Katherine's Kitchen

Archive for March 2012

Enjoy with ginger tea

2 cups fresh almond pulp

2 tsp  baking powder

4 tbsp oats

spice it up with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger

1 tsp vanilla essense

3 medjool dates

1 large tbsp peanut butter

1 large tbsp coconut oil

1 tbsp dried coconut flakes

1 tbsp chia seeds

1 tbsp flax seeds

Stevia drops to sweeten if necessary

Makes 12

Blend all ingredients together in a food processor

Add and pulse desired dried fruit. (I used goji berries, raisons and prunes)

Roll into balls and flatten on a greased baking sheet. Bake at 170 C for 20 – 30 minutes.

There are so many possibilities with this recipe … one could also add orange zest, chocolate chips and, or, raw cocoa powder.

1 can of cooked chick peas

2 onions

4 garlic cloves

Cummin (to preferred taste)

Tumeric (to preferred taste)

Herbes de Provence (to preferred taste)

Himalaya salt and ground pepper (to preferred taste)

A little handful of fresh parsley

6 tbsp mixed finely chopped  nuts – cashew, almond, hasselnut

Dash of worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp Heinz brown sauce

1 tbsp sesame oil

Mix all the above ingredients in a food prosessor. Pour into a bowl and add the following:

2 – 3 tbsp brown rice flour

Add water to bind

Make into balls and fry on pan with olive  and sesame oil. Turn regularly. Add more oil to the pan if required.

Makes 10 – 12

Serve with a tomato, garlic and onion sauce and rice with a sprinkle of nutty parmesan cheese

This is such a wonderful cheese substitute! Tastes great on salads, pasta and well, just about on everything!

Blend a cup of cashew nuts, 1 garlic clove with a pinch of himalaya salt until very fine and crumbly. That’s it!

This will keep for a couple of weeks in the fridge in an air tight container.

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3 dl soy milk

3 tbsp chia seeds

1 tbsp peanut butter

1 tsp vanilla essense

pinch of salt

1 – 2 tbsp raw cocoa powder

1 tbsp cacao nibs*

A few stevia drops to sweeten

Blend all the ingredients in a food prosessor. Decorate with chopped nuts or orange rind. Chill in the fridge for a couple of hours. That’s it! Delicious and healthy!

Serves 2 – 4

* Cacao nibs are the crushed seeds of the cacao plant from which chocolate is made.

You’ll never eat a mars bar or a snickers bar again after you have tasted these guilt free scrumptious treats. Your kids will love them too.

So yummy… and healthy!

1 cup of mixed nuts – this recipe uses cashews, almonds and hazelnuts.

1 tbsp organic cocoa powder

1 tsp vanilla essence

7 – 8 large organic medjool dates

Blend in  a food processor. Roll into little balls and refridgerate for a couple of hours.

Opptional: coat with dried shredded coconut.

These sweet burgers are really delicious and are great for lunch.

1 beetroot

1 carrot

4 garlic cloves

250g cooked chick peas

2 tbsp chopped walnuts

zest of 1 orange

juice of 1 orange

1 tbsp sesame oil

2-3 tbsp rice  flour

seasoning: nutmeg, cumin, salt and pepper

Olive oil and sesame oil for frying.

Grate beetroot, carrot and garlic. pulse with the cooked chick peas. Add walnuts, orange juice and zest, sesame oil and rice flour. Season with nutmeg, cummin, salt and pepper.

Make into burgers.

Fry over low/medium heat in olive oil and sesame oil for about 15 minutes. Lightly brush the burgers with olive and sesame oil before flipping over. Fry for another 10 minutes.

Serve with grated carrot and apple.

Banana milkshake - healthy and delicious

 

 

This is a real Friday afternoon ‘pick me up’

Blend 1 banana, 2 dl soy milk, flavour with vanilla and sweeten with stevia drops.

Easy and delicious!

We all know that drinking water is good for us at Healthcave.com they tell us why. Get yourself a water purifyer and drink away!

Weight loss – Water is truly the best negative calorie food there is, a glass of water contains no calories and taking it before a meal will mean you stomach will be a bit full and you can get away without having to eat the extra food.

