Daily Archives: June 10, 2015

Pork, mushroom and mustard with creme fraiche.

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Slimming World adapted recipe - one syn per plateful.

Hello Dear Reader,

A really simple recipe for you tonight. It’s made in a shallow pan on top of the stove and it’s really quick to make. You can add butter and real cream to this if you want to be indulgent and I might do just that for a special occasion; you could also add wine to turn this into a dinner party meal. I’ve made this to be as healthy as possible and I hope you enjoy it if you make it. This recipe made four portions, some we’ll eat reheated for lunch.Serve it with whatever you please, we had cauliflower, green beans, carrots and new potatoes, all cooked in the steamer in the time it took to cook the pork.

I found a version of this recipe on the Prima website and adapted it so it was a ‘lighter’ version but still really creamy and felt very indulgent.


To make this you will need

1 or 2 pork loin steaks per person - cut into cubes
1 300ml pot of 5% fat/reduced creme fraiche
1 red onion
10 mushrooms = sliced
spray oil or knob of butter
diced parsley or tarragon
2 teaspoons of wholegrain mustard.
splash of rice wine vinegar or you could use wine or sherry.


Heat the pan and add the onions, mushrooms and pork - spray with oil and cook through until the pork is completely cooked.

Add the creme fraiche, parsley and mustard and continue to cook for another ten minutes. I added some water when it started to thicken more than I wanted. I finished it with the splash of rice wine vinegar, but you don’t have to add this but could add half a glass of white wine or sherry, which is what the recipe asked for. I didn’t have any and did have rice wine vinegar.Finally season with salt and pepper.

Serve with anything you have.

Slimming world addition - the pot of creme fraiche is 3 syns and the two teaspoons of mustard is another syn, so four in total for the entire pan of pork, mushroom and mustard. This might seem like a heap of food but I’m trying to eat more at meal times so I don’t get hungry between meals and get tempted to pick.

Over to you Dear Reader, who remembers when it was just not heard of to eat between meals. I still get the colly wobbles when I see people walking around eating in the street; there’s something about it that just doesn’t sit comfortably with me. Who else tries to ‘eat properly’ at the table and leave food to meal times?

Until tomorrow,

Love Froogs xxxx