WeightWatchers recipe to help boost brainpower
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This is an easy lunch to make for one, or scale-up the recipe to feed a crowd. Salmon is packed with nutrients, and contains lots of omega-3 fatty acids, an essential fat which gives oily fish its reputation as ‘brain food’.
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Ingredients
One wholemeal pitta
Little gem lettuce
115g steamed skinless salmon filler
1tbsp 0% fat Greek yoghurt
1tbsp reduced fat mayonnaise
Half-a-teaspoon harissa paste
Method
1. Flake the steamed salmon fillet into chunks.
2. Cut a wholemeal pitta bread in half and fill with several Little Gem lettuce leaves and the flaked salmon fillet.
3. Mix together the natural Greek yogurt, the reduced-fat mayonnaise and the half-a-teaspoon of harissa paste.
4. Spoon the harissa mayo into the pittas on top of the salmon and lettuce leaves and serve.
Smartpoints: Green – 13;
Blue – 5; Purple – 5
Salmon pittas Serves 1
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