Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: sunshineband on June 11, 2016, 08:28
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This is the place for your favourite Healthy Recipes ... a little bit of blurb about them would be nice too. Great place to share your ideas!
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What seemed like a good idea seems to have fallen on stony ground.
Im hoping some one will come up with an altermate to fatty cream and a not so sickly butter icing for cakes
chrissie b
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Only just noticed this one! I too would like a nice recipe for a tasty, but less sickly and calorific butter icing! ;) ;) ;)
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I would imagine a Mascarpone topping would be a little less calorific.
Many Berry makes one for her carrot cake
http://www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/baking/carrot-cake-with-mascarpone-topping
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I would imagine a Mascarpone topping would be a little less calorific.
Many Berry makes one for her carrot cake
http://www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/baking/carrot-cake-with-mascarpone-topping
Ooohh I'd forgotten about that Auntie! I did a Jamie Oliver carrot cake once with a lime mascarpone topping! thank you!
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But I don't like healthy recipes! she said with a bowl of courgettes and green peppers in tinned tomato (well there are no red ones in the greenhouse at the moment cos the daughter has had them).
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I have a daughter like that used to pinch all me pea pods.
chrissie b
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But I don't like healthy recipes! she said with a bowl of courgettes and green peppers in tinned tomato (well there are no red ones in the greenhouse at the moment cos the daughter has had them).
Then you are on the wrong page Christine! :D ;) ;) ;)
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I know but someone had to say it! :ohmy:
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I'm not sure this counts as super healthy as it has avocado in it, but it is healthier as you don't use tahini or any oil.
Its quick and very delicious :D
Avocado Houmous
Drain a can of chick peas and blend with a chopped clove of garlic, the flesh of a ripe avocado, the juice of 1 large lemon, 1/2 tsp tabasco or chopped fresh chili to your taste and 1/2 tsp cumin.
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I'm not sure this counts as super healthy as it has avocado in it, but it is healthier as you don't use tahini or any oil.
Its quick and very delicious :D
Avocado Houmous
Drain a can of chick peas and blend with a chopped clove of garlic, the flesh of a ripe avocado, the juice of 1 large lemon, 1/2 tsp tabasco or chopped fresh chili to your taste and 1/2 tsp cumin.
Avocado's are very healthy aren't they?
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Avocado's are very healthy aren't they?
They have lots going for them, but also contain saturated fat and are fairly calorific. It is a lighter fresher houmous, but not a completely free pass if you are watching your weight or your fat intake.
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Courgette hummus is really good! Courgette season looms 😃
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I made borlotti hummus this afternoon.
A mug of dried borlottis (soaked and cooked)
five cloves of garlic
Juice of a lemon
five slices of pickled jalapeno's
about half a mug of olive oil
Blitzed to a paste then the olive oil added until it looks about right.
Salt and pepper to taste.
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I like to think we eat healthy our recipes include butternut squash marrow pumpkin also I think eating all veg allotment or garden grown is a recipe for healthy living
but we must be mindful that some people lead a busy life going out to work looking after a family there is actually less time to think about healthy recipes as more people shop for easy meals not necessarily healthy eating
I suggest most of us who do healthy recipes are of the older generation ;)
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Easy cheesy layer for pasta bakes, lasagne and the like. High in protein, low in fats and carbs and much quicker to make than a traditional cheese sauce.
Use a tub of Quark, a bit of milk to thin the Quark and a tub of natural low fat cottage cheese. If you want a completely smooth sauce, put it in the blender and mix, otherwise a bowl and spoon works fine. Flavour as you wish and add a small amount of grated cheese or parmesan to taste.
This is an adaptation of something I caught on Food Network, where an American chef used cream cheese and cottage cheese in a pasta bake. I tried both mixed with the cottage cheese. Quark works just as well as cream cheese but is a fraction of the calories :D
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Ta! Good tip. I have a tub of cottage cheese and some thick no fat yog which would work I think. 👍
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Chicken noodle soup!
I make chicken stock regularly and freeze it. So easy in the slow cooker!
To some chicken stock add fresh ginger to taste, garlic, fresh chilli, a little fish sauce, some kaffir lime leaves dried or fresh, add lemongrass if you wish, or miso paste, or green Thai curry paste, whatever flavourings you like really and simmer for a few minutes or so, then add shredded chicken and noodles until cooked. Meanwhile add veg to a bowl- for example shredded lettuce, bean sprouts, fine sliced raw mushroom, peppers, sliced radish, sweet corn, mange tout, pak choy etc. Remove lime leaves from the broth and pour over the raw veg and dress with a drizzle of sesame oil, a squeeze of lime and fresh coriander.
This dish is very quick to prepare and you can use any veg you like, although hard veg like carrot will be very crunchy so don’t work as well. The flavourings added to the broth can just be done to taste.
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I love noodle soups and miso soups. I guess that is lunch sorted now I have started thinking about them :)