Kale with scrambled eggs

• 4 eggs
• Kale leafs
• Half of onion
  

Chop the kale leafs and onion and sautee for few minutes in olive oil
Break the eggs into a bowl and add the egg mixture in to the pan
Push eggs toward center while tilting skillet to distribute runny
Continue this motion as the eggs continue to set, I usually lowew the heat at this point and just let them sit :) occasionally checking that the uncooked egg run underneat

 

Served with fried bacon (ensur your bacon does not have added sugar to stay WLC compliant!
and fruit salad (pear, banana and satsumas)

Minced meat burgers with sweet potato fries and jerusalem artichoke puree

Burgers

• 2 eggs
• 500-600 grams of lean minced meat (recommended to choose as quality mince as you can get, its worth the money!)
• 2 small of onions (chopped and sauteed)
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• 4 chopped garlics
• Fresh parsley
• Thyme (Fresh or dried
• ½ dl Olive Oil
• 2 teaspoons of hot pepper powder
• Black and white pepper

Instructions

• Saute the onion
• In a medium sized bowl add in minced meat as well as the eggs,  olive oil, garlic and seasoning
• Once the onion has cooled down a bit, add it in too
• Ensure you mix all well but do not mix more than required as it will turn the burgers dry
• With wet hands take a portion out and shape it carefully into a form of a burger

 

Sweet potato fries

• three large sweet potatoes
• Salt
• Black pepper
• Olive oil

You can either peel the potato or leave the skin on - lately I leave it on every time. It adds nutrition and a nice chewy texture. Rinse the sweet potatoes. Cut the sweet potato in half. Then take a half of the sweet potato and cut it into large slices about 3/4 inch thick. You'll then cut the larger slices into fries. Your fries should be 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch thick.

Instead of of placing the fries straight to the baking tray, put them into plastic bowl, pour in little olive oil, sprinkle some salt and black pepper and shake the fries around.
Place a baking sheet onto the tray and place the fries onto it. Make sure you're scooping the salt, pepper and oil from the bottom and mixing it in. Make sure they're all evenly spaced and not touching. They'll get soggy otherwise.
Cook them in the oven for 15 minutes. Then, take them out and flip them, once flipped, put them back in the oven for 10 minutes.

Jerusalem (root) artichoke puree

Peel the Jerusalem artichokes and, as you do so, place them in the pan of cold water
Cut the peeled Jerusalem artichokes into small, even-sized chunks
Boil till fully cooked
Add butter to taste and mash, yummy!!

Almond Cod

• Cod fillets
• Almonds
• Whitepepper
• Fresh dill
• Olive Oil

Another easy dinner!

• Place the cod fillets into an oiled roasting tray and season. 
• Season the fish with salt and white pepper
• Pour some olive oil on to the fish.
• Crush some almonds and chop some dill and sprinkle over fish.
•  You can cook some tomatoes on the side of the fish

Cook in oven on 180°C for approx 22 minutes.
 

Served with spinach&avocado salad and boiled asparagus

Breakfast Veggie patties

Great use for your left over veggie mash! For Veggie mash recipe click here
Add eggs to the mash, mix well in a bowl and fry in a hot frying pan, add enough olive oil or butter to the pan before adding the mixture.

Approximately one egg per 1 dl of veggie mash. If unsure of the quantaties, try to spread the mash to the bottom of the bowl to see how large it becomes. 

This time we made just one smal pattie, 1 egg with approx 1dl of veggie mash

Served with slices of Pork Crackling Joint and fresh banana/pear slices

Cabbage/Minced meat soup

Healhty, tasty, filling, WLC food!

Cabbage/Minced meat soup

600g minced (lean) meat
3 carrots
1 white cabbage (approx 800g)
4 Cloves of garlic
1 small leek
1 Onion
2-3 Chillies (whole fresh)
Salt
Black Pepper
White Pepper
Marjoram
Paprika powder
Basil
Fresh parsley

• Chop the cabbage and start boiling. While boiling, peel and chop the carrots and leek and add in with 1 peeled whole garlic cloves and 2-3 whole chilies (depends how spicy you want it). Add Salt and Marjoram (dried). If you have dried Basil add in too. I had spare half of red pepper so added it in too :)

 

• Fry the minced meat together with onion and 3 crushed cloves of garlic,  add salt, white and black pepper and paprika powder until cook until the meat is fully cooked

• Mix the minced meat into the soup and let boil on low heat for 30mins
• Add chopped fresh parsley and pepper/salt/spices to your taste 

WLC snack - Guacamole with Pork Crackling Joint

To ensure the full use of the Pork Crackling Joint we used few slices of it (its best cold!) on this early afternoon snack

Served with guacamole.


Guacamole:

•     1 fresh chili
•     Juice of half a lemon
•     3 avocados (depends on size), ripe!
•     Small bunch of fresh coriander
•     2 cloves of garlic
•     4 spring onions (or half of a regular onion)
•     Olive oil
•     Handful of cherry tomatoes (or 2 small regular tomatoes)

Cut the avocado in half lengthwise using a sharp knife and Remove the seed.Cut the halves in a grid pattern without cutting the skin. Scoop the avocado meat into food processor (or mixing bowl if you don't have food processor)

Add the rest of the ingredients; chopped onion, coriander, chili, peeled garlic and the juice of some of    the lemon (don't put too much as you an easily over do, easier to add afterwards if needed) and put into Add good drizzle of olive oil. 

Mix up with the food processor or by hand and add finely chopped tomatoes- Mix until chunky or as smooth as you want

WLC style Breakfast - Green smoothie and Pork Crackling Joint

Breakfast usually feels like the most challenging dish during WLC especially when eggs and smoothies are the easy way out but gets a bit boring after awhile :) Its also important to remember to use eggs with moderation (At least cut the usage of yolk to reduce the intake of cholesterol/fat)

Today we tried a green smoothie and it actually turned out real nice.

A pork crackling joint is also an option during WLC. The crackling brings flavour to the actual meat but we always remove it after cooking as its fairly fatty but that is all up to you!

Pork Crackling Joint

Place the joint into a roasting tin. Cook in pre-heated oven 180C/350F. (Cooking time is 30 minutes per 500g plus en extra 30 minutes). Allow joint to rest in a warm place for 10 minutes before serving

 

Green Smoothie

This serves one person so double the ingredients if for two persons

• 1 dl of fresh spinach
• 1 dl of Cucumber ( I peeled mine but not necessary..)
• Celery - approx a piece of 4cm
• Approx two  parsley
• Juice of half 1 lime
• Juice of half 1 lemon
• 1 sliced banana

Combine all ingredients in a blender. To get more juice out of the lime and lemon roll them against the table before cutting into half and squeezing them. Breakfast is served!