Posted by Carole-Anne on December 26, 2007
Healthy Recipes offers this ‘easy to make’ recipe which uses whole wheat, the best choice for us. It is so versatile in that it is easy to make and suitable as a side dish or can be served with tea. It needs to be eaten as soon as it comes out of the oven and cools for 5 minutes.
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 Sun Maid Raisins
1/2 cup orange juice
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar
pinch sea salt
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup vegetable shortening or olive oil
1 egg
FOLLOW ME:
Pre-heat oven to 350F degrees.
Soak raisins in 1/2 cup orange juice for 5 minutes.
Mix flour, baking powder, Cream of Tartar, pinch of sea salt together in a medium sized bowl.
Add slightly beaten egg with orange juice and raisins. Blend until just moist.
Turn mixture onto a floured surface and make into a round dough.
Place in a round cake tin (8 inch) and score the top.
Bake in hot oven 350F for 15 to 20 minutes, when cake bounces back after being lightly touched.
Cut and serve this healthy recipe as soon as it cools a little.
Healthy Recipe of Whole Wheat cake serves 6.
How easy and tasty is this? Try it; you will love it.
Posted by Carole-Anne on December 7, 2007
Welsh Cakes have been an all time favorite of both mine and my sister. This recipe is not a low calorie, but to engage in a more nutritious manner, I have now substituted a Nutriblend flour (made by Robinhood Flour) and cut the sugar back from my original recipe. You may also use a vegetable shortening or unsalted butter. These cakes are small so use portion control.
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups Nutri-Blend flour by Robin Hood Flours)
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp mace
3/4 cup currants (may use raisins instead of currants)
2 beaten eggs (organic)
6 tbsp milk
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp nutmeg
1 cup vegetable shortening or unsalted butter
1/4 cup fruit peel (optional - orange, lemon)
FOLLOW ME:
Sift flour, sugar, soda, mace, nutmeg and a dash of sea salt together in a large bowl. Cut vegetable shortening or unsalted butter into flour mix, until the mixture forms little balls. Add egg and milk into the large bowl and stir until just mixed. Add currants (or raisins) into the mixture. Then, form the mixture into a dough ball and roll out on a clean floured surface to about 1/2 inch thick. You may need a little flour to cover your hands while rolling dough. Using a 2″ or 2 1/2″ cookie or biscuit cutter, cut out Welsh Cakes and place on a cookie sheet. Place on pre-heated Griddle (about 325 degrees). Flip when the underside becomes golden brown and watch carefully. Presto - we are done and we have beautiful traditional Welsh Cakes, lovely for a Brunch or Tea. Serve on a glass platter (Mikasa) or try a silverware platter by exploring this site.(www.silverflatwareset.com)
Yield: approximately 2 dozen.
Posted by Carole-Anne on December 2, 2007
I love to use just a few drops of honey on my favorite buttermilk biscuit healthy recipe. These fluffy biscuits are only about 80 calories (without the honey) and by using low-fat buttermilk and low-fat, plain yogurt, we have added calcium, very little fat, and approximately 1 mg of cholesterol.
The big secret about these normally fluffy biscuits is: Do not over mix the batter!!
I recommend these healthy buttermilk biscuits for any meal, for a snack or to have for tea, or even for brunch.
INGREDIENTS:
Olive oil
1 cup all purpose or Nutriblend flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sugar
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp sea salt
1 tbsp butter
1/3 cup low-fat buttermilk
¼ cup non-fat or low-fat plain yogurt
Flour for the surface to cut out biscuits
FOLLOW ME:
Pre-heat oven to 425F degrees. Wipepan with olive oil.Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and sea salt in a medium size bowl.Using a pastry blender, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it becomes crumbles.
Stir in yogurt and buttermilk into flour mixture with a fork until just moistened.
Place dough onto a lightly floured cutting board. Sprinkle with a small amount of flour and shape dough into a disk. With a rolling pin, pat out the dough until it is about ½ inch thick.
Cut out biscuits with a 2 ½ inch round cookie cutter.
Use prepared 8-inch round baking
Place buttermilk biscuits in prepared cake pan.
Bake for 10 – 12 minutes until biscuits are cooked in the middle and golden brown on bottoms.
Remove biscuits from pan and place in a tea towel in a serving basket to keep them warm with your favorite soup or stew. Check out these recipes in the remainder of Healthy Recipes for Healthy Living.
Recipe serves 8.
Posted by Carole-Anne on August 27, 2007
Quiche is essentially a pastry shell filled with a savory egg mixture and cooked in the oven.
Healthy Recipes recommends the egg mixture which contains protein, vegetables and light cheese, and provides plenty of vitamins be used as a lunch, brunch, breakfast or dinner recipe, as it contains all the necessary requirements for a full meal content. This is providing you use a Nutri-blend flour or whole wheat flour.
The great thing about quiche is that it can be made with or without the pastry. Pastry contains either vegetable shortening , butter or lard. I choose butter, bearing in mind that I would count this fat content for my daily allowance.
This is my favorite Herb Quiche, with pastry recipe included as well:
INGREDIENTS AND INSTRUCTIONS:
Butter Pastry
1 1/2 cups Nutri-flour
3 ounces cold butter
1 egg yolk
Sift flour into medium-size bowl.
Add butter into flour creating small fine balls using a pastry blender.
Add egg mixture and mix until the flour and egg sticks together. Add a little water if necessary the mixture turns into a ball.
Place in refrigerator to chill for 15 minutes.
Remove from refrigerator and place on floured surface.
Using a rolling pin, roll pastry out until it is big enough to fill your quiche pan (including the sides).
Next is a secret cook’s trick: place wax paper on pastry shell and fill pastry shell with enough dried beans (you can use dried rice as well) for 10 - 15 minutes until pastry is light golden brown.
Remove quiche pan from oven, and remove beans and wax paper. Set aside to cool while you make quiche mixture.
INGREDIENTS AND INSTRUCTIONS:
3 eggs
2 tbsp chopped chives
2 tbsp chopped parsley
1/2 cup light cream cheese softened
1/2 cup 1% milk
1/2 cup shredded provolone
Freshly ground pepper
Red pepper cut in rings (4 -6 rings) to garnish
Whisk together 3 eggs.
Add 1/2 cup 1% milk and 1/2 cup softened cream cheese and mix until smooth.
Add egg mixture to milk and cream cheese blending until smooth.
Pour mixture into quiche pastry shell and garnish with red pepper rings.
Bake at 350F for 45 minutes, or until the center springs back lightly.
Healthy Recipes favors this Quiche with or without the pastry. It takes a little time to make, but with the provolone, fresh herbs and red pepper - his healthy quiche has excellent flavor.
Recipe serves 6.