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Meal Plan 3 Laura of London

Breakfast, a couple of dinners and a new meal plan – you lucky sods!

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Morning all,

I’ve recently started a new job hence the radio silence for a week or two but I’ve got some beauties for you this morning and more to come soon, including (hopefully) a wonderful guest blog from my lovely friend Nicola French!

Cashew cream on toast
Cashew cream on toast

Breakfast this morning is gluten free toast with cashew cream, which you’ll know having read my ‘Game Changer‘ post, this is my new and most favourite sweet treat!

Its been a pretty busy week as I’ve also started going back to the gym. I’m like a kid in a sweet shop with all the class options and had my first PT consult with one of the trainers, I’m really looking forward to getting fitter and leaner over the coming months, make sure you follow my Laura_of_London Instagram to track my progress!

Vietnamese Prawn Rolls Laura of London
Vietnamese Prawn Rolls

We’ve had a couple of nice new recipes this week as well as some good classics – my Vietnamese prawn rolls went down a storm last night with the family, they always taste so clean, healthy and fresh and adding a bit of spice to the dipping sauce makes all the difference!

I also tried to make a couple of new salads, first was a Goats Cheese and Grain salad with a honey lemon dressing and then we had a Steak and roasted veg salad with a lovely peppery mustard dressing.

I’ve made another meal plan for you to try, I really would urge you to try these for a week or to – most of the recipes are available on my site, they’re all clean eating and I’m always available to help chat through any questions you have. I’d love to have any feedback from people who have tried them as I want to make sure they work!

Have a super fantabulous weekend everyone, if you’re in London, it looks to be a nice hot BBQ-tastic one!

Meal Plan 3 Laura of London
Meal Plan 3

Meal Plan 3

Crab Courgetti with Seeds and Rocket Laura of London

Another 10 minute wonder

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Yesterday we had a fab day celebrating the lovely Hishal’s 4th Birthday in East London, it was lovely to see D’s cousins and eat lots of lovely BBQ food by the lovely Yogesh and Veerusha and her cake baking skills are second to none!

I wanted to make something really light and meat-free for dinner, and after such a long drive it had to be quick! So I made myself a little apéritif of rose, soda and ice and got to work…

A little Apéritif Laura of London
A little Apéritif – rose wine, soda and ice

As you’ve probably seen from my recent posts, I’m a bit of a fan of my new spiraliser (Zoodle Chef, £15 on Amazon) and so I decided to make some ‘pasta’ otherwise known as courgetti. This is where you spiralise courgette and use it as a replacement for spaghetti. If you don’t have a sprialiser, you can just shave the courgette using a peeler and either have it as ‘papardelle’ or use a knife to slice it into thin, ‘pasta’ strips.

Spiralise 5 courgettes
Spiralise 5 courgettes

Once you’ve got the courgette ready this is a pretty fast recipe so get everything laid out and ready to go.

Ingredients

5 Courgettes
2 tins of crab meat
Handful parsley and basil
3-4 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 tbsp cold water
Juice of 1 lemon
400g tin of Cheery tomatoes (or normal tinned tomatoes + handful of fresh cherry tomatoes)
50g pine nuts
Rocket and mixed seeds to decorate

Crab Courgetti with Seeds and Rocket Laura of London
Crab Courgetti with Seeds and Rocket

Method

Spiralise your courgetti and put it in a bowl.

Make the pesto by adding the basil, pine nuts, parsley, water, oil and lemon juice to a blender and let it go for a minute or two

Add the pesto to a saucepan with the tinned cherry tomatoes – this will look a weird colour but don’t worry! Warm it through on quite a low to medium heat. You can add a small teaspoon of honey at this point to offset the acidity of the tomatoes but this isn’t vital.

Add the tinned cherry tomatoes Laura of London
Add the tinned cherry tomatoes

In a separate pan with a lid, put as much of the courgette in as will fit and 2 tbsp of water. Put the lid on and warm it through for a couple of minutes, remove the lid – if it is soft enough, drain it and do the same again with the next batch of courgette – depending on the size of the pan, repeat as necessary until all of the courgette is cooked.

Add the crab to the pesto/tomato sauce mix and season and stir well. Then add the courgetti to the sauce mix and stir/toss and allow it to warm through for a minute or two.

Mix the courgetti with the crab sauce Laura of London
Mix the courgetti with the crab sauce

Serve in warmed bowls with a drizzle of olive oil and a topping of lemon juice, rocket and mixed seeds.

Crab Courgetti with Seeds and Rocket Laura of London
Crab Courgetti with Seeds and Rocket

Indian fishcakes

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Ingredients

3 Spring onions
2/3 cloves of garlic
Thumb of ginger
3 chillis
Handful of Parsley
Handful of coriander
Lime zest and juice
Salt and Pepper
2 tsp Madras Curry Powder
1 tsp Paprika
250g smoked mackerel
3/4 mini chicken fillets

Method

In a food processor put spring onions, garlic, ginger, chillies (or less if you’re a wuss), parsley and coriander, lime zest and juice, salt and pepper.

Give it a whizz and then add the smoked mackerel, paprika, curry powder and chicken fillets.

Form into little patties and put in the fridge for 20 mins.

Fry in a non-stick pan without oil for 4 mins or so on each side and serve with a salad of onions macerated in lime/lemon juice, add tomatoes, coriander. Serve with sweet chilli sauce

This is a lovely summery light supper or great if you made them smaller for nibbles at a dinner party or bigger for a fish burger