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📌Buckwheat pancakes 📝Ingredients (for about 6 small pancakes): 1/2 cup of buckwheat flour 1/2 cup of buttermilk 1/4 tsp of bicarbonate of soda 1/4 tsp of baking powder 1 large egg 1/2 tsp of sugar or maple syrup 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract Pinch of salt 🌸〰🌸〰🌸 I used Holland & Barrett buckwheat flour. So, to make these pancakes is really easy and fast. They are great for your breakfast with some fruits and yogurt. Mix all dry ingredients first, then add egg, buttermilk and vanilla. Whisk gently until no lumps left. Heat the pan to the medium and use a small ice cream scoop for the batter, so all your pancakes will turn at the same size. You may add to the batter some healthy seeds like poppy seeds if you like. They are a bit dry, so you could add a teaspoon of coconut oil into the batter. If you want bigger amount of pancakes, just double all the ingredients.

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📌Healthy pancakes with dry apricots 📝Ingredients: 1/4 cup of poppy seeds (grounded) 1/4 cup of sesame seeds (grounded) 1/2 cup almonds (grounded) 1/2 cup self-raising flour 2 eggs (large or medium) 1.5 cup butter milk 1 tsp of sugar 1/4 tsp of bicarbonate of soda 1/4 tsp of baking powder Pinch of salt 8-10 pieces of dry apricots 1 tsp of vanilla extract 🔅〰🔅〰🔅 Blend your seeds with an electric coffee grinder. Mix all dry ingredients and add eggs with butter and vanilla extract. At the end add finely chopped apricots. Heat a non-stick pan to medium heat and fry the pancakes. If the batter becomes thicker later on, then add some more of the butter milk. Drizzle some honey 🍯 on the top and decorate with blueberries.

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📌High protein pancakes with goji berries

📝Ingredients:

🔸1/2 cup (70g) of flaxseeds (grounded)

🔸1/2 cup (70g) of pumpkin seeds (grounded)

🔸1/2 cup (70g) of almonds (grounded)

🔸1 cup of (white) self-raising flour

🔸1/2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda

🔸1/2 tsp of baking powder

🔸1 tbsp of sugar or maple syrup

🔸pinch of salt

🔸1.5 - 2 cups of butter milk

🔸3 eggs (large or medium)

🔸1/2 tsp vanilla extract

🔸40 g of dry goji berries

🔸or same amount of cranberries (or combine them both)

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I used an electric coffee grinder to ground my brown flaxseeds and pumpkin seeds. I used almonds grounded from the package.

So this is very easy recipe. You add all the dry ingredients and mix them well, then add all the liquid ingredients and mix well till you get a smooth batter. At the end, add your dry fruits.

In one of my recipes I used just goji berries and in another - both of these berries. It is up to you how many grams of berries you would like to add, you may add none of them at all and go for chocolate ships. I fried my pancakes on medium heat without adding any butter or oil. But if your pan is not that great and pancakes stick to it, add very small amount of coconut oil.

I love to eat my pancakes with sour cream and fresh fruits on the top, like raspberries or cherries. Depends what I have in my fridge. Often, I just decorate my pancakes with slices of banana and blueberries.

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♨️Rice Pudding

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1 cup of rice (pudding rice or Egyptian rice) 2 litres of milk Pinch of salt Vanilla (optional) Sugar Pistachios Sultanas (optional) Honey

Cinnamon (sprinkle) Coconut flakes (optional)

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💢Preparation:

Rinse the rice with water and add them to the pot. Add a cup of water into it and bring it to boil for few minutes, then add 2 litres of milk. Keep stirring time after time until milk starts boiling. Keep stirring (with spatula) the mixture for about 30 minutes until you see that the mixture is getting thicker, like porridge. When you about to finish, add some salt and sugar (depending on your taste), and vanilla. Pour some of the rice pudding in the glass, sprinkle crushed pistachios on the top, some cinnamon, some honey and some sultanas (raisins).