Ph balance – The human body needs a 7+ Ph range so that it can function properly. Drinking enough water throughout the day helps to maintain this balance.

Healthy Heart – We have talked plenty about how to keep your heart healthy, but a study done in the Loma Linda university in California, involving 20k healthy men and woman in the age range of 38 to 100 years, came up with the results that those who drank enough water throughout the day had 41% in women and 54% in men, were less likely to have a heart attack. But this does not works with other liquid, so if you substitute water with milk, tea, coffee etc. then you will have increased chances of heart attack, which is to be precise – in women it is 50% and 46% in men.

Healthy Skin – Those of you who have wasted plenty of time and money in expensive cosmetics will be quite surprised to hear that drinking enough water throughout the day is just sufficient for having a natural glowing skin. For long term skin benefits, just keep drinking water regularly.

Helps keep dehydration away – for keeping your body properly hydrated, one must drink enough water throughout the day.

Pain relief – Water is said to help people with joints pain, when the body is properly hydrated then muscles are more elastic and gets less strain and prevents joints pain.

Remove toxins – Water removes toxins from the body and keep it nice and clean. So, water is a good cleansing tool as well.

Metabolism – Water improves your metabolism which is another reason why it helps you with weight loss. There are other foods that helps boost your metabolism like probiotics for example, but water is easily available and costs nothing.

Kidney health – Kidney requires enough water to keep filtering the liquid waste from our body, lack of water can result in a lot of problems as the liquid in the kidney needs to be diluted before removing.

Kidney health – Kidney requires enough water to keep filtering the liquid waste from our body, lack of water can result in a lot of problems as the liquid in the kidney needs to be diluted before removing.

Prevent cancer – Drinking good amount of water everyday helps in keeping bladder and colon cancer away.

Restoring energy and feeling fresh – water keeps the body well hydrated which makes us feel a lot fresh and thus restores a lot of energy by which we can easily carry about a lot of work.

Headache solution – while there can be many reasons for having a headache, for most common reasons, dehydration is responsible. Drinking enough water throughout the day can keep the headache away and also if you got headache, drinking some water can help cure it.

Constipation – Water, along with foods which are high in roughage content, like salads helps in curing and keeping constipation away. Several diseases like gastric or heartburn etc. can be kept at bay, if water is taken regularly.

Body temperature – Water helps in controlling body temperature, this is especially important for the athletes or those who are working out. Water is preferred over other liquids because our body absorbs water much better than any other liquid.

Helps sickness – Drinking water helps in getting well sooner as being sick leaves us with low water in our body. This can make us even dehydrated and to prevent this, we just need to drink more water.

Nutrient transport – Water helps in sending the nutrients from one place of our body to another, thus making a constant flow which helps our body to function properly.

Pregnant woman – At the time of pregnancy, the body’s need of adequate water is very important to keep the nutrients flowing and keeping the infections etc. away.

There are plenty of health benefits of drinking water, however for most people; drinking water makes them feel good. Start your day with a glass of fresh drinking water; it is the best way to start a day.

Fry a can of chick peas, 1 tbsp chopped garlic, 1 tsp chilli paste, 1 tsp chopped fresh ginger, 1 chopped chilli pepper, a handful of sliced mushrooms, a small handful of cauliflower and 1 thinly sliced carrot in coconut oil. When golden add a squeeze of half a lemon.

1 – 2 portion size

Crunchy and yummy

Garnish with lemon rind and serve  with soggy rice and soy sauce.

Refreshing lemon drink

Lately I have taken to drinking a glass of lemon juice first thing in the morning. I squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into a glass, top up with water and sweeten with a couple of drops of Stevia.

Delicious and good for for you too.

