You will find lots of recipes that you can have as a side for a main, for lunch, or perhaps even as a snack. There are also lots of breakfast ideas, so you do not have to have a bowl of cereal, that generally does not contain any nutrients! It is much better to have a filling breakfast, which stops you from snacking as much.
Savoury Pancakes
These are a fantastic breakfast or lunch, which makes a change from the sweet varieties. I had some beautiful purple spring onions and sundried tomatoes, so what a great pancake filling, with a little bit of lactose free cheese incorporated. I added a poached egg and a drizzle of mayonnaise to serve. I think they would work well with a bit of chutney too.
- 100g flour (you can use gluten free as well)
- 2 Eggs (one for pancake)
- 300ml Lactose Free Milk
- tsp baking powder
- 1 purple spring onion
- tsp chilli
- 4 or 5 sundried tomatoes
- few basil leaves
- 50g cheese
- handful basil
- dollop of mayonnaise
- Make the batter mix, so add the flour to a jug, add the milk and mix together with a fork, then add the egg and baking powder and beat together.
- Chop the spring onion and in a separate bowl, add the spring onion, tear in the sundried tomatoes, add the chilli and grated cheese, tsp chilli and add a few torn pieces of basil. Stir all the mixture together, now add to the pancake mix and combine together.
- Heat a little oil in a pan and add a ladle of the mixture to the frying pan.
- Cook on one side for a couple of minutes, then flip to cook the other side.
- Once the whole batch is cooked, you can pouch and egg to add to the pancake and a dollop of mayonnaise to serve.
Sweet potato and pumpkin Mash
Really quick and easy mash, I did roast the pumpkin, as I did a roasted vegetable batch, so already had some in the fridge, but you can just boil it. There is a bit more flavour when you roast it though. This was 1 serve (does eating half of it and only serving half count!!)
- 1 sweet potato
- 1 slice butternut squash
- tsp english mustard
- 50ml lactose free cream
- Either boil both vegetables, for about 10 minutes or until soft, or roast for about 20 in an oven 200c / 180 c fan. You will need to peel the skin for this mash.
- Just mash the ingredients together, I had already added some dried mixed herbs to the pumpkin before cooking, so add if you like a bit more flavour. Season well.
Coconut Pancakes
Always a brilliant weekend Sunday treat for me! So I am always changing up the pancake with different ingredients or toppings. Very filling and of course, with lots of fruit, yoghurt and nuts so delicious and nutritious! It is a great item to make in a batch and freeze, just separate each pancake with a piece of grease proof paper and wrap with cling film. Then you can take out however many you want, and reheat in a frying pan for a couple of minutes.
- 100g flour (you can use gluten free as well)
- 1 Egg
- 300ml Lactose Free Milk
- Couple spoonfuls of desiccated coconut
- Mixture of fruit and spoonful of honey
- Spoonful yoghurt
- scattering of nuts
- Simply put the flour into a jug, add the egg, slowly add milk and whisk with a fork. Ensure all flour is combined and there are no lumps. You can use coconut milk as well, or coconut oil to cook, which will give a stronger coconut flavour.
- Heat oil to hot temperature in a frying pan, I always pour off excess oil into a bowl, and re-add to the pan for each new pancake, that way you have the right amount of oil for each pancake.
- Ladle a portion of the batter into the frying pan and cook on both sides, until lightly browned.
- Serve with fruit, I have used nectarine, blueberries and strawberries.
- For half of the fruit, I added to the pan at the end of cooking the pancakes, and fried off the fruit, with a spoonful of honey. Added to the fresh fruit and a dollop of yoghurt and a scattering of nuts.
Flat Bread
Once you have made this flat bread, you will want it all of the time. It is really simple and very quick and easy to make and cook.
- 60G lactose free yoghurt
- 60G plain flour (or GF plain)
- 1/2 tspn baking powder – Makes 2
- You literally just combine the ingredients together in a bowl, with a spoon. Once most of the ingredients have been combined, use one hand and bind together completely and give it a little kneed. Leave to rest whilst preparing the rest of your meal.
- After about 20 minutes, dust the board and roll out the flat bread, into a circular shape. Use your hands a little to shape.
- Once shaped into flat circles, heat a little oil in a pan and fry on each side for about a minute. May take a little longer if thicker.
- You can also make this with GF flour and it works really well. I have also added coriander in some mixes. See below picture
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