Healthy Eating Recipes

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Dairy and Wheat free Fruit Crumble
Adapted from Appetite for Life - Participant Notes, Community and Public Health 2009

Any canned, stewed or bottled fruit
1 1/2 cups quick rolled oats
1/2 cup Chickpea flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup raw sugar
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
around 1/4 cup rice milk (only a fraction more if needed otherwise the topping will be too moist)

  1. Drain fruit well and place into the baking dish.  Set this aside for now.
  2. In another bowl mix all the dry ingredients together.
  3. Slowly add the rice milk so that the mixture binds a little.
  4. Cover the fruit with the mixture and bake at 180C for around 20 minutes.
  5. Serve with Yoghurt and ENJOY.

Quick and Easy Dairy Free Carrot Cake

3/4 cup rice bran oil or similar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups grated carrot
1/4 - 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
1/2 sultanas

  1. Beat oil, sugar and eggs in a large bowl.
  2. Add flour baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon and mix well.
  3. Add carrot, walnuts and sultanas.
  4.  Pour into a greased tin and bake at 180C for about 45 mins or until the centre of hte cake springs back when pressed and a skewer comes out clean.
  5. Cool for 5 mins before turning out.


Sugar Free/Dairy Free Ice Cream
 
4 eggs
6 tablespoons liquid honey
3 very ripe bananas (mashed)
1 can coconut cream (440 gm)
 
  1. Separate the eggs and beat the whites until stiff peaks are formed.
  2. Add 1/2 of the honey to whites and beat until glossy.
  3. Beat egg yolks and other half of honey until pale in a separate bowl.
  4. Fold the two egg mixtures together in one bowl
  5. Beat bananas and coconut in the mixer
  6. Gently fold everything together until mixed.  You want to leave as much air in it as possible.
  7. Pour into a freezer proof container and pop in the freezer.
  8. After a few hours get the mixture out to gently mix again as the coconut cream tends to settle.
When serving take ice cream out 5-10 mins before it is ended.
 
Preservative and Additive Free Ice cream
 
4 eggs
2 Tablespoons of runny honey
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
300ml cream
 
  1. Separate the eggs and beat the whites until stiff peaks are formed.
  2. Add 1Tablespoon of honey to whites and beat until glossy.
  3. Beat egg yolks and other half of honey (1 Tablespoon) until pale in a separate bowl.
  4. Fold the two egg mixtures together in one bowl
  5. Beat cream in a separate bowl.
  6. Gently fold everything together until mixed. You want to leave as much air in it as possible.
  7. Pour into a freezer proof container and pop in the freezer.
 
Aluminium Free Baking Powder
 
2 parts Cream of Tartar
1 part Baking Soda
1 part Arrowroot
 
  1. Mix together well in a jar (not filling up to the top) and give a good shake.
Shake before use.
 
Wheat Free/Sugar free/Dairy free pikelets
 
1/3 cup brown rice flour
1/3 cup Barley flour
1/3 cup Millet flour and cornflour mixture (about 1Tablespoon)
3/4 cup Rice milk
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 egg
 
  1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
  2. Using a non stick frying pan on a low heat, spoon in 4 piles of mixture (4 pikelets)
  3. When the pikelets begin to form air bubbles on the top turn them over
  4. Brown other side, remove and repeat steps 1-3 until mixture in finished.
Serve with honey, jam, butter or for a real treat jam and whipped cream
 
Dairy Free Banana Muffins (or Loaf)
 
 4 ripe bananas
1/4 cup oil
2 cups flour (w/meal or white)
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup chopped nuts, raisins, coconut or chocolate chips (optional)
 
  1. Mash banana and add the oil, mixing well.
  2. Sift in flour and soda, mixing until flour is well blended.
  3. Put into well greased muffin tins or a lined loaf tin. 
  4. Bake at 180C (360F) until toothpick comes out clean and top is golden.  You will smell when it is ready - about 15mins for muffins and 40mins for loaf.
Dairy Free Salad Dressing
 
1 Tablespoon oil
2 Tablespoons liquid honey
2 teaspoons wholegrain mustard
2 eggs
1/4 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
 
Mix oil, honey, mustard and eggs together until well blended.
Slowly mix in vinegar
Cook on a low heat until thicken, stirring constantly with a fork.
Pour into a jug, cool and refrigerate before serving.
 
Crochet Cake (a wheat free, dairy free, sugar free delight)
 
1.5 cups pitted dates
1.5 cups water
1 cup brown rice flour
0.5 cup dessicated coconut
0.5 cup rice bran oil
2 ripe bananas
2 eggs
1 teaspoon mixed spice
0.25 teaspoon ground cloves
0.25 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
 
- Place dates and water in a saucepan and simmer until dates are all broken up to create a paste. Stir frequently.
- Remove dates from heat and add oil. Mix until fairly well blended
- Mash bananas and add them into the dates along with the eggs. Mix until they are all really well blend and combined
- In a separate bowl sift in the flour, spices, baking powder and baking soda. Add in coconut.
- Make a 'well' in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour the wet date mixture into this.
- Mix until well blended, ensuring that all the flour is mixed in.
- Pour into an oiled (and lined if you wish) tin
- Bake at 180 Celsius for 50-60 minutes or until 'cake tester' comes out clean.
- Cool fully before cutting.
 
Apple Crumble with a twist
 
3 large apples
1 pear
1 lemon
fresh ginger (amount depends on your taste)
1.25 Cups oats
0.5 cups brown rice flour
2 teaspoons honey
2 teaspoons molasses
0.75 cups rice bran oil
2 egg whites
small amount of raw sugar (optional)
 
- Slice fruit and ginger finely, leaving skins on, and cook with a small amount of water (not quite covering fruit) till soft and stewed.
- Mix oats, flour, honey, molasses and oil in a separate bowl.
- Once fruit cooked place it into an oven proof dish
- Put crumble mixture on top.  Do not press down
- Back at 180 Celsius for 20 mins or until golden.  Remove and cool
- Beat two egg whites until stiff.  Add sugar (optional) and beat again until stiff and glossy.
- Use egg whites as you would ice cream and serve with crumble.