Lasagne - carbonhydrate free

Delicious zucchini based lasagne 

Ingredients:

a medium/large zucchini

2 eggs

4 tbs oat

basil

salt

garlic

topping:

tomato sauce - I used Lloyds Gossman basil&tomato

half red onion

light mozarella

sweetcorn

(bacon for him)

any green to the side

Grate the zucchini, drain it as you can - otherwise it is getting so juicy during the baking

Beat the eggs with the salt, basil and smashed garlic

Add the mixture to the zucchini and add the oat as well (you can grate it before)

Heat a bit of olive oil in a pan, add chopped onion, tomato sauce and sweetcorn. Heat it a bit.

Put your zucchini mixture to a baking pan, top with the tomato sauce. (Men version: add bacon to the topping, or lie them to the bottom of the pan.)

 

Bake it for 20 minutes in a preheated oven. Add the mozzarella on the top and bake it for 5 more minutes.

Sugarfree oat biscuit

A very easy and quick biscuit without sugar and flour. If you fancy for sweetness…

Ingredients:

2 banana
2 cup of oat porridge or use any museli that you like
1 egg
4 tbs coconut oil
1 tbs coconut flakes
2 tbs coconut milk
1 grated apple
a pinch of baking soda
a huge handful raisin or any mixed nuts, chopped dried fruit
Spices as you like it: lemondrops, cinnamon etc

You just need to mix all ingredients in a bowl with a fork. If the texture is to smooth use museli to make it harder.

Preheat oven to 190 ℃, butter a baking pan and make small balls with a spoon.

Bake them until getting brown on the top.

Enjoy!

Something sweet

I was so lazy and haven't written anything for a
long time....but now I am back :)
Couple days ago I made some of my favorite fake risotto, but as usual I cooked lot more bulgur that I needed. So I used the rest as a dessert.





Melt a small spoon of coconut oil in a pan, fry the already cooked bulgur in it. While it's heating up, add some raisin or any chopped fruit - as you like it. If you found it too savory, add a bit of agave syrup.








Quick, healthy, low in calories and you don't need to throw food away.

Avocado matters

Okey, there is no reason to deny, I fall in love with avocado that summer. That means I buy minimum 2 of it on each week, and I could eat it every day. I need to stop myself, because non of the foods are healthy to have every single day.
So back to "my love", ❤ I started to eat only with salad and as a dip. Then found some interesting way to use and started to vary with vegetables and fruits. I used instead butter in cupcake and made ice cream with.

For today I brought two of my recipes, a savory dip and a sweety. :)

Avocado hummus

calories/half portion 275
time: 5 minutes, budget £2

What you need for it
-full avocado
-garlic
-can of chickpeas
-5 cherry tomatoes (can use sun-dried with oil, that case don't use any other fat)
-5 olives (can cancel if you don't like)
-1tbs olive oil
-salt
-pepper

Put all of the ingredient in to a bowl and smash with a hand blender. Chilled in the fridge. Can keep in for 2-3 days.
Enjoy the spoonful of health on it's own, nibble crackers with it, or dip carrot, cucumber fingers in. 

Avocado - fresh fruit sweet-cream

calories 300/half portion
time: 5 minutes, (ice version plus 2 hours)
budget £3

Use
-full avocado
-400 g fat free greek yoghurt
-cup raw raspberry (variable)
-a handful sugar free muesli, or raisin, or coconut flakes (mix mach all of them, but do not use too much - they're not calorie less)
-half can of light coconut milk

-gelatine (no sugar, no color) if you wanna make it thicker than a normal yoghurt - is recommended for the chilled version

Put them - except raspberry - into a bowl, smash with hand blender. Add the gelatin and keep in the freezer for 2 hours.
Topped the cream with raspberry before you eat it.
(Men version with could come with maple syrup on the top as well)

New release of grilled halloumi salad

Do you remember my first sweet-savory salad recipe? That creation is always delicious....let's see, how it could be more?

Ingredients for 1 plate

  ~300 calories

time: 10 minutes, budget: £4

1 slice of light Halloumi cheese (I used Tesco light Halloumi, which is 70 calories/30g)

1/2 bunch asparagus

large handful lamb lettuce
5 cherry tomatoes

2 slices of melone

1 slice of parma ham - man version ;)

small spoon olive oil or nut-dose butter

dash of balsamic vinegar (I used fig flavored that time)

nutmeg, salt depends on how savory or sweety you fancy for

Quickly fry the chopped asparagus on the butter or olive oil. At the same time prepare the lettuce on your plate. Cut into two half the parma ham and cover the melon slices with it. Put on your plate as well. Chop tomatoes in half and add on the top.

Add a bit of nutmeg and salt to the asparagus. It's nearly done.

Topped the asparagus on the lettuce, drop the cheese to the same pan. It takes 1-1 minute to get grilled both sides. Then put it on your plate, pour the balsamic vinegar on the top...your daily spoonful of health is ready, sit back and enjoy!

My alternative to sweets I.

My worst enemy on any diet is sweets. I love them, any of them: chocolat, ice cream, chocolate-ice cream...:D etc
So what should I do if I am hungry for sweet but no, I can't have any. Because I decided, no sugar at all! ???!!!!!! The first couple days was awful, I wanted my chocolate bar, chocolate-mint balls, amazing Ben and Jerry's...you know what I mean, right?
Let's think about what is sweet but not full of sugar...fruits. OK. what else, which is similar to ice cream?...YOGHURT. FAT FREE!

All you need is a cup of fat free yoghurt - usual calories 55/100g
A cup of your favorite fruit - my best choice were raspberries 60 cal /cup
Mash raspberries and mix with the yoghurt. Top with cinnamon. You're ready :)

Or there are some alternatives: use coconut milk, it's very creamy and suit to pineapple. Mix them together and put in to the freezer for an hour. You are nearly there...healthy, less calories than ice cream but still delicious.
ENJOY!

Fake Moussaka

I am sure that everybody knows the traditional Greek meal, Moussaka. Yesterday I made my version without meat of course and as healthy as I could.

How?

Calories 250/portion (I made 3 portion from those)
Time 35 mins, budget £4

Have
-2 courgette
-2 aubergine
-1 onion
-200 g button mushroom
-2 tsp olive oil
-350 g tomato sauce (I used  Lloyds Gossman again - I really like it, tasty and contains only 65cal/100 g)
-parmesan

It's really simple. Pour 1tsp oil to the bottom of a pan. Put the chopped onion in first, than make layers from the sliced aubergine and courgette. Pour on the tomato sauce, an other tsp oil and add the mushroom. Bake it for 30 minutes in preheated oven. (try the courgettes before you take it off, if it is soft enough, you are ready.) Serve with parmesan on top.

Man version: I cooked some pasta and fried 2 slices of bacon for him. Used it as a base layer and topped with the fake moussaka.