Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 January 2018

The Best Sweet Potato Fries Recipe

Ingredients:

  • Sweet potatoes
  • Seasoning of your choice (I used my own ''chicken'' seasoning made from mix of different spices - recipe soon) or dried/fresh rosemary. 
  • 1-2 tbsp. of melted coconut oil


1.Cut sweet potatoes (you can leave skin on if you prefer)

2. Put all potatoes into a bowl and pour melted coconut oil and spices and mix together. 

3. Place the potatoes on the tray and bake for around 30 min. or until golden brown.





Enjoy!

Friday, 1 December 2017

Kale Rice Salad

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup of rice (uncooked)
  • 200g of kale
  • A handful of cherry tomatoes
  • 1 bell pepper
  • half to 1 avocado


Dressing:

  • 3 tbsp. of apple vinegar (you can use balsamic vinegar)
  • 1 tbsp. of mustard 
  • 1 tbsp. of honey/maple syrup
  • A pinch of salt

1. Cook 1 cup of rice in salted water. 

2. Add the ingredients to the bowl.

*To make the kale softer massage it for a few minutes alone.

*Make sure the rice cooled down before adding, or if you prefer warm salad you can add the rice when it's warm.

3. Combine all the dressing ingredients, pour it into the salad and mix everything together.



Enjoy!

Friday, 15 September 2017

Vegan & Gluten Free Raspberry Cookies


Ingredients (It will make around 6 big cookies):

  • 1 - 1 1/2 cup of raspberries or berries of your choice (fresh or frozen)
  • 1 cup of plant based milk
  • 1 1/2 cup of oats/flakes of your choice (I used oats, millet flakes and rice flakes) 
  • Sweetener of your choice (I used coconut sugar)
  • Pinch of salt 
  • 1 banana (optional)


1. Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix well. 

*If you are using frozen berries, defrost them before making this recipe and add less plant based milk to the mixture as the berries will give natural juice. 

*Add as much sweetener as you like.

2. Place the mixture onto a baking tray and put it into the oven at 180 degrees C for 25-30 min. 
In the meantime, you can turn them upside down to ensure each side will bake properly.




Enjoy!

Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Gluten Free Bread Bites

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/4 cup buckwheat flour
  • 1/2 cup coconut flour
  • 1/2 cup corn/oat flour
  • 1 1/2 cup passata
  • 1 1/4 cup water
  • 1 tbsp. coconut/olive oil
  • Seasonings of your choice e.g. salt, pepper, sweet paprika, cumin, garlic powder, Italian herbs etc.


1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and combine them well.

*you can use any flour of your choice
*for buckwheat flour I used raw buckwheat and grind it using mixed.

2. Place a parchment paper on your chosen baking tray and spread some oil on it to prevent the mixture from sticking.

3. Place it into the oven and bake for 30-35 min. at 180 degrees C.




Enjoy!

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Vegan & Gluten-Free Banana Bread

Ingredients:

  • 4-5 ripe bananas
  • 4 cups flour (I used a mix of buckwheat, oat, pumpkin seed flours and ground almonds)
  • 3 tbsp. of chia seeds/ground flaxseed
  • 1/2 cup of sweetener or less (it depends on how sweet the bananas are) - I used 1/3 cup of date syrup
  • 1-2 tbsp. of cinnamon or other spices (optional)

1. Place all the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and stir well.

2. Mash bananas and add them into the mixture together with the sweetener if you have liquid sweetener.

*If you added solid sweetener you can add some more water or plant-based milk.

3. Mix everything together and place it into a bread tin. (Grease the bread tin with coconut oil if you don't have a silicon bread mould)

4. Bake for 40-45 min. at 150C.



Enjoy!

Saturday, 21 January 2017

Healthy and Easy To Make Italian Quinoa Bread

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups of white quinoa
  • 10 dried tomatoes
  • Handful of olives
  • 1/4 cup of plant-based milk or water
  • 4 tbsp. of coconut oil/olive oil
  • Herbs and spices of your choice, I added: Italian herbs, garlic, nigella seeds, fresh or fried onion, dried fenugreek leaves, black pepper, Himalayan salt

1. Soak quinoa for around 6 hours or overnight.

2. Later pour out the remaining water and place soaked quinoa and the rest of the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.

3. Place parchment paper on a baking tray and pour out the mixture onto it - around 1 cm height.

4. Bake for around 20 min. at 200C/390F.

5. Take out from the oven and cut into shapes of your choice. Wait until it cools down completely.

This bread is great to have for breakfast or serve with homemade dips or houmous.



Enjoy!

Saturday, 19 November 2016

Gluten Free Pizza (Quinoa Crust)

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup of quinoa 
  • 1 tsp. of apple cider vinegar 
  • 2 tsp. of Italian herbs + other seasoning (optional)
  • Salt to taste 
  • Coconut oil for the baking tray 

Toppings: (I used)

  • Passata with Italian herbs
  • Mushrooms
  • Red bell peppers
  • Red onion 
  • Fresh rosemary and thyme

1. Soak quinoa for few hours or overnight. 

2. Preheat the oven to 200C

3. Pour apple cider vinegar, Italian herbs, salt and drained quinoa into the blender/food processor and blend until smooth. 

4. Take a baking tray, pan with coconut oil and pour enough mixture to form a crust. 

5. Place into the over and bake for 15-20 min. 

6. Later, take it out from the over, put your toppings on and place the baking tray into the oven for few minutes again or eat them raw of you want. 

Enjoy!

Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Prunes in Dark Chocolate


Ingredients:
  • 100g dark chocolate bar
  • 1 pack (250g) of prunes 

1. Boil some water in a saucepan and turn the heat off. Place a heatproof bowl with dark chocolate over the water and let the chocolate slowly melt.

2.  Add prunes into the bowl with melted chocolate and stir it very quickly so they are completely covered with chocolate, while it's still liquid.

3. Place each prune seperately on a plate and let it cool down so the chocolate can harden. 

4. Remove each prune by sliding a sharp knife under it. 


Enjoy!

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

The Healthiest Bread in the World


Ingredients:
  • 1 1/2 cup oats
  • 1 cup sunflower seeds
  • 1/2 cup grounded linseeds
  • 1/2 cup nuts of your choice (optional)
  • 4 tbsp. phyllium seeds
  • 3 tbsp. nigella sativa seeds (optional)
  • 2 tbsp. chia seeds
  • 1 tsp. Himalayan salt
  • 1 3/4 cup water
  • 3 tbsp. melted coconut oil
  • 1 tbsp. sweetener of your choice (I use date syrup)


1. Add all the ingredients into a bowl and mix them well.

2. Leave it for 2-3 hours or overnight.

3. Pour it into a bread tin and place it into the oven for around 50-60 min. (175°C) 


*If the bread is still soft after that time take it out from the tin and put it into the oven for few more minutes.

*I always use silicone bread tin as it is a lot easier to take it out. If you don't use it spread some coconut oil on it.

                 

Enjoy!

Friday, 8 April 2016

Caramelised Nuts


Ingredients:

  • 1 cup of nuts of your choice
  • 2-3 tbsp. of liquid sweetener (maple syrup, honey, date syrup)
  • Pinch of himalayan/sea salt (optional)
  • Cinnamon (optional)

1. On a hot, dry pan place the nuts and roast them for 2-3 min. by moving the pan every now and then.

2. Add some sweetener and move the pan all the time for 30 sec. so the nuts can be covered with it.

3. Turn off the heat and separate each nut so it doesn't touch the rest.

4. When the nuts cool down place them into an air tight container and store in a cool place.




Enjoy!


Thursday, 24 March 2016

Healthy and Sweet Candied Orange Peels

Ingredients:

  • 4-5 oranges (peels only)
  • 1 cup of sweetener (Maple syrup, xylitol, honey etc.)
  • 1 1/4 cup of water
  • 3 tbsp. of alcohol (vodka etc.)
  • 1/2 lemon (juice only)


1. Thoroughly scrub the oranges' skin. Put the oranges in a bowl with water and vinegar and then in water with baking soda to get rid of the pesticides. 

See how to do it step by step. Try to use it for all your not organic fruit and vegetables before you eat them.

2. Peel the oranges (try do to it nicely so you have long peels) and cut them in long stripes or other shapes of you choice.

3. Place the peels into a boiling water for 2-3 min. to blanch them a little and then pour out the water from the saucepan. 

4. In the saucepan pour 1 1/4 cup of water, alcohol and sweetener of your choice and mix until everything is melted together. 

5. Add orange peels and stir them in the mixture. 

6. Cook the peels for around 1-1.5 hour until the syrup dissolves. Make sure to stir it every few minutes so each peel is coved with the syrup. 

7. When the syrup almost dissolved add lemon juice and stor 

8. Take out the orange peels and place them on the plate or a parchment paper. Make sure they don't touch each other as they would stick together.


When they cool down you can cut them into small cubes and use as a decoration for cakes. You can also melt some dark chocolate and pour it in a bowl with the orange peels and stir until every one of them is covered or you can dip each one seperately.  




Enjoy!

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Raw & Vegan Kale Chips


Ingredients:
  • 300g kale 
  • 1 cup soaked cashews (1+ hour)
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 3-4 garlic cloves
  • 1 tsp. Italian herbs/herbes de provences (or more to taste)
  • 1 1/4 tsp. himalayan salt (or more to taste)

1. Blend everything except kale together.

2. Pour the mixture onto a kale and rub it all over to make sure it is fully coated.

3. Place it into a dehydrator or an oven on the lowest temperature.

4. Dehydrate it until crispy.




 Enjoy!

Saturday, 6 February 2016

Rye/Wholemeal Angel Wings


Ingredients:
  • 1 cup rye flour
  • 1 cup wholemeal flour
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 3/4 cup of natural yoghurt (or a dairy-free yoghurt)
  • 1-2 tbsp. sweetener (or more to taste) e.g. honey, date syrup, maple syrup, xylitol 
  • 2 tbsp. spirit (alcohol)
  • Salt

1. Combine all the ingredients on a pastry board and knead it until smooth for around 5 minutes.

2. Shape a ball, cover it with a plastic wrap and leave it in a fridge for 1 hour.

3. Divide the ball into two parts.

4. Place one of the ball onto a floured pastry board and roll it out (1-2 mm thick)

5. Use a knife or a pizza cutter to cut rectangles.

6. Cut a line in the middle of each rectangle.



7. Grab the rectangle, take one end and thread it through the cutted line. Pull it out to the same side it was before.





8. Into a deep pan pour some coconut oil into (around 3 cm) or turn on the fryer to 180 degrees C (I used coconut oil because it is much healthier and the pastry doesn't soak the oil).

9. Place the angel wings into the deep pan or the fryer for 15-30 sec. on both sides until golden brown.




10. Remove them and place on a plate covered by a kitchen towel.


Serve with honey, jam or eat them on their own.

*Make sure it is 180 degrees C because this temperature stops the pastry or a dough from soaking the oil in.

*The thinner you roll the pastry the crispier the angel wings will be.


Enjoy!

Tuesday, 2 February 2016