These Cheese and Onion Pasties are a slimming friendly treat whether you’re following a plan like Weight Watchers or calorie counting!
These Cheese and Onion Pasties work well hot or cold, for lunch or dinner, and even as a tasty picnic treat!
This is one of our many slimming friendly versions of pastries, check out some other favourites here;
What diets are Cheese and Onion Pasties suitable for?
This Cheese and Onion Pasties can be made suitable if you’re gluten free as long as you swap out the following ingredients for gluten free versions;
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Tortilla Wraps
Please make sure to double or triple check all of your ingredients if you’re cooking for people with allergies.
These Cheese and Onion Pasties are also suitable for vegetarians if you use a veggie version of Worcestershire Sauce.
How Weight Watchers friendly are Cheese and Onion Pasties?
- You need to count 9 Points per portion of this Cheese and Onion Pasties recipe if you’re on WW Green.
- You need to count 8 Points per portion of this Cheese and Onion Pasties recipe if you’re on WW Blue.
- You need to count 6 Points per portion of this Cheese and Onion Pasties recipe if you’re on WW Purple.
They also make a great meal, so serve them with your choice of accompaniment. You can keep the Points low by serving them with a side of zero Point vegetables.
Do you need any special ingredients to make Cheese and Onion Pasties?
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The low calorie tortilla wraps are essential for making these Cheese and Onion Pasties. We used the Weight Watchers White Wraps to make these.
We’ve tried many low calorie wraps (Fitzgeralds, BFree), and the Weight Watchers ones are by far the best! They are the only wraps that we’ve found that crimp well, don’t split and actually stay stuck together.
That being said, if you need to make these gluten free you can substitute with a suitable wrap. You could always roll them like our Sausage Rolls instead of crimping them!
How many calories are in these Cheese and Onion Pasties?
There are 330 calories in each pasty which saves some precious calories on a shop bought version. Best of all, these pasties are jam packed full of flavour!
These Cheese and Onion Pasties are perfect if you’re following a calorie controlled diet, and they fit well with any one of the major diet plans such as Weight Watchers.
As a guide, an average man needs around 2,500kcal (10,500kJ) a day to maintain a healthy body weight. For an average woman, that figure is around 2,000kcal (8,400kJ) a day. Obviously, if your goal is to lose weight then you might want to adjust these slightly! You can read more about these recommendations on the NHS website.
Step 1
Prick the potatoes with a knife, then microwave them until soft (about 7-10 minutes).
Step 2
Cut the potatoes in half, scoop the potato into a bowl.
Step 3
Add the diced onion, grated cheese, mustard powdered Worcestershire sauce and mash with a fork.
Step 4
Continue mashing until there are no lumps and everything is mixed together well.
Step 5
Take a wrap and place half of the potato mix on one half of the wrap (be careful not to get any too close to the edge).
Step 6
Brush the exposed side of the wrap and all around the edges with beaten egg.
Step 7
Fold the wrap in half and press down around the edge. Crimp the edges using the back of a fork, then place on a baking tray sprayed with Low Calorie Cooking Spray. Brush the outside of the pasty with beaten egg.
Step 8
Bake at 200°C for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Instructions
- Prick the potatoes with a knife, then microwave them until soft (about 7-10 minutes)
- Cut the potatoes in half, scoop the potato into a bowl
- Add the diced onion, grated cheese, mustard powdered Worcestershire sauce and mash with a fork
- Continue mashing until there are no lumps and everything is mixed together well
- Take a wrap and place half of the potato mix on one half of the wrap (be careful not to get any too close to the edge)
- Brush the exposed side of the wrap and all around the edges with beaten egg
- Fold the wrap in half and press down around the edge. Crimp the edges using the back of a fork, then place on a baking tray sprayed with Low Calorie Cooking Spray. Brush the outside of the pasty with beaten egg
- Bake at 200°C for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown
Ingredients
- 2 medium Potatoes
- ¼ Onion finely chopped
- 1 pinch Mustard Powder
- 40 g Low Fat Cheddar grated
- 1 dash Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 Egg beaten
- 2 Weight Watchers Wraps
- Low Calorie Cooking Spray