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📒Harsha Bread 
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🔺350g fine semolina




🔺1 tbsp sugar




🔺½ tsp salt




🔺2 tsp baking powder




🔺100g butter (unsalted and melted)




🔺100ml milk

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🔹In a bowl add semolina, sugar, salt and baking powder and mix all dry ingredients. Then pour melted butter and use a spatula to mix and to cover all the semolina with melted butter. Then add milk and mix well untill it forms to a dough. Leave the dough to rest for 10 minutes. 


🔹Sprinkle some semolina on the surface and flatten the dough with your hands until the dough is about 7mm in thickness. Use round shaped cutter to cut out the circles out of the dough. Use a flat spatula to lift the cuts and place them into hot pan. Use medium heat for cooking, we don’t want to burn them. Cook one side for about 3-4 minutes until golden brown and then flip it over and cook the other side. Remove harshas and place them on the cooling rack.

Enjoy! ✔️♨️💟

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♨️Basa with buckwheat and spinach

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✴️Season the fish with fish spices and wrap it in the aluminium foil. Place it on the tray and bake it in the oven for 15 minutes / 180 degrees.

❇️Boil your buckwheat for 15 minutes and drain it using a sieve. Add a teaspoon of butter and a pinch of “vegeta” - dry veggy mix and mix it.

✳️Fry your spinach with a drizzle of olive oil and add 1 tbsp of “zatar”, otherwise - just a sprinkle of salt.

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💢Sweet Smoothie💢

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If you are a healthy eater, then this smoothie is definitely for you. Why spend money on juices which contain enormous amounts of added sugar? It is not a secret that sugar, especially fructose, is transformed into fat and stored in adipose tissue. Instead, buy your fresh fruits and make your own healthy smoothies. You will certainly going to love this and you will never buy juices in store again.

🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 1 ripe banana 1 mango 1 pineapple 1 lemon juice 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

❇️Preparation:

Cut your fruits into cubes and squeeze juice out of the lemon. Add everything into a jug and pour a glass of water. Blend it.

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🔶Green smoothie 🔶

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🔹1 ripe banana 🔹1 small pineapple 🔹1 ripe mango 🔹1 lemon juice 🔹1-2 kiwi 🔹1-2 celery sticks 🔹Bunch of spinach 🔹Kale (optional)

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💢Preparation:

Cut your fruits into cubes, add them into a jug. Pour a glass of water and lemon juice. Blend everything with electric blender. Adjust consistency you prefer by adding water.

If you don’t have any of these fruits, don’t worry it will still turn out great, but make sure you have one main ingredient - pineapple ✔️

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♨️Kale Soup 🔅🔅🔅🔅🔅

🔻250g of Fresh Kale 🔻4 potatoes (medium/large) 🔻1 medium onion 🔻4 garlic cloves 🔻4 cubes of chicken bullion 🔻Black pepper 🔻3 tbsp of Fresh cream (optional) Or 🔻Sour cream (optional)

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💢Preparation:

Chop your onion into small peaces and fry it in the pot with 2 tbsp of olive oil. Add your garlic cloves and a pinch of black pepper. Then add diced potatoes and 2 litres of water, and fresh kale. Throw in your chicken bullion and leave it cook for about 20 minutes until kale is cooked and become soft. Then remove it from the heat and blend everything. It’s up to you to decide what consistency you want for your soup. So if it requires more water or salt, add it accordingly.

❇️Now there are 3 options for you to choose from, how you want to eat your kale soup:

1️⃣you can eat it just the way it is without any extras;

2️⃣you can pour in 3 tbsp (or more) of fresh cream and put it back on the stove to cook for few more minutes;

3️⃣you can add your soup into the bowl and add a teaspoon of sour cream.

✴️For smaller amounts reduce your ingredients accordingly✔️

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🍹Berry Protein Milkshake 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🔅1 ripe banana 🔅1/2 cup of fresh or frozen forest berries 🔅1 cup of milk 🔅1 tbsp of flaxseed (linseed)

💢Preparation:

If you are using fresh berries, like cherries, raspberries, blackberries or strawberries, I suggest you add some ice cubes also, to get that coldness in your milkshake. Flaxseed (linseed) is an optional ingredient here, but for the people who do regular workouts, I suggest that they add it as they need protein and calcium, magnesium and iron that flaxseed contains. If you have whole seeds you can grind them with a coffee grinder. If you don’t have it, just add whole seeds, as they will get crushed anyways when you blend everything, just maybe not into that fine texture.

