From scary soup to Halloween chilli … dishes that won'&#x 27; t haunt your waist

WITH Halloween tomorrow, Slendering World has actually dished out a ghoulishly great three-course meal that will not offer you a
shock on the scales!

All dishes are drawn from Slendering World’s collection.

Beginner: Creepy butternut squash soup

( Serves 4) Ready in 45 minutes

YOU REQUIRED:

• Low-calorie cooking spray
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 medium butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and cut into wedges
• 1 little potato, peeled and quartered
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and squashed
• 900ml hot veggie stock
• Fat-free natural fromage frais, to serve
• Red and green chilli pieces, to serve

TECHNIQUE: Spray a big non-stick pan with low-calorie cooking spray and location over a low heat.

Include the onion and cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring sometimes.

Increase the heat to medium, include the butternut squash and potato and cook for 2 minutes.

Include the garlic and season gently.

Pour in the stock and simmer for 25 minutes, or up until whatever hurts and prepared through.

Utilizing a hand mixer or food mill, mix the mix up until smooth.

Transfer the soup to a hollowed-out pumpkin (or a big serving bowl) and leading with a swirl of fromage frais and the chopped
chillies.

Main: Intense Halloween chilli

( Serves 4) Ready in 1 hour 5 minutes

YOU REQUIRED:

• Low-calorie cooking spray
• 500g lean beef mince (5 percent fat or less)
• 1 onion, carefully sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, carefully sliced
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper or paprika
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 400g can sliced tomatoes
• 1 red and 1 yellow pepper,
• deseeded and cut into little bitesize pieces
• 400g can red kidney beans in chilli sauce
• 400g can blended beans in water, drained pipes
• Slendering World potato wedges,
• Chunky cucumber, red onion, tomato and lettuce salad, to serve.

TECHNIQUE: Spray a big nonstick fry pan with low-calorie
cooking spray and location over a medium heat.

Fry the beef mince up until browned all over, then drain pipes off any liquid and transfer to a bowl.

Clean the pan with kitchen area paper and spray with more low calorie cooking spray.

Include the onion and garlic, stir-fry for 5 minutes, then include the cayenne
pepper or paprika, cinnamon and cumin and stir-fry for 1 minute.

Return the beef mince to the pan, include the sliced tomatoes and peppers, stir and give the boil.

Lower the heat to low.

Season gently, cover and cook for 20-25 minutes, stirring sometimes.

Include the 2 cans of beans (consisting of the chilli sauce) and stir well, then prepare for another 10 minutes.

Eliminate the chilli from the heat and transfer to a cauldron (or any big serving meal will do).

Serve with the potato wedges and chunky salad.

For the wedges, you require lowcalorie cooking spray and 1kg floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper, peeled and cut into wedges.

Heat your oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7 and spray a nonstick baking tray with low-calorie cooking spray.

Prepare the wedges in a pan of boiling water for 5
minutes.

Drain pipes well, go back to the pan and cover.

Permit to cool a little, then shake the pan to rough up the chips’ edges a little.

Expand the chips on the baking tray, season with salt and pepper and spray with a bit more low-calorie cooking spray.

Prepare at the top of the oven for 25 minutes, or up until the wedges
are golden, turning sometimes.

Dessert: Devilishly scrumptious doughnuts

( Makes 10) Ready in 45 minutes, plus cooling

YOU REQUIRED:

• 150g self-raising flour
• 1/4 level tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 level tablespoon caster sugar
• 125g fat-free natural Greek yoghurt
• 1 medium egg, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Low-calorie cooking spray
• 6 level tablespoon royal icing sugar
• Green food colouring
• 20 edible eyes
• 10 level tsp black food colouring gel
• 5 chocolate mint sticks/batons
• 1 level tablespoon smooth strawberry or raspberry jam

TECHNIQUE: Preheat your oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7.

Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and caster sugar in a big bowl.

Mix the yoghurt, egg and vanilla extract in a container and stir it into the
flour mix.

Attempt not to strain the mix– simply bring it together to a
smooth, soft, a little sticky dough (the bicarbonate of soda will quickly start to work its magic and puff up the mix).

Put a big non reusable piping bag in a container or big glass and open it up over the lip of the container or glass (this will assist to keep the piping bag open).

Spray the within with low-calorie cooking spray.

Spoon the dough into the piping bag and twist completion to close it, then raise the bag out of the container or glass and snip off a 3cm hole at the pointy end.

Spray a doughnut tin with low calorie cooking spray and pipeline 10 cool circles of dough into the holes.

Gently spray the tops with more low-calorie cooking spray, then bake for 8-10 minutes– you do not require to turn them.

Leave the doughnuts to cool a little, then thoroughly end up on to a cake rack and delegate cool totally.

When the doughnuts are cool, blend the icing sugar with cold water to make a smooth icing (attempt about 1 1/2 -2 tsp water to begin with and include more if required).

Pour half into another bowl and include some green food colouring up until it’s the shade of green you desire.

For the Frankenstein doughnuts, equally spread out the green icing over them and embellish with the edible eyes, black food colouring and chocolate sticks/batons utilizing our image as a guide.

For the vampire doughnuts, equally spread out the white icing over them and embellish with the edible eyes, black food colouring and chocolate sticks/batons.

Water down the jam with a little water and utilize it to develop the result of blood around your vampires’ mouths, like in the image.

IDEA: We likewise made a couple of jammy doughnuts!

You’ll require to utilize rounded moulds or a muffin tin instead of a doughnut tin, and the dough will make 8 doughnuts instead of 10.

They’ll require 8-10 minutes in the oven.

As soon as cool, make a hole in the side of each doughnut and, utilizing a piping bag, squirty bottle or pipette, inject 1 level tsp jam into each of the 8 doughnuts.