Healthy Recipe! The Best Healthy Dessert EVER!

I'm sorry it has taken me longer than expected to post this! Hear me out though, I knew that if I made this dessert I would HAVE to eat it. I couldn't just let it sit there and go to waste and now that we're coming up to the weekend I have done it! Honestly, this is the best healthy, all organic dessert I have ever tasted! It came from a Paleo recipe I found for Chocolate pudding and one night I felt like being experimental and whipped this together. What I produced is (in my opinion) better than ice cream.

Choc-Banana Frozen Mousse

Ingredients:
3 Bananas
2 Avocados
1 Tablespoon of Vanilla Extract
2 Tablespoons of Organic Creamed Honey
2 Tablespoons of Almond Spread
1 Tablespoon of Cocoa Powder
1 Scoop of Chocolate Protein Powder (This is optional, I use it to make it slightly closer to "Zone" Good Fat, Good Carb, Protein)

Serves 2 generous bowls or 4 mini sides


Procedure:
(Brace yourself- it gets technical. I'm kidding. Its a piece of cake  mousse!)

1. Put all ingredients into Food Processor

2. Process until a cream like substance appears. You may have to stop the processor and mix the outside ingredients into the middle a couple of times

3. Proportion to two bowls

4. Put bowls in freezer. Depending how you like it leave it in there for atleast 60 minutes. This will give you a thick really cold mousse. If you want it more like an ice cream, leave it in for 2 hours.

5. Grab a spoon, a movie and the couch to enjoy this amazing healthy treat!

Let me know if you made it and what you think about it!

Hope you enjoy!

Revie x

Healthy Recipe: Meat Balls!

A great way to have protein on the go, simple to put together and not bad on the taste buds. Here is a recipe for Paleo Meatballs!

The Mixed Up Mince

Meatballs- Greek Infused

500gms ground lamb (I just used Beef as Im not a huge fan of lamb)

500gms ground beef

2 tablespoons minced chives

3 cloves garlic, minced

1/4 cup chopped parsley

1 egg, room temp

1 tablespoon dried mint 

1 tablespoon oregano

1 teaspoon sea salt

1 1/2 tespoons cumin

1 tablespoon cinnamon

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Optional 8-10 dried apricots, chopped

Optional 8 (or a many as you want) kalamata olives, chopped

Mix all the above ingredients and form into meatballs.  Place on a cooling rack which is on a baking sheet so that they brown all the way around.  Bake at 200 about 15 mins, depending on size.

Makes approximately 15 meatballs.  Serves 3-4.

Put with Paleo Bolagnaise sauce or on its own. Enjoy! 

Healthy Recipe: Dinner- Roast Bacon Wrapped Beef with Pumpkin

This has got to be one of my favourite recipes. It's simple, relatively quick and sooo yum! And yes the meal is paleo!

Here's how I did it.

Ingredients-

2 Sirloin Steak (Grass Fed)
6 Short Cut Pieces of Bacon
Mixed Herbs
1/4 Pumpkin
3 Fresh Chillies
Tooth Picks/ Skewers

Process-

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees. Spray oven tray with coconut oil.

2. Lay the bacon on oven tray. Finely chop chillies and sprinkle on bacon. Do the same with mixed herbs.

3. Cut steak into 100gm pieces and lay on bacon. Wrap steak with bacon, containing the chilli and herbs. Secure with tooth pick or skewer.

4. Cut up pumpkin into 1-2cm cubed pieces and sprinkle with mixed herbs. Then place pumpkin randomly in the tray.

5. Cook for approximately 30 minutes. (Depending how you would like your steak cooked, time will differ.)

6. Serve with side salad or roasted vegetables!

This was a 10/10 in yummy-ness and now on the favourites list for my man.

Revie x

Healthy Recipe: Dessert

Healthy Option Brownies

Okay! So, last Saturday I was in the mood for a treat and I decided to make Paleo Brownies. If you eat chocolate all the time, these aren't very exciting because you would be more used to sweet desserts but for those of you who are on a diet at the moment and would like a healthy alternative, give this recipe a go!

Almond Butter Spread

Ingredients-

• 1 c almond butter
• 1/2 c canned coconut milk
• 2 Eggs
• 2 t vanilla extract
• 1/4 t salt
• 1/3 c cocoa powder
• 1/4 c honey
• 1 banana
• 1/3 c Cocoa based chocolate (70%) optional
• 1/3 c chopped nuts

Methods-

Preheat the oven to 180°. Put baking paper in an 8 x 8 baking dish. 

In a bowl whisk together the almond butter, coconut milk, eggs, vanilla extract and salt. Then add the cocoa powder, honey,  and cocoa.

Pour into the prepared baking dish and top with chopped nuts.

Bake for approx. 18 minutes.

Take tray out and let brownies set for 10 minutes. Then cut into desired sizes. 

Add coconut sprinkles if desired.

Update: Hide from boyfriend or any boys in the house... 

Healthy Recipe: Dinner

Chicken Stir fry

My version!

The whip-it-up dinner, the go to, the best! For me a chicken stir fry is my favourite healthy dinner. Here's how I do it!

You'll need:
150grams chicken breast
1 Tablespoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 Broccoli
1 Fresh Chilli (optional)
15 Almonds
Pinch of Pepper

Method:
1. Cut the chicken breast  into small cubes (2-3cm thick), heat the pan to Med- High. Add tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil to pan.
2. While chicken is cooking, chop up 3-5 stems of broccoli to the desired size. Dice the chilli into small pieces.
3.  Once the chicken is cooked through turn heat down to medium, add the broccoli and chilli to the pan
4.  Add the almonds in and give it one last big stir so they are coated in oil/ flavours stir until broccoli has softened.

Grab a bowl & a pair of chopsticks and voila! Your stir fry is complete!!!

Healthy Recipe: Breakfast

This morning I needed a super kick start to the day and I made one of my favourite things in the world- Omlette!

Ingredients: 
1 egg yolk + 2 egg whites
1 chicken tenderloin
Spinach Leaves
Chilli

Yes, I said Chilli, not only do I love the stuff and eat it with most of my meals (if not all) it is really good for you!

Chillies Help to Burn Fat Chilli increases the metabolic rate, which aids in the fat burning process. Studies reveal that eating chillies can raise your metabolic rate by up to 23% for about 3 hours. 

You can read more from this article by clicking here.

Method:
1. Whip egg in a bowl and heat pan on low. Add pepper and little salt (if needed) to egg and use extra virgin olive oil on your pan.

Note: I used leftover chicken and was refrigerated. Cook a tenderloin before you cook the egg and slice/shred it to small portions and have it ready beside bowl.

2. Add egg to pan and add ingredients- chicken, spinach and chilli. You can some tomato, mushroom into if you like!

3. Let the omlette create a solid base and flip it in half so that it is closed or like a wrap.

4. Serve on plate and voila! You have a healthy, fast breaky to kick start your morning!

Here's what mine looked like!