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Health Giving Recipes

Homemade Manuka Honeygar and its uses

Breaks down fats
and oils, cleanses
the entire digestive
tract ridding it of
bacteria and adds
good enzymes to
the stomach.
Kills sugar cravings.
Many people also
believe and swear
that it alleviates
the symptoms and slows down the progression of all forms
of arthritis.

 
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Recipes for the health conscious who still want their food to taste of something.
Sarah Brook provides you with some of her favourites. If you have any questions for Sarah or a request for a type of recipe or a favourite that you’d like healthied up or a recipe you think we'd like please email her on:
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More Health Giving Recipes:
>> Chicken or Tofu Salsa
>> Friendly Ice Tea
>> Super Raw Chocolate Yum Balls
 

Uses with Food
Is delicious on it’s own as a salad dressing and for adding to kumara, potatoes and rice and avocadoes or can be mixed with your favourite oil and condiments.

Make your own Basic Recipe, like this one which will keep for years in the cupboard in the same glass container:

You will need:
  • 175gms of active Manuka Honey

  • 25ml of cloudy naturally fermented un-pasteurised apple cider vinegar (There are quite a few varieties in the health departments of supermarkets, orchards, specialist health and organic food shops. I find that the more local supplier the less it costs and remember it should be quite cloudy)


Put the honey into a glass or pottery mixing bowl and slowly add the vinegar stirring all the time. Once the honey is more or less dissolved pour back into the 750 ml bottle using a funnel. Keep in a dark cupboard and shake before use

Favourite Recipe - Simple Rice Salad:
  • 3 cups of COOKED brown, red or wild rice.

  • 1 large or 2 small avocados

  • 2 chopped fresh tomatoes

  • Level tablespoon of Pine nuts (optional)

  • Rock Salt and Black Pepper (I use Himalayan Rock Salt it is more mineral supplement than a sodium addition and has a slightly sweet flavour)

  • Salad Greens

Mix ingredients together and pour over the Honeygar to taste. It is delicious as meal on its own. It also does not need oil as the avocados complete that part of the flavouring.

   
 

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Chicken or Tofu Salsa Recipe!


This is a hot chicken or tofu salsa and is good
for balancing hormones.
The chilli is totally optional.

 

 

 

Ingredients:
  • 3 cups of diced red onion – yellow is fine if red are unavailable.
  • 3 cups of diced tomatoes
  • 2 cups of diced organic tofu or organic free range chicken ( use thighs and legs in order to source the brown tastier meat of the chicken)
  • ¾ cup of ginger
  • 1-2 medium diced avocados (optional)
  • I bunch of chopped coriander (optional)
  • 2 chopped chillies (optional)
  • Soy sauce/ tamari
  • Himalayan or sea salt
  • Black pepper
  • Virgin coconut oil or butter (or sunflower oil if that is all you have)

Directions:
  1. Place a large pot on the hob and heat enough oil to generously cover the bottom of the pan. Heat the oil until hot enough to sizzle the onions and then add onions to the oil with a pinch of salt.
  2. Once onions are glassy add the tofu or chicken with chillies and a pinch of salt and pepper.
  3. Once chicken is sufficiently cooked (tofu only needs to be heated through) add tomatoes with a further pinch of pepper and a little tamari/ soy sauce.
  4. Allow tomatoes time to heat through and then stir in ginger adding another pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for no more than 2 minutes.
  5. Stir in avocado once cooked. Never cook avocado as it loses its flavour!
    6. Serve with brown rice and garnish with coriander. Adjust flavour by adding soy sauce/ tamari
 

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Friendly Ice Tea
- to reduce Candida

This is a great
little drink to
have sitting at
your desk or
on your dinner
table. It’s also got some lovely alkaline attributes to help fight out of control candida.

Ingredients:
  • 4 lemons (peeled)
  • 2 Tablespoons of Apple Cider Vinegar
  • 1 Tablespoon of raw enzyme active manuka honey
  • Fresh Mint or Basil Leaves
  • A piece of fresh ginger according to taste
  • 1 Apple
  • 1 pot of chilled green or white tea
  • 2 teaspoons of ground black pepper or a
    pinch of Cayenne
  • Ice
  • 1 litre of water

Directions:

If you have a juicer:
Juice lemons apple and ginger together
No juicer:
Finely grate the apple and ginger and squeeze the lemons over the top
Dissolve the honey in to warm water, but not hot or you will destroy its antiseptic properties.
Tear the herbs into the mix and all remaining ingredients. If you have a blender it’s always nice to crush the mix to give
a different texture with the ice.
Feel free to add some slices of lemon/lime. Cinnamon is also
a nice touch.
 

 

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Super Raw Chocolate Yum Balls

Natural sweet treats without added sugar

 

Feed your sugar craving without using sugar.

This is one of my favourites, a variation on the date log but so much better! Mainly because it involves chocolate and nut butter, which is just oh so yummy!

 

 

 

 

 

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 Cups of your nuts of choice – I prefer Brazils

  • 1 Cup of dried fruit – I recommend raisins and/or a few dates (read the label and buy those without oil!

  • 4 Tablespoons of raw chocolate (aka raw cacau available from Organic Food Shops) – though you can add less or more as you go to suit your own preference and you can also use normal cocoa.

  • 10+ Tablespoons of desiccated coconut – again you can use more if you like. Also remember to check the label. It’s hard to find pure coconut without sugar or something else added. Usually an organic brand is the way to go.

OPTIONAL...BUT ADVISED

  • ½ teaspoon of cinnamon – helps suppress the sugar cravings!

  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla – read your label, often full of rubbish, you are definitely best to buy organic or distil the flavour from pods yourself.

  • Pinch of ground black pepper and pink rock salt to catch the yummy flavours and add a few minerals.

  • Pinch of Cayenne also never goes astray to pick up the flavour

  • 3 Tablespoons of extra virgin coconut oil

  • NB: You may also use pre-made nut butter or tahini though I think it is better to use your own if you have the foresight to soak the nuts and a decent blender.

WARNING: If you attempt this recipe with a run of the mill food processor it may BLOW UP or break in some way. You MUST use a decent hand blender or a raw food processor e.g. a Magimix. A hand blender will also not cope well with the nuts unless you soak them overnight.

Step 1: Soak the nuts in spring water for 24 Hours. The following day drain, rinse and blend nuts with hand blender or appropriate food processor until a smooth nut butter occurs.

NB – Soaking nuts removes enzyme inhibiters that make nuts hard on the digestion. Activating your nuts by soaking is the way to go!

Step 2: Add dried fruit and seasonings including vanilla and coconut oil if you are using them. Blend together into a smooth thick paste. If you don’t have the appropriate blender you can take the time to finely chop the fruit after it has been doused with boiling water to soften and add to the premade nut butter.

Step 3: Dry out your recipe by using 6Tablesps of the coconut and then the cocoa or cacau. Add it slowly tasting as you go along so you can get a feel for how you want it to taste.

Keep in mind that you need to be able to roll this into ball, so the consistency needs to be appropriate

Step 4: Spread remaining four tablespoons of coconut onto a clean surface (you may also use chopped nuts or mix with cinnamon and extra cacau powder). Take a tablespoon of the mixture, roll into a ball and then roll onto the coconut covered surface ensuring to cover the entire surface of the ball. Place in a container you are happy to put in the fridge or freezer and chill.

I recommend you place these in the freezer. Because of the dried fruit content they will never completely freeze. Then you can take one out, allow it five minutes to defrost a little and have a beautifully chilled Yum to go with your tea. I recommend a Japanese tea of some description, as both are in perfect complement to each other.

Enjoy!!!
Sarah Brook

 



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