Protein&spinach muffins

Recently I've ordered few products from bulkpowders.co.uk
 

psyllium husk&spinach powder, proteins plus coconut oil from bulkpowders

I still look for my healthy food supplier and checking English companies out. Bulkpowders was one of them, recommended by my friend. Despite the name, they don't have only products for those who are on bulk ;) 


They don't have fancy packing, just simple, minimalistic ones. Together with no big adds. But the variety of products is really big. I got few protein powders from them (simple whey and mixed), gainer for my beloved, psyllium husk, hmb and spinach powder from them. For now whey protein chocolate orange is my unquestionable favourite, especially with my mornings oats. 

my recent baking

Having some day off I decided to use ordered spinach powder. I used it for muffins and they came really tasty.

For 8 muffins you will need:
* 1 scoop of vanilla protein
* 2 tbsp of sesame/quinoa/regular flour
* 0.5 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder 
* 0.5 tbsp spinach powder
* 1 egg
* 1dl of almond/regular milk
* sweetener (Sukrin or other)

Mix all dry ingredietns first, then add egg and milk for dough, watery consistency. Mix together and put into muffins forms. Bake for 30 minutes in 200 degrees.

ready to eat muffin with glaze and dried raspberries on top

Glaze:
* 2 tbsp of Philadelphia Light (or other soft cheese)
* powdered sweetener (Sukrin Melis)
* dried raspberries on top 

Enjoy gluten free, sugar free, protein&spinach muffins! :)

isn't that true? ;)

Coconut scones

For a rainy day like this, the smell of coconut brings me somewhere away from dark Norway... 
I tried coconut flout from Funksjonell Mat for the first time and made coconut scones. This flour consisted of melted and fat reduce coconut. It smells wonderful even in a package! 

Scones I made are rich in protein and fiber, as their main component is coconut fat-reduced flour. With more milk, you could do pancakes instead of scones.
 

For 7 scones you will need:

* 100g fat reduced coconut flour
* 2dl of low fat milk
* 3dl of water
* 1 tblsp of baking powder
* 1 egg white (or whole egg if you want more calories)
* 10 drops of Coconut Stevia Sweat Leaf 

Preparation:
Mix all ingredients until you will get a dough which is easy to form in hands. Roll round shape scones and bake them in 220 degrees 20 minutes on each side. 

Served with chocolate souse from Walden Farms or other syrup of choice.

Nutritional value in 1 scone:
57 kcal, 
4,5g protein, 
1,6g fats, 
1,7g carbs

Cinnamon cake

cinnamon cake topped with apples

Previous weekend was rich in desserts! ;) Beside french fruit cake, I made cinnamon one, perfect treat for coffee.

For 8 portions of cake I used:
* half cup of almound flour
* half cup of whole grain flour
* half a cup of Sukrin/sugar
* 3 eggs
* cup of milk
* 2 spoons of baking powder
* 1 dl of liquid butter/margarine
* gingerbread spices, cinnamon and vanilla 
* apple and Sukrin Melis for decoration

Preparation:
* Preheat oven to 220 degrees. Mix dry ingredients all together.  Add eggs, butter and milk. Use kitchen robot to have a smooth dough. 
* Spread liquid butter/margarine in a baking pan. 
* Put dough into pan and put it into oven for 10 minutes. In a meantime chop apple. You can put it on the top of the cake after 10 minutes of pre-baking it (then you're sure that apple won't fall into dough). 
*Bake cake for next 20 minutes.
* After that time, let the cake cool down in room temperature. 
* Spread a little Sukrin Melis/ sugar powder on top.

Birthday cake

My man had his birthday yesterday <3
For this special occasion I made birthday cake for him!

