Healthy Recipes

These are few site for healthy recipes I recommend everybody to read.

1.10 foods that will save you a fortune
 http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/21102010/389/10-foods-save-fortune.html
2. Eat more oats
http://www.eatmoreoats.com/health.html
3. Oats (BBC Food - Recipe finder)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/search?keywords=%22oats%22
4. A whole chicken
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/using-the-whole-chicken
5. Spanish Chicken Pot Roast
http://www.lovefood.com/guide/recipes/10135/spanish-pot-roast
6. Pulses
http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes/beansnuts.html
7. Leftovers! (I love it - 3 websites)
http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/
http://www.lovefood.com/guide/recipes/10124/ultimate-mushrooms-on-toast
http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/recipes
8. Egg
http://www.eggrecipes.co.uk/
9. Frugal Recipes
http://www.lovemoney.com/blog/frugalrecipes.aspx

Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

Ingredients
300g plain flour (approx. 2 cups)

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

200g soft brown sugar (approx. 1 cup)

4 eggs

250ml oil

1 orange, zest

1 lemon, zest

200g carrots, finely grated

150g walnuts, chopped

227g tin pineapple pieces, well drained and chopped (optional)

Frosting

125g unsalted butter at room temperature

50g icing sugar

250g cream cheese

Serves 12

Preparation and cooking times
Prep 40 mins.
Cook min 1 hr 20 mins. plus cooling time

Method of Preparation: 

1. Heat the oven to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2. 
2. Line a 20cm, 10cm deep cake tin. 
3. Sift the flour, cinnamon, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda together and stir in the sugar. 
4. Beat the eggs with the oil and citrus zests.
5. Stir in the carrots and fold everything into the flour mixture. 
6. Fold in the walnuts and pineapple if using. 
7. Spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for 1 hour 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. 
8. Cool.

1. For the frosting, beat the butter and icing sugar together until soft and then beat in     the cream cheese. 

2. Chill the mixture until it's thick but spreadable. 

3. Spread a thick layer on top of the cake, making sure the side of the icing is flat and 

continues upwards from the side of the cake. 

 

Coconut Cake

Ingredients:

3 Eggs
1 Cup Sugar
½ Cup Oil
½ Rainbow Milk
1 Cup Flour
1 tsp. Baking Powder
½ Cup (125 ml.) Coconut Powder

Preparation:

1. Beat eggs with an electric mixer, add sugar & beat till it dissolves.
2. Add oil mix again, add rainbow milk.
3. Mix flour, baking powder & coconut powder in a separate bowl. Add this to the egg mixture.
4. Bake in a preheated Owen on low temperature for approximately for 45 min.

Pizza Base and Tomato Sauce for Pizza

Pizza Base

Ingredients:

3 Cups Flour (Big Puck Cheese Cup)
1 Cup Oil (Small Puck Cheese Cup)
1 tsp. Yeast
1 tsp. Sugar
1 tsp. Salt
7 tblsp. Milk Powder
1 ¼ Cup (Big Puck Cheese Cup) Luke warm water

Method of preparation:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients (Flour, Yeast, Sugar, Salt and Milk Powder) thoroughly.

2. Add oil and mix well with a Fork.

3. Add Luke warm water little by little and need it for smooth & soft dough.

4. Make a round out of it and cover it with cling film. Place it in warm place.

Tomato sauce for pizza

Ingredients:

1 small chopped onion to very small cubes (optional)
4 big sized tomatoes grated or pureed in the blender
3 – 4 tblsp. Tomato Ketchup
2 tblsp. Tomato paste
1 tsp. Vinegar
1 Maggi cube (chicken)
½ tsp. Pepper
1 Clove of garlic (optional)
1tblsp. Oil

Method of Preparation:

1. In a sauce pan, heat oil on slow flame.

2. Add onions (optional) fry it until it is tender, add tomato paste fry it for 20 sec.

3. Add tomato puree (grated tomatoes) fry it for 2 – 3 min. Add ketchup, pepper, maggi cube, vinegar and garlic (optional).

4. Cook it for 5 more minutes or until the oil is separated.

Fish Curry with Coconut Milk

Ingredients:
500 grms. Mackerel Fish
1 Lemon Juice or tamarind juice
1 Onion cut into cubes
3 - 4 Cloves of Garlic grated
2 – 3 Coins of Ginger (2 mm Thickness)
1 Cinnamon stick (2” length) (Crushed)
4 Cloves (Crushed)
2 – 3 Cardamom
1 litre Coconut milk
½ bunch of Coriander leaves (Copped)
1tsp. Cumin and Coriander Powder (each)
Salt and Pepper to taste.
1-2 tblsp. Of Canola / Olive oil

Method of Preparation:
Clean the fish and keep it aside.

Crush onion, garlic, ginger, Cinnamon, Cloves, Cumin and coriander powder in a blender (Don’t smash it too much).

In a deep pot, heat oil, add the crushed mixer, fry over moderate heat for 1 – 2 minutes. Add Turmeric powder, Green Chilli, Salt and fry for 30 seconds. Add coconut milk. Add fish once it starts to boil. DON’T Stir. Boil it until the fish is tender. Add coriander leave and serve with white rice.

Note: To prepare 1 cup of coconut milk, add 3 table spoon of coconut milk powder to 1 cup of warm water and stir.