Quick Recipe of The Week

Salad With Pitta Bread

This isn't a recipe as such more something you can put together in a hurry, actually it's becoming something I quite enjoy, even in winter so here it is get some pitta breads wholemeal are better, one’s I tend to eat have five grams of fibre per pitta, which is quite a lot remember the fact that is a good idea to get into the habit of eating 25 grams of fibre per day, so if you eat too of these pitta breads then you will of eaten almost half of your daily requirement of fibre, in one simple meal.

What I have with mine is two wholemeal pitta’s, and a pre-packaged salad which can have anything from, iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, hard-boiled egg sliced in half, sliced new potatoes and what I tend to do is, slice a normal sized tomato and then cut the pitta breads at the top, and put the salad, tomatoes and any other vegetables you may have handy, this is far healthier than buying kebabs from take-away’s, purely and simply because the meal is high in saturated fat. Really the sky's the limit with this just before writing this article, I looked in the fridge at a packet of salad we have bought.

The calorie content of it is 24 calories per half packet so 48 in all, the pitta bread has something like a 100 to a 150 calories per pitta, so we're looking in the region of 350 calories maximum, which for a meal is very low indeed, low-fat and brimming full of goodness. In fact as I'm writing this post it's making me feel hungry just writing about it.

Anyway give it a try it's delicious.