C A R R O T || I made a carrot juice the other day and couldn’t believe the amount of “pulp” leftover! So I whipped these carrot muffins up using the carrot pulp but you can also use grated 🥕 carrot of course! #nowaste
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CARROT MUFFINS
2 cups carrot pulp or grated carrot
2 cups oat, almond or spelt flour (your choice)
1/2 cup desiccated coconut
2 eggs
1/2 cup coconut oil or butter melted
1/2 cup honey or rice malt syrup
Vanilla essence
Handful walnuts
Sultanas or chopped dates if you like
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Sea salt
2 tsp baking powder
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Whisk the honey, oil and egg together. Add vanilla and spices.
In a large bowl mix carrot, flour, baking powder, coconut and salt. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until combined. Add nuts and sultanas. Spoon into muffin tin and top with walnuts. Bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees until cooked through and golden brown! #carrotmuffins #nowastage #glutenfree #likecarrotcake
M A C & C H E E S E || after lots of requests here is my “healthified” Mac and cheese recipe ... it includes 5 veggies so it’s not only tasty but nutritious for the whole fam. Make it this week! 🤗🙌🏼
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5 HIDDEN VEGGIE MAC ‘N’ CHEESE
Serves 4-6
1 large packet of pasta: brown rice, quinoa, spelt or regular macaroni ... up to you
1 cup pumpkin cubes/chunks
1 cup diced cauliflower
1 small zucchini diced
1 cup oat, almond milk or cows milk
1 cup grated cheese (I used 1/2 cheddar 1/2 Parmesan)
2 Tbs or 1 sachet of tomato paste
1 cup frozen peas
Optional 8 rashers of bacon diced
Fresh parsley
salt and pepper
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Steam pumpkin, cauliflower and zucchini. Blitz into a purée. Add milk, cheese and tomato paste.
Meanwhile cook pasta as packet recommends.
Fry up diced bacon. Add peas. Add cooked pasta. Pour over cheesy veggie sauce, simmer/heat through for 15 minutes stirring regularly until it’s all combined and cheesy! BOOM!
Serve it up and enjoy 😊 #Macandcheese #healthy #vegetables #eatyogreens #semipaleo #hiddenveggies
E A S T E R || hot cross buffins 🐣✖️ a hybrid between a bun and muffin! Make them for Easter Sunday
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HOT CROSS BUFFINS
Makes 12
2 cups almond flour
Ingredients
BUFFINS
3/4 cup spelt or buckwheat flour
3/4 cup almond flour
½ cup milk or almond milk
¼ cup maple syrup or rice malt syrup
¼ cup butter or coconut oil melted
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon acid (lemon juice or apple cider vinegar)
1 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
1 teaspoon mixed spice
½ teaspoon vanilla powder, extract or essence
½ cup currants, sultanas or raisins or cacao nibs for fruit free
CROSS
1 Tbs spelt flour and dash of water to form paste
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Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grease muffin tin. Combine flours and dry ingredients. In a food processor blend syrup, egg, almond milk, vanilla and acid. Add wet ingredients to dry and combine. Fold in the raisins or nibs. Careful not to over mix otherwise they might get a little tough. Evenly divide between the 12 muffins holes.
Combine “cross” ingredients and using a snap lock bag, slice the corner to use as a pipe bag. Pipe the cross along each buffin. Bake for 20 minutes until golden and a skewer comes out clean. Serve warm with butter or eat as is! Happy Easter #baking #easter #hotcrossbuffin #sugarfree #healthy
E A S T E R || lemon coconut loaf for a healthy early start to Easter 🐣🍋 I love lemon curd and I think this loaf nailed the sweet and sour balance perfectly! Try it this Easter
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LEMON COCONUT YOGHURT LOAF
2 lemons juiced and zested
3 eggs
1/2 cup coconut oil melted
1 cup full fat Greek yoghurt or coconut oil
Vanilla extract
1 & 1/4 cups oat or almond flour
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup @natvialiving sweetener or honey or coconut sugar
2 tsp baking powder
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Preheat oven to 180 and grease loaf tin.
In a large bowl combine flours, salt and baking powder. In a separate bowl whisk the eggs, honey, coconut oil, lemon juice and zest. Add the yoghurt. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until combined. Pour into loaf tin and bake for 35-40 minutes until golden brown on the outside. 🐣
It’s great on its own or if you want an “icing” I mix about 3/4 cup Greek yoghurt with 1 Tbs coconut flour and 1 Tbs honey. Spread over loaf once cooled and decorate with lemon zest, the egg shells and Easter chickens! #easter #lemonloaf #lemondrizzle #paleo #baking #sugarfree #glutenfree
