Sunday, March 30, 2014

Cumin lentil vegetable stew

Ingredients .
1 cup of dry lentils(you could use canned as well) 
2 potatoes 
1 tomato 
1 carrot
1 onion 
Swiss chard or spinach 
Cumin 
Cinnamon(optional) 
Black pepper
Salt 
Chili flakes 

Wash, peel and chop all your veggies, if using dry lentils you have to cook them before adding the veggies until thy are soft (not too mushy) if using canned just add all together in a casserole, with 1 1/2 cups of water put it in high and start cooking, after 10 minutes put te temperure down and simmer for approximately 20 minutes, then check that everything is soft and cooked, add more water if it gets too dry. 

Mango salad

Ingredients:
one mango
one tomato
a handfull on cherry tomatoes
one red bell pepper
cilantro 
celery 
spring onions
optional: corn and peas

Dresing:
lime juice 
raw organic cane sugar 
and chilli flakes
optional: a tbsp of mango chutney 

Chop all the ingredients and mix everything


Oil free granola

Ingredients:
3 cups of rolled oats
one cup of silvered almonds
one cup of raisins
some chopped dried figs
1 cup of red quinoa 
1 tbsp of chia seed+3 tbsp of water( let it soak to make a chia egg)
1/4 cup of organic cane sugar 
vanilla extract
cinnamon


in a pan in high heat put the brown sugar with some water to make a syrup dont let it burn, then in a bowl mix all the ingredients without the raisins, put the brown sugar syrup on top,spead the mixture on a large baking sheet,  bake at 300 degrees for 45 minutes or more, giving it a stir after about 30 minutes.
Stop when the granola looks toasty brown and smells incredible.

Any other thing you could add in:
cacao powder
dried apricots
dried apples
dried pineapple
dried mango

dates
golden raisins
craisins
dried cherries
dried blueberries
coconut flakes
any seeds (pumpkin, sunflower etc 
Liquid sweeteners (maple syrup,, agave or brown rice syrup)

Datorade

This is one of my favorite smoothies, is so sweet, so delicious and so creamy, it taste just like caramel.
Ingredients:
18 dates (i use deglet nours but any kind will work)
a cup of coconut water
vanilla

I soak my dates before for around one hour, doing that makes them easier to blend.
Blend all the ingredients in a blender untill the dates are all blended
Note: dont forget to pitt the dates first

Tropical papaya sof serve.

this is my favorite banana combo( well one of them)
just frozen banana with papayas blended until you get a soft serve/pudding texture
I swear this is perfection 

I topped it here with more bananas and papaya, it was heavenly. 

Very berry ice cream

Ingredients:

For the ice cream:
4+ bananas
frozen berries
vanilla
natural sweetener

put everything in the food processor and you have berries ice cream

Blueberry sauce
Fresh blueberries
1-2 tbso of organic cane sugar
vanilla
in a pan put all the ingredients in a low heat and mix untill you have a syrup texture 



Chocolate ice cream.

Ingredients
4+ Frozen bananas
one tbsp of raw cacao/carob
4 dates
vanilla

Trow all your ingredients in a food processor and you got chocolate nice cream

Banana Cereal

banana cereal, what the hell is that?
well, banana cereal is just another cool way to eat bananas
what do you need for that? well basically just bananas and maybe some vanilla and natural sweetener if you want to
Just blend around 2 bananas with some water, vanilla and the sweetener, and this will be your milk then juts top it with more chopped bananas, you can add berries, chopped apples, granola, raisins or anything you want, i really love making this i think is so fun and tasty

Variation:
banana cereal with caramel milk 
for the caramel milk you will need around 12 dates(i use deglet nour dates but any kind will work ) some vanilla and one banana 
blend first thedates with some water until it gets like a milky texture add banana and vanilla and BAM you have a caramel milk, then chopp whatever you want in it.


Saturday, March 29, 2014

Chocolate and vanilla milkshake.

Ingredients:

4 frozen bananas
one tbsp of cacao powder
vanilla
stevia(sugar or whatever you want to use to make it sweeter)


 

Blend 2 bananas with some cacao and a little bit of water then blend another two bananas with some vanilla and a little bit of water you can add any sugar if you want to, then just put the first smoothie in a glass and then the other one.
 

Baked falafels

Ingredients:

-1 can of garbanzo beans or garbanzo brands soaked for at least 18 hours and drained
-cilantro
-parsley
-1/2 small onion
-garlic
-cumin
-lemon juice(just to make it a little bit salty, but you just could use salt)
-cracked pepper and some chili powder to taste

In food processor/blender combine all the ingredients for the falafels. Blend unlike fairly smooth. Form patties into eathe ver size you like
(I let them sit in the freezer for about two hours but you don’t have to do it)
Preheat oven to 400. Place patties on greases skillet/cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Flip and bake for 15 minutes. If you find that your falafels are not as browned as you like place them under the broiler for a minute or two just be sure to keep an eye on them so they don’t burn 
And enjoy.

Green Smoothie bowl


This smoothie bowl is probably my favorite one, is so tasty and so sweet, and so awesome.. yeah this is my all time favorite. It has spinach in it, i know it might sound disgusting for you, but let me tell you that bananas and spinach are the best combo ever and spinach is for sure the best green ever, it does really taste good dont be afraid to add spinach to your somethies.

Ingredients:
3 frozen bananas
some spinach
vanilla
2 dates(or any other sweeteaner)

Toppings:
I added my oil free granola
one chopped banana

you can add anything you want

blend all the ingredients with some water (not too much, the idea of making it a "smoothie bowl" is to make it thick, then just top with WHATEVER topping you want and just grab a spoon and enjoy, easy, fast and healthy breakfast.