Gluten Free Oats and Peanutbutter biscuits

 
Hi, Just a quick post today, I am very busy -in a good way preparing for my next market day on Sunday, I am so excited to be launching some new products!Now on to today's post.
 
Being Gluten free often means no treats :(  unless of course you make them yourself. I actually don't make too many treats in general, but this is a great, quick recipe. Even if you get unexpected visitors this can be ready within about 30 min (depending on how long your oven takes to pre-heat)
 I found the recipe on Pinterest and went to the original source. and decided to try it with Organic Oats which is not cross milled. I adjusted the recipe a bit for South African use. Ensure that you find GLUTEN FREE OATS if you want to make this completely Gluten Free.

Ingredients: 
* 1 cups instant oats (the kind that cooks in about a minute or 2)
* 1 cup brown sugar  
* 1 tsp. vanilla essence
* 1 egg
* 1 cup peanut butter

Preheat the oven to 180°. Mix the ingredients by hand until well mixed
Spoon onto a greased baking sheet , leaving a gap between each Biscuit. Bake 10- 15 minutes until slightly set. Let cool to set completely.

These are divine! They do need to cool down before eating  because they are very soft when you first take them out of the oven. They will crumble! Which is what happened with the first few of my first batch. I left the second batch on the baking tray a bit before lifting them off.

You could add in raisins if you want- a small handful should do the trick.

Enjoy!

 Love Lauren

Gluten Free Homemade Chicken Schnitzel

Being Gluten Free I am limited to what and where I can eat out, so  I improvise and make my own restaurant style food at home. This time it was Chicken Schnitzel otherwise known as Crumbed Chicken.  I am a free style kind of cook, I rarely follow a recipe exactly  and guess the quantities of the ingredients  I use and more often than not it turns out really good. I guess you can say I'm good at guessing. Baking I do follow the recipe.  So the Cheese Sauce  is a guessing game of quantities.                                        

INGREDIENTS:

Chicken Breasts for the amount of people present for the meal

Crumbs (Gluten Free or Normal) I used Orgran                      

2 eggs beaten for dipping Chicken Breasts into  

Oil for deep frying 

Cheese Sauce:

about 50g of Butter  melted in a pot on low

Corn flour - enough to thicken

milk about a cup to 2 cups

Cheese- as much as you would like

Simmer until it's thickened

Season as you like.

                                                                     

Dip the chicken breasts into the beaten eggs : both sides so that the crumbs will stick to it.

                                             The crumbs I use

 Dip and coat the Chicken breasts in the crumbs.

Heat the oil and deep fry on both sides to cook through.
Cook any veg that you want to serve with your meal. With this I cooked up some potato wedges and some Eggplant/Brinjal. It's also fantastic served with Creamed Spinach instead of a Cheese Sauce.

YUM!

And just for fun, my cat once again inspecting things this time Finlay :)

Enjoy this quick and simple Gluten Free Meal :)

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Divine Creamy Chicken & Avo Pasta

Hello
Last night I made this pasta, I seem to make it about once a month or so, It's Mark's favourite and the pasta he requests it the most. I adjusted the original recipe I found to make it Gluten free and I added in some feta. Don't you just love the combination of feta and avo? Or  if you're not an Avo fan the Creamy Chicken is yummy all by its self too.

INGREDIENTS:
 serves 2

250ml cream
2 chicken breasts cut into strips
1 chicken stock cube
1 diced onion
some butter for frying the onion
pasta for 2 people
1 whole avo
feta

Fry up the onion and partially cook the chicken strips,season to your liking
Break up the stock cube into the pan and add in the cream.
Simmer gently until the sauce thickens and the chicken is fully cooked. If it needs some help to thicken stir in some corn flour.
Cook the pasta according to the package instructions.
Pour the sauce over the cooked pasta, top with sliced/diced avo and feta.

This truly is the YUMMIEST pasta ever!


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Butternut Soup

Hi!

On a cool day like today (in South Africa) there is nothing better than a nice bowl of soup with a slice or two of crusty warm, fresh bread with butter melting into it.

