Always ready Pancake & Waffle dry mix

Make a bulk dry mix and keep it in the pantry for when you need a dose of pancakes or waffles and know that you’ve already halfway there!

For each cup of dry mix, add 1 cup of any choice of mik and 1 beaten egg.

1 cup dry mix made up with liquid + 5 waffles or 8x 10cm pancakes

DRY MIX

6 cups spelt or plain white flour

4 Tablespoons baking powder

3 teaspooons bicarb soda

2 pinches salt

3 Tablespoons sugar of choice

• Optional - I also add in 1 Tablespoon Maca powder and 2 tsp cinnamon

Mix thoroughly and pop into a pantry safe jar or container.

Sweet potato and chia brekkie fritters

A nutrient dense meal full of nutrients essential for woman’s health, rich in Magnesium, Protein, Omega 3, Vitamin A and Vitamin C. Cook fresh for brekkie or cook a batch and have for snacks and lunches ready to go, they store well in the fridge and reheat beautifully in a sandwich press.

Makes 4 12cm sized fritters or 8 smaller ones

Ingredients

80gm raw almonds or almond meal

2 Tbsp Chia seeds

2 eggs

1 cup grated sweet potato

1/2 cup shredded silverbeet

1 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley

1 Tbs Coconut oil or butter for pan frying

Method:

In a high speed blender, blitz almonds and chia together until a flour is formed, If using almond meal just mix togther in a bowl.

Add in both eggs and stir well until a batter is formed, stir in sweet potato, silverbeet and parsley.

Preheat frypan medium high with coconut oil or butter and drop 2 Tbs at a time and shape into fritters, wait until fully cooked on one side before flipping over.

Enjoy!

*Serving suggestion: Serve with fresh herbs and a squeeze of lemon and a dollop of labne, sour cream or yoghurt. I’ve used homemade Labne with fresh basil and corainder, a full squeezed lemon and half an avocado and some fresh borage flowers.

Choc Protein Keto Pancakes

A Rich and Nourishing Pancake for when you’re needing variety in breakfasts, served cold as snacks on the go or for a delish dessert.

I’ll blog shortly on the reason why you’re seeing Keto/Low carb meals on my social media feed but mostly I want to show you that reducing Carbs is not about boring foods and the same meal every day as I sometimes see in clinic with keto clients.

This is a super rich nourishing meal that is family friendly based on which Protein powder you have used or simply omit the protein powder, the recipe is still fine without it.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we are :-)

INGREDIENTS:

80gm Almonds

20gm Pecans

1 scoop choc protein powder

2 Tbs Tapioca flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cacoa

1 egg

80-100ml Almond milk (or milk of choice)

METHOD:

1. Blitz nuts in a high powered food processor

2. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.

3. Let sit for 5 minutes then stir through

4. Heat a pan to medium high and add Butter, coconut oil or olive oil to coat

5. Pour our Pancakes approx 1-2 Tbs per pancake and flip when fully cooked on one side

6. Enjoy as they are, buttered up or dressed up with some coconut yoghurt and freeze dried berries as pictured.

Makes approx 12 (10cm) sized pancakes.

1 serve based on 4 pancakes = 262 Cals, 18.5gm Fat, 9gm Carbs