Healthy Recipes

Here’s a wonderful hot breakfast recipe idea, especially for those chilly winter months.  This cereal recipe includes Organic Coconut Oil, and Hempseeds, and comes to us from one of our Nutiva Recipe Club members.

Ingredients

1 Tablespoon Nutiva Extra-Virgin Coconut Oil
1/4 cup Cream of Buckwheat
1/8 tsp. Celtic or Pink Crystal Salt
and/or any other flavoring spices that you like (Cumin, Fennel, Curry, etc)
1 1/4 Cups Water
Chopped Greens of Choice
Raw or Toasted Nutiva Hempseed for Garnish and Protein
Chopped Parsley/Cilantro Mix for Garnish and to Include Some “Raw”

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Yes folks THE Dr Oz, the good doctor who appears on Oprah, has just  recommended a great smoothie with hemp nuts, banana, and blueberries.

Dr Oz suggests:

iStock_000010168213SmallA handful of hemp nuts. These nuts are rich in Omega-3’s which are essential for the health of your brain and nervous system. Additionally, the compounds found in hemp seeds have been shown to promote memory, learning and immune function.

Want the full recipe ? Just click HERE.

Hemp nuts, often called shelled hempseed, are tiny like a sesame seed and taste like a pine nut or sunflower seed. Packed with protein, minerials, and  good fats of Omega-3, GLA, and SDA. Hempseeds are easy to use in smoothies or over salads, desserts,veggies or pasta.

Nutiva is proud to be the worlds leading brand of organic hemp seeds.

Try this cake warm from the oven with some whipped cream, or spoon the batter over applesauce in a Dutch oven and steam it like a pudding cake. This whole grain cake has no refined sugar but lots of flavor.

gingerbreadMakes 9 pieces of gingerbread.

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 c. Nutiva Extra – Virgin Coconut Oil
  • 1/2 c. coconut sugar
  • 1/4 c. molasses
  • 1 egg
  • 1 c. whole wheat flour (white whole wheat is good)
  • 3/4 c. brown rice flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. ground ginger
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp. allspice
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 3/4 c. boiling water

Preparation:

Beat the coconut oil (solid at room temperature) with the coconut sugar and molasses for 3-5 minutes until light brown.
Add the egg and beat well.

Mix the flours and the other dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and then add to the liquids and mix well.

Add the boiling water and stir again. Pour batter into a greased, 9 inch by 9 inch pan and bake at 350°F for 25 minutes or until middle is set and sides just start to pull away from side of pan.

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