breakfast

Banana chocolate oatmeal

May 07, 2017


One of the quickest and most nutritious breakfasts of them all - the good old oatmeal. 
As I'm gluten intolerant I use gluten-free oats (quinoa, rice or millet flakes works great as well).

This is one of my favorite oatmeals but there are plenty of other variations depending what you like or have in you kitchen while making it. I'll give you couple more options soon so stay tuned!





INGREDIENTS

OATMEAL
  • 1 cup gluten free oats
  • half banana 
  • 1 teaspoon carob 


RASPBERRY SAUCE

  • handful of raspberries (fresh or frozen)
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 1 tablespoon flaxseed


TO SERVE

  • half banana
  • 1 teaspoon cacao nibs
  • 1 teaspoon coconut flakes


INSTRUCTIONS

Cook oats with mashed banana and carob powder stirring occasionally while cooking raspberries with water and the flaxseed (it will give it thickness and a bit of marmalade-ish texture) in the other pan until it gets the consistence of a sauce. 

First put oatmeal to the bowl gently pour the raspberry sauce on top and serve with fresh fruit, cacao nibs, coconut flakes or anything you like or have in the kitchen at the moment. 

baked

Leftovers: bakes goodies

May 02, 2017






Another week's passed another opportunity (or more a need) to clean the refrigerator and make the 'leftover recipe'. I have to say that couple times doing that I prepared something so yummy I keep doing it till this day. 
I'm only giving the exact numbers of ingredients just to help those who prefer having it, but you can use everything you have in a quantity you have it and mix it with other veggies or anything you want. 


These days I try to cook HCLF (High Carb Low Fat plant based diet) so I do not use any kind of old in my recipe but if you prefer it the old fashioned way just add oil to the bowl with potatoes and chickpeas with spices and also to the dressing instead of the water (or half water, half oil)








INGREDIENTS



  • 1 cup of rice
  • 1 tomato
  • handful of cucumber slices


VEGGIES FROM THE OVEN -

  • 1 cup chickpeas
  • 1 potato
  • sweet paprika
  • hot paprika
  • curry
  • salt and pepper

TAHINI DRESSING -

  • 1 teaspoon tahini paste
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 garlic clove 



INSTRUCTIONS


Once you prepare all of the needed ingredients the next thing to do is to preheat the oven to 360℉ and cook the rice. 
Drain chickpeas and mix them in a bowl with curry and salt and pepper.
Cut the potatoes into and mix it with sweet and hot paprika and salt and pepper.
Put both potato and chickpeas in the oven. Depending from the oven and size of potatoes the time till it's ready can vary but it should take about 20 minutes. Just check if the potatoes are soft once in awhile.

Mix all the ingredients for the dressing in a small jar and shake it till it's nice and creamy. 

Arrange it all in the bowl and enjoy!

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