A Simple Salad
Chickpeas
Hummus
Pomegranate
Peas
Edemame beans
Cucumber
Roasted vegetables
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Asparagus
Lemon juice
Balsamic vinegar
Mix together, arrange how you want to and eat with flatbread.
Breakfast Bowl
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup chia seeds
1 banana
6 strawberries
1 handful raspberries
1 handful blueberries
1/4 cup mixed nuts
Handful of goji berries
Soak chia seeds in almond milk for 30 minutes .
Chop banana and lay on top with strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. Add nuts and goji berries. If not sweet enough pour maple syrup over .
Cookies
1 cup of oats
Two stewed apples mashed
1 banana mashed
Raisins
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Nutmeg
1 tsp Vanilla essence
Mix all together, chill for thirty minutes and cook on gas 5 for 15 minutes
Pizza
Make dough in bread machine
1 tin tomatoes
1 onion
2 tsp mixed herbs
1 clove Garlic
1/2 tps Salt
Grind of black Pepper
1 red pepper
4 mushrooms
6 artichoke hearts
Handful of baby spinach
1/2 courgette sliced
1/2 cup pine nuts
Vegan cheese
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Cook tomatoes , 1/2 onion chopped finely and herbs in a saucepan until reduced and thick
Spread on dough base.
Fry vegetables until soft and arrange on base.then add artichoke hearts spreading out evenly.
Sprinkle cheese and oregano on top.
cook for 30 minutes gas 6
Vegan Slices
2 cups oats
5 dates
3/4 cup coconut oil
1 cup hazelnuts
1/4 cup almond butter
1/4 cup hazelnut butter
1/4 cup cashew butter
1/4 cup gianduje butter [ optional]
1 slab vegan chocolate
1/4 cup puffed rice
Handful chopped hazelnuts.
Place oats, dates and 1/2 coconut oil into blender. Blitz until smooth then place in dish and press down. This is the base.
Meanwhile toast the hazelnuts in the oven on a medium heat until brown. When cool place on top of base.
In a saucepan melt the almond,hazelnut and gianduje butter . When melted pour over hazelnuts.
Melt chocolate with rest of coconut oil and mix puffed rice in . Pour over mixture and allow to settle. Place in fridge and eat when solid .
Simple Green Tea
Handful of mint leaves
Hot, not boiling, water
Put mint in a cup
Mix and wait
Apple Pie
4 apples cored and chopped
1 tps Cinnamon
1 tps Nutmeg
6 Cloves
1/2 Raisins
1/2 cup coconut sugar
1/2 cup sliced almonds
Pastry case
Line tin with pastry
Put raisins in bottom
Then toss apples in honey ,cinnamon and nutmeg .
Cover with sugar
Sprinkle cloves and almonds over the top
Cover with more pastry.
Paint with almond milk.
Bake in hot oven gas 7 for 35 minutes
Serve with custard and vanilla ice cream.
Energy Balls
Mix five dates
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup of oats
1 banana
1/2 cup cocoa powder
Tsp vanilla essence
Black sesame seeds
Coconut shards
Put oats,dates,coconut oil,vanilla essence ,banana and cocoa powder in blender and blend until smooth
Refrigerate for an hour
Roll into small balls
Roll in coconut shards and black sesame seeds
Bannana Pancakes with Chocolate Sauce
1/2 cup of almond milk
1 ripe mashed banana
1/2 cup of oats
Tbs of coconut oil
2 tbs of coconut sugar
Tablet of vegan dark chocolate
Blend the oats until fine then add almond milk and banana and mix until you have a smooth batter.
Melt coconut oil in a frying pan ,melt and add the batter to form a pancake . Swirl until it covers the base of the pan. If too thick add some more almond milk.
Whilst cooking in another pan , break the chocolate into squares and add the sugar and coconut oil and melt .
Flip the pancake and turn onto plate until you have as many as desired. Pour the chocolate sauce over and enjoy.
Blueberry Smoothie
Handful frozen blueberries
Banana
Carrot
Handful of spinach
Tsp macca powder
Optional handful oats
Almond milk
Blend a handful of frozen blueberries with a banana, a carrot, some spinach,tps of macca powder and a cup of almond milk until smooth. Add oats if you wish.
