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Healthy Snacks, Lunch, Salads

Lettuce Salad Wraps 

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Ladies and Gentlemen here’s a delicious idea to give your meal a nutritious start…It’s so wonderfully vibrant it is edible art! 

Ingredients: 

  • Lettuce head with large leaves. We used Batavia, though Cos could work well too.
  • Julienned or thinly sliced salad vegetables.
  • Salt/pepper to taste
  • Cocktail sticks
  • Favourite dip/sauce (optional)

First wash out your leaves and lay them out flat..

  
Then lay salad items in strips…just like that! 

We used julienned, cucumber, carrot, red onion and pepper too. Though you could add any fillings that you wish to.   

Sprinkle a little salt and pepper for extra spice and roll the green leaf up like a wrap, oh it looks so nice!   

We always find piercing a cocktail stick through the middle helps it to stay, so your delicious crunchy centres don’t unfold away.
Voila! There we go our wraps are ready and complete, ready for a delicious healthy bite to eat 👌 
Here’s another tasty tip…Why not serve our lettuce wraps alongside your favourite  sauce or dip?  

Dinners, Pizza

Thin Crust Coconut Flour Pizza Base 

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We adore experimenting with new plant based pizza bases! No two pizza bases are ever the same. We can decide upon different thicknesses, different oils, different flours, different seasonings, between crust or no crust  – oh the decisions and choices are splendid! Any excuse to use our imagination!

This evening (mid-week) we were looking for a quite light and a not very crunchy base (since we are planning crunchy toppings!) 

Ingredients:
  • 1 1/2 cups of coconut flour
  • 1/2 cup of tapioca flour 
  • 1/2 cup of ground flax or linseed 
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil 
  • Pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons basil 
  • 1 cup of warm water

Add the coconut flour and tapioca flour first and sift through together, we find this really helps to ensure the flours are mixed thoroughly when kneading. Tapioca flour acts rather like a glue that holds everything together – the coconut flour is extremely powdery and not a replacement for ordinary flour. If you don’t have tapioca flour we sometimes use buckwheat instead.

Add the rest of the ingredients to a mixing bowl and knead well until it forms a dough. 

  

Then dust your pizza pan with a sprinkle of coconut flour to make sure the bottom doesn’t stick. 

 

 Now don’t worry if the dough is crumbly it won’t be when it bakes! However we find rather than rolling out into a flat dough we can just pour the mixture on top of our pizza pan and mould to the shape of the pan 

Press down the mixture by pressing lightly with your fingers on the mixture or small rolling pin. 
Then cook until base is solid and the base begins to crisp at edges – estimately 15-20 minutes.

Then spread your Perfect Pizza Sauce and simply add your toppings – as you can see below, we chose potato slices, Kale broccoli and onion for tonight’s pizza!  

D.E.Licious 👌😋 

  

Dinners, Lunch, Pizza

St George’s Day England Pizza

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Happy St George’s Day! We love themed days! Themed days in our kitchen means our minds zoom into sixth gear into creative overdrive to try and find food to theme to the theme! 

Usually our first stop is the cookie cutter drawer where we are usually bound to have something, though to my dismay this morning we couldn’t find any dragons or roses – (now noted on the ever-growing, never-ending ‘to buy’ list. Hands up who has one of those? 😆) 

Second stop, Google. Our when-in-despair-Google-is-there motto resulted in many England flag cupcakes however an alarming shortage in our household of all ingredients sweet and sticky wouldn’t make for an appetising recipe. 

And… So on to stop three: The Fridge. 

 

Perfect. Third time lucky – 30 second eye scan and we knew just what to do! a St George’s Day Pizza coming to you! 

First the base made with coconut flour, tapioca flour,  ground linseed/flaxseed, a drizzle of olive oil, warm water and a pinch of salt. Mixed into a fluffy dough, kneaded and rolled into the pan and baked for 18-20 minutes.

 

And then we stirred together some of our Perfect Pizza Sauce 🍎👌 whilst we were waiting for the base to crisp at the edges. 

For the toppings We sliced some courgette with our Oxo Good Grips Mandoline and sliced some red pepper strips and created: drum roll please…..  

 

Little red England inspired flags! These were placed on top of some chopped curly kale for our base topping to represent the scenic English meadows and Summer country picnics on the grass. 

Now we are sure from our history  learning we rememembed a Prince Orange, and sure enough we confirmed after a short research that William III, King of England was also sovereign Prince of Orange – a loose connection, we know! However enough to excuse some slices of orange on our pizza!  

 

A sprinkle of salt and pepper and into the oven it went until crispy!! 

Et Voila! 20 minutes later – A delicious healthy and plantbased gluten free and organic pizza themed for St George’s Day lunch!   

  

For more of our pizza creations… Take a visit to our Just Ate Pizza Page for lots more plantbased pizza ideas! 

  

Did you theme your dinner for St George’s day? Get in touch or leave a comment below! We’d love ton hear from you… 

The JA Ladies x

 

Breakfast, Dessert, Healthy Snacks

GRILLiant Grapefruit

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Ingredients:
– Grapefruit
– Maple Syrup (or other sugar/sweetener)
– Cinnamon (or spices of choice)

Preparation Time: 2 minutes
Cooking Time: 12 minutes

Grilling Grapefruit such a delicious treat,
A warm and fruity breakfast that’s sticky and sweet!
Half the grapefruit and place on the grill, then drizzle on syrup (be careful not to spill!)
Sprinkle on cinnamon – or sugar and spice,
And anything else you think would be nice.
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Then pop under the grill until the syrup sizzles a lot,
And the fruit is crispy at the edges all lovely and hot.
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And voila! Enjoy, your GREATfruit that is sticky and grilled!
May your tummy be warm, content and filled!
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