Awesome roasted nuts and seeds

Nuts and seeds are great. But I noticed that I was not feeling very well after eating them straight from the bag. So I decided to find the way how to eat nuts and keep my tummy happy at the same time. Maybe this post will be helpful for you too!? Let me know what do you think!

4 signs that you are not processing nuts well:

• Heavy feeling in your lower stomach after eating nuts
• Stomach pain
• Heartburn
• You can literally see bits of them in your poo (SORRY! I have no idea how to write about this indirectly 🙂 )

I remembered that during my Nutritional Therapy lectures in BCNH we studied that nuts&seeds contain  lectins, phytates, and enzyme inhibitors (I will call this bunch LPEs), which may be one of the causes of the above mentioned conditions. I must mention, that “enzyme inhibitors” are good nature’s way of “protecting” them from heat, etc. before “right”conditions come (eg. rain) for the nuts to grow into trees.

By soaking nuts you can not only minimise the impact of LPEs, but also enhance the flavour of nuts!In a way, you are “tricking” the nature, by providing conditions when nuts&seeds may “relax” and start releasing all good minerals and micronutrients.

Also, you need to remember that roasted nuts from the shop are most likely not soaked first which means they still have LPEs. There are a few brands though which actually soak the nuts before they roast or dehydrate them, check out LivingRaw nuts, or Raw Ecstasy but they are not very cheap.

So, why not to try to prepare and “activate” your nuts yourself, it is super easy! Let me show it to you 🙂

 Easy process for soaking nuts

• Rinse nuts/seeds with fresh water (better purified water, not from the tap)
• Put them in a bowl (better in a glass or ceramic bowl)
• Cover nuts with water (2 cups water/ 1 cup nuts) and put smth breathable on top (paper towel or tea towel)
• Let them stand for a few hours (during the night/day/ or 24 hours). If you have time or you are around, change the water a few times. If not, don’t worry about it 🙂
• Drain the water (which will look very dirty)
• Rinse again with fresh water (the water contains all those LPE which are acidic to the body, so rinse well!)
• Dry your clean and beautiful nuts on a sheet of paper towel or dehydrator (if you have one)
• Put in a bag or a glass bowl and keep in refrigerator for 3-4 days

Check out timings for each type of nut/seed here. But! Just not to overcomplicate things too much, a few hours would be good. For example, arrange all in the morning and it is ready for the evening or make preparations in the evening and the nuts are ready for breakfast!

And finally a recipe!!! 🙂

Soaked and roasted walnuts and pumpkin seeds

• Soaked pumpkin seeds (I made them overnight)
• Soaked walnuts (I made them overnight)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp rosmarin
• Pinch of dry basil
• Pinch of dry coriander
• Pinch of pepper
• Optional: 1 tbs bee polen

Preheat the oven for 200 C, mix all the spices and nuts in a dry bowl and put the mixture to the baking sheet. In 25-30 min the AWSOME nuts are ready to eat! 🙂

Note! It is better to add bee polen 10 min before the nuts are ready, so it doesn’t burn 🙂

Awesome Roasted nuts and seeds

 

Norice-salad “sushi”

Salads are awesome – a lot of vitamins, phytonutrients and fibre. But seriously, eating a salad every day CAN become boring. And then…and then you need to make Norice-salad sushi! 🙂

This is what I have done today to perk things up a bit:

Norice-salad sushi

-100g cucumber grated
-2 beetroots grated
-1 parsnip grated
-bunch of dill
-2 Yaki Nori sheets (bought in a Korean store)

In big bowl mix all ingredients and add any dressing (I have added: 1 tbs Extra virgin olive oil, 1 tsp apple vinegar, 1 tbs hemp oil). Prepare sushi mat (also could be bought in a Korean store) by putting 1 Yaki Nori sheet.

 

Then squeeze the juice from the salad – otherwise you are going to get a “sushi ocean” on your plate:)

Place the salad on the sheet, BUT make sure that you have left 2 cm (1 inch) from the top of the sheet – to avoid salad “jumping” from the sheet while you are rolling a sushi roll.

Roll and enjoy! SUPER easy and fast! :)…and OMGsoTASTY!!!! 🙂

Bananaaaaaaa

Yesterday i was making banana pancakes and in the evening i thought that it would be cool to have some sweets in the morning. The challenge was that I didn’t have a lot of ingredients at home…so had to be creative:)

And this is what I have ended up with, super simple and quick (as usual with all cooking that i do) and TASTY!

FROZEN BANANA BITES

1 ripe banana
1 tbs lucuma powder + 3 tbs water
1 ts cinnamon
1,5 tbs bee polen

Cut banana in a few pieces. Mix water, lucuma, cinnamon. Dip banana in lucuma mix and then roll it in bee pollen. Put on a baking sheet and place in a freezer overnight. Cut/Dip/Roll/Freeze – Simple!

Other dipping alternatives: nut or seed butter/chocolate/yogurt
Other rolling alternatives: nuts or seeds/crushed dry berries

This is quite sugary, but it is a treat, right?;)

 

 

 

 

Bananarama

Well well well, bananas! You never can get enough, they are SOOO TASTY!:) Today I was in a mood to buy some and guess what? I just got them absolutely for FREE, simply because they were quite spotty the store owner decided to give them away for free. Well, happy me!

 

And now I am thinking what to do with them….

Lets start with…pancakes!!! The first 3 of them were…well, not working at all. Stick to the pan, get all squashy…oh, I tried everything 🙂 Adding more egg, adding more flour…nope. It was not working:) So then i decided that I will simply bake the pancakes, as you can never go wrong with the oven:)

YAMMY BANANA PANCAKES (in the oven)

To make 11 pancakes (if you place them  in the oven and will not try to panfry them, or 8 pancakes if you will make an attempt and panfry the first 3…hehhe)

4 super ripe bananas
3 eggs (I used egg replacement)
1/2 cup flour (I used gluten free all-purpose flour)
Put coconut or olive oil on the baking sheet. In a big bowl crash bananas, add eggs, add flour and mix all. Take a table spoon and make little pancakes on a baking sheet. Put in the preheated oven, for 20 min, 200C. Then turn the pancakes super carefully on the other side and place in the oven for the next 5 min.

 

Put in the preheated oven, for 20 min, 200C. Then turn the pancakes super carefully on the other side and place in the oven for the next 5 min.

mmm…They are sweet and so fresh and so OMG so TASTY! But seriously after 3 of them you are totally full!

Enjoy! xx