Syn free enchiladas?! Sounds amazing. How do you make them?
They are lush!! This is the recipe I follow:
500g of extra lean chicken mince/ground chicken
1 red pepper, chopped finely
1 onion chopped finely
2 cloves of garlic crushed
1 teaspoon of chilli powder
9 manicotti pasta shells
4 tablespoons of quark
126g reduced fat cheddar cheese (3 HEA serves me and my partner and one portion left for lunch next day)
For the Enchilada sauce:
250ml of passata
125ml of water
1.5 teaspoons of chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon of cumin
1/2 teaspoon of paprika
1 teaspoon of garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon of garlic salt
1/2 teaspoon of onion powder
1 teaspoon of oregano
Method
Preheat the oven to 175c or 350f
Add the manicotti pasta shells to a saucepan of hot water and cook until they just start to soften (not too soft, they need to have a little firmness to be able to fill with the meat mixture). Then drain hot water, and cover with cold water. Set aside until you are ready to use.
In a small saucepan, add all the ingredients for the enchilada sauce, bring to the boil and reduce to a low heat. Leave it to simmer away, while you make the enchilada filling.
Add to a frying pan on a medium heat, the ground chicken, onion, garlic and red pepper and cook until the meat is not longer pink and cooked through. Reduce the heat right down.
Add the 1 tsp of chilli powder and mix thoroughly. Add the quark and a 1/4 of your cheddar cheese and stir to evenly coat.
Fill all the manicotti shells with the meat mixture and lay them all in a ovenproof dish. Top with you enchilada sauce and the remaining cheddar cheese.
Cover with foil and bake in the oven for approx 25mins, remove foil and then continue to bake for another 10-15 minutes until cheese on top is nice and golden.
Serve with a side salad.
The lass I found the recipe from adds 2tsp brown sugar (2 syns) and 1 tbsp ketchup (1 syn) so between 3 portions would be 1 syn and 1 HEA, but I took them out and found it to taste amazing so free aslong as your cheese is your HEA x oh and I just cut my chicken breast into little cubes, doesn't need to be minced xx
snow has eased off here, very rainy and blowing an absolute blizzard out there, it's bitter! Forecast for more snow tomorrow apparently. I am inlove with my new oven and have been cooking everything I can think of haha! My ear is sooooo sore, I had my helix pierced a few weeks ago and it's been healing nicely but has suddenly swelled up and very red, may have something to do with the fact I slept on it last night but my god it hurts so bad, just bathed it in sea salt water, trying to calm it down 