I used:
* chocolate healthier cake mix (40% less carbs, no sugar, 10% fiber)
* 3 eggs
* 100ml of neutral oil
* water

For frosting:

* melted Philadelphia Freia (Philadelphia with chocolate)
* mix of fresh berries

Something sweet - SweatLeaf stevia drops

My supplies have just been enhanced by Sweatleaf Stevia drops in new exciting tastes: cola, lemon, peppermint and hazelnut. 
 

stevia plant

Stevia is a natural sweetener with a characteristic strong, little bitter and sweet taste. It is 10-15 times sweeter that normal sugar. 
Stevia can be use for baking, cooking, sweetening coffee/tea and so on. It has no calories and doesn't not influence blood level. 
Stavia is selling in natural form (leafs), powdered and in a form of drops. 
 

there are mny producers of stevia sweeteners, I have Sweet Leaf at home

Huge advantage of Stevia is that it is nor artificial product (comparing to aspartan and others) and that it can be processed in high temperatures, disadvantage might be that it taste differs a little from taste of sugar.

Flavoured variants of stevia are great way to sweetened your cottage cheese, bake delicious cake and break the routine. 

Cola flavour - as producer suggest, adding few drops to sparkling water makes a refreshing drink. Taste is little bit more herbal than real cola for me.

Hazelnut flavour - my personal winner! Great for cottage cheese with other nuts.

Pepperminf flavour - the best for sweeteing tea and making refreshing cheese cake.

Lemon drop flavour - ideal for tea, drinks, water and quark. Brings spring :)

At home I have also English Toffee (yummy for cakes and baking in general) and chocolate (which I like the least).

Golden fish

golden fish - cod in sesame crumble

My today's dinners tip is cod crumbled in sesame flour and sesame seeds.

I dipped salted fish first in egg, then with mixture of sesame flour and sesame seeds. Then fried it from both sides for few minutes. For frying I used cocoa oil, but you can also use flax oil or any other oil which will be suitable for using in high temperatures.
After few minutes I put fish in to the oven for next 20 minutes (to reduce time of frying).

I am not a fan of frying things (mostly because of the smell!), but I have to admit that the result was yummy and crispy. Sesame seeds gave the fish unusual taste.

Waffel day in Norway

At the same day when I am implementing my new training routine (more about it in next post) there is a waffel day in Norway!

This extraordinary day express Norwegian's love to that piece of baking. They served waffles preferable with Norwegian brown cheese and jam.

 

I have to admit that I haven't eat wafflels for years and it seems that I won't because I don't have special machine for making them at home.

However, I would like to share Funksjonell's Mat recipe with you for healthier waffels which do yourself at home (recipe in Norwegian can be find here)

 
You will need:

50g butter/margarine
4 eggs
100g Sukrin Gold
240g flour
40g FiberFin
0,5 spoon baking powder
0,5 spoon cardamom
5dl (50ml) of milk


Mix all ingredients and let them stay for 15-30 minutes. After that bake in waffel machine. Serve preferable with soe lowfat quark or cottage cheese and jam :)

Breakfast muffins

 

Good morning!

If you have a little more time for preparing breakfast, try this recipe for breakfast muffins.


Mix eggs, eggs whites with scoop of sesame flour, scoop of baking powder, salt and pepper. Add vegetables of your choice and parma ham. 



Fill cupcakes forms and bake muffins for about 20 minutes in 200 degrees.

Great alternative for old good breakfast! :)

Cupcakes!

chocolate muffins with lemon and chocolate frosting

Sunday is a great day to prepare some sweet cupcakes!

For base I used Funksjonell Mat chocolate cake mix. It is a ready to bake mix which contained 40% less calories, 10% more fiber, has no sugar and, most importantly, is very, very tasty!

I made two types of icing - lemon anc chocolate one.



Preparartion:

Make cupcakes base from Chocolate Mix, add 3 eggs, 1dl of oil and 3dl of water. Put the dough into cupcakes forms and bake for 30 minutes in 180 degrees in the oven. Let them cool down before putting glaze on them.

For lemon frosting: mix Kaseam Mager with Sukrin Melis, jucie from half a lemon, additionally you can add yellow pigment.
For chocolate frosting: mix Kesam Mager with Sukrin Melis and 2 scoops of MyoProtein Mocca Chocolate Flavour.

Happy Sunday! :)

Banana bread

aromatic&sweet banana bread

Great Sunday solution - whether you want a bread for breakfast or piece of cake for later coffee - you can use this one!

