Weight Watchers Recipes

Here’s a simple, but very delicious pasta dish with fresh green peas.

You can use other pasta types too, but tagliatelle pasta noodles are recommended, as they seem to have been made for this recipe!

For some extra taste, you can use 1 cup vegetable broth instead of the water.

Weight Watchers Pasta and Peas recipe
Makes 6 servings

Ingredients
500 g tagliatelle pasta noodles
500 g fresh peas
2 spring onions, chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon parsley, chopped
1 cup water
salt (to taste)
pecorino cheese (to taste)

Preparation
1. Place the peas in a saucepan with the salt, spring onions, olive oil, parsley and water.
2. Cook them gently for 15 minutes.
3. In the meantime,cook the tagliatelle in a separate saucepan, drain them and return them to the saucepan.
4. Add the cooked peas to the tagliatelle, making sure to include the juices.
5. Mix well and serve hot with grated pecorino cheese.

WW POINTS per serving: 9
Nutritional information per serving: 448 calories, 10.8g fat, 7.1g fiber

A very easy to prepare and extremely flavorful main dish recipe!

The V-8 vegetable juice gives this dish a great taste, so use it (instead of plain tomato juice) if you have it on hand!

Weight Watchers Ground Beef Noodles in Sour Cream recipe
Makes 6 servings

Ingredients
3 cups noodles, uncooked
1 lb ground beef
1 (6 ounce) can mushroom stems and pieces
1 cup onions, chopped
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
3 cups V-8 vegetable juice (or tomato juice)
2 teaspoons salt
1 dash pepper
1 teaspoon celery salt (optional)

Preparation
1. In a large frying pan or Dutch oven, saute the onions in butter until tender, then add meat and brown lightly.
2. Place the noodles in a layer over meat.
3. Combine the tomato juice with the seasonings, and pour over noodles.
4. Bring to a boil, then cover.
5. Simmer over low heat for 30 minutes (or until the noodles are tender).
6. Stir in the sour cream and mushrooms and bring to a boil.
7. Serve hot.

WW POINTS per serving: 9
Nutritional information per serving: 394 calories, 24.3g fat, 2.7g fiber

What a quick and easy snack recipe, and what a spectacular result!

You can prepare this in just 5 minutes. It looks really nice, and tastes great!

Weight Watchers Mexican Bagels recipe
Makes 2 servings

Ingredients
1 bagel
1/2 ripe avocado, thickly sliced
2 slices of your favorite cheese
4 teaspoons salsa

Preparation
1. Split the bagel in half.
2. Spread salsa over each half.
3. Top each with avocado slices, a slice of cheese and two teaspoons salsa.
5. Place under the grill for 5 minutes or until the cheese melts.

WW POINTS per serving: 9
Nutritional information per serving: 415 calories, 22.1g fat, 4.7g fiber

This is a great comfort food for the cold season. This is a very simple recipe, yet the stuffed peppers have a very nice flavor and taste great with a side dish of mashed potatoes and gravy.

As a variation, you can try putting in rice instead of corn.

Weight Watchers Crock Pot Stuffed Peppers recipe
Makes 3 servings

Ingredients
4 green bell peppers
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 lb ground sirloin
1/2 cup chopped onions
1 tablespoon mustard
1 teaspoon salt
2 (10 1/2 ounce) cans tomato soup
1 (15 1/2 ounce) can corn
fresh ground pepper

Preparation
1. Remove the tops of peppers and remove seeds and core.
2. Arrange in crock pot so that they’re standing upright.
3. In mixing bowl, combine sirloin, onion, salt, corn, 1 can of soup.
4. Spoon mixture into peppers, pressing down to fill completely (may overload a bit at the tops).
5. Combine the other can of soup with Worcestershire and mustard.
6. Spoon mixture over the peppers.
7. Add pepper to taste.
8. Cover and cook on low for 8-9 hours.

WW POINTS per serving: 9
Nutritional information per serving: 458 calories, 11.3g fat, 9.7g fiber

I don’t like onions at all, but I have friends who enjoy eating onion rings, so here’s a recipe for them. They’re much fresher and better than the frozen ones.

Weight Watchers Homemade Onion Rings recipe
Makes 4 servings

Ingredients
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 large sweet onions, sliced
1/2 cup flour (for coating onions)
oil (for frying)

Preparation
1. Mix egg, oil, and milk on low speed of mixer for 1 minute.
2. Add dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
3. Coat onions in flour.
4. Dip in batter.
5. Fry in hot oil 375* until desired shade of brown.

WW POINTS per serving: 9
Nutritional information per serving: 380 calories, 17.6g fat, 2.3g fiber