Dietary muffins

I don’t remember why and how I decided to cook dietary muffins this year. But recently I cook them quite often for our nice family weekends. I have tried different options of recipe. Firstly, I added a homemade cottage cheese, but I don’t eat dairy products for half a year now. So I created the different recipes and the taste is even much better. And now this is definitely dietary muffins without gluten, sugar, dairy products and butter.

Ingredients and proportions for six muffins:

• 2 small organic eggs + 1 egg white;
• 1 teaspoon of stevia (or teaspoon of honey);
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon;
• 1 teaspoon of coconut oil;
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda;
• 4 tablespoons of buckwheat flour;
• 4 tablespoons of coconut or brown rice flour;
• 6 pieces of mashed dates;
•  2 mashed bananas with 1 teaspoon of organic cacao;
• dried apricots or raisins to your taste

I put dried apricots into hot water for 10 minutes. They swell up and the taste becomes very tender.

While dried apricots are soaking I'm mixing all the ingredients adding one after another. Then I put paste in baking cups filling them half and then bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.

I cooked such muffins several times. You'll have the tenderest taste if you add soaked apricots :)

One more nice option is to mash a carrot instead of dates with bananas and cacao.

Bon appetite!

Healthy sweets: cottage cheese and fruit cake

Every weekend I cook tasty and healthy sweets. I should mention that I do not use wheat flour and oatmeal because they contain gluten. I do not eat it since I have read many articles and researches about it couple of years ago. So this time I baked cottage cheese and banana cake with an orange and mango on my own recipe :)

Ingredients:

-         2 eggs

-         2 teaspoons of stevia

-         2 spoons of coconut flour

-         2 spoons of rice flour

-         4-5 bananas

-         250 grams of non-fat cottage cheese

-         The peel of one orange

-         Mango

-         15 grams of casein protein for the decoration (can be replaced with a yoghurt)

Mix two eggs with the stevia, and then add rice and coconut flours. You can use only rice flour or mix it with wheat flour (if you eat it). I do not recommend using just coconut flour because there is too much calories in it. I like the taste when coconut flour is mixed with some other. Then mix bananas, cottage cheese and grated orange peel in a blender, and then add flour and eggs. Then put everything to the form and put it to the oven for 30 minutes.

The decoration is up to you. I mixed mango and casein protein in a blender and used some orange peel with a slices of almond.

After the cake is ready you should put it in the fridge for 1-2 hours or for the whole night.

We ate it for breakfast and as a snack during the day. It is delicious and it just melts in the mouth.