Any nice Low-Fat recipes please?

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Hi,
does anyone have any nice low-fat recipes please?
i dont eat fish but love beef/chicken and need some inspiration

See this month's Good Food mag, there's a lovely recipe for chicken on skewers on the cover which I made last night and it was great. It's made with fat free greek yoghurt and spices etc.

I'd say just take a regular recipe and reduce the fat in it by 50-75%. If it calls for 'a tablespoon of olive oil' go with a 'a teaspoon'. If the recipe uses full-fat milk, use skimmed. Meat is the other place fat appears in recipes. Use less of it and substitute with pulses or vegetables and the dish instantly becomes lower in fat.

Stir-fried Beef with Red Peppers and Noodles (Serves 1)

• 3oz lean fillet steak, sliced very thinly
• 2 spring onions, chopped
• 1/2 red pepper, thinly sliced
• small piece root ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1 garlic clove, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon ground nut oil
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2oz dry egg noodles, prepared according to packet instructions

• Heat a non-stick wok or large frying pan and add a little of the oil
• Stir fry the beef strips until they change colour and reserve
• Reheat the pan & add the rest of the oil
• Add the spring onion, ginger and garlic and a few seconds later the red pepper strips. Cook for a minute
• Finally add the cooked beef, drained noodles and soy sauce. Heat through and serve

This is a delicious chicken curry recipe - its completely fat free apart from the chicken, I serve with small portion of rice. It's a stewy kind of curry, not too hot and great to use left over chicken. I roast a big chicken for dinner one day, and do this the day after

If not using left over chicken, then fry 2 chicken breasts - diced - until cooked, set aside.

2 large onions thickly sliced
1 clove garlic finely chopped or crushed

Fry these together gently in 2 tblsp olive oil until onion starts to soften. Don't overcook, onions in curry should have a bite to them I think

Make up 1 pint of stock using boiling water and a beef stock cube.

Combine the following in a small bowl, add to the saucepan and stir.

1 tsp medium curry powder
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper (fgbp in the future!)
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp turmeric.

Immediately add the stock.

Then add a tin of chopped tomatoes and the left-over chicken pieces or the diced chicken breasts cooked earlier.

Bring to the boil, then simmer until the mixture thickens to your desired consistency - this took me a half hour which was the same length of time it took the brown rice to cook that I served it with.

ps I dont use the 2 tbsp of olive oil, I have a oil spray that I use instead

Nice pork stroganoff recipe:

Pork fillet cut into strips
1 red onionm sliced
Handful of mushrooms, sliced
Small pot reduced fat creme fraiche
Teaspoon of paprika

Fry pork in oil spray/teaspoon olive oil
Add mushrooms & onion & cook until softened
Add paprika & cook for 2-3 mins
Pour in sauce & stir until thickened

Serve with rice or a plain jacket potato

thanks ladies, some brilliant ideas here