So just add the ingredients and blend everything with the blender. If your banana is not that ripe, you can add a teaspoon of honey.

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♨️Apple Crumble

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💢For the apples:

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🔹5-6 Bramley apples (large)

Or

🔹10-12 Granny Smith apples (small/medium)

🔹60g Caster Sugar

🔹1 tsp of cinnamon powder

🔹 75 ml of water

💢For the crumble:

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🔹 230g Flour

🔹170g Butter (room temperature)

🔹50g Oats

🔹90g Caster Sugar

🔹1 tsp Cinnamon

🔴Preparation:

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🔅Peal your apples and dice them. Sprinkle on them sugar and cinnamon. You can squeeze some lemon juice on them if you like and mix everything up.

🔅Add a teaspoon of butter in a pan and add your apples with water. Leave it cook on a low heat for 10 minutes and stir occasionally. When it’s ready remove it from the stove and leave it to cool.

🔅While apples are cooling, prepare your crumble. Add all the ingredients together and rub the butter into the mixture with your fingers. You can use an electric chopper if you like. That’s what I did, you can see it in a picture above.

🔅Add your apples in a tin and flatten them. Then add your crumble on the top of your apples and bake it in the oven for 30 minutes / 160 degrees.

❇️You can serve your apple crumble with a custard or whipped cream, or just enjoy it without any extras.✔️

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📒📌Apple Pie📝

160g plain flour




140g-160g sugar


Pinch of salt


1 tsp of baking powder


115g butter (melted or soft)


2 large eggs 
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6 medium apples


2 tbsp lemon juice (freshly made)


1 tsp cinnamon powder 
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✔️Preparation of apples:

Peal the apples and slice them. Sprinkle cinnamon on them and squeeze lemon juice on them and mix it all together. Set aside.

✔️Preparation of batter:

🔺Prepare the tin with removable edges. Grease the base with butter and line in the parchment paper (baking paper).

🔺Beat the sugar with butter. Add eggs and beat again. Then sieve in flour, baking powder and add salt. Mix.

🔺Add the batter into the tin with removable edges. Spread it even. Place apple slices on the top of the batter. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake for 40-45 minutes.

🔺Take the pie out of the oven and remove the tin edges and the base of it by placing the pie on a cooling rack.♨️

🔺Sprinkle powder sugar on the top of the pie. Enjoy! 💟✅☑️

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♨️📌Plum Pie

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🔺160g plain flour 


🔺140g-160g sugar 


🔺Pinch of salt 


🔺1 tsp of baking powder 


🔺115g butter (melted or soft) 


🔺2 large eggs 
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🔹10-12 plums 


🔹2 tbsp lemon juice (freshly made) 


🔹1 tsp cinnamon powder 
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✴️Preparation of plums:⬇️

Halve plums and take out the stones. Sprinkle cinnamon on them and squeeze lemon juice on them and mix it all together. Set aside.

✴️Preparation of batter:⬇️

Beat the sugar with butter. Add eggs and beat again. Then sieve in flour, baking powder and add salt. Mix.

Add the batter into the tin with removable edges. Spread it even. Place the plums on the top of the batter. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake for 40-45 minutes ✅✅✅

📍The pie goes really well with whipped cream on the top or a big spoon of vanilla ice cream! ✅💟🍰

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♨️The best Irish Pancakes ever! ✅ 
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🔺1 cup of self-raising flour


🔺1 cup of buttermilk


🔺1 tbsp of caster sugar


🔺2 small eggs

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♨️Preparation:

🔹Take any mug or cup to measure your ingredients. It doesn’t matter what size it is as long as you stick to the same cup for all your measuring.

🔹Pour the flour and sugar into a large mixing bowl. Slowly add the buttermilk whisking all the time. Crack eggs into the mix and whisk it up.

