Pearl barley with tagine turkey breast and butternut squash;0))

Pearl barley is not so popular,but it has some impressive health benefits.

Barley provides a range of important vitamins and minerals: fiber, selenium, B vitamins, copper, chromium, phosphorus, magnesium, niacin. It has high fiber content and antioxidants.

This is very easy meal and you will need:

• 1 butternut squash
• 100 g of cooked pearl barley
• 250 g of turkey breast(diced and fried)
• black pepper
• mix of tagine spices
• salt

Peel and cut butternut squash into a cubes, fry in separate pan. On the frying pan, prepare earlier chopped turkey breast, then add fried butternut squash and earlier cooked barley. Mix all together and add 2 tbsp of tagine spices, black pepper and salt. The tagine spices mix is so delicious, so be generous with it. I also added few carrots and green peas.

Delicious and easy to make Millet cake:)))

Millet is a grain which can be use for different purposes and one of my favorite is making a dessert from it.
Millet grain is one of the healthiest grain so is good to add this grain to your diet.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of cooked millet
• 250 g dry cottage cheese( usually you can find it in eastern European shops)
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbs of butter
• 4 tbs of icing sugar or brown sugar
• a pinch of salt( you can also add a half cup of raisins)

The easiest part now is to mix all the ingredients(use your hands or food processor) and place it into a baking tray(aprox. 300 mm x 135 mm x 60 mm). Preheat the oven to 180 C and bake for 40-45 min.

Wait at least one hour before serving.

Enjoy!!!

Millet Grain pancakes:)

Millet is not so popular grain as should be,but it's definitely one of the best nutritious food.
It has very high B-vitamin content, as well as calcium, iron, potassium, zinc, magnesium. Millet is also great source of protein,essential amino acids and dietary fiber. It has no gluten, so if you looking for a gluten free grain, this is your alternative.

Millet can be use for many different ways, like a cereal for breakfast, for a dinner as a vegetables pancakes, or a dessert as a cake.

Today's recipe is for a dinner with a bit salty taste, but delicious meal for sure;)

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup of millet|(need to be cooked, look at the cooking instruction on the package)
• 200 ml of Greek yogurt
• 1/3 cup of flour(plain flour or gluten free flour)
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• 2 eggs
• pepper and salt

After cooking the millet, wait until it will cool down. Then add yogurt, 2 yolks,baking powder, flour. Mix all together. For more flavour add pepper and salt. Beat the eggs white and add this to the rest of the mixed earlier ingredients. Stir it all and fry them as a small pancakes. Each side for a few minutes,till is golden brown.

Enjoy!

Red Lentil Pancakes with vegetables and leeks sauce:)))

Lentils are a rich source of dietary fiber and other very important vitamins and minerals. Cooked lentil provide 18 g of protein per cup with less than 1g of fat and no cholesterol.
Somehow lentil is not so popular, as I would like it to be. Mainly for the health reasons it should be seriously considered by everyone to add this easy to cook bean in our kitchen.
This time I wanted to eat pancakes,not sweet one,but with more oriental taste.

Ingredients:

• 250 g of red lentil(cooking instructions should be at the back of the packaging)
• 1/3 cup of fresh chopped parsley
• just a bit of fresh chopped ginger
• chopped leek
• 3 tbs of potato flour
• 1 egg
• 1 cooked carrot
• a half cup of oats
• 2 tsp of ground cumin
• half a tsp of cayenne pepper
• 2 tsp of sea salt
• a pinch of black pepper

Add all ingredients in to a big bowl,mix them together and fry at the medium heat,each side at least 3 minutes. As for the sauce you just need to chopped 2 leeks, fry  them and add some single soya cream. You can use a bit of salt and pepper to add more flavor.

Enjoy!

Chicken in honey-mustard sauce

I have always like it a honey-mustard sauce, so this time I've used this sauce as a marinate.
It's easy to prepare and taste delicious. First of all You will need a few chicken thighs.

The ingredients for the marinate are:

• 2 tbsp of honey
• 3 tbsp of mustard
• 2 tbsp of olive oil
• 1 tbsp of lemon juice
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed

All the ingredients whisk together, add to the chicken thighs and keep in the fridge for at least an hour.
After that time place the marinate chicken in a roasting dish or casserole dish and put into the preheat oven 180 C for about 1 h.
You can garnish the chicken with any vegetables. I sprinkled the chicken with a bit of sesame seeds.

Enjoy!

Spicy and juicy vegetables with chicken;)

After long brake I finally found some time to add another beautiful meal to my collection.
I have noticed that the simplest dishes are the tastiest.
Very healthy meal, where you will find plenty of vitamins, minerals, protein. You body will thank You for that!

What you need is:

• olive oil
• 2 carrots
• 2 red or white onions
• 2 courgette
• 1 bell pepper
• 4 mushrooms
• 3 potatoes
• cayenne pepper
• oregano
• basil
• ground smoked paprika
• ground garlic
• 2 chicken fillets

You need a big bowl where you going to put all chopped vegetables. Of course you have to wash them first. Then you need to add a table spoon of olive oil and all the spices, as much as you want but you have to be careful with cayenne pepper.
With the chicken fillet I just used a ground paprika, cayenne pepper and basil. Preheat the oven. On the baking tray put a baking paper, place all vegetables and baked for 30-35 minutes on 180C.
The chicken fillets bake for about an hour on 180C.

I love baked vegetables not only because they are easy to make, but they taste great with the spices, they not losing the veggi juices.

Enjoy!

Red Lentil soup with chicken;) Packed with protein and vitamins soup!

This is the first time when I finally made a great meal using a lentil. I was surprise how tasty it is and very easy to prepare. Lentils are the mini version of bean, and they very healthy option which should be add to you daily diet.

Lentils are good source of potassium, calcium, zinc, niacin, vit.K. They are rich in dietary fiber, lean protein, folate and iron.

From now on I'm a big fun of this bean.Its so easy and quick to prepare. My soup can be done with meat version or vegan version.

Ingredients:

• olive oil
• 1 big red onion
• 3-4 carrots
• 3 garlic cloves
• a bit of chopped ginger(optionally)
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper
• half a cup of kale
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 cup of red lentil
• 3-4 cups of vegetable broth(cooked with 1 piece of chicken fillet)
• 3 tbs of tomato puree
• fresh coriander(optionally)

In a sauce pan heat the olive oil, add chopped carrots, onion, garlic. kale. Stir to combine and leave for 5-7 min until the onions are soft. Add all the spices.
Then add the lentils, broth and bay leaves. Bring up to the boil, then turn the heat down, covered until the lentils begin to fall apart for about 20 min. In the end add tomato puree and enjoy!
The taste is just great, spicy, oriental, very rich.