Thursday, February 28, 2013

Vegan Banana Apple Spice Muffins

Super moist delicious banana apple muffins!
Vegan Banana Apple Spice Muffins

Vegan Banana Apple Spice Muffins

Ingredients

    3 Bananas, mashed
    3/4 cup of Granulated Sugar
    1 1/2 cups of Flour
    1 Apple, diced
    1 tbsp Flax Seed Meal
    3 tbsp water
    3/4 cup of no sugar added Apple Sauce
    1 tsp Vanilla Extract
    1/2 tsp Cinnamon
    1 tsp Canola Oil
    1 tsp Baking Soda
    1/2 tsp Salt

    A little bit of cinnamon sugar to sprinkle on the top

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare the muffin tins with paper wrappers.

Mix together the flax seed meal with the water. Let it sit for a minute or two, then mix again.

Mash the bananas and add the sugar, flax seed mixture, apples, apple sauce, vanilla and oil. Mix together.

In another bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, salt and baking soda.

Add the dry mixture into the wet ingredients and combine.

Fill the muffin tins up to the top of each wrapper and sprinkle a small amount of cinnamon sugar on the top of each muffin.

Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Walnuts would also be delicious and add a nice bite to the muffins. You can also add different spices like nutmeg, cloves, ginger and allspice to your liking.

Recipe yields 12 muffins.

Number of Servings: 12

Recipe by SparkPeople.com user XMUSICALBEAUTYX.


Thursday, February 21, 2013

Sweet Potato & Spinach Cannelloni

Since Levi's favorite food at the moment is pasta, I've been looking at creative ways of serving it and including nutrients in each meal. Cannelloni is perfect, it's pasta stuffed with good stuff!
not the most appetizing photo, but it tasted amazing!
Sweet Potato & Spinach Cannelloni
Cannelloni noodles
Tomato sauce (1 16oz jar)
Olive oil
1 onion
1 package spinach
1 package silken tofu
1 cooked sweet potato
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp nutritional yeast
1 tsp salt
Pepper

Sauté onions in olive oil. Stir in spinach, turn off heat.

Mix remaining ingredients in a bowl. Stir in onions and spinach.

Preheat oven at 350. Pour a thin layer of sauce in baking dish. Stuff cannelloni with tofu/veg mixture. Place in baking dish. Pour remaining sauce overtop. Cover. Bake for 30 minutes.