One of our favourites is Butternut soup, one reason being we grew butternuts this last season.

I mix up my own curry powder, I am allergic to chillies and tomatoes so my blend works well for us, not too spicey but flavourful all the same.


INGREDIENTS:

About half a butternut (size dependant) approximately 500g or so. Chopped up.
1-2 potatoes diced
1 onion diced (not pictured)
1tsp curry powder
1.5 litres of water/ or stock (I tend to make my own chicken stock and use that)
1 can of chickpeas/butterbeans/canellini beans
some cream for stirring in when it's served

our beautiful butternut we grew! :)

 Fry the onion in butter in a large pot, add the water/stock, the veggies and curry powder. Bring the water to  a gentle boil and cook until the veggies are soft.

Remove from the heat and use a stick blender (or any blender that will blend the soup nicely) Blend until smooth and serve. Add cream on top. I love to make swirly patterns :)

Yummy oozy, buttery gluten free bread

Enjoy!
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Gluten Free (or non gluten free) Marmite Squares

Hi again!

Today I am in a foodie mood. My mom used to bake this when my sister and I were children, it was one of my favourites because strangely I have a savoury  tooth vs a sweet one!

Marmite/oxo spread/bovril/veggiemite can be inter-changed although I did find that the oxo spread didn't dissolve like it should.

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups of flour (gluten free cake flour or normal cake flour both work)
4 tsp Baking powder
3/4 cup of milk
1/2 cup of oil
2 eggs beaten
1 cup of  grated cheese (I like to add extra feta cheese to make it double cheese)

Mix the above ingredients together and place in a greased ovenproof dish.
Bake for 20min at 190 degrees Celsius.

SAUCE:

1/2 cup of butter (before its melted)
1-2 tsps of Marmite/oxo spread/bovril/veggiemite

dissolve together in the microwave and pour over the top when it comes out of the oven.

Cut into squares/slices

Enjoy a yummy savoury treat :)

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Sweet n Sour Chicken Pizza

Hi again!

We love to have Pizza night! Pizza night for us means, shopping for what ever toppings grab us, coming home, prepping the bases- In Mark's case it's ready made un-pasted pizza bases.For me it means buying a pack of  Gluten Free Crispy Pizza Pre Mix by Nature's Choice

One of  our favourites is: Sweet n Sour Chicken Pizza.




Ingredients/ Toppings:
* Greenpepper
* Mushrooms
* Onions
* Pineapple pieces
* Chicken pieces pre cooked spiced with Chinese 5 Spice ( I got mine at Spar in the World Foods section)
* Cheese



* and Homemade Sweet n Sour Sauce.
Ingredients:
* 1/2 cup Soya Sauce
* 1/4 cup Sugar
* 50ml Vinegar
* 1/2 tsp Chinese 5 Spice



Combine all 4 together in a small pot and let it simmer for about 10 minutes. If it needs to be thickend sieve in Maizena, if it needs to be thinned add a bit more vinegar- and a sugar to taste.

Layer your toppings however you want. Generally I start with Onion, then Greenpepper, then Mushrooms, then Pineapple, then the cooked Chicken, then the Sweet n Sour Sauce drizzled over the top and finally the Cheese. I make sure to cover the entire surface and scatter  the topping evenly so that with every bite or so you get a bit of everything. Bake it according to the directions on your specific packaging.




Yummy!
Enjoy!
Love Lauren

Fudge Recipe

Hello all,
I must apologise for my absence, between on going computer problems and starting up my business time has slipped away.

Today is a quick post, a very YUMMY one!

Lynda’s microwave fudge

In a deep glass bowl mix:

250g butter
2 cups castor sugar
1 tin condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
generous pinch of salt

Cook on 100% for 5 minutes
Remove and beat well with a whisk.


Cook at 50% for about *20 minutes, taking out to whisk approx every 3 minutes – you might need to make a few batches to get the time right for your microwave. When the spoon drags "tracks" through the fudge it is ready, the colour would have changed as well.

Pour into a greased square dish. Cut into pieces before fudge has cooled totally.

* you may need as long as 26 minutes

If you have any questions ask me :)

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