Category: healthy

Potato Salad

One of my favourite traditional and delicious dishes that is easy to make and of course healthy

One of my alltime favourites to take to gatherings and impress my non-vegan family with a very traditional dish.

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Tofu scramble

My favourite post workout meal at the moment and an all-time favourite of my non-vegan friends!

This is my all-time favourite dinner at the moment. I don´t like savoury things for breakfast but my mum loves this recipe in the morning too. This is also a great post workout meal because the tofu gives it a high protein content and the veggies provide the antioxidants that will help your recovery.

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Buckwheat Brownies

Delicious buckwheat brownies with crunchy peanuts and a gooey texture.

This delicious and easy recipe is adapted from one of my favourite recipe books by Deliciously Ella. If you love brownies than this is definitely for you! The buckwheat flour gives the brownie a more nutty flavour which makes the recipe just a nice alternation to the conventional brownie. In addition to the health benefits of buckwheat, being a very nutritious whole grain that is very underrated in my opinion, this brownie recipe changes up our usual staples and gives us more nutrient diversity while still being absolutely delicious.

Ingredients

  • chia egg (1 tbsp chia)
  • 250g Buckwheat flour
  • pinch of sea salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 330g cane sugar (coconut sugar works a well)
  • 60g cacao powder
  • 100ml almond milk
  • 130 g coconut oil (melted)
  • peanuts (roughly chopped)

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190°C / 375°F and line a baking dish with parchment paper.
  2. Prepare the chia egg by mixing the chia seed with 4 tbsp of water and leave it to set.
  3. Meanwhile combine all the remaining ingredients except the peanuts.
  4. Add the chia egg and mix for a few minutes to make sure that everything is well combined.
  5. Fold in the peanuts (leave some for decoration on the top).
  6. Spread the mixture evenly in the lined baking dish and sprinkle the remaining peanuts on top.
  7. Leave in the oven for 25-30 minutes and leave to cool for around 10 min before cutting the brownie into square.
  8. Enjoy!

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Healthy Cookies

Qick & Easy cookies made only from whole foods and sweetend with dates. The perfect delicious, but healthy afternoon snack!

These healthy cookies are made without sugar and only of nutritious ingredients like dates, peanuts and oats. I personally always need something sweet after lunch and dinner and these are just perfect! If you are used to a lot of artificially sweetened treats then these might appear a little bit bland to you but trust me when you taste buts start to adapt to more nutritious and whole foods they will be just perfectly sweet. Nevertheless feel free to add more chocolate if you are more of a sweet tooth than I am ; )

Ingredients

  • 80g oat flour
  • 20g coconut flour *
  • 20g peanut flour * / 30g nut butter**
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder (or a little bit more if you like your cookies to be more on the fluffy than crunchy side)
  • 50g dates
  • hot water
  • plant milk (approx. 35ml)
  • 20g chocolate

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190°C / and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
  2. Combine all the dry ingredients (and your nut butter **) in a mixing bowl.
  3. Soak the dates in warm water until they become soft (10min) and then mix them with some water (doesn´t need much) to form a paste. For this step you can either use a blender such as a Nutri Bullet or any other kind of device that can break the dates down like a hand blender.
  4. Scoop the date paste into your mixing bowl and mix with the dry ingredients. Add the plant milk as you go to make sure that the mixture doesn´t turn out to be to wet. (it should form a sticky and not to dry dough that you can shape with your hands)
  5. Form the dough with your hands into 8 round balls and place them on your baking tray.
  6. Flatten them out a bit with either your hand or a spoon to create a cookie shape and place them in the oven for around 10-13 min.
  7. Leave them to cool (I know it´s hard but otherwise they will stick to the parchment paper).
  8. Enjoy!

*sub with normal flour if you don´t have access to coconut or peanut flour (just blend peanuts)

** if you like your cookies more fluffy and with a little bit more flavour you can also swap out the peanut flour with 30g of nut butter of your choice. I tried this with cashew butter and I personally loved the consistency, but I think peanut or almond butter would work just as well and give it an even better taste

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