Tony's hot in the kitchen!

So I get this lovely email from Tony after him telling us about his yummy sweet and sour recipe in group........


Hi Ursula
Here is that syn free sweet and sour recipe for your blog,

Serves 4 You will need
2 onions2-3 garlic cloves
about 2 handfuls of sliced mixed pepper's (can be iceland's frozen)
2 large carrot's sliced or grated2 handful's of frozen peas or any other veg you fancy
half a fresh pineapple chopped
2 tspn of ginger
1 tspn of coriander
(1 tspn of tikka curry powder and 1 tsps of tandoori curry powder optional if you like it a little bit spicy)
1 to 2 tbsp of malt vinegar(to your taste)
1 tbsp of balsamic vinegar
4 tbsp of artificial sweetener(to your taste)
3 tbsp of sugar free undiluted orange squash(optional)
2 tin's of chopped tomatoes or 1 tin of chopped tomatoes and 1 box/jar of passata
2 tbsp of tomato puree (syn this but if you use passata prob won't need it as very tomato-ey already)
1 chicken stock cube
frylite.

Then depending on what day you are on you will need either chicken meat chopped into bite size piece's or chicken quorn fillet's or chicken quorn piece's, if you use chicken meat don't add the frozen peas unless you use as a healthy extra.

Method
chop the onion and garlic and fry in frylite until soft, then add the ginger,coriander,tikka curry powder,tandoori curry powder,mix all in then add both the malt and balsamic vinegar.Then add all the other veg, with the chicken stock cube and about 1 cup of water, then add the tinned tomatoes' and orange squash,then add either you're meat or quorn.bring it all to a boil then turn it down to a medium heat for about 10 mins and add the tomato puree.If you feel like you need more liquid then add more water.then turn down to a gentle heat for about 20 to 25 mins or until meat and veg is cooked the sauce should thicken slightly as you cook it.Then add the sweetener 1 tbsp at a time and keep trying and adding to you're taste.then finally add in the chopped pineapple and serve eat and enjoy.

This recipe can be played around with you can adjust all the quantities and ingredient's to you're personal taste it took me a few goes to get it how i liked it, just keep tasting it all the way and adjust things to how you like them, sometimes i add soy sauce or Worcester sauce depending on what i fancy,.you can have the sauce thicker if you like with cornflour but you would have to syn this. anyway enough from me i look forward to seeing how you all get on with this i hope you find it as tasty as i do

all the best
Tony x x x

What a top chap eh?? Bon appetit all :-)

Urs xxx