“Eating is spiritual. And eating food with loved ones is truly communion with God. Do your best to eat the food you love with people you love :) it makes it taste better.” ~ Munachi Abii

Naked Spicy Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Serves: 8-10
Prep time: 1hr30 mins

Ingredients:
4C Flour
4 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
4 tsp Ground Cinnamon
4 tsp Mixed Spice
1 tsp Nutmeg
1 tsp Salt
6 Eggs
1 1/2C Buttermilk
1 1/4C Oil
3C Castor Sugar
2 tsp Vanilla paste/essence
4C Grated Carrots
2C Desiccated Coconut
2C Pistachio Nuts, chopped
2 Cans crushed Pineapple
1 1/2C Raisins

Cream Cheese Frosting:
2C Cream Cheese
1C Softened Butter
2C Icing Sugar
Zest of 1 Orange

Method:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
Sift all the dry ingredients together(except fruit, nuts and coconut).
In another bowl mix the buttermilk and oil together. Thoroughly mix the wet and dry ingredients together.
Then mix the rest of the ingredients together and gently fold into the batter.
Spoon into a prepared cake tin. (You may divide into 3 tins to make 3 layers).
Bake for 1 hour or until testing pin comes out clean when inserted.
Cool completely before icing.
For the icing, beat all the ingredients together until light and fluffy.
Lightly ice all the layers together to create a cake sandwich then dirty ice the entire cake. Pipe the rest of the icing on top and garnish with edible flowers bad chocolate.

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Strawberry Mango Smoothie Bowl

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You’ll get to know by the end of this book that we are very simple cooks, easy peezy, lemon squeezy and straight to the point. We don’t spend too much time in the kitchen because we don’t really like waiting long for our meal. This is the perfect smoothie

Ingredients:
1/2 Banana, frozen
1 C Strawberries, frozen
1 Kiwi
1 C Mango, frozen
1/2 C Mixed Berries, frozen
2/2 C Coconut Water

Topping:
Fresh Strawberries, halved
Mangoes, sliced
Kiwis, sliced

Method:
Put all the ingredients together in a blender. B.end till smooth.
Divide into bowls and garnish with toppings.

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Raspberry Coconut Smoothie Bowls

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Serves: 2
Prep time: 5 mins

This is the perfect smoothie for Sunday morning or Sunday evening after the ITIS you’ll be recovering from.

Ingredients:
1 Banana, frozen
2 C Mixed Berries, frozen
2/3 C Coconut Milk

Topping:
1 Tbs Chia Seeds
Fresh Bananas, sliced
Toasted Coconut Flakes
Fresh Raspberries
Chia Seeds

Method:
Hydrate Chia seeds in the coconut milk for about 5 mins.
In a blender, throw all the ingredients in and blend to a smooth consistency.
Divide into 2 bowls and garnish with toppings.

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Kale Smoothie

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Serves: 2
Prep time: 4 mins

We started being health conscious a lot when we started traveling. We heard that everybody comes back home from America fat so we didn’t want that to be us at all. We watched everything we ate and had minimal cheat days. You were never going to catch us slipping… No, no, no.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 Banana, frozen
1 C Kale
2 Kiwis, ripe
2 C Almond Milk
1 tsp Honey
1 Tbs Chia Seeds
1/2 C Ice

Method:
Blend all ingredients together until smoothie.

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Ginger and Carrot Juice

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Serves: 2
Prep time: 5 mins

We got ourselves a juicer as a birthday present to ourselves, but our younger brother Kgomotso is sick of us because we juice EVERYTHING. Add pineapple to this recipe if you’re not a huge fan of carrots because this juice is very “carroty” (it would be awkward if it wasn’t, but you get what we are saying right?).

Ingredients:
15cm Ginger
8 Large Carrots
1-2 Green Apples

Method:
Pass the fruits and veggies in a juicer or nutribullet, add more ginger if you desire.
Serve with some ice.

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Mango Smoothie

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Serves: 2
Prep time: 5 mins

Always freeze your fruits, they make the most amazing cold smoothies, you won’t have to worry about chilling your smoothie first or adding too much ice to your drink.

Ingredients:
1C Mangoes, cubed and frozen
1/2C Pineapple, frozen
1/2C Bananas, frozen
1 Tbs Honey
1 Tbs Lemon Juice
1/2C Ice Cubes
1/2C Spinach (optional)

Method:
Blitz all the ingredients together until smooth.
Serve chilled.

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ROOIBOS INFUSED BOBOTIE SAMOOSAS

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FILLING:
1 onion, finely chopped
15 ml curry powder
2 ml cumin
3 ml tumeric
500 g beef mince
40 ml chutney
40 ml raisins
250 ml strongly brewed Rooibos tea
1 egg

SAMOOSAS:
15 sheets spring roll pastry
15 ml maïzena paste
Sunflower oil, for frying

Heat oil in a saucepan. Sauté onions till transparent. Add curry powder, cumin and tumeric. Fry for 1 minute.
Add the mince and cook till browned.
Add the Chutney, raisins and tea.
Cook for about 10-15 minutes till the sauce thickens.
Adjust seasoning.
Cool slightly, then add the egg.
Place 1 pastry sheet in a diamond shape in from of you. Place about 2 Tbls of filling in a line on the corner closest to you. Fold over to enclose the filling.
Bring the two side corners in over the filling and roll up tightly.
*You could either fold them like a spring roll or samosa.
Brush the end piece of the pastry with maïzena paste to seal it.
Fry patty in medium hot oil for about 5 minutes till golden brown. Drain on paper towels.
Serve with extra Chutney.

 

WILD CHERRY & CRANBERRY ROOIBOS MALIBU SUNSET

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INGREDIENTS:
1/2 Rooibos ice cubes
1/2 cup cranberry juice
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1/4 cup Malibu coconut rum
Grenadine, drizzled
Maraschino cherries, for garnish
Pomegranate rubies, for garnish

To make ice cubes, brew your tea normally, cook it down completely and pour into ice cube moulds and freeze till ready to use.
Add ice to glass, add the juices, the Malibu rum and stir.
Pour into glasses. Drizzle in the grenadine. Garnish.
Serve immediately. Drink is intended for only those who consume alcohol