VEGETARIAN BREAKFAST WRAPS RECIPE

Breakfast foods are my favourite type of foods so I always look forward to my breakfast and am constantly coming up with new breakfast meals. I really wanted to share with you all a breakfast wrap that I have been having lately that is so easy but really delicious.

VEGGIE NUGGIES (VEGETABLE NUGGETS) RECIPE

Last night I posted a picture of my dinner (veggie nuggies) to instagram and had so many of you ask for the recipe and how to make them so that's exactly what I'm doing! One of my favourite things to do is play around in the kitchen trying out/inventing healthy recipes and I absolutely love the way this one turned out so will definitely be making it in the future! This is a great source of vitamins, minerals and nutrients (from the vegetables) and protein (from the egg and LSA meal) but the best part is that it tastes like you're eating a deep fried nugget or something even though it's pretty much just baked vegetables. Keep reading to find out how to make these super delicious Veggie Nuggies.

BROCCOLI AND BACON QUICHE RECIPE

Now I am not saying that this is a healthy recipe at all but it is an exciting way to get more broccoli into your diet! This is a recipe that has been in my family for years; my aunty and uncle own a bakery that I used to work at back in my early teens so the recipe is pretty much burned into my brain because of how many times I made it! Quiche is really simple but there's something about these measurements and proportions that makes it absolutely delicious and way better than any other I've ever tasted.

Ingredients:
2 Shortcrust Pastry Sheets
1 Large Bunch of Broccoli, de-stemmed
5 Thick Bacon Rashers, cubed
1/2 cup Mozzarella Cheese, grated 
1/2 cup Cheddar Cheese, grated
3/4 cup Pouring Cream
Herbs and Spices
Salt and Pepper
4 free-range eggs

Method: 
Step #1- Preheat the oven to 200°C and lightly grease a round quiche dish or tin.
Step #2- Fill your quiche dish or tin with the short crust pastry then bake for 15 minutes in the oven.
Step #3- Dice the bacon and cook it in a large non-stick pan on medium heat until golden and crispy. Cut the stems off the broccolini and whisk the eggs, herbs, spices, pepper, salt and cream together.
Step #4- Arrange half the cheeses and bacon in the base of the quiche dish then pour the egg and cream mixture over the top. Then sprinkle the broccolini on top and the other half of the cheeses.
Step #5- Bake for 30-40 minutes or until cooked through (use the skewer check). Leave out to cool for 20 minutes before cutting up and serving.


Tips & Info:
* You can use your own pastry! I actually encourage it because that's what I did at the bakery but for the sake of making it quick and easy, you can always use the pastry sheets from the frozen section.
* You can also add a bit of cottage or goats cheese for extra creaminess! Just make sure to add a bit less pouring cream so that the mixture isn't too moist.
* The use of multiple cheeses adds a more interesting and unique mix of flavours.
* It keeps in the fridge for about 5 days after baking or can last in the freezer for months.

If you try this recipe out and want me to see what you made, use the hashtag on 

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Thanks for reading :) 

2 QUINOA RECIPES! LEMON QUINOA AND VEGGIE QUINOA!

Quinoa is basically a healthy substitute for rice! It has soo many health benefits but head over to my Health/Fitness blog for more information on that. Here I'm going to be focusing on sharing two of my favourite ways to eat Quinoa!

Recipe 1: Lemon Quinoa

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Quinoa

1 tbsp Olive Oil

1/2 Lemon

1 Shallot

Method:

Step #1- Cook 1/2 cup of Quinoa by boiling it on the stove in a pot for about 10 minutes.

Step #2- Drain the water from the Quinoa.

Step #3- Mix through the Quinoa; 1 tbsp of olive oil and the juice from half a lemon. 

Step #4- Cut up some shallots and sprinkle on top or mix through.

Recipe 2: Veggie Quinoa

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Quinoa

1 Celery Stick

1 Sml Carrot

1/4 Capsicum

Chicken Breast

1/2 Onion

1 Shallot

Almonds

Coconut Oil

Chia Seeds

Method:

Step #1- Cook 1/2 cup of Quinoa by boiling it on the stove in a pot for about 10 minutes.

Step #2- Drain the water from the Quinoa and mix through 1 tbsp of olive oil.

Step #3- Place cut up celery, carrot, capsicum, onion and shallots into a frying pan with water.

Step #4- Cook chicken breast in coconut oil and then add it to the vegetable mix.

Step #5- Once the vegetable/chicken mixture is completely cooked through and the vegetables have become soft, turn the heat off.

Step #6- Serve chicken/vegetable mixture on a bed of the Quinoa then garnish with chia seeds and almonds.

Thank you so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed the 2 recipes!

HOMEMADE WEDGES RECIPE

Ingredients:

4x Washed Potatoes

Extra Virgin Olive Oil 

Ground Turmeric

Cayenne Pepper

Pepper Steak Seasoning

Salt & Pepper

 

Method:

Step 1- Create wedge shapes out of your potatoes by slicing your thoroughly washed potato in half lengthways then proceeding to cut the half diagonally right then left. This leaves you with three wedges from the half a potato.