Hearty Vegetable Soup
Vegetable soup
1 onion
1carrot
1parsnip
1beetroot
1potato
1sweet potato
Tins tomatoes
1/2 pint water
3tbs nutritional yeast
1clove garlic
1 handful chopped parsley
1tbs oregano
1 tps paprika
Handful of grated vegan cheese.
Fry onions in tbs olive oil , add herbs ,garlic, nutritional yeast and vegetables chopped finely. Add water and tomatoes. Simmer for 30 minutes.
When serving sprinkle tsp paprika , season and add grated vegan cheese.
Serve with hot crusty bread.
Mushroom Risotto
3tbs olive oil
1 onion
1 cup risotto rice
1 cup of mushrooms
2 cloves garlic
3tbs nutritional yeast
1tbs oregano
I carrot
1pint broiling water
Cup of grated vegan cheese
Fry onion chopped until brown in olive oil, add rice and garlic . Fry until rice has absorbed olive oil then add mushrooms and carrot. Add yeast and then slowly add water and simmer adding it bit by bit.
Add oregano and serve sprinkled with grated vegan cheddar .
Apple Crumble
4 apples
1/2 cup sultanas
Tsp cinnamon
Tsp nutmeg
Tsp clove
Tbs of coconut sugar
1 cup oats
Handful chopped nuts
1 cup whole meal gluten free flour
1 tsp mixed spice
1/2 cup coconut sugar
1/2 cup toasted breadcrumbs
1/2 cup melted coconut oil
Place chopped and skinned apples in a dish. Sprinkle with spices and sugar. Then sultanas .
Mix all the crumble mixture and add coconut oil . Finish with flaked almonds and bake for 40 minutes gas 6 until golden brown
Serve with hot custard or ice cream.
Spiced Tea
1 cinnamon stick
1 tsp ginger chopped
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp turmeric
1 bay leaf
1 lemon
1orange
500 mls water
Place spices in saucepan with water, zest the lemon and orange and add juice of both. Boil and then simmer for 20 minutes .
Energy Smoothie
1 cup oats
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen berries of your choice
1 apple
1 stick celery
1 handful baby spinach
TPS macca powder
1 apple
1cup coconut water
1/2 cup almond milk
Blend in mixer until smooth
Drink with handful mixed nuts
Chocolate Cake
2 cups plain flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 and 3/4 cup coconut milk
2 tps vinegar
1 and 3/4 coconut sugar
1 and 1/4 coconut oil
1 tps vanilla extract
For the icing
2/3 cup vegan dark chocolate
2 tbs coconut oil
2 tbs date syrup
Preheat oven to gas 5 or 160 Celsius and grease a 9 inch cake tin.
Sift the flour ,cocoa, bicarbonate ,baking powder and salt into a bowl.
Combine the vinegar, sugar, melted oil and vanilla extract in another bowl . Add the flour mixture slowly and whisk until smooth. Pour mixture into greased tin and bake for 45 mins or until a cake tester comes out clean. Place on wire rack and allow to cool.
In a saucepan melt chocolate , oil, vanilla essence and date syrup until liquid. Allow to cool and spread onto cake . Top with anything you like.
Tortilla
2 onions
1 pepper
2 mushrooms
Tsp fajita seasoning
Salt and pepper
1 clove garlic
Tsp oregano
1 chilli
Tin black beans
1 carrot
1 sweet potato
Packet gluten free tortilla wraps
Guacamole
Salsa
Vegan cheddar
Vegan mayonnaise
Cooked rice 1 cup
Cook sweet potato and mash
Add tsp garlic minced
Cook black beans with diced carrot ,diced onion,1/2 chilli
Season
Heat tortilla
Fry onion until brown
Add chopped carrot,mushroom, pepper, chilli and garlic. Combine with fajita spices.
Assemble tortillas. One with sweet potato, vegetables ,guacamole, rice, and grated cheese.
One with black beans r,rice ,salsa, mayonnaise ,vegetables and grated cheese.
Serve with salad of choice.
Guacamole
Two ripe avocados
Clove garlic
Handful of coriander
3 cherry tomatoes
1/2 red onion
tps lime
Salt
Pepper
Tbs olive oil
Mash the avocados to make a rough paste. Squeeze lime juice over. Add onion finely chopped, tomatoes finely chopped, coriander finely chopped, garlic finely chopped and season with salt and pepper. Add olive oil and mix until blended. If you like you can use blender but it's a better consistency with hand mashing.
Serve with tortilla chips or pitta bread .