Category: Pork

Serves: 10 (271 calories per serve /211 using egg whites)
Total calories per recipe: 2708

Preparation Time: 10 minutes.
Cooking time: 45 minutes

INGREDIENTS
750g zucchini – 90 calories
220g carrots – 60 calories
120g frozen diced onion (thawed) – 30 calories
1/4 cup avocado oil – 550 calories
100g grated tasty cheese – 399 calories
1 teaspoon minced garlic – 5 calories
1 tablespoon onion powder – 24 calories (or extra onion)
8 large eggs – 720 calories
1 cup S.R flour unsifted – 550 calories
140g lean ham – 140 calories
30g Grated Parmesan – 114 calories
Freshly ground black pepper.
Coconut oil spray – 26 calories

METHOD
Wash & grate zucchini & carrot with skin on and place in a large bowl.
Grate cheese and add to the bowl.
Dice ham into very small pieces and add.
Add avocado oil, garlic, onion powder, thawed onion and eggs to the bowl and stir well.
Add flour last and mix well.
Lightly spray a 17x30cm casserole dish with coconut oil.
Pour mixture in tray and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
Bake in moderate oven for 35-45 minutes

NOTES:
You can eat this dish hot one night and serve the following day as a cold slice with salad. This is a lighter version of the traditional zucchini slice.
If you want to make a light version again, substitute the 6 eggs for 8 egg whites (120 calories instead of 720 / 60 calories less per serve)

Serves: 8 (231 calories per serve using spring roll sauce)
Serving as pictured – 2 dumplings with salad.
Preparation Time: 25 minutes.
INGREDIENTS
520g lean pork mince – 610 calories
2 tablespoons Ketjap Manis – 60 calories
2 egg whites – 30 calories
60g currents – 168 calories
1 teaspoon sesame oil – 90 calories
2 tablespoons of dried chives – neg
190g Chinese cabbage (approx 3 leaves) – 25 calories
50g celery leaves – 7 calories
16 rice paper wrappers – 528 calories
4 cups rocket – 40 calories
4 medium tomatoes – 120 calories
4 tablespoons Vietnamese style spring roll dipping sauce – 168 calories
OR use 4 tablespoons of Ketjap Manis – 120 calories
Ground pepper to taste – neg

METHOD

Slice Chinese cabbage fine and dice stems placing aside in large bowl.
Finely dice celery leaves and add to cabbage.
Add Ketjap Manis, oil, currents and chives and stir well.
Lastly rub in pork mince ensuring all ingredients are mixed evenly.
Prepare a wide flat tray with warm water and place rice papers beside tray.
Lay a clean tea-towel on bench to catch excess water from wrapper.
Dip a single wrapper in warm water until it softens and lift out onto tea-towel. Using a 1/4 cup measure scoop out a packed 1/4 cup of mixture and place in centre of softened wrapper. Gather up sides of wrapper and lift into steamer. Twist top of wrapper as best as possible. The wrapper will seal as it cooks and the rice pastry sticks to itself.
Repeat for the remaining 15 wrappers placing in steamer trays. This will take up 2 trays.
Steam for 40minutes and serve with salad.
Salad: Prepare each plate with 1/2 cup rocket and 1/2 ripe tomato. Season tomatoes with freshly ground pepper.

NOTES:
Freeze cooked dumplings and reheat in oven in a tray covered in foil. They can be fried but the calorie count soars.
Try other fruits for different flavours like dried mango, pineapple and apple.
Ketjap Manis is Indonesian sweet soy sauce and thicker than regular soy sauce. We use all the time in stir fries. It has become a family favourite, replacing soy sauce more and more.

Serves: 8 (184 calories per serve) – Serving as pictured

Preparation Time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 20-25 minutes

This meal is quick and easy and great for a cold day when the family is extra hungry.

INGREDIENTS

450g lean diced pork – 450 calories
700g orange sweet potato – 245 calories
200g onion (1x large) – 54 calories
2 cloves garlic – 10 calories
400g apricots in natural juice – 176 calories
2 tablespoons soy sauce – 80 calories
Salt to taste.

METHOD

Cut sweet potatoes into cubes and place in bowl
Dice onion and garlic and add to sweet potato.
Heat oil in non-stick pan. Add meat and lightly brown both sides, then set a side.
To the same pan add vegetables and stir fry until browned but not cooked.
Add apricots with a the juice and soy sauce and return meat to pan.
Cook for a further 15 minutes on medium heat or until meat is cooked through.