Tonight’s Dinner – Pumpkin Flan

Dinner tonight came inspired by my best friend in Australia. She suggested a pumpkin flan and I changed her recipe a little to include some chicken for extra protein!

500g Ricotta
2 eggs
Approx. 2 cups butternut squash, cubed
1 tsp. rosemary
1 packed cooked chicken breast (mine was 130g)
2 tbsp soft goats cheese

1. Place cubed pumpkin on the bottom of a lined rectangular dish. Top with chicken and rosemary.
2. Combine ricotta and eggs and pour over the top of pumpkin.
3. Top with goats cheese
4. Bake until pumpkin goes soft and serve.

4 servings
Approximately 325 calories and £1.50 a serve

Paleo turkey fried “rice”

Tonight’s dinner is a dish I make that I like to make when craving things like friend rice! Tonight I used Turkey mince, zucchini, sweet potato, mushroom, onion, capsicum and spring onions – basically a stir fry but love it 🙂

Snowy April Day & Lunch

So with the snow currently falling outside on an April day I find myself stuck working from home and needing to make some lunch with ingredients on hand! Some sort of warm comfort food was the ideas and so I used the ingredients I had to make a warm quinoa salad with seared scallops and vegetables.

I wasn’t going to share it as it looks so similar to the picture of the risotto from the other day but thought it was a good way to show how to pull together a healthy meal with things on hand if the pantry has some essentials!

Warm quinoa salad with seared scallops and vegetables

1/2 cup quinoa (rinsed)
6 scallops
2 tablespoons of fresh garden peas
2 tablespoons butternut pumpkin small slices
1 teaspoon soy sauce
Sprinkle of Parsley

1. Add the quinoa to boiling water and cook according to instructions.
2. Add some olive oil to a fry plan and add small pieces of pumpkin, allow to cook. Add peas and scallops to the hot pan, sear scallops on one side then turn.
3. Drain the cooked quinoa and add to frypan with the soy sauce. Add to a bowl and sprinkle with the parsley.

Using scallops makes this a little pricier than the other meals at about £4 a serving – still much cheaper and healthier than a takeaway!