Thursday 13 August 2009

Wisdom Tooth Extraction Leads to DELICIOUS Ice Cream Discovery!


So, I had an impromptu wisdom tooth removal this morning, which led to a wonderful discovery - a new 'ice cream' recipe!

This would be perfect as dessert after the following 'pizza' (see the forum for these and more: http://carolineradway.ning.com/forum/topics/healthy-recipes). Who needs cheat meals when you have recipes like these, huh?

CAULI-PIZZA-LICIOUS:


1 cup cooked, pureed cauliflower
1 egg
Mixed herbs / celtic sea salt / black pepper to taste...

TOPPING: Up to you: Tomato puree, more herbs, slices of tomato, slices of mushroom, spinach and feta all would be good! A great (excuse the auditory pun, ha ha) topping would be a small amount of parmesan, as a little goes a long way.

As this is just veg I would definitely reccomend either topping with some fish or lean meat or having a small piece along side - there is an egg but you ideally want a bit more protein than that....

HOW TO:

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C
Spray a cake tin with non-stick spray or lightly coat with coconut oil.
In a medium bowl, combine cauliflower, egg and herbs. Press evenly on the pan.
Bake for 20-30 minutes (more if you double the recipe).

Remove the pan from the oven. Add toppings.
Place under a grill or back in the oven to heat the toppings.

YUMMMMMMM.........

Follow with the following AWESOME ice cream:

75 g frozen blueberries
10-15g whey protein (choc or vanilla is good, I use Reflex Instant whey or SunWarrior Rice Protein from Mike Mahler)
Tsp mixed spice, tsp ground ginger
50ml low carb almond milk
(Optional, some frozen spinach - ha ha, I did just make it with this and you'd never know!)

Works best in a Magic Bullet in my view, as you can eat it out of the pot you blend it in, but any blender should do the trick.

Place all the ingredients in the blender. Blend as much or as little as you want - hardly blended makes it feel more fruity, just now I did it till the thing was smooth, as was trying to get the frozen spinach blended in...

DE-LISH-US!!!

Oh yeah, and the ratios above make it 75-90 cals, depending on the protein, 10-12 g protein and 8-10g carb... Double winner. And easy to eat when you've just had a tooth out - no excuses for ice cream!

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