Burrito Bowl Recipe

INGREDIENTS:

• Brown rice 
• 1 can of Mexican chilli beans (I like Coles brand the best)
• 1/2 can of sweet corn
• Salsa
• Avocado
• Light shredded cheese
• Light sour cream
• Moroccan chicken spice
• Lime juice

METHOD:

1. Cook the rice with a cup of lime juice and Moroccan chicken spice.

2. Heat the chilli beans and corn in a skillet on high heat until most of the juice has been absorbed.

3. Serve the beans atop the rice.

4. Add a spoonful of salsa to the plate, sour cream, shredded cheese and diced avocado.

5. Pepper the dish with the moroccan spice and lime juice.

Healthy Oat Banana Bread

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups of oat flour*
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 cups of raw sugar
• 3 scoops of protein powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• dark chocolate chips (I usually judge how many chocolate chips to add by sight)
• 3-4 ripe bananas
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 egg

METHOD:

*To create oat flour, place dry oats into a food processor or a blender and process/blend oats until they resemble a fine flour-like consistency.

Preheat conventional oven to 200 degrees (375 for fan forced ovens). Prepare a loaf tray using oat flour and butter or canola oil spray and baking paper.

Mix the oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, protein powder, sugar and cinnamon together in a large bowl.

Use a potato masher or a fork to mash the ripe bananas then mix the banana mash, egg and vanilla extract together.

Add the banana mixture to the dry mixture, adding your chocolate chips as you do so. Mix until  all ingredients are combined well.

Pour your mixture into the loaf tray and place into the preheated oven.

Bake for 40 minutes (to check if the banana bread is ready, insert a knife into the centre – if the knife comes out clean your banana bread is ready).

Oat Pancakes

INGREDIENTS: 

• 1 3/4 cups of uncooked oats
• 4 egg whites
• 1 cup of milk (almond/soy/organic or water can also be used)
• 1/2 tbsp of cinnamon
• 2 tbsp diced almonds (optional)
• 2 scoops of protein powder (optional)
• 1/4 cup of raspberries (optional)

METHOD

1. Make oat flour by blending a cup of oats into a flour-like consistency – one cup will leave you with approximately 3/4 cup of oat flour.
2. Heat milk or water until it’s hot (I did this in the microwave for 1 minute broken up into 20 second intervals to avoid curdling of the milk) and mix in the 3/4 cups of dry oats.
3. Beat egg whites into a stiff foam with a blender or hand mixer.
4. Mix all dry ingredients (oat flour, almonds, protein powder and cinnamon) together.
5. Add the oatmeal/milk mixture into the dry ingredients and stir well (you may need to add a tad more milk if you chose to use protein powder).
6. Fold egg whites into the mixture and mix in raspberries.
7. Spray a skillet with olive oil cooking spray and cook pancakes until browned on both sides.

This recipe makes about 4 pancakes – try doubling the ingredients and freezing the remaining pancakes to cut time during the week on busy mornings. Breakfast is too important, don’t skip it!

Sweet Potato Chips

INGREDIENTS

• Sweet potato
• Moroccan spice
• Olive oil
• Cracked sea salt

METHOD

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees

2. Cut the sweet potato into thin slices.

3. Pour some olive oil into a skillet and allow the oil to heat for a few seconds before adding the potato.

4. Cook until soft then take off of the heat

5. Place potato slices into a container and add the moroccan spice. Replace the lid on the container and shake so that all potato slices are covered.

6. Spread the potato slices evenly over an oven tray.

Set a timer for five minutes and check on them regularly, some of the smaller slices will cook faster than the larger ones – you don’t want them to burn!

When the potato is soft on the inside and crispy on the edges, your chips are ready.

Enjoy!

Protein Oat Cake Recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups of rolled oats
• Frozen raspberries
• Strawberries
• Bananas (at least 2)
• 2 cups of milk
• 1 whole egg
• Almonds
• 3 scoops of Protein powder (any brand/flavour you like)
• 3 tbsp of melted butter

METHOD

Preheat fan-forced oven to 220 degrees.

Grease a stick-free oven dish (at least 3 inches deep) with olive oil spray.

Combine the oats, protein powder, half of the strawberries, raspberries, almonds and banana in a bowl. Mix together. Pour the mixture into the dish.

Place the remaining fruit and almonds on top of the dry mixture.

Combine the butter, milk and egg into a bowl. Whisk until light.

Pour the milk mixture over the oats, shake the dish to ensure the mixture covers/reaches all of the oats.

Cook in the oven for 20 minutes or until the milk has set. You can check to make sure it’s finished baking by inserting a clean knife into the middle of the cake. If it comes out clean, it’s ready.

You can also sprinkle nutmeg or cinnamon on top of the mixture to season it.