Belly Beating Breakfast

It's the morning after the night before and you are dying for a great big traditional fry up but you've already overindulged last night; what do you do? The average modest fry up weighs in at a massive 700-800 calories and a reserved estimate on the fat content is between 40-50grams!

I've taken the Mushrooms on toast recipe on the Cook Yourself Thin website and jazzed it up a bit. with a reduced fat bacon medallion and a poached egg. Even with the egg, cream cheese and the bacon it comes in lower in fat than The Cook Yourself Thin version.

 Serves: 2
Calories per portion: 213
Fat per portion: 6g
WW Pro points: 7
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes


Ingredients:

1 Weight Watchers bagel halved and lightly toasted (half per serving)
2 small eggs
100g of portobello mushrooms (usually 1) roughly chopped
100g of chestnut mushrooms (usually 4-5) roughly chopped
1 reduced fat bacon medallion diced very small
2 spring onions finely chopped
2 garlic cloves finely chopped
Zest 1/4 of a lemon
1 tsp of extra light cream cheese (or 5g)
1 level tsp of parsley (fresh is best but dried is fine and much cheaper)
salt and pepper to taste.
1 cal spray oil.




Method

1.  Spray a frying pan with the 1 cal spray oil. Give it a good coating. (I use about 10 sprays. This is still much lower in calories and fat than even a teaspoon of olive oil). Let the pan get really hot. The pan needs to be hot to stop the mushrooms releasing moisture into the pan as this will ruin the final creamy texture.
2. crack your eggs into the egg poacher and cook with the lid off for a minute. (If you haven't got one of these then add 2 inches of boiling water to a pan and add a few drops of vinegar. Make sure the water is visibley simmering. Break your eggs onto a saucer and very gently and slowly slide it into the simmering water. Do this one egg at a time. The whites should be firm but not hard before you remove it from the water.)
3. Once your eggs are on add your mushrooms and garlic to the piping hot pan. Stir regularly making sure that the mushrooms don't burn after a minute put the lid on your egg poacher.
   Add a couple more sprays of oil to stop the mushrooms shrivelling up and add the bacon. Cook for a further 3 minutes stirring constantly.Toast your bagel lightly at this point.
4. Take your pan off the heat and stir through the extra light cream cheese. once that has melted add the lemon zest, spring onions and parsely and stir through.
5. remove your eggs from the heat and serve. Add salt and pepper to taste if needed.
6. ENJOY!

If you're a veggie then just leave out the bacon. If there isn't enough meat in it for you carniverous types I have another low cal cooked breakfast option but you'll just have to wait for that one. ;) The portobello mushrooms have a really meaty texture to them though so give it a try.