Recipe: Quorn Pasta Sauce - 88 calories per portion

My lovely Other Half is brilliant, and super supportive of my efforts to lose weight. He's been on a bit of a weight loss journey of his own and has become really conscious of calorie content, getting more veg into our diets, and generally eating more healthily.

His 'thing' with cooking is creating one-pot pan-fulls of tasty stews and casseroles. I've convinced him more recently to switch to lean cuts of meat, up the veg content, and bulk out with beans and chickpeas and the like to get more for our budget - both financial and in terms of calories.

Yesterday he made a cracking pan of pasta sauce with Quorn and veg and it was lovely. We ate it with pasta (75g dry weight) giving a total calorie count for the meal of 353 calories. Four portions left over too - 2 for the fridge and 2 for the freezer. A pretty versatile sauce too, plenty of different ways to use it, in fact I used it in a different way for my tea tonight too, but more on that later!

Anyway here's the recipe....

Quorn Pasta Sauce (makes 6 servings)

Ingredients:

20 sprays One-Cal olive oil spray
1 red onion, diced
1 tsp frozen chopped garlic
100g frozen sliced mixed peppers
250g frozen chargrilled mediterranean vegetables
130g frozen quorn mince
1 tin chopped tomoatoes
1/3 tube tomato puree
2 veg stock cubes, made up with boiling water
1 tsp paprika

Method:

In a big saucepan, fry off the diced red onion and garlic. Chuck in the rest of the ingredients and simmer until delicious. Season with plenty of turns of the Salt Chilli & Garlic grinder, and a few turns from the pepper mill

Nutritional Info per serving:

Calories: 88
Fat: 2g
Carbs: 12g
Protein: 6g
Sugar: 8g