Tag: monday recipe

Inspired Pizza Creations – Time to rethink Pizza

If you decide to be inspired by the following combinations, please remember to only have one protein.  Also, we suggest making a Chickpea flour pizza crust  and then adding the toppings (Chickpea flour crust will be your protein.)

NOTE:  These recipes in the infographic are not metabolic balance recipes. This is inspiration for you to play with during your holiday.  If you are unsure about a combination, please ask your coach.

Also, please remember you can only use one protein on your pizzas so if you use the chickpea flour crust, that is the only protein you can use.

If you want to have a pizza feeling, you can take your rye bread and iron it flat or roll it flat using a rolling pin and then grilling it before adding the toppings and putting it in the oven.

If you use your rye bread this way, you can add the cheese on your plan to the pizza!

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photo of chickpeas by Mattie Hagedorn

Detox Mushroom Soup -metabolic balance Monday Recipe

Ingredients
Dried mixed mushrooms
100 ml water
Sherry cooking wine
Apple cider vinegar
Kosher salt & white pepper
Grated ginger
Tofu, cut into 1/2 inch cubes (only if not using shitake mushrooms)
Green onions chopped

Instructions

  • let the dried mushrooms sit in boiling water for an hour.
  • Combine all ingredients and heat for 10 minutes.
  • Serve Warm.

 

Note:  This week on December 1, 2016 we are starting our advents calendar blog posting so for 24 days, you will be getting a short post from us sharing tips and recipes and reminders of or year of blogging.

Remember, Christmas is a month away!

Chickpea and Winter Vegetable Stew – metabolic balance Monday Recipe

Ingredients

  • Olive oil
  • Chopped onions
  • Leeks – washed and peeled
  • Seasoning – Coriander, caraway seeds, cumin, ground red pepper, salt, parsley
  • Garlic
  • Vegetable stock
  • Carrots
  • Butternut Squash – peeled and cubed
  • Tomato paste
  • Turnips – peeled and cubed
  • Chickpeas (your protein)

 

 

Instructions:

Place leeks and onions in large pot.  Sauté for five minutes. Add seasoning and garlic.  Add vegetable stock and the rest of the vegetables.

Bring the mixture to a boil and then simmer for 30 minutes.    Place a cup of the mixture into a bowl and hand blend.  Add the blended mixture back into the main pot and stir.

Serve warm with rye croutons.

 

Note:  If you want, you can split the chickpea serving and eat chickpea chips.

Tuna in an Avocado Boat – metabolic balance Monday

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Ingredients:

  • Canned Tuna
  • Avocado
  • Green onions
  • Garlic Clove
  • Olive oil
  • Seas salt and other desired seasoning

Instructions

  • In a bowl combine tuna, garlic, a touch of olive oil and seasoning.
  • Take an avocado and cut it in half.  Remove the pit and place the two sides on a dish.
  • Fill each cavity of the avocado with tuna mixture.
  • Sprinkle sweet paprika powder on top of each half and serve.

Note:  If you are past the strict phase,  you can combine your rye bread allotment with your apple to make an apple crisp dessert.

 

Grilled Avocado Recipe with Salsa Filling – metabolic balance Monday Recipe

Avocado Ingredients:

  • Avocado
  • olive oil
  • salt for seasoning

Salsa Ingredients:

  • diced tomatoes(seeds removed)
  • diced red onion
  • cilantro
  • salt
  • pepper
  • shredded carrots

Instructions for  grilled avocado slices:

  • Cut avocado in half and remove the seed and peel.
  • Slice each half into slices.
  • Brush with olive oil.
  • Place for two minutes on each side
  • Season to taste.
  • Serve on Rye bread or rye crisps with salsa on top.

Instructions for grilled Avocado halves:

  • Cut avocado in half and remove seed. Keep the peel on.
  • Lightly brush olive oil on each open side of the avocado.
  • place the avocado on the grill with the meat side down.
  • Grill for about 2 minutes.
  • Season to taste.
  • Fill the avocado with Salsa and serve using the avocado as a small bowl.

Instructions for Salsa:

Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix with a hand blender.  Pulse a few times to add a juice to the salsa but avoid over mixing and making a sauce.  Salsa is chunky so avoid over blending.

After you have mixed the ingredients, add seasoning to taste and then let it sit for a few hours so the flavours can combine.

NOTE:  You can decide to add an egg or other protein to your avocado meal.  We talked before about eggs in an avocado which makes  a filling meal.  This recipe would also work really well with Chickpea chips.

 

photo of avocado by Makia Minich

Belgian Endive Soup with Smoked Eel – metabolic balance Monday Recipe

The original recipe calls for smoked eel. I’m not sure how readily available smoke eel is in your neighborhood you can order smoked eel online or use the alternate recipe I found on Immigrant’s table, where she added mushrooms to the soup.

Ingredients:

  • 1 Portion vegetables (Belgian endive, potatoes, sweet onions)
  • 1 Portion mushrooms (protein variety) / or 1 portion smoked eel
  • 1 Clove garlic
  • 250ml Vegetable broth
  • Salt and pepper
  • chives for garnish
  • Instructions:

Cut Belgian Endive into fine strips.

  • Slice onions into rings and cut potatoes into small cubes.
  • Press the garlic in a garlic press.
  • Place the vegetables in a pot with the vegetable broth and let cook for about fifteen minutes or until the potatoes are soft.
  • Puree the mixture and add seasoning to taste.
  • Saute the muschrooms in a little bit of olive oil and then cut into small pieces.
  • Add small pieces of Muschrooms to the soup. If you decided to use smoked eel, cut the smoked eel into small pieces and add to the soup.
  • Serve the soup with Rye Croutons or with a slice of metabolic balance rye bread.

NOTE:

If you want, you can substitute endive for Belgian endive. They are slightly different but will both work for this recipe.