Step 2- Add your potato wedges into a bowl and massage olive oil into them.

Step 3- Add all of your seasonings into the bowl with the potato wedges and massage them in. 

Step 4- Place all of your wedges spaced out on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Give them a last little season with salt and pepper.

Step 5- Bake them for about 20 minutes on 180 then another 10 minutes on 200. 

HEALTHY HABITS: KALE CHIPS RECIPE

Ingredients:

Kale

Olive Oil

Sea Salt

Method:

1. Thoroughly wash and dry the kale. Ensure that it is extremely dry otherwise it won't crisp properly.

2. Remove the Kale leaves from the stem and break them up into smaller pieces the size of chips. 

3. Add some olive oil and sea salt then mix it up with your hands in a bowl. 

4. Place the kale pieces on a baking tray covered in baking paper, make sure not to cover them with each other otherwise they won't crisp properly.

5. Bake for about 10-20 minutes on 180 degrees but it does depend on your oven so keep checking them because they burn pretty easily.

Watch my recipe below :)

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Thanks for reading!

CARBONARA PASTA

Hey everyone,
This recipe is how to make Carbonara pasta, mainly focussing on the sauce portion because pasta is pretty basic and I'm sure everyone knows how to make that bit.

Ingredients:
Pinenuts
Mushrooms
Shallots
Cream
Milk
Butter
Pasta

STEP ONE

PASTA

The first thing your going to want to do it start boiling your pasta so that it is ready for when you finish your sauce. Just heat some water and cooking salt in a saucepan on the stove and place your pasta in, stirring it every once in a while so all of the pasta is evenly cooked.

STEP TWO

FRY

The next step is frying your ingredients. Start of with the pine nuts, quickly frying them on each side because they burn easily. Next remove your pine nuts from the pan and fry your mushrooms. Lastly, in a seperate frying pan, fry your shallots.

STEP THREE

COMBINE

Now you can add your pine nuts and mushrooms back into the drying pan as well as your cream, butter and milk. Once the sauce thickens, you can then mix in your shallots.

It's a super easy pasta sauce but it tastes delicious and is a change from normal tomato based pasta sauce. I hope you enjoyed this recipe! Another pasta sauce is coming soon so watch out for it.

VEGETABLE/VEGETARIAN LASAGNE

This recipe is for one of my favourite dinners to make, Vegetable Lasagne! It's really simple to make but very delicious!

Ingredients:
Lasagne sheets
Olive oil
Lasagne Bechamel Sauce
Lasagne Tomato Sauce
1 Sweet Potato
2 Zuchinni's
1 Capsicum
1 Onion
Cheese

Method:
1. The first thing your going to want to do is prepare are cook your vegetables. Cook your sliced capsicum and onion in a small frying pan over medium heat, uncovered. Cook your sliced zucchini and sweet potato in a large frying pan over medium heat, covered. Set aside to cool.
2. Place a small amount of olive oil at the bottom of your lasagne dish with a thin layer of tomato paste. Place a lasagne sheet on top of this and then add a mixture of your vegetable fillings on top of the lasagne sheet. Top with white sauce and another lasagne sheet then repeat the process until you have used all of your vegetable ingredients. Finish with white sauce and cheese.
3. Cook it on 160 degrees Celsius for 20-30 minutes or until the cheese on top is browned and the pasta is soft. You can check if the pasta is soft by inserting a knife into it and if it cuts through easily then it's ready.
4. Take it out of the oven and leave to cool for about 15 minutes before serving.

Thanks for reading, hope you try it out!

TEMPURA VEGETABLES

Hey everyone,
This recipe is for a delicious Japanese food which I love and I'm going to be telling you how you can make your own at home! Tempura can get really expensive in resteraunts so I was interested in finding out how to many it yourself and save some money. Now that I know how, I wanted to share it with you all!

The secret is Trident Tempura Batter Mix! For under $5, one pack makes an excessive amount of Tempura! If you were to buy this much tempura at a resteraunt it would cost you over $40!

STEP ONE

MIX

Start off by mixing your tempura mix with water and stirring it until all of the clumps are gone.

STEP TWO

COAT

Next evenly coat all of your vegetables in the batter. If you can see your vegetables clearly through the batter, you have added too much water and can fix this problem by adding a bit more flour to the mix.

STEP THREE

DIP
Now it's time to dip your batter covered vegetables into a saucepan of boiling oil. The most important part of this is to not leave them in too long and do one at a time! If you leave it in too long, it's just a soggy, oily, burnt mess and if you put more than one in at a time, they stick together. Leave in until just browned.

Serve with on top of Japanese curry for an authentic meal good enough to be served at a resteraunt!

HEALTHY HOMEMADE PIZZA

Hey everyone, 
Here is a super healthy recipe for homemade pizza; I made mine even healthier because it's a vegetarian version.  It's a super simple recipe that makes for a perfect quick and easy dinner or lunch.

