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Title: Cholesterol-Friendly Recipes

Cholestrol-Friendly Recipes

Your instinct was to follow your nose to try and crack cholesterol. Good for you. This is Zilli’s Kitchen area. Zilli, Kellogg’s and the community have cooked up some truly exciting and, of course, tasty recipes for you here.

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Community Cookbook

Optivita Village™ is all about helping to crack cholesterol together. That’s why our Community Cookbook is open to everyone. You can either peruse its pages for inspiration or contribute your own delicious recipe. Once you’ve cooked a dish, you can post a comment or simply give it a rating.

As soon as the Cookbook’s brimming with ideas, you’ll start seeing the highest-rated recipes, perhaps even yours, appearing in the Weekly Menu Planner.

Recent Submissions

Here is a little taster of recent submissions from the Community. Enjoy!

  • Broad beans simmered with tomatoes served with rice noodles. image

    Broad beans simmered with tomatoes served with rice noodles.

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    By Optivita
      1. Preheat oven to 200 C, place the spring onions in an oven proof dish with a little of the stock. 2. Cook until soft. 3. Add the garlic, bean and remaining stock, increasing the heat. 4. Add the tofu. Bring to the boil. 5. Put the lid on the dish and cook for 30 minutes. 6. Add the tomatoes and cook for a further 10 minutes. 7. Remove from the oven and add the parsley. 8. Serve with crusted bread.
  • New potatoes with watercress, spring onions and pork. image

    New potatoes with watercress, spring onions and pork.

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    By Optivita
      1. Put the potatoes in a pan of boiling water and cook until soft. 2. Add the chopped carrots and parsnip to another pan of boiling water until cooked through. 3. Meanwhile put the chops on the grill and cook for 10 minutes on each side or until cooked through. 4. Drain the carrots and parsnip. 5. Drain the potatoes (halve potatoes if they are large). 6. Add the dill, spring onions and red onions to the potatoes. 7. Add the water cress and season with black pepper. 8. Mash the carrots and parsnip together. 9. Remove the cooked pork from the grill and serve with the potatoes and vegetables.
  • Fish tagliatelle. image

    Fish tagliatelle.

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    By Optivita
      1. Cook tagliatelle in a pan of water (as per pack instructions). In a large pan add a little stock and the onions and garlic. 2. Cook for 10 minutes until softened.3. Add the rest of the stock and reduce down for a few minutes. 4. Stir in the tomatoes and cook for a further 15 minutes, until tomatoes are broken down and the mixture is thickened. 5. Stir in tomato puree. 6. Add the fish and cook for 5 minutes. 7. Drain the pasta and mix with the tomato sauce until mixed through. 8. Add the basil and serve.
  • Vegetable and rice mix image

    Vegetable and rice mix

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    By Optivita
      1. Preheat the oven to 190 C. 2. Add some of the stock to a frying pan and add the onions. 3. Cook for 5 minutes until soft. 4. Stir in the mushrooms and cook for 1-2 minutes. 5. Transfer into a large oven proof dish. 6. Add the rice, peppers, tomatoes and stock. 7. Stir gently to mix in all the ingredients. 8. Transfer to the oven and cook for 25 minutes until the rice is soft and cooked. 9. Slice the baguette and toast. 10. Serve with the rice.
  • Spicy tofu stir fry image

    Spicy tofu stir fry

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    By Optivita
      1. Add the noodles to a pan of boiling water and cook for 15 minutes until soft. 2. Heat a wok and add the tofu. Stir fry for 5 minutes or until cooked. 3. Add the onion, yellow pepper and courgettes. 4. Stir-fry for a further 3 minutes, tossing the vegetables in the wok. 5. Add the mushrooms and mix well. 6. Mix the soy sauce and lemon grass and add to the pan, coating the tofu and vegetables. 7. Drain the noodles and add to the wok. 8. Mix through and serve.
  • Whiting on a bed of leeks, peas and mashed potatoes image

    Whiting on a bed of leeks, peas and mashed potatoes

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    By Optivita
      1. Add the potatoes to a pan of boiling water and cook until soft. 2. Add a little water to a large saucepan and stir in the leeks. 3. Cook over a low heat for 10 minutes until they begin to soften. 4. Drain any water and add the peas and stir in the greek yoghurt and mustard. 5. Cook for a further 5 minutes. 6. Season the fish with pepper and steam for 10 minutes until cooked (alternatively the fish can be placed under the grill and cooked). 7. Drain the potatoes and mash, add a little milk if necessary. 8. Put the mashed potatoes on a plate. 9. Add the leeks and peas on top of the mash. 10. Place the fish on top of the potatoes and leeks and serve.

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