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Kiwi Chips

We've been a little crazy with the dehydrator, dehydrating anything we can find. Kiwis are one of our latest victims! They are so delicious!

Ingredients:

2 kiwis

Peel the kiwis and slice them as thinly as possible.
Dry them on the dehydrator at 70C overnight or until they are brittle.

The cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli have been taking over our vege patch with their massive leaves and one day my boyfriend said we should juice the leaves because apparently chlorophyll is really good for you. I was a bit skeptic about eating the leaves so I looked it up online and woah!!! I found out you can do all sorts of things with the leaves! You can juice them, cook them or even make chips out of them! I was so excited when I found out, I went home and plucked a couple leaves off each plant to make sure they don't go bare and started to make the first batch. Here I used kale, spinach, broccoli leaves, cauliflower leaves and cabbage leaves.

Ingredients:

broccoli leaves

cabbage leaves

cauliflower leaves

spinach

kale

coconut oil

salt

Pluck any stem out, wash the leaves and pat them dry.
Drizzle some oil and sprinkle the salt on top.
Mix the leaves together and place them in the dehydrator at 35C for about 5 hours or until they get brittle.

Biltong

The main reason we bought the dehydrator is to make biltongs and I am happy to say we've made them! For those of you who don't know, biltong is South African dried beef... a bit like beef jerky but not really. It is delicious and healthy and delicious.

As I mentioned in my last post, we bought 7kg of chuck steak and used a lot of it on biltong. We cut off the fat to make beef fat, a few slices of steak to barbecue, a few chunks of meat for the potjie and the rest to make biltong.

Ingredients:

chuck steak, sliced

rock salt

apple cider vinegar

ground coriander seeds

pepper

all spice

Marinate the meat on a bed of salt and place it in the fridge for about an hour. The longer you leave it the saltier it gets.
Remove the salt off with a knife and brush the vinegar on.
Marinate the meat with the mixed spices and place them on the dehydrator at 35C for 12 hours.

Sweet Potato Chips

There are many ways to make sweet potato chips. You can fry them in coconut oil, bake them in the oven or dehydrate them. Since we have recently acquired a dehydrator, I decided to dry my own sweet potato chips.

Warning: The jar was full to the brim at 9am. By 5pm, the jar was empty.

Ingredients:
1 medium sweet potato
coconut oil
salt

Slice the sweet potato as thinly as possible with a sharp knife. Soak them in cold water for an hour, changing the water after 30 minutes.
Dry the sweet potato and coat the slices lightly with coconut oil.
Place them on the racks in one layer and sprinkle salt over them.
Dehydrate for 12 hours at 70C, rotating the trays every couple hours to ensure that they dry evenly.

We did turn it down to 30C before we went to bed in case the chips burnt.

Anzac Cookies

Made Anzac Cookies for the first time! The cookies, fresh out of the oven, were crispy on the outside and chewy and crumbly on the inside. It was delicious! But they don't taste as good once they get cold like most paleo foods... So I recommend indulging once they have cooled a little bit to let them set and then eat your way through the entire batch!!! or share them with your housemates... Also I had to add quite a bit of water to make it doughy. Will have to try making them with an egg next time and see if it will make a difference.

Ingredients:

1 cup almond meal

1 cup almond, flaked

1 cup dessicated coconut

3 tbsp butter

4 tbsp honey

1/2 tsp bicarb soda

1 tbsp water

Preheat the oven to 150C.
Mix the almond meal, coconut and most of the flake almond together.
In a pot, heat up the honey and butter.
Mix the bicarb soda with water and mix with the honey mix until it gets frothy.
Remove the honey mix from the heat and mix it with the dry ingredients until combined.
Add water if needed to make it more dough-y
Form small balls with the dough and press down lightly on the baking pan.
Press some leftover flakes on top.
Bake in the oven for 35 minutes or until golden brown.

Sultana Meatballs

When I made the cheese and mushroom meatballs last weekend, I made these deliciously sweet meatballs as well. These sweet meatballs balance out the savoury meatballs quite well!

Ingredients:

600g mince beef/lamb

1 cup sultanas

1 cup almond meal

salt

pepper

Preheat oven to 200C.
Line baking tray with baking paper and set aside.
Mix all the ingredients together with a fork or your hands.
Roll the mix into balls and place them on the tray.
Bake in the oven at 200C for 25-30 minutes.

Sweet Potato Chips

We had bacon and eggs and sweet potato chips this weekend for breakfast. Whaaaat? Chips for breakfast? It's delicious! It's crunchy and healthy... made from sweet potatoes, spiced with cinnamon and cooked in coconut oil. YUM and it's super easy to make!

Ingredients:

2 tbsp coconut oil

1 small sweet potato

cinnamon powder

Slice the sweet potato really thinly. The thinner it is, the crispier they become when you fry them.
In a frying pan, heat up the coconut oil and place a layer of thinly sliced sweet potato.
Sprinkle the cinnamon powder over the sweet potato and flip them over once the bottom is golden brown. Once both sides have turned golden brown and let it set for a couple minutes before serving so they turn crispy.

Alternatively you could bake it in the oven. Just oil the sweet potato slices and sprinkle cinnamon powder over them and bake in the oven at 170 degree until they turn golden brown and then turn them over.

Chia Seeds

I have recently discovered Chia Seeds and I love them! They don’t really taste of anything really and they are really healthy for you. They are high in Omega 3 and fibre. And the funny thing about these seeds is when you put them in water, they form a gel-like consistency on the outside. It’s both weird and cool at the same time. I personally don’t really like to have it with water, but they are really versatile so you can have it with juice or add it to your food when you cook. The only problem I have with them is they get stuck in my teeth a lot and I like to munch on them when I’m at work so I have to constantly make sure that there are no little black seeds between my teeth before I open my mouth. Try them and let me know what you think about them!

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