CHICKEN BREAST WRAPPED IN PARMA HAM RECIPE

A succulent chicken breast stuffed with watercress, cream cheese and garlic then lightly wrapped in Parma ham. Serve with a velvety full cream watercress sauce and you have an especially tasty dish to wow your audience. And its under 450 calories too, would you believe!
The dish is not too difficult especially as it can all be prepared beforehand.
The cooking time for succulent chicken is all important. You can see from the photograph just how juicy the chicken turned out cooked this way.
The watercress was very peppery and we found ours in Sainsburys. The Parma ham came from Aldi at £1.99 - enough to cover four chicken breasts.
Take a look at our mouth watering recipe below:

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Creamy smoked trout salad

We love this SMOKED TROUT SALAD as it's quite easy to put together. With all the ingredients to hand, it's more of an assembly job, apart from boiling the potatoes.

I added a little more horseradish sauce to the dressing today. 

Smoked trout is cheaper than smoked salmon, and makes a nice change. If you can't find trout, you can always substitute with hot smoked salmon. 

We've used a very thick and creamy Greek yoghurt for the dressing. It really helps give the dish a velvety richness, without using mayonnaise (which can often taste too oily).

This dish comes in under 300 calories - and it is so filling, you would never believe it. Room for something else…… Here's our recipe:

HOW TO MAKE A QUICHE

This goat's cheese and watercress quiche was extremely light and fluffy. An occasional treat and delicious with a side salad. If you have a lot of weight to lose, like we did, why not lose it eating food you love? If you don't like goat's cheese you could make a quiche lorraine, using cooked bacon pieces and cheddar/gruyere. Experiment with your favourite flavours.

GOAT'S CHEESE AND WATERCRESS QUICHE

PASTRY BASE

175g plain flour

100g butter - room temperature

1 egg, beaten

2 tbsp full fat milk (or water)

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FILLING

1 medium onion or 2 shallots, chopped

2 tbsp red onion chutney

60g watercress

100g soft crumbly goat's cheese

salt/pepper

4 medium eggs

100ml full fat milk

100ml double cream

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Begin by making the pastry. Mix the flour and butter until it looks like breadcrumbs, then add the beaten egg. Instead of using water, I used full fat milk to bring the mixture together into a dough. You can use water if you prefer. I found the pastry was very 'short' using milk.

Line a 23cm lightly greased flan dish with the pastry, letting the pastry overlap the tin. Pierce the base using a fork.
Scrunch some greaseproof paper then open out and line the pastry case. Cover with CERAMIC BAKING BEANS then place in the oven at 180ºC for around 20 minutes. Leave to cool slightly and trim the edges of the pastry.
Brush base and sides with a little beaten egg. Brush the blind baked pastry case with red onion chutney. 

Lightly fry a chopped onion or shallots and spread these around the pastry base. Wilt the watercress in the frying pan and place into the flan, then crumble the goat's cheese on top. Season with salt and pepper.

Mix together the eggs,  milk and double cream. Season lightly with salt and pepper and pour into the flan.

Place in the oven at 180ºC until cooked - around 35-40 minutes. 

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Forget dieting. Lose weight eating the food YOU love!

REMEMBER: This is not a diet. We all have a calorie allowance - (see our page on calories) and we like to post our main meals to show you what we are eating. You won’t find us posting every last morsel though – but we hope this gives you an idea of how far calories can go!

Read about the UNIQUE METHOD of weight loss and find out how we have lost weight eating the food we love.

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