Courgette/marrow and spinach soup with cream cheese

These quantities are approximate because to be honest I rarely measure anything.

I used:

2 very large courgettes (small marrows)
Large bunch of spinach
2 medium potatoes
1 large clove of garlic
2 medium onions
sml bunch of herbs-mint, origano, parsley
2 veg stock cubes
2 cups of water
level desert spoon of salt
Black pepper
Large knob of margarine

Asda be good to yourself cream cheese with garlic and herb

Melt margarine in a pan, add the washed and diced courgettes, peeled and chopped onions, peeled and diced potatoes, spinach and crushed garlic. Add the salt at this stage.
Allow the veg to sweat down very slowly on a low heat.
Add the bunch of herbs
Add 2 cups of water and stock cubes
Cook for about 20-30 mins on a low heat
Blitz in a blender and return to pan.

Pour soup into a bowl and then add a teaspoon of cream cheese and allow to melt into the soup. Soup could be frozen before the addition of the cream cheese and added when reheated.

Low Fat Humous

This is really easy to make and is less calories than the normal version of Humous. My daughter who is a vegetarian loves this.

1 Can of Chickpeas
1 tablespoon of fromage
lemon juice to taste
salt and pepper

Blitz all ingredients in a food processor. You could add some peppers, chillis, garlic etc to taste.
Use for dipping vegetable sticks into.

Tandori Whole chicken

A whole chicken, skinned with gashes cut into the flesh
Mix the juice of a lemon and 1 teaspoon of salt together and rub all over the chicken
Leave for an hour

In the meantime put an inch block of ginger root, 4 garlic cloves peeled and a red chilli in a blender with 6 fluid oz of set natural yog. Blend. Then add 2 teaspoons of coriander, 1 teaspoon of cumin and 2 teaspoons of garam masala....mix again....

Rub this all over the chicken, refrigerate overnight. Preheat oven to highest setting and put in chicken for about 20 mins....then turn heat down to 180ish and cook until done....you might need to cover it at some point if it starts to look too well done.

Very low fat and healthy and very tasty cold with salad or for sandwiches and a fraction of the cost of buying ready made tandori If you want the red colour then add a few drops of red colouring into the marinade...I dont bother

Spicy Chicken burgers

4 chicken Breasts
One red pepper
2 cloves of garlic
1 red onion
1 teaspoon of coriander, cumin and tumeric
2 teaspoons of chilli powder
a good twist of salt and pepper
2 teaspoons of olive oil
2 slices of Bread

Whizz up in food processor and then with wet hands form into burgers. Fry gently for a couple of minutes on each side in olive oil then put into oven at 180C for about 15 mins or until cooked right through.