Recipes

I bake this bread quite often recently, because it is tasty and nutritious, and, most importantly, very simple to prepare and doesn't require too much time, which will certainly please those who are always busy :) The amount of sourdough was checked by me several times - if I added less sourdough, the bread didn't rise enough. If I added more sourdough, the bread was too wet.

I recommend this buckwheat bread as a stepping stone from the bread bought in a store, especially when you want to limit gluten or are on a gluten-free diet. The grated apple added to the bread will keep it moist for longer. You can add your favourite grains – I added linseed and sunflower seeds. Active fiber is an optional ingredient.

The smoothie bowl is perhaps the best breakfast idea you can imagine - a colourful, eye-pleasing bowl that is also packed with vitamins and nutrients. No toddler will despise such a wonderful feast for the senses. When you want to eat the leftovers of your toddler, you don't have to worry about gaining weight :) And the most important thing: you will prepare such a delicious and colourful breakfast bowl in 15 minutes, so no excuses! Let's do it! Today, mango and raspberries are starring, but I plan to prepare other breakfast smoothie bowls, which will soon appear on the blog.

The power bowl is a good way to eat more raw vegetables. Sometimes it's difficult to just reach for carrots or greens and eat them with taste, but in the company of other bowl ingredients with yoghurt sauce, dressing or simply with olive oil and lemon juice it is much easier and more pleasant for the taste buds.

The power bowl aka Buddha bowl is supposed to resemble the round belly of the Buddha figurine, to be filling and, above all, to make you happy. It should be composed according to certain rules, but I personally don't stick to them rigidly. As a wholesome meal the power bowl contains in certain proportions protein and carbohydrate components, vegetables (baked, raw, blanched), fruits and healthy fats. The percentage of the individual ingredients is as follows: proteins should make up approx. 20% of the bowl, carbohydrates 20%, vegetables 20%, healthy fats 15%, greens (leafy vegetables) 10%, fruits 10%, topping 5%.

The Buddha bowl is also a great culinary opportunity to diversify your meals, because it can be composed in many different ways choosing the ingredients from the particular groups that you like best. Today I would like to present to you one of my favourite power bowls.

In the wintertime, when it's often gray, gloomy and depressing outside and you miss vivid colours and sunlight I recommend preparing the red cabbage salad with orange and tempeh. With this salad you can improve your mood and energise yourself in a quite simple and uncomplicated way. I also added tempeh to the salad to make it more filling. Instead of tempeh you can add tofu, but please try to find a tofu of good quality. I often hear the opinion that tofu tastes terrible, but I can't agree with that. A high quality tofu is delicious, although its flavour is quite subtle. Today I prepared a rather plain marinade for tempeh / tofu, but it will add character to the salad and you don't have to wait a very long time for the tempeh to be ready, because the marinade works very fast. You can of course marinate tempeh / tofu much longer, but it's not necessary.

Kale is a great plant for preparing any kind of healthy smoothies. It's also worth adding yoghurt to the smoothie to take care of the intestinal microbiota and to give an interesting taste, because yoghurt also contributes to increasing the taste. This yoghurt smoothie owes its sweetness to ripe bananas and sweet apples, which, besides lemon, contain vitamin C. The vitamin C is very important for the absorption of iron provided by our wonderful green plant. If you add hemp protein containing omega-3 acids, you'll get an extremely nutritious meal. You can drink such a smoothie e.g. for brunch.

Buckwheat flakes bread is nutritious, tasty, filling and ideal, especially for breakfast or brunch, because it will give you a lot of energy for the whole day. Super fast and super easy to prepare, you don't have to wait until it rises, you don't have to wait for the sourdough, which usually needs a few days to be ready – unless you have it ready – and the most important thing: it always succeeds. It is also worth mentioning that the ispaghula husk included in the bread is very healthy and has a lot of healing properties.

I bake buckwheat flakes bread once a month as a stepping stone from sourdough bread and buckwheat bread and eat especially with plum jam and in the company of hot cocoa. Yummy!

It's time for a dessert! It should be very sweet of course, and the chia balls with bananas and dried apricots are just like that. I recommend them to all foodies who need very sweet taste experiences. I added fried bananas to the chia balls, but you can go a healthier path and just cook them in a little water for a while. Obviously you can make it raw by adding raw bananas and a little more lemon juice to preserve them in a natural way and to stop the process of browning and spoiling. The strong point of this dessert are the chia seeds, which are known for their nutritional properties and health benefits.

Kale is worth introducing into your diet for good, because it is a real vitamin bomb and a source of antioxidants. Maybe it is not the most delicious vegetable itself, but when you combine the kale with other ingredients, it tastes really great.

Linseed and hemp seeds provide among other things, the omega-3 fatty acids and must be included in the menu. All these ingredients, which are so important for vegans, can be combined for example in a green smoothie that can perfectly replace a meal, e.g. a brunch or an afternoon tea, or maybe even a dessert for those who are on a slimming diet. In addition to the above-mentioned ingredients, it is necessary to add your favourite fruit – I have chosen apples and pears. If they are not sweet enough, it is worth adding a few dates. Cheers!