Banana bread is easy to prepare. You will need:
* 2 big smashed bananas (or 3 smaller ones) - use matures one, it will be easie to smashed them with fork
* 2 eggs
* 1/2 cup of milk 
* 2 spoons of sesame flour (or other flour of choice)
* 1 spoon of sweetener (I used SukrinMelis, but Sukrin Gold would be perfect)
* 2 portions of protein powder banana flavour, I used banana&toffee from Reflex (it is an additionally ingredient)

Dough should be watery, it it is too tense, add a little water.
Use baking pan (the same you use for making bread). Put a baking paper before (and spare yourself some time with taking the cake off).

Serving proposition: with cottage chesse and low sugar jam

Bake it for 40 minutes in 200 degrees in the middle of the oven. Then take it out and let it cool down in room temperature. Slice it into pieces and.. enjoy! :)

Banana bread is a low carb solution whether for bread and cake!

New arrivals from Funksjonell Mat

Yesterday I've got a big (and heavy!) pack from Funksjonell Mat. My kitchen shelves are well equiped now and I am ready to try all these products!

Pack included:
* low carb bread mix
* chocolate cake mix (which can be used also for muffins)
* sukrin gold (alternative for brown sugar)
* sesame flour
* jams sweetened with tagatose
* chocolate sweetened with sukrin
 

I'm sooo glad! There will be baking soon! :D

Protein tarta-cakes

tarta-cakes on gluten free, wheat free dough with a protein filling

Oh, I just invented the simplest and the best dessert ever! (for this moment I think it is the smartest I ever came on hehe)

fresh berries melted in mocca-chocolate filling

This are tarta-cakes full of protein with healthy dough underneath. Perfect for a healthy dessert after your dinner.

For four tarta-cakes you will need following ingredients:

For dough:

* 2 spoons of almond flour
* 1 spoon of FiberFin (can be omitted)
* 1 spoon of Sukrin or Sukrin Melis
* few drops of Stevia drops Englih Toffee flavour

* 1 egg white
* water
* Cocoa oil for baking forms



For filling:
* ca. 60g of protein powder (I used mocca-chocolate flavour)
* 2 table spoons of powdered gelatin
* water

Preparation:

Begin with dough. 

Mix all dry ingredients, than add egg white and water to receive consistency that will allow you to put dough into forms. 

Spread cocoa oil into your baking forms and add a thin layer of a dough. Let dough bake in the oven for ca. 20 minutes in 200 degrees. 

Then take it off from the oven and et it cool down.

For filling: warm up water with 2 table spoons of gelatin powder. Do not boil, only let gelatine melted. 
Take pan from heating and add 2 portion of protein powder. Stir untill you get perfect consistency. Then put a container with melted protein into freezer for about 20 minutes. 

you can make an additinal layer from fresh strawberries

When filling is almost tensed, spread it on a dough. I putted strawberries on a dough first to have another layer between dough and filling.

Put tarta-cakes into freezer for first 10 minutes and then keep them in the fridge. 

Serve protein tarta-cakes with fresh berries.

Way to good to be so healthy! ;)

Roasted meat chops and recent news

easy dinner on the go (and on a budget) - roasted meat chops, roasted potatoes and vegetables

I did not came with some gym log because my body failed me and I've got sick :(
No trainings then, to let the body got back to normal form soon.

Instead f training, I cooked and also establish cooperation with Funksjonell Mat - Norwegian company which produces different types of healthy food alternatives like almond, sesame flours, natural sweeteners, cake mixes and healthier chocolates. So.. prepare for more baking recipes on the blog! ;)

they look like bread rolls or cakes, don't they? ;)

Yesterday I made healthier version of meat chops which were actually baked, not fried. 

I mixed minced meat from chicken and turkey, add chopped onion and spices, together with hemp, bran and 1 egg. 
I formed chops and put them on a baking paper and roast in oven for 40 minutes. Together with meat I prepared roasted potatoes.

This healthier version of meat chops is even easier to prepare that traditional one!