sausages, and then dip each in the egg and then bread crumbs.
5. Deep-fry in hot oil for 4 minutes, until crunchy and golden. serve up garnished with parsley and lemon wedges.
Each serving: 213.3 calories, 9.3gm protein, 10.6gm carbohydrate, 14.7gm total fat (4.4 saturated), 60.3gm fibre, 54.3mg cholesterol, 60.0mg sodium.

Ingredients
For the taco shells
1 cup fine maize flour
1 cup plain flour
Oil for deep-frying
Salt to flavor
For the bean filling
2 cups beans (rajma), washed and soaked during the night
1 tbsp butter
3 tbsp tomato ketchup
2 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp fresh cumin seeds, ground
½ tsp clove-cinnamon powder
Salt to flavor
For the topping 2 onions, chopped
1 tomato, chopped
1 cucumeber, chopped
1 small capsicum, chopped
2 tbsp cabbage chopped
1 sprig spring onions, chopped
1 potato boiled, peeled, chopped
4-5 salad foliage, chopped
½ cup salsa dip
½ cup tomato ketchup
1 cup grated cheese
Process
1. For the taco shells, mix the flours all along with salt and knead into pliable dough.
2. Separate and turn round into very skinny chapattis of 4-5 inches. Prick both the sides with a fork.
3. Deep-fry the chapattis one at a time till they turn slightly golden.
4. Fold the chapattis one by one into a U or taco shape while hot, drain and cool. Keep aside.
5. To get ready the bean fulfilling, pressure-cook the rajma for seven whistles.
6. Exhaust and crush the rajma coarsely while hot. Keep the exhausted water aside.
7. Now put the rajma in the cooker put in the drained water and mix in the remaining ingredients. Cook till the mixture is complete. Keep aside.
8. For the topping, mix all the vegetables along with salt and pepper and toss lightly. Keep aside.
9. At the present put a tablespoon of bean filling within the taco and spread a dollop of the topping in it.
10. Coating the topping with a tsp every one of tomato ketchup and salsa plunge.
11. Decorate by means of grated cheese and serve right away.

250g mushrooms, bisect
180g capsicum in all colors, slash into big pieces
2 red onions unpeel and cut
100g baby corn, slice into big pieces
4 tbsp added virgin olive grease
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 packet of lemons spicy halloumi cheese, dice into big pieces
2 tbsp toasted nuts
Fresh basil leaves for decorate
PROCESS:
1. Preheat the oven to 1800C and place the vegetables in a big roasting tin.
2. Sprinkle the vegetables with olive grease and cover fine.
3. Then taste the vegetables with freshly ground black pepper.
4. Bake the vegetables in the oven for 45 minutes or waiting overcooked at the edges.
5. Take away and shake over the top and cook for further 25 minutes or awaiting the haloumi is golden.
6. Decorate with nuts and basil leaves and serves up piping warm with full tasted red wine.