Bikini Friendly Recipes For The Summer Season
We love food at Frost Magazine. We love it so much that no diet in which you need to deprive yourself will work for us. That is why these recipes caught our eye. Great food you can eat while being healthy and losing weight? Yes please.
There is no denying that the British love a good old fashioned barbecue! So with body conscious Brits preparing to don their bikinis and swim shorts this summer Dr Dukan has answered our dieting prayers.
This easy menu, boasting a delicious range of sides, mains and desserts, means you can indulge in all of your summer favourites whilst losing those extra inches fast!
Spicy Chicken Kebabs
Serves: 5
Preparation time: 30 minutes (plus 2-3 hours marinating)
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
25 small wooden kebab sticks
1kg (2lb 4oz) chicken breasts, cut into cubes
250ml (9fl oz) fat-free natural yoghurt
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp ground tumeric
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp grated ginger
1 garlic clove, crushed
Prepare the marinade with the yoghurt and all the spices, ginger and garlic. Thread the chicken pieces on to the kebab sticks and place them in a dish, covering them completely with the marinade.
Leave to marinate in the fridge for several hours or overnight. Place the kebabs on the barbeque andcook for 8-10 minutes until the meat is browned and tender.
Asian Style Beef Skewers
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes
4 thin-cut sirloin steaks or minute steaks, trimmed of any fat and each cutinto 3 long strips
100ml of soy sauce
1 tbsp of sweetener
1 tbsp sesame seeds (tolerated)
For the salad:
1 tsp white wine vinegar
1 tsp light soy sauce
1 cucumber, cut into small chunks
3 spring onions, sliced
1Ž2 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
Handful coriander leaves, chopped
Heat grill to high. In a bowl, mix the steak strips with the soy sauce and sesame seeds. Thread onto 12 skewers, then grill for 12 minutes, turning halfway through, until golden and sticky.
For the salad, mix the vinegar and soy together, then toss with the cucumber, spring onions, chilli and coriander. Serve with the beef skewers.
Dukan Burger
Serves : 2
Preperation: 10 minutes, cook 10 minutes (or more according to taste)
Ingredients
3 tbsp oat bran
4 tbsp low fat fromage frais
2 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
2 low fat beef burgers (5% fat)
2 sliced onions
2 red onions sliced
2 gherkins
Tsp Dijon mustard
Dukan ketchup and Dukan mayonnaise
Mix half of the oat bran, egg, half of fromage frais and half baking soda. Pour in a circle mould and cook it in the micro wave for 4 minutes. Remove the bread and slice it in to pieces. Repeat the operation a second time to make another bread. You can toast if you wish.
Cook the onion in a nonstick frying pan with a bit of water and then cook your burgers. On one slice of the bread spread some mustard and then Dukan ketchup and mayonnaise according to your taste and then add your burger. Add the sliced onion and gherkin.
Tzatziki
1 serving
Preparation time: 10 minutes (plus refrigeration time)
No cooking required
Ingredients:
1/2 cucumber
Sea salt
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
150g (51Ž2oz) fat-free natural yoghurt
Peel and deseed the cucumber, chop it up very finely, then sprinkle a generous pinch of sea salt over it and leave for a few minutes to extract any juices. Then mix together all the ingredients and refrigerate for several hours. Serve very cold.
Dukan Coleslaw
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes
4 tbsp Dukan mayonnaise
4 tsp red wine vinegar
1 tsp of linseeds, toasted
1Ž2 white cabbage, shredded
4 carrots , peeled and shredded
1 red onion, halved and thinly sliced
Mix the mayonnaise, vinegar and fennel seeds and season really well. Toss with all the vegetables and leave for 20 minutes. Toss again before serving.
And finally, don’t miss out on those additional extras which always seem to find their way in to any BBQ spread – do away with fatty crisps and indulge in Dr Dukan’s vegetable snacks or simply replace with salted oat bran biscuits!
Please see Dr Dukan’s desserts selection below:
Iced Lemon Mousse
Serves: 2-3
Preparation time: 10 minutes (plus freezing time)
No cooking required
Ingredients:
4 egg whites
500g (1bl 2oz) virtually fat-free fromage frais
Zest of 1 lemon
Juice of 5 lemons
Beat the egg whites until stiff. Whisk the fromage frais and carefully mix together with the lemon zest, lemon juice and egg whites. Place the mousse in a dish and freeze until it has set firm.
Chocolate and Cinnamon Ice Cream
Serves: 6
Preparation : 5 minutes – Refrigeration time : 2 hrs
Ingredients:
500ml low fat fromage frais
1 fresh vanilla bean pod or two drops of Dukan vanilla flavouring
4 tbsp of 1% Dukan cocoa powder
5 to 7 tbsp of sweetener according to taste
1 tbs of powdered cinnamon
Mix all the ingredientstogether and pour into an icecream tub then pop into the freezer. Freeze for one hour and then remove, stir well and put back in freezer for a final hour. It’s ready! Can be kept two days in the freezer.
Strawberry Milkshake
Serves 2
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
· 50 ml skimmed milk
· 50 ml low fat fromage frais or low fat greek yogurt
· 1 or two drops of Dukan Strawberry flavouring
· A few ice cubes
Mix all the ingredients in a blender and serve with a straw.
Vanilla Lollipops
Serves: 4
Preparation: 10 minutes; Freezing time: overnight
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons vanilla flavouring
300g fat-free fromage frais
4 Canderel vanilla sticks
Have ready four plastic lollipop moulds with sticks. Stir the vanilla flavouring in to the fromage frais. Add the sweetener and beat the mixture using an electric whisk. Fill the lollipop moulds and freeze overnight. Enjoy them the following day!