Mexican Night Corn Salad

This Sunday I came up with the wonderful idea to do a Mexican night! Its always fun to eat food (tacos) you can customize and create to your own tastes.

To go along with these tacos I prepared a light corn salad as a side dish for everyone to enjoy. I basically just threw together some ingredients and came out with a salad that was light, refreshing and super tasty!

Ingredients:

1/2 can of corn

1 carrot, julienned

1 red pepper, finely chopped

approx. 2 cups spinach, chopped

approx. 2 cups romaine lettuce, chopped

fresh cilantro, finely chopped

Dressing: 

3-4 tbsp. olive oil

2-3 tbsp. lemon juice

salt & pepper to taste

1. Combine all salad ingredients. Top with dressing, mix well and enjoy!

 

 

 

Skinny Brownie Cookies

I'm not gonna lie to you, for me making these cookies was a struggles due to the amount of times I had to taste them. It's not that they tasted bad but I am really not a fan of chocolate, so having to taste chocolate batter over and over again was actually a struggle for me. But, thankfully I only had to do one round because thats all it took for these cookies to turn out like I imagined!



These are a spin on a typical brownie cookie minus all the sugar and butter. My version is both gluten free and refined sugar free leaving you with nothing to feel guilty about!



Even the chocolate I used was refined sugar free. I was walking through my bulk food store when I came upon a wonder product. It was an all natural chocolate, sugar free and sweetened with stevia! I was so excited to find this product and this is what inspired me to make a healthy chocolate brownie cookie for all you chocolate lovers out there.



Try it out and let me know what you think of what I like to call a Skinny Brownie Cookie!

Ingredients:

1/4 cup coconut oil

1/8 cup melting chocolate (I used a no sugar added sweetened with stevia chocolate but a semi sweet melting chocolate works well too)

1 egg

2-3 tbsp. stevia

1 tbsp. maple syrup

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1/4 cup or 50 g teff flour

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Place coconut oil and chocolate in a pot. Melt on medium heat stirring often.

2. While chocolate is melting combine egg, stevia, vanilla and maple syrup. Add melted chocolate.

3.  Add teff flour to the mixture and mix well. Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper, scoop a heaping tablespoon of cookie batter onto cookie sheet and do that until all batter is gone. Bake for 5-6 minutes and enjoy!

Skinny Apple Crisp

This weekend I chose to make an apple crisp for Sunday nights dessert. But of course I wanted to come up with a healthy version of this popular treat so there would be no guilt in eating it. I like to call my version of apple crisp a skinny apple crisp, as it is free of butter, and any sort of refined sugar, It is also gluten free and vegan so a wide range of people are free to enjoy it! The ingredients used are all ones you should be able to find in your pantry, I hope you enjoy this healthy dessert. 

Ingredients: 

6 large apples

2 tsp. cinnamon 

1 tsp. nutmeg

3 tbsp. honey + 3 tbsp. natural maple syrup 

1 1/3 cups gluten free oats

2/3 cups almond flour 

1 tsp. baking soda

 1tsp. baking powder

pinch of salt

4 tbsp. melted coconut oil 

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Combine apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, 1 tbsp. honey and 1 tbsp. maple syrup in a bowl, mix well. Place apple mixture into a 8x 11inch baking pan and bake for 10 minutes. 

2. While the apples are baking combine remaining 2 tbsp. honey, 2 tbsp. maple syrup, oats, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and  coconut oil in a bowl. After 10 minutes take the apples out of the oven, place oat mixture on top ad baking for another 15-20 minutes ( until top is golden brown). 

Skinny Banana Muffins

Here is another muffin recipe I love to make during the fall, as it is comforting, clean and convenient for me to take these muffins to school. They are are skinny version of a banana muffin, and are also gluten free and refined sugar free... minus a tiny bit of brown sugar, but its such a little amount it doesn't matter. So I hope you give these a try and enjoy them as much as I do.

What You'll Need:

1/2 cup coconut oil

3 egg whites

2 cups all purpose gluten free flour

1 tsp. xanthan gum

5  ripe bananas

1/8 cup honey

1/8 cup stevia

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 oatmeal

Topping:

1/2 banana

1 tbsp. brown sugar

1/2 tbsp. stevia

* optional- 1 cup blueberries, coconut, walnuts or whatever your heart desires!

1. Preheat oven to 325 F.

2. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, mix well ( I find it easiest if I use my hands)



3. Grease muffin pan, fill muffin holders about 3/4 full.

4. Mix 1 tbsp. brown sugar and 1/2 tbsp stevia together, sprinkle on top. Slice the half banana and place in centre of muffin.



5. Bake for 40 mins, and enjoy!