 

 

 

 

The Official Rye Bread Recipe – metabolic balance Monday Recipe

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3‐stage natural sourdough wholemeal bread

Ingredients for 1 loaf of bread 1 kg or 2 x 500 g:

  • 400 g (14 oz) wholemeal rye grain, divided use
  • About 2 tablespoons inoculated sourdough (you can get this in a health food
  • store; you can also make it yourself, though it would take about 5 days)
  • 15 g (0.5 oz) sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon agave syrup (optional)
  • 500 ml (17 fl oz) lukewarm water, divided use
  • Pinch coriander
  • Pinch cumin
  • 400 g (14 oz) rye flour, divided use

Preparation:

Step 1

Mix 300 g (10.5 oz) whole rye grain with 2 tablespoons inoculated sourdough,

some salt, 1 teaspoon agave syrup, and 300 ml (10 fl oz) lukewarm water. Leave to

rest for about 5 hours.

Step 2

Add the remaining 100 g (3.5 oz) wholemeal rye grain, and then add about 150 ml

(5.1 fl oz) lukewarm water and salt. Season to taste with the coriander and cumin.

Stir well. Leave to rest for about 15 hours, preferably overnight.

Step 3

Remove 2 tablespoons of sourdough and place in a large screw‐top jar (like a

pickle jar). Put jar in the fridge (lasts about 12 days).

Step 4

Add 300 g (10.5 oz) rye flour. If necessary, add 50 to 100 ml (1.7 to 3.4 fl oz)

lukewarm water and some salt. Leave to rest for about 5 hours.

Step 5

Place flour for kneading in advance because you won´t be able to touch anything

once your fingers are sticky. You may need to use a knife repeatedly to scrape

the sticky dough off your fingers. Now form the bread: Use the remaining 100 g

(3.5 oz) rye flour (maybe a bit more) and gradually knead the bread so that it can

form into a nice loaf. This takes a long time, since the dough is very sticky on the

fingers. Then put the finished loaf in a well‐floured dough‐rising basket or bowl,

and once more leave it to rest for at least 2 hours.

Afterwards, put the loaf on a baking paper. Brush with water. Preheat oven

to 485º F (250º C) and at the same time put in the baking tray, placing a container

filled with water at the bottom. Firmly slide the loaf on the baking paper onto the

baking pan. Reduce heat to about 390º F (200º C) and let the bread bake for about

75 minutes. Test with a toothpick to see if the bread is done. Leave in the oven for

another 15 minutes. Both baking temperature and time depend on the oven and

therefore take some experience.

Note:  Thank you Myra Nissen for providing us with photographs of Rye Bread.  If you don’t feel like baking, you can order rye bread from The Fair Bakery in Indiana, 574-223-8957, thefairbakery@gmail.com.

Eggplant and Tofu Stirfry – metabolic balance Monday Recipe

Cauliflower is a great substitute for rice.  Here is a healthy vegetarian recipe using cauliflower rice for you to try this week.

Ingredients:

  • Cauliflower (to use instead of rice)
  • Rice vinegar
  • Olive Oil
  • Firm tofu patted dry and cut into 1 inch cubes
  • Eggplant cut into 1/2 inch pieces
  • Scallions
  • Garlic
  • Chili pepper sliced
  • Seasoning – Salt
  • Fresh Basil Leaves

Instructions:

Create cauliflower rice by doing the following:

Remove the hard core and stalks from the cauliflower and pulse the rest in a food processor to make grains the size of rice.  Saute in a pan until cooked. Add seasoning such as coriander and cumin seeds.

Next, fry tofu in a little bit of olive oil until brown.

Remove tofu and place eggplant into the pan with a little more olive oil.  Fry eggplant tossing the pieces to avoid burning the eggplant. After approximately ten minutes, add back in the tofu, scallions and pepper.

Serve on a bed of Cauliflower rice with basil sprinkled on top.

NOTE: If you wish to have a sauce, add rice vinegar and some vegetable stock to the pan after you have removed the eggplant and tofu.  You can blend into the mixture some eggplant to give it some thickness.

If you want your tofu to have some additional taste, marinate it.  A simple marinade will use vinegar, oil and seasoning like ginger or garlic.  If you decide to marinade the tofu, pat dry the tofu and then coat it with the marinade you have created. let is sit in the refrigerator from 15 minutes up to one day.

 

Photo of eggplant by green mountain girls farm

 

 

 

Red Beet Puree with Ground Beef and Salad – metabolic balance Monday Recipe

Summer is the perfect time to grill your food.  Today we are sharing a recipe for grilled beets pureed with grilled beef (ground beef or any kind of dark meet you fancy.)

Ingredients:

  • Red beets (grill 250g but eat only the amount you area allowed on your plan.)
  • Salad Greens – This is part of your vegetables so portion accordingly.
  • Garlic
  • Onion
  • Olive Oil
  • Ground Beef
  • Dill
  • Balsamic Vinegar
  • French Seasoning (Mixed seasoning mix)
  • Salt and Pepper

Instructions:

  • Cut your beets into large chunks and put it into a large container.
  • Dice your onions and set aside.
  • Press your garlic and set aside.
  • Add salt pepper, seasoning  balsamic vinegar and some olive oil together to create a dressing to mix with your beets.
  • Mix your onions, garlic and beef together and place on the grill and cook how you like it. Medium raw, medium, well done.
  • If you are grilling a piece of meat instead of ground beef, rub the garlic and pepper on the outside of the meat and cut your onions into large slices.
  • Grill your beets (Takes about 45 minutes):
  • Puree your grilled beets with a hand blender add salt and pepper to taste.
  • Serve your pureed beets with your grilled meat and a side salad.

 

 

 

red beet photos by Stacey Spensley