Weight Watchers Recipes

This is a wonderful no-sugar, low-fat smoothie recipe that’s a great replacement for ice cream. You can make it for breakfast or enjoy it as a dessert. If the berries are not sweet enough and you find this too tart, you can sweeten it with sugar or Splenda.

Weight Watchers Weight Watchers Raspberry and Blueberry Smoothie recipe - 3 points recipe
Makes 2 servings

Ingredients
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 cup nonfat yogurt or low-fat vanilla yogurt
1 tablespoon ground flax seed
3/4 cup ice water
fresh mint, for garnish

Preparation
1. Place all the ingredients into a blender and blend until frosty smooth.
2. Decorate with fresh mint (optional) and serve.

WW POINTS per serving: 3
Nutritional information per serving: 163 calories, 1.8g fat, 5g fiber

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This is a wonderful recipe for anyone who can’t eat sugar. These muffins have a nice light texture and are very tasty - you could even not notice they have no sugar in them!

If you like to experiment, try using some other dried fruits too (like dried apricots, dried cherries or dried apples).

Weight Watchers Sugarless Dried Fruit Muffins recipe
Makes 12 servings

Ingredients
1 cup chopped dates
1/2 cup chopped prunes
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup butter, cut in pieces
1 cup water
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Preparation
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Grease and flour 12 muffin cups.
3. Combine the water, raisins, dates and prunes in a saucepan over medium high heat.
4. Boil for about 5 minutes (until the water is absorbed), then remove from heat, add the butter pieces and stir until the butter is melted.
5. Transfer to a large bowl and let cool.
6. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
7. Mix in the walnuts (if using) and blend into the fruit mixture.
8. Spoon the mixture into the muffin cups (2/3 to 3/4 full).
9. Bake in the oven for about 15-20 minutes (or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean).

WW POINTS per serving: 4
Nutritional information per serving: 195 calories, 8.7g fat, 2.2g fiber

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This simple recipe has an excellent taste. The fresh tomatoes and the basil add such a nice flavor to the fish!

Weight Watchers Tomato and Basil Baked Fish recipe
Makes 3 servings

Ingredients
1 lb white fish fillets (cod, halibut, flounder or turbot)
1-2 fresh summer tomatoes, thinly sliced
1/4-1/2 cup tomato sauce
1/2 fresh basil leaf, shredded
1/2 cup scallions, minced
1/4 cup breadcrumbs
salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
fish seasoning, to taste

Preparation
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Add the tomato sauce to the bottom of a baking dish.
3. Rinse the fish fillets and pat dry.
4. Sprinkle salt, pepper and fish seasoning (if using) to taste on both sides of the fish, and lay the fillets in the baking dish.
5. On a cutting board, chop the basil and mince the scallions.
6. Add the breadcrumbs to the pile of fresh herbs and chop roughly.
7. Top the fish fillets with the herb and breadcrumb mixture, then add the fresh tomato slices on top.
8. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes (or until the fish is cooked through).

WW POINTS per serving: 4
Nutritional information per serving: 191 calories, 2.6g fat, 1.6g fiber

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This is an easy recipe for some great lemon bars that taste delicious! The crust is buttery and tender, and the filling lemony and velvety. Yummy!

Weight Watchers Lemon Bars recipe
Makes 16 bars

Ingredients

For the crust
1/3 cup sweet unsalted butter
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup powdered sugar

For the topping
2 large eggs or egg whites, lightly beaten with a fork until foamy
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons grated lemon zest
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)

Additional ingredient
1/4 cup powdered sugar or icing sugar, for dusting tops

Preparation
1. Preheat the oven to 350° F.
2. Using a pastry blender, combine the crust ingredients until the mixture resembles crumbs.
3. Using your fingers, press the mixture into a greased and floured 8″ square glass baking pan (make sure that the entire bottom of the pan is evenly covered).
4. Bake partially for about 15 minutes, then remove from the oven.
5. While the crust is prebaking, combine the filling ingredients and pour over the warm crust.
6. Bake for about 15-20 minutes (or until lightly browned), being careful not to overbake.
7. Let cool completely.
8. Once cool, sift the powdered sugar over the top, according to your taste.
9. Slice into 16 bars and serve.

WW POINTS for one lemon bar: 3
Nutritional information for one lemon bar: 123 calories, 4.5g fat, 0.3g fiber

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Here’s a very refreshing and crunchy salad that Palestinians eat with just about anything, but especially to accompany and give colour to rice dishes.

Weight Watchers Arabic Salad recipe
Makes 4 servings

Ingredients
4 medium tomatoes
4 small English seedless cucumbers
1/2 cup finely chopped parsley
1 small finely diced onion (optional)
1 tablespoon olive oil (optional)
1 medium lemon, juice of
1 teaspoon salt

Preparation
1. Dice the tomatoes and cucumbers, and place them in a bowl.
2. Add the chopped parsley and onion (if using).
3. Just before serving, add the lemon juice, olive oil and salt, and combine all the ingredients.
4. Serve in small bowls to accompany rice dishes.

WW POINTS per serving: 1
Nutritional information per serving: 72 calories, 0.6g fat, 3.3g fiber

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