Lemon juice is a super food according to 10 reasons lemon juice is good for you

  1. Constipation and diarrhea relief. Lemons help cleanse the digestive track and allow food to digest properly.
  2. Lemons aid in the production of antibodies in the blood that attack invading microorganisms and prevent infection.
  3. Lemon is found to be anticarcinogenic, which can lower the rates of colon, prostate, and breast cancer.
  4. Because of its high potassium content, lemon controls high blood pressure, dizziness, and nausea, and provides relaxation to mind and body.
  5. Lemons feature antibacterial properties that help aid sore throats. Mix half of a lemon with water and gargle.
  6. Lemons are great for colds, the flu, and fevers. They help stop the fever by increasing perspiration.
  7. Lemon has antiseptic and styptic properties, so it can stop internal bleeding. For instance, you can put some lemon on a cotton ball and apply it to the inside of your nose to stop a nose bleed.
  8. Lemon mixed with water is great for anyone who has respiratory problems like asthma because of its rich source of vitamin C.
  9. A cup of warm water with lemon and a pinch of salt can help with weight loss and lower cholesterol.
  10. When applied to a burn, lemon juice will actually reduce the burning sensation since it acts as a cooling agent.

Almond butter

Blend desired almonds in blender until very fine. Add a little almond oil and water to bind.

Flavour with vanilla seeds and stevia for a sweet nutty treat on toast.

Gently fry in coconut oil, 3 crushed garlic cloves, 1 chopped leek, 1 tsp chilli paste. When soft add 1 tbsp almond butter, 3 shredded carrots, 1 handful shredded brocoli.  Mix well.

Mixture in the food processer with kidney beans and bean sprouts

Add mixture to food processer with 1 can rinsed kidney beans and 1 handful bean sprouts. Aprox 4 tbsp oats. Pulse ingredients together. Season to taste.

Cut burgers on chopping board

 

 

 

 

Pour mixture out on to a chopping board and make the burgers using a cutter (I used a glass).

Fry burgers 7 minutes on each side

 

 

 

 

Fry for 7 minutes on each side in olive oil and sesame seed oil. The sesame seed oil gives a smokey flavour.

Serve with sweet potatoes and almond butter

 

 

 

 

Serve with sweet potatoes and almond butter.

Makes 7

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Almond milk is the easiest thing in the world to make.

Soak whole almonds overnight in water. Rinse and blend together with water. I add 3 times amount of water to the volume of the almonds.

Strain through a fine net.

For this batch I added vanilla seeds.

Store in fridge. I have found that it is best used within  4 -5 days.

 

Want to know what to do with the almond pulp? Check out my recipe for Almond pulp cookies

So simple…

Fry the bananas in coconut oil over medium heat. Add chopped almonds after you have turned the bananas. Remove from pan when golden.

Serve with chopped dark chocolate.

A great dessert or a fab breakfast!

So simple…

Gosh! It’s good!

Blend a little bag of frozen strawberries, ½ liter of pure pear juice, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 1 cup of water. Sweeten with agave nector.

Makes a couple of delicious breakfast drinks.

What a great way to start your day!

Almond and fruit smoothie

I made myself this for breakfast this morning and it was sublime!

2.5 dl almond milk, a large handful of fresh fruit. I used strawberries, raspberries, blueberries. 1 banana and juice of 1/2 a lemon.

Blend and sweeten with stevia.

Photographs: Katherine Scrivens Eje

The other day I made my vegetable and barley broth which was delicious. There was about a 1/3 left over so I decided to use it in a chick pea burger recipe. The result was great! The burgers turned out tasty, crunchy and crispy. Yum!

Chick pea veggie burger

Ingredients: 1/3 vegetable and barley broth (drain from the the liquid) 1 can drained and rinsed chick peas , 2 cloves garlic,  3 tbsp walnuts,  1 tbsp sweet mustard,  3 tbsp oats,  1 handful of bean sprouts, 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce,  1 tsp chilli paste,  ground pepper to taste. Pulse together and fry in olive oil with a drizzle of sesame seed oil. The sesame oil gives the burgers  a smokey BBQ taste. Makes 5

Healthy and good

Lightly fry for 7 mins in 1 tsp coconut oil – 1 finely chopped leek, 1/2 cup shredded cabbage, 4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 tsp shredded fresh ginger.

Add 2 chopped carrots, 1/2 cup brocoli, 2 tbsp bean sprouts, 2 tbsp quick cook pearl barley. Add 750 dl water. Cook for 10 minutes. Season with fresh ground pepper

Tip: Garnish with thinly grated lemon rind or chopped cashew nuts.

Serves 1 – 2 persons


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