Quorn Tortilla Stack, Potato Wedges, Houmous and Refried Beans

Exactly what it says in the title. Quorn mince tortilla stack. Thought I'd put the recipe up as I've made it quite a few times now and it's a good one. I guess it could be made with real mince or soya mince too. 

Ingredients:

300g Mince of your choice

1 small onion, finely chopped

1 clove garlic, minced

2 tsp ground paprika

1 tsp chilli powder

400g chopped tomatoes

2 tbsp tomato puree

1 tbsp soy sauce (or vegetarian Worcestershire sauce)

4 soft flour tortillas

50g mature cheddar cheese

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees celcius/400 farenheit/gas mark 6.

2. Heat a little oil in a frying pan until hot, cook the onion and garlic for 5 minutes.

3. Add the mince, paprika, chilli powder, chopped tomatoes, tomato puree and soya sauce and season.

4. Simmer for 10-15 minutes.

5. Place a large tortilla on a large non-stick baking tray, spoon over a portion of mince mixture. Repeat with the remaining tortillas and mince and then add the cheese on the top of the final tortilla.

6. Bake for 10 minutes, cut into quarters and serve. 

Quorn Tortilla Stack with Potato Wedges and Salad

I love this easy tasty recipe. Its nice to do something different with quorn mince than a spag bol or cottage pie.  I thought I may have gone over the top with the spices today but all was well!

 

I accompanied the stack with some home made potato wedges. I made them smaller than usual and par boiled them so that they cooked quicker - it worked! 

Tortilla Stack with...Kale!

I decided that I would make the very popular tortilla stack for dinner on Friday. There wasn't an awful lot left in the fridge or cupboards to go with it. I had been given some kale by a work colleague who had grown it himself. I haven't eaten kale before and wasn't quite sure what to so with it so I googled it and decided to steam it. The stack itself was slightly over cooked as I was on holiday time i.e. not watching time at all! The kale itself was a bit like a bitter cabbage. I think we're going to try stir-frying the rest.

Cheese and Onion Quorn Burgers

The sun shone at the weekend and it made Mr VST crave a barbecue or at least burgers. I was reading The Quorn Supremacy and came across the recipe for home made quorn burgers and they had a pretty good review.  I followed the recipe and the helpful tip from Ali about making the patties in a cutter so that they keep their shape. 

 

Sometimes only the best processed accompaniments will do so I served these in big white oven bottom muffins with 'plastic cheese', you know the pre-sliced stuff and ketchup of course. I did put some salad on the side to boost the nutrition levels. The burgers themselves were delicious. Really flavoursome.

Cottage Pie with Sweet Potato Mash

I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow in the hope that I have shifted the last of the layer I put on over Christmas. My clothes are certainly back to fitting better anyway but I would quite like the scales to confirm it. This is all before I go away next week on a snowboarding holiday which is fully catered and as I understand it we will be fed breakfast, tea and cakes on our return from the slopes and then a three course meal with wine each evening. I'm not sure if the snowboarding will cancel out the calories consumed but I'm not really that bothered either!

Anyway back to today. Cottage pie made with Quorn mince and half normal potato and half sweet potato mash has to be one of the more filling low calorie dishes that I make at about 235 calories a portion and when I am counting that makes it a winner!

Quorn tortilla stack (Low-calorie version) with baked potato wedges

Mr VST and I really enjoyed the Quorn tortilla stack last time but it was a bit hefty on the calories at 525 per portion. I decided to make it again with fewer calories this time. The recipe says between 4-6 tortillas so I used 4 this time and it says to grate cheese between each layer so I just put some on the top and it still tasted great and nearly 200 calories less per portion at 330 per quarter of the stack.

The potato wedges are from Kurma Dasa's 'Quick Vegetarian Meals'. I love this book. I found it when we were travelling in Australia and staying with Mr VST's cousins who had a copy. It is such a lovely book even if his idea of quick isn't quite the same as everyone else's. The wedges are covered with spray oil and then a mixture of cumin, tumeric, paprika, salt and pepper and baked in the oven for 20 mins.

Quorn mince tortilla stack

Thought I'd try a new recipe for meat-free Monday today. I don't know why I feel the need to make extra effort for Mondays as all my days are meat free but I'm sure I've had curry a few times on a Monday (it's so easy!). So tonight I went for a new recipe from my Quorn Kitchen cookbook. Not too difficult to make and surprisingly tasty, its one I'll be making again and it even looked like it did in the book!

It's quite high in calories per portion though which is the only thing that put me off. The recipe says to put cheese in each of the layers and to be honest I don't think it needs it so will try it without next time, just putting some on the top.

Quorn mince linguine bolognese

A quick mid-week supper...





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Sweet potato loaf, braised red cabbage and roast potatoes

A new recipe tonight from the Quorn Kitchen cook book. A non-meat loaf. I'm not really sure why it's called sweet potato loaf, it could equally be called carrot loaf. Anyway it was a success. I'll use the food processor for grating next time though.

The braised cabbage was lovely. Used this Waitrose recipe for the cabbage. It was one I discovered last year. Makes LOADS of cabbage so I will freeze it for later use.

Improvised quorn mince cottage pie

In the meaty world Cottage Pie is made with minced beef and Shepherd's Pie with minced lamb. In the veggie world there are numerous options for fillings. There are lots of lentil Shepherd's Pie recipes out there but I make mine with quorn or realeat mince.

When I went to get the mince out of the freezer tonight I realised that there wasn't enough. A quick rummage in the cupboards and I found a can of three bean salad to bulk out the filling. Unfortunately beans don't soak up the gravy as well as the mince does so it wasn't as tasty as usual.





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