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Yesterday cooked my first recipe from the Hairy Dieters book, and my goodness it was yummy
In case you missed the post, I kept hearing good things about the book (not from dieters either!) and spotted it in Tesco for £7 so bought it.
This is their adapted chicken jalfrezi, which luckily is online so you can have the link:
http://www.womanmagazine.co.uk/food/hai ... zi-recipe/

I cooked the recipe exactly as it is, except we only had red peppers, and bothered to count the number of chicken pieces, so I could freeze half. I cooked it up to adding the stir-fried veg, then took half out, and only did half of the stir-fry veg as they'll be better added fresh when we have the other half
Our was not quite a diet version as we had a couple of samosa and pakoras lurking in the freezer, but I did weigh amount of brown rice I'd usually cook and it was exactly what they suggest anyway
There are lots of other recipes I'm looking forward to trying too

Di, if their version of sweet and sour is in the book you have to try it. It was in one of the earlier shows and I cannot find the link now, but it must be in the book of the series.

Yes it is WM, I shall probably try it next time we have the boys or just youngest; they both love sweet and sour so I usually have a tin of pineapple at the ready
The book has all the recipes from the series, plus more.

Oh dear, it sounds like another cookery book I must buy
I watched the series and thought some of the recipes looked tasty, so it's good to read that both you WM are giving it a thumbs up

Loz what I liked was the recipe was really clear and easy to follow, plus it worked!
Which is what you expect from a recipe book, but all too often as I read them I'm already making adjustments. I now feel I can happily trust the recipes, so can relax and just do as they say

I copied this recipe out Di and am making it tomorrow.

Ally check out your chillies, it sounds like a lot but the ones I bought weren't as hot as the last ones. I left the seeds in 2 of the chopped ones and took them out from the other two, and it was fine - but we'd have enjoyed it a bit hotter too
Stir-frying the veg and adding last really makes a lovely difference

If anyone googles Hairy Dieters there are some of their recipes from their own site and from the BBC. The chicken Korma is worth a pop... but unfortunately I cannot find the lamb Madras/Vindaloo.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/lamb_vindaloo_41903

Happy now?
x

Diflower wrote:Ally check out your chillies, it sounds like a lot but the ones I bought weren't as hot as the last ones. I left the seeds in 2 of the chopped ones and took them out from the other two, and it was fine - but we'd have enjoyed it a bit hotter too
Stir-frying the veg and adding last really makes a lovely difference

Thanks Di..we have a chilli plant that has produced very mean chillies this year.

Which we love.