Posted by Carole-Anne on November 13, 2008
Healthy Recipes recommends this tasty, low-fat dish with calorie-reduced syrup and cinnamon for part of your healthy living diet. If you wish to, you may remove some of the yolk to cut cholesterol when making the egg mixture to dip the French toast in. What I love about this recipe is it can be used for breakfast or brunch and the calorie count is low 175 per slice.
Add fresh fruits of your choice and enjoy this light meal.
INGREDIENTS:
Use one large egg and two egg whites.
1/4 cup skim milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 ground nutmeg
Calorie-reduced Maple Syrup optional
FOLLOW ME:
Using a shallow bowl, whist the egg and egg whites until foamy.
Add milk, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg, beating well and set aside.
Preheat oven to 200 F degrees.
Spray vegetable oil lightly in a large skillet and heat skillet to medium.
Dip four of bread slices into egg mixture.
When golden brown, turn pieces of French bread over.
Divide French toast on 4 plates.
Garnish with your favorite chopped fruit, sprinkling lightly with cinnamon and top with calorie-reduced Maple Syrup. Enjoy!
Healthy Recipe serves 4 people. Enjoy!
Posted by Carole-Anne on January 11, 2008
Healthy Recipes has made these chocolate zucchini cake loaves many times because it is so fast, is a never-fail recipe and makes 4 loaves at once.
Zucchini is extremely low in calories and is grown plentifully in any warm temperatures. Zucchini’s are great in stews, soups, fried in extra virgin olive oil, and many other varieties of cooking, as we will see today while we make these chocolate zucchini loaves.
The taste of the zucchini is complimented by real Cocoa, and cinnamon. This combination is just the best. Your company will love it and your kids will too; it can be frozen after cooling, will last in freezer for 6 weeks, and for a treat, use it as a dessert with low calorie ice cream with a cherry on top!
INGREDIENTS:
4 cups grated zucchini
1 1/2 cup butter
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
6 eggs
4 tsp vanilla
5 cups Nutri-flour
Dash of sea salt
1 cup cocoa
5 tsp baking powder
3 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
NOW FOLLOW ME:
Cream butter and brown sugar
Add eggs and beat well.
Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk.
Add zucchini and vanilla.
Before pouring batter into pans, spray them with oil. If pans are old and batter may stick, just put piece of wax paper or foil on the bottom of the pans.
Bake at 350F degrees for 45 minutes (test with toothpick to see it comes out clean).
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Healthy Recipe makes 4 delicious loaves.
PS: If you want to doll this recipe up: Just add some chopped ginger, pumpkin seeds, raisins or chocolate chips (low fat).
If you want just plain chocolate cake with the zucchini, add a dollop of E.D Smith’s sour cherry pie filling on top with a dash of whipped cream. This is a really deluxe dessert, but it is a hit! I have done this many times. Each loaf can be different.
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 2, 2007
A loaf of bread just takes too long to make. So, you may think, why bother? Healthy Recipes has the answer for you! Irish Soda Bread is healthy, uses whole wheat flour, buttermilk, which creates a dense, moist bread and fits very nicely into a healthy diet! Irish Soda Bread can be made with variations as well – one with honey and fruit and one with cheese and onion.
Now for the Master Recipe!
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups Nutriblend flour
1 cup Whole Wheat flour
2 tbsp flax seeds (or sesame seeds)
2 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp sea salt
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
TOPPING:
1 tbsp Nutriblend flour (or all-purpose)
NOW FOLLOW ME:
In a large bowl, whisk together Nutriblend flour, whole wheat flour, flax seeds, sugar, baking soda and sea salt.
In a small bowl, whisk together buttermilk and olive oil.
Add to large bowl of dry ingredients all at once and stir with a fork until a soft dough forms.
On a lightly floured surface, with floured hands, press dough into a ball, kneading slightly 10 times. Place on greased baking sheet, gently patting out dough into about a 6-inch circle.
Sprinkle the flour over the the round loaf, and score with a large X on top of the loaf.
Bake in center of oven at 375 F for about 45 minutes or until golden color. Test the center of the loaf and when it comes out clean, presto – you are done!
This wonderful healthy recipe makes 8 servings.
PS: VARIATIONS OF IRISH SODA BREAD:
HONEY APRICOT SODA BREAD
Instead of sugar and flax seeds, increase the nutriflour or all purpose flour to 2 1/4 cups. Add 1/2 cup of chopped dried apricots and 1/2 cup raisins to dry ingredients. Then add 1/3 cup of liquid honey to liquid ingredients and stir well.
Mix 1/2 cup of icing sugar and 2 tbsp orange juice, drizzling over loaf after the loaf comes out of the oven and sits for 15 or 20 minutes.
CHEESE AND ONION SODA BREAD
Instead of flax seeds and topping, add 1 cup shredded light old cheddar cheese, 1/4 cup chopped green onions to the liquid mixture and a dash of cayenne pepper to the dry ingredients.
Healthy Recipes recommends you try this recipe as it is a ‘no fail’ recipe, and once you try it, we are certain it will become a mainstay in your meal creations. Irish Soda Bread may be used for Breakfast, Brunches, Lunches or Dinners because of its versatility. Enjoy!