Quick, healthy and easy recipes - peanut butter stir fry and homemade Nandos!

As readers know, I am currently on a "Clean and Lean" diet plan, so am trying to eat lean meat and high veg meals. I'd like to share with you two recipes I've come up with this week: peanut butter stir fry and a homemade Nandos! Unfortunately I have no photo for the former - I scoffed the lot before I decided to blog it - but read on for the recipe!

Chicken peanut butter stir fry

Ingredients

• 1/2 tablespoon groundnut oil
• 1 chicken breast, diced
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 chilli (I used green)
• 3 spring onions
• juice of 1/2 a lime
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon honey
• 1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon crunchy peanut butter
• handful mangetout
• 2 handfuls of stir fry veg mix (I used beansprout and pepper mix from Aldi, around half a bag)
• 1/2 tablespoon sesame oil

Method

1. heat the groundnut oil in a wok and cook the diced chicken breast through.

2. add the chopped garlic, chilli and spring onions and fry for a further minute.

3. add in the lime juice, soy, honey, Worcestershire and peanut butter. Stir continously for another minute.

4. throw in the mangetout and veg mix and stir thoroughly so the whole thing is coated in your sauce.

5. keep stirring for another 2 minutes.

6. serve with the sesame oil drizzled over the top.

And that's it! At around 560 calories for a big plateful, I'm sure you'll agree this stir fry is healthy, quick and delicious.

Homemade Nandos

Low cal piri-piri chicken

Ingredients

• 1 chicken breast
• 1 teaspoon of Nandos lemon and herb rub (you can get this at any supermarket now)
• a few splashes of hot piri piri sauce (again, you can get this at any supermarket but Tabasco will do)
• Nandos chilli salt - optional
• your choice of veggies - I opted for courgettes, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, baby corn and some pickled onions to balance the spice

Method

1. pre-heat oven to 180 fan or 160 conventional.

2. rub your lemon and herb coating over the raw chicken and bake for 25-30 minutes

3. while the chicken is cooking, prepare your veggie.

4. 10 minutes into the cooking time, dust your courgettes and tomatoes with the chilli salt and add to the baking tray and cook alongside chicken for remaining 20 minutes.

5. 10 minutes later, bring a pot of water to the boil and boil your asparagus and baby corn.

6. when everything is done, dish it up and serve - be as generous or as liberal with the hot sauce as you like!

Okay, so I know this isn't really a Nandos, but it is piri piri and it tastes to much better than shelling out £10-15 for some chicken and corn!

Happy dieting!