A few nice recipes with Scan Bran:
Low-Syn chocolate cake
Syns: 9 Syns for the whole cake
You will need:
5 Scan Bran
3 beaten eggs
1 level tbsp golden syrup
1oz cocoa powder
½ mug sweetener
Soak the Scan Bran in boiling
water to soften. Then drain and
mash.
Mix all the ingredients together and pour into a microwavable bowl.
Microwave on high for 7 minutes. When cooked the cake will be springy to the
touch and will have pulled away from the side.
For a free topping, pile with (defrosted) frozen forest fruits or top with
chocolate spread (4½ Syns per tbsp).
Scan Bran carrot cake
Syns: 12 Syns for the whole cake
You will need:
4 Scan Bran, crushed
1 Weetabix, crushed
5oz grated carrot
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 level tbsp runny honey
2 level tbsp mincemeat
3 beaten eggs
For the topping:
1 pot quark skimmed milk soft cheese
Lemon juice
Sweetener to taste
Method:
Preheat oven to Gas Mark 4/180°C.
Mix all the ingredients together.
Transfer the mix into a baking tin lined with non-stick baking parchment and
bake for 1 hour.
When cooked turn onto a wire rack to cool.
For the topping mix the quark with lemon juice and sweetener to taste and
spread onto the cake once cooled.
Onion bhajis
Syns: 2½ Syns for all the bhajis on Green or Extra Easy, 10½ Syns on Original
You will need:
5 Scan Bran
1/3 cup hot water
1 egg, beaten
1 large (8oz/227g) potato
1 large onion
2 cloves garlic
3 tbsp curry powder
1 tsp turmeric
Fry Light
Method:
1 Crumble the Scan Bran until it resembles breadcrumbs.
2 Add the water and egg and soak for 10 minutes.
3 Peel and grate the potato and peel and chop the onions and garlic.
4 Mix with the Scan Bran mixture.
5 Add the curry powder, turmeric & seasoning.
6 Shape into bhajis.
7 Fry in Fry Light until cooked.
Scan Bran Scotch eggs
Syns per Scotch egg: 1 Syn on
Original & Extra Easy, 6 Syns on Green
Syns per half Scotch egg: ½ Syn on
Original & Extra Easy, 3 Syns on Green
You will need:
5 hard boiled eggs
8 pack Morrisons Eat Smart Less Than
3% Fat Pork Sausages
½ oz/14g flour to dust hands only
3 eggs, beaten
2 Scan Bran, crushed
Method:
Hard boil 5 eggs. Cool in running water, then take off the shells.
Skin the sausages, cut through skin lengthways and take out the meat.
Using a little of the flour to dust hands, take 1½ sausages and roll into a ball.
Then press out to 4½” diameter.
Place a boiled egg in the centre and form the meat around the egg to cover it
completely.
Repeat until all 5 are covered.
Beat the 3 eggs in a basin for the coating.
Dip the meat-covered eggs into the beaten eggs and then into the crushed
Scan Bran.
Place on a baking tray, spray the scotch eggs with Fry Light and cook in the
oven for approximately 15/20 minutes at 200°C/Gas Mark 6.
When cooked, allow to cool, then cut in half and serve.