Ingredients:

Pizza base

Pizza sauce

Capsicum

Mushroom

Zucchini

SPinach

Mozzarella Cheese

Just slice up all of your ingredients and place them on a tomato paste covered pizza base.

Once you have placed all of your ingredients onto your pizza, sprinkling the top with some cheese. Place it into the oven for 15-20 minutes on 200 or until the cheese on top browns.

Check out this recipe on my cooking channel here or watch the video below!

HASH BROWNS

Hey everyone, 
Not only can store bought hashbrowns get quite expensive, but they are also quite fattening. These simple steps will help you create cheap and healthy homemade hashbrowns. 

 Ingredients

4 Potatoes

1 Small Onion

1 Celery Stick

1/4 Cup Flour

1 Egg

Step 1
Peel and grate your potatoes, onion and celery. Combine in a bowl.

Step 2
Put your flour into your mixture of grated ingredients then add an egg. Mix this through well because if any portion of the mixture doesn't have egg in it, it will not stick.

Step 3
Using a frying pan, cook on each side for about 2-3 minutes or until golden brown.

That's all it takes to create delicious homemade hashbrowns that are a healthier and cheaper alternative to store bought ones.

HOMEMADE IN-AND-OUT BURGER

Hey everyone, 
Unfortunatley for us in Australia we don't have in-and-out burger but it looks so delicious that I couldn't help myself from trying to create my own homemade imitation. With no in-and-out experience to compare my burger to I'm not sure how well I succeeded but I can tell you that it was a very delicious burger!

Ingredients
2 beef patties

2 cheese slices

1 bread roll

1 small onion

1 small tomato

1 lettuce

Mayo

Pickles

Ketchup

One of the components that can make or break a burger is the sauce! I have come up with a mixture that I'm really happy with that is inspired by McDonalds Big Mac sauce. It is a combination of pickles, mayonaise, onion and ketchup to create a tangy mayonaise concoction.

STEP 1
SAUCE
Very finely dice up a pickle and a small amount of onion. Place it in a bowl combined with two parts mayo to one part ketchup. Mix it up and your sauce is complete.

STEP 2
PREPARE
Cook your burger patties and slice up your lettuce, tomato and onion to prepare to make your burger.

STEP 3
ASSEMBLE
Assmeble your burger by placing the ingredients sauce, cheese, patty, cheese, patty, sauce, lettuce, tomato then onion and more sauce for the most desired effect.

Thank you so much for reading,I hope this helped if you have been wanting to recreate in-and-out burger!

PUMPKIN AND SWEET POTATO RISOTTO SUFFED CAPSICUMS

Hey everyone, 
This is a recipe for pumpkin and sweet potato risotto but then stuffed into capsicums. It's quite a healthy dinner and more exciting than just risotto as well as a way to incorporate capsicum into your diet.

Ingredients:

2x Capsicums

1/2 Pumpkin 

1/2 Sweet potato

2 cups Aborio rice

8 Mushrooms

1/2 Onion 

1 Carton of Stock

STEP 1

PREPARE

Wash and then dice your pumpkin and sweet potato up into small squares.

STEP 2

FRY

Using a frying pan, cook your pumpkin and sweet potato squares.

STEP 3

ONIONS
Slice your onion up and leave to cook in a saucepan with oil and garlic.

STEP 4
COMBINE
Once your onion is fully cooked you can combine the mushrooms, pumpkin/sweet potato mixture and finally the Aborio rice into the saucepan.

STEP 5

STOCK
Pour all of the stock into a smaller saucepan and leave to boil.

STEP 6

STIR
Complete your risotto by combining your boiled stock with your rice mixture and continuously stirring until the rice absorbs all of the stock. This can take up to 15 minutes of continuous stirring.

STEP 7

STUFF
After you cut out the stems and seeds in your capsicums, you can stuff them with your risotto.

STEP 8

BAKE
Top with cheese and bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes.

Thank you so much for reading this recipe, I hope you try it out!

CHICKEN, CROUTON AND NOODLE SALAD

Hey everyone, 

I wanted to share with you a recipe for one of my favourite salads! It may seem basic but it always turns out delicious and is super healthy and good for you!

Ingredients:

Lettuce

Tomato

Cucumber

Croutons

Dry Fried Noodles

French Dressing

Balsamic Dressing

Caesar Dressing

Pine Nuts

Chicken

Place a bed of salad to fill the bottom of the bowl.

Add cucumber.

Add capsicum.

Add tomato.

Add chicken.

 I used canned chunks of chicken in spring water because it's really convenient and easy.

Use some sort of nuts, I like Pine Nuts but almonds also work nicely.

Sprinkle on some fried noodles.

There are many different variations so use whatever you prefer.

You can add some croutons for more crunch and flavour.

My favorites are Cardini's which you can get from most Coles (if you live in Australia).

I love dressing so I add balsamic, french and caesar!

Now you can enjoy your salad packed full of super yummy things and not feel guilty because its pretty healthy!