ONE MIX BANANA & QUINOA BREAD

Recipe: Harry Mosley @thepaddlecafe

Servings: 8 Portions

Ingredients:

  • 3 Ripe Bananas

  • 3 eggs

  • 2 cups Ground Almonds

  • 5 tbsp Honey

  • 3 tbsp Quinoa

  • 20 Dates

  • 1 Tsp Cinnamon

  • 1/2 Tsp Baking Soda

  • 3 Tbsp Coconut oil

  • 3 Tbsp Coconut Flour 

Method:

  • Pre heat your oven to 170 degrees 

  • Place all ingredients into a blender and blend

  • Line a loaf tin and pour in your mixture 

  • Bake for 1 - 1 hour 15mins 

  • Check the loaf is cooked with a knife (it should come out clean) 

  • Remove from the oven and cool.

  • Slice & eat on it’s own or with topping of your choice (e.g. butter, honey, jam, peanut butter etc)


CHOC CHIP ‘CHICKPEA’ COOKIES 

Ingredients:

1 can chickpeas

1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla extract 

1/4 cup maple syrup or honey (bit more if you want them sweeter)
1/4 cup dark chocolate chips/chunks (more or less as preferred)

*add pinch of salt if no salt in PB 

Method:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

  • Drain chickpeas into a sieve and rinse under cold water.

  • Pour out onto a tea towel and pat dry, this is essential otherwise the mixture will be too wet.

  • Add all ingredients except the chocolate chips into a high speed blender and blend starting slow to high. The mixture will be thick so if the motor gets "stuck," turn it off and then scrape down the sides. Add 1-3 tsp of water, at the most, and blend again.

  • Scoop the mixture out of the blender into a mixing bowl.

  • Add choc chips and stir just enough to mix through evenly. 

  • Spray a baking pan or use parchment paper. 

  • Scoop out dough with a small cookie scooper or small spoon as the dough will be super sticky. If you don't have a scooper, then use your slightly wet hands, grab about 1 tablespoon's worth and roll into a ball.

  • Place and bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes. Mid way through cooking if you want to, use the back of a fork to gently press into more of a cookie shape and return to oven. Keeping an eye on them the last few minutes so they don't burn.

  • Once started to brown and crisp up remove from oven and transfer to a wire cooling rack before eating!

SUPER EASY BANANA PANCAKES

Ingredients:

1 Banana

2 Eggs

Preferred cooking oil (Coconut, Mild Olive Oil)

Optional Extras: 1 tablespoon of protein powder / ½ teaspoon cinnamon / 2 tablespoons of desiccated coconut / 1 teaspoon cocoa or cacao powder

Method:

  • Mash banana in a bowl

  • Lightly beat eggs and add to banana, mix together well.

  • If adding, mix in choice of protein powder, cinnamon, coconut or cacao

  • Heat pan with teaspoon of oil until pan lightly coated.

  • Using a ladle spoon mixture into individual pancake size circles. Flip when golden brown. 

  • Eat on own or we like to spread on some peanut butter