My Mind, My Life, My Travels, My Food: 600 calorie meal 1 - Mixed Salmon & Pepperoni pizza puff pastry tart

So as I said in a previous post doing this cleanse I had to eat 600 calories meals once a day, after plenty of research into low calorie foods and a little time spent planning here is the first meal.

All these products were sourced at my local Tesco's.

Ingredients:

Tesco finest Puttanesca sauce - 2 Dessert spoons 28g 30Kcal
Baby spinach                                                         30g 18Kcal
Reduced fat mature Cheddar                                 15g 40Kcal
Pepperoni                                                         2 slices 35Kcal
Smoked Pancetta slices                                    1 slice 40Kcal
Smoked Salmon slices                                   1/2 slice 27Kcal
2 sliced cherry tomatoes                                               30Kcal
Low fat Mascarpone                                               30g 73Kcal
Lower Fat Puff Pastry                                         90g 300Kcal
                                                                        Total    593Kcal

Pre-heat your oven to 190 degrees celicius, my oven is fan assisted if yours is not add 10 degrees.

As you can see I have weighed and portioned everything out, you might find this helps, when using pastry its essential to be at room temperature but not over heated or over worked. The minimal effort the better for pastry, line a cold baking tray (non stick) or use some parchment paper. Score a boarder around the edge of the pastry this will help the edges rise, smear the base with the tomato paste, I chose Puttanesca sauce as it contains olives and anchovies which are full of omega 3 oils and are naturally salty so removes the need to season.
Next arrange the ingredients in a fashion that suits you, I added cheese first then the meats followed by tomatoes and the mascarpone lastly placed the salmon and the spinach.

Pop this straight into the oven and bake for 11 min's.

Meal for 1 or easily in half for a sharing number with a salad.

This meal is genuinely gorgeous but does require a lot of small ingredients which can only be brought in medium to larger quantities so plan ahead and plan meals around these ingredients to minimise waste. You want to make your money go further.