🔹Preheat the pan over a medium heat. Pour one big scoop of the batter into the pan. Cook the pancake on one side until you see little bubbles appearing. This should take 2-3 minutes. Flip it over and cook for another minute or two. Keep going until all batter is gone.

📍If you don’t have self-raising flour, you can replace it with plain flour or all purpose flour by adding 1tsp of baking powder and 1tsp of baking soda.

♨️Serve your pancakes as you like, it is totally up to you. I love them eating with sour cream and some fresh berries on the top, or with some fruit conserves, or simply with a drizzle of honey!

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📌📝Muffins

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🔻250g self-raising flour 
🔻50g dark brown sugar 
🔻125g caster sugar 
🔻½ tsp bicarbonate soda 
🔻½ tsp salt 
🔻½ tsp cinnamon 
 🔻125g butter (melted) 
🔻175ml milk 
🔻1 tsp vanilla (any type) 
🔻2 eggs

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♨️Preparation:

Beat the butter with caster sugar, then add brown sugar, then eggs. Then add the rest of the ingredients and mix them all well. Now you have the batter ready and this is up to you what you want to add to it.

✅📌For Blueberry Muffins: You just add fresh blueberries.

✅📌For Chocolate Muffins: You add 3-4 tbsp of plain cocoa powder and 3-4 tbsp of extra milk, to keep the same texture of the batter, and of course, if you wish, add chocolate chips, or just add cut chocolate chunks.

✅📌For Banana Muffins: You cut about two medium ripe bananas into small cubes and add them to the batter, mix well.

📍Use ice cream scoop to equally pour the batter into muffin cases. Fill the cases half way and leave the rest of the space for them to raise while baking.✔️

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✅♨️Irish Soda Bread

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It is delicious!!! The recipe is on the package, as you see on the picture above. I love healthy foods, so I also added into the dough a handful of sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds and crushed (milled with coffee grinder) flaxseeds. Also, I sprinkled some of pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds on the top of the dough.

❇️I will type the recipe here for you:

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🔹175g (6oz) Howards Extra Coarse Wholemeal

🔹50g (2oz) Odlums Cream Flour

🔹25g (1oz) Pinhead Oatmeal

🔹25g (1oz) Odlums Wheatgerm

🔹25g (1oz) Odlums Wheatbran

🔹1 tsp Odlums Bread Soda

🔹1/2 tsp salt

🔹1 tsp sugar

🔹1 egg

🔹275ml (9 fl oz) buttermilk

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♨️Method:

Place the dry ingredients in the ball and mix well. Beat the egg and add to the dry ingredients with the buttermilk mixing well to form a dough. Place the dough in a well greased 1lb (450g) loaf tin. Bake in a preheated oven 375 F/190C/Gas mark 5 for 50 minutes approximately. Turn onto a wire rack to cool.

📌Enjoy! It’s delicious just with some butter or spread. ✅

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♨️Beetroot - bean - pickle Salad

🔹3 Fresh beetroots 🔹250 gr of dry cannellini beans 🔹pickles 🔹Mayonnaise ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

💢Preparation:

1️⃣Soak the beans in the water overnight. When you are ready to cook, drain them and wash them through. Add them into the pressure cooker with 2 litres of water and cook for 30-40 minutes. You can use canned beans instead but they are not as nice as freshly cooked ones.

2️⃣Before you cook the beans in the pressure cooker, I suggest that you cook beetroots first. You don’t need to peel them, just wash them and add them into the pot with lots of water and boil until they are cooked. It will take for about 30 minutes. When they are ready and cooled, you have to peal them and dice them into small peaces. So while you dicing beetroots, you can put your beans for cooking in the same pressure cooker.

3️⃣Dice pickles and small onions of any type (white, red or spring onions). Onion here is optional, if you don't like it, don’t add it.

4️⃣The proportions for this salad are like this, use these amounts and mix them together:

1 cup of diced beetroots ¾ cup of beans ½ cup of diced pickles

Increase these amounts accordingly. Though there is no rule really. You can just mix up everything and add accordingly to your own taste.

5️⃣Add mayonnaise and mix it in. Add a pinch of salt if required.

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