Sesame Thins...

These are EPIC!

The sesame seeds crackle and kinda pop in your mouth. They are so crunchy. A grade cracker in my books.

Ingredients...

Makes 60 crackers

1 cup ground almond meal

1/4 cup black sesame seeds 

1/2 cup white sesame seeds

1 tsp dried dill

1/2 tsp celtic sea salt

1 tbsp dried onion flakes

1 tsp garlic powder

2 tsp horse radish (if not add more olive oil)

1 tbsp olive oil

 Ingredients

 Place all your ingredients in a mixing bowl, and mix with your hands. Continue kneading until ball form.

 Place a sheet of plastic wrap on your cleaned bench and lay your cracker dough on-top. flatten it into a rectangle shape with your hands. Follow by rolling out very thin.

 Once rolled out and thin cut your crackers into desired shape.

 Place your crackers onto a greased oven tray and bake at 180c for around 8 minutes or until desired color is reached.

My baked crackers looked like this.

These will go down with everyone. Paleo or not. Fantastically crunchy!

Enjoy 

Flavor Packed Raw Beet-Root Dip...

So simple and Packed with flavor!

Ingredients...

2x medium raw beet-root (peeled & diced)

1/4 cup soaked macadamia nuts (soaked 12 hrs)

2x lg cloves garlic

1x tbsp olive oil

6x lg basil leaves

1 tbsp lemon juice

1/2 cup water

1/2 a ripe avocado

1/2 tsp celtic sea salt

1/2 tsp ground black pepper 

 1. Ingredient lot 1

 2. Ingredient lot 2

 3. Place ingredient lot 1 in your food processor and blitz until smooth

 4. Now add your 2nd lot of ingredients and blitz until creamy and smooth...

This dip is so versatile and so fantastically fresh! Spread it on your nori wraps, dip your veggies in it, the list goes on!

I do hope you enjoy.

Keep it Fresh! 

Flax Wraps

I have been mucking around with recipes for wraps since I began paleo...

BAM

She's a keeper. I dedicate this recipe to my first recipe funder as I know this will be a great staple to us all! 

Cheers

Ingredients...

(makes about 6 medium wraps)

1/4 cup egg white powder (I dont know why but its worked the best. Pick it up from any health food shop)

1 cup flax meal (ground flax seeds)

1 3/4 cup water

 1. Ingredients 

 2. Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor and blitz

 3. Should now look as above

 4. Set your heat at medium. I used coconut oil (in spay form) to grease after each wrap is cooked. Pour your mixture onto your already heated flat pan and move around to ensure you get a thin, round wrap. These do take a while to cook. Do not rush them. 

5. You'll know when your wrap is ready to flip when the edges are lifting off your pan. Be gentle when flipping. Once you have flipped your wrap it becomes much more pliable. Set them aside to cool and once cool they are ready.

These are AWSOME.

Eat them as a wrap, burrito, ENDLESS options!

ENJOY

Creamy Almond and Spinach Spread...

This is a great component...

Ingredients...

1 cup of almonds (soaked over night in water)

1/2 fresh water

2 tbsp olive oil

75gm spinach

5 cloves of garlic

1 tsp ground black pepper

1 tsp celtic sea salt

 

1. Soaked (over night) almonds! Drain them from there soaking water.

 2. Place your soaked almonds in a food processor or blender with the 1/2 cup of water and blend until creamy (I left mine going for around 3 minutes).

 3. Once almonds are creamy add the rest of your ingredients and blend until creamed and well combined. 

 Should be looking like above!

 

 

 

This is so simply and you can do so much with this flavor packed spread. I spread it on my rolled omelet's, as a spread in my nori wraps, stuff vegetables with it, mix it through mash for extra flavor and creaminess... Endless Options.

ENJOY!

Tahini Dressing...

This Dressing is great! You can have it with about anything. I enjoy it with my Paleo Falafel!

Ingredients...

2 tbsp Un-Hulled Organic Tahini

2 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar

1 tbsp Olive Oil

Juice from one large lemon

1/2 cup Water

1/2 tsp Garlic powder

1/2 tsp Celtic sea salt

1/2 tsp Cracked pepper

Mix all the ingredients together! There you have a tasty favor packed dressing! 

ENJOY!

Paleo "Corn" Chips...

Pretty Close to the Real Things I'd Say!

Ingredients...

Pre-heat oven 170c

1 Medium kumara (sweet potato) peeled and diced small 

3 Small Parsnips peeled and diced small

4 lg cloves of garlic

1/2 Red Capsicum diced small

1 cup Flax meal

3 tbsp Chai seeds

1 tbsp Cumin seeds

1 tsp Smoked Paprika 

1tsp Celtic Sea Salt

2 tbsp Olive Oil

 Ingredients...

 1. Place your raw diced sweet potato, parsnips, red capsicum, garlic and olive oil in your food processor and blend until into a fine mash.

 2. Now that your raw vegetables are a mash add the rest of your ingredients. Blend in your food processor until well combined.

 3. Your mix will now look like this.

 4. Place a sheet of plastic wrap on your bench top. Ensure it is flat. Place your mix on your plastic wrap topped bench. Wet your hand and spread it out as well as possible. A square shape would be desired. Place another layer of plastic wrap over the top. With a rolling pin softly and evenly roll your "corn chip dough" out into a rectangle shape. Your desired thickness would be slightly thicker than your average corn chip.

 Mine looked like this.

 5. I first removed the top layer of plastic wrap. I then followed by cutting my rectangle shaped corn chip mix in half with a knife (plastic wrap still under). I then greased two large oven cookie trays. I grabbed the first half of my mix by holding on to the plastic wrap. I very carefully flipped it over onto my greased oven tray dough side down and plastic wrap now on the top (like the photo above shows). I removed my plastic wrap at this stage.

6. I then cut my dough into corn chip shapes with a knife on my oven tray. The key is to cut down rather that slice through. I placed my ready cut "corn chips" in the oven. I pulled them out after 7 minutes and flipped them over. After that every 3-4 minutes I turned them. I continued this over 20 minutes. (ovens will vary) I then turned my oven down to its lowest temp to dry them out further. This took a further 10 minutes. Remember each oven is different just ensure you have plenty of time during the cooking period to check and turn as needed. My oven isn't fan bake its old. So yours may crisp up faster!

I handed the first chip to Peter. He replied with Mmm Its like a chip and dip all in one!

They are full of flavor and definitely get rid of my corn chip craving! 

ENJOY!

Mexican "Cheese" Dip...

This would go down great with a Mexican meal!

Ingredients...

1 cup cashew nuts

1/2 a red chilli

10 green Spanish olives (I would have used jalapenos if i had them) 

1 tsp grated fresh ginger

3 lg garlic cloves

4 of the stalks and root ends of fresh coriander

3 tbsp of fresh coriander

juice of one lime

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

2 tsp cumin

1 tsp smoked paprika

1 tsp Celtic sea salt 

1/4 cup water

 Ingredients...

 1. Get the ends of your fresh coriander bunches. Remove the stalks an inch above the roots. With your knife scrape back the skin and wash. This photo is terrible sorry but I wanted you to understand what I meant. The stalk and roots of the coriander are the most flavor filled part.

 2. Place all of your ingredient apart from you fresh coriander in you food processor, and blend until creamy.

 3. Chop your coriander.

4. Lastly fold your fresh coriander through your dip.

This would go just about with anything! Dip veggie stix in it, top your mexican meals with it, spread it on lettuce wraps...

Endless options, I love condiments they make any meal.

ENJOY

Rosemary, Sage, Tomato and Flax Crackers...

I wanted to come up with a "nut-less" Cracker... 

So, I did. They are fantastic! 

Ingredients...

Pre-heat oven to 180c

1 1/2 cups Flax Meal

3 tbsp Chai seeds

1 tbsp chopped Sage

1 tbsp chopped Rosemarry

10 semi dried Tomatoes

2 tbsp Sesame seeds

2 tbsp Poppy seeds

1 tsp Celtic sea salt

1 tbsp Olive oil

1 white of an egg

 Ingredients...

 1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and whiz until balling form.

 2. Your mix will now be looking like this.

 3. With your hands first make a square out of your mix and push out as much as possible. (I placed glad wrap on my bench first and then my mix).

 4. Place another layer of glad wrap over your cracker dough. Roll out until very thin.

 5. Remove layer of glad wrap and cut out your crackers.

6. Place your crackers on greased oven trays and bake for around 25 minutes. I pulled my crackers out every 4 minutes and turned them over. Each oven is different so just ensure to watch your crackers carefully. My oven is well older than I am. New ovens will crisp them up much faster!

I Love these! 

I hope you do as well.

ENJOY!

Macadamia Nut Cheese...

The only thing i have missed since paleo is...

CHEESE!!!

Ingredients...

180gm raw soaked macadamia nuts

juice of one lime

2 tsp apple cider vinegar

1/4 tsp nutmeg

2 tsp ground cumin

2 pro-biotic Capsule with acidophilus (to assist culturing, use only the capsule powder from inside)

1 tsp Celtic sea salt

1/4 cup of water

 1. Soak Nuts for around 2 hours and strain...

 2. Place all ingredient (apart from water) in a large mixing bowl and blitz (or blend in a food processor)

 3. Your mix should be looking like this. Now add the water and mix until smooth.

 4. Your macadamia mix should now look like this...

 5. Get your self a large empty mixing bowl, and a strainer. Set the bowl under the strainer.

 6. Place your "Maca" mix in the center of a cheese cloth. Bring all sides together and tightly tie a knot. Place your filled cheese cloth in the center of your strainer.

 7. Place a heavy ceramic bowl on the top, and fill it with a heavy object (I used an old bag of sugar seeing as I no longer need sugar). This will apply pressure on your mix and push out the excess liquid over process time. I then placed plastic wrap over the entire "cheese stand". I left my cheese "brewing" away over night (on my bench). When I woke I removed my cheese from the cheese cloth and placed it in the fridge until it was cold.

8. My cheese now looked like this at its plain untouched form. Its more like a dry ricotta looks wise. 

I just LOVE this. I have been hanging out for something similar to cheese. So I got reading, and created my own version!

You can crumble it on top of your food, use it as a spread, or as i did in my post photo above roll it in fresh herbs, or raw nuts and dried fruits! 

I think if you can make a healthy paleo substitute for the things you crave your less likely to go eat the non paleo form. I started paleo cold turkey. I research alternatives for the things I miss, or I look at recipes and change the non paleo ingredients. You might make a few dud's but the goodies are well worth it! Remember just because your eating like a "caveman" doesn't mean you have to think like one. 

GET CREATIVE!

&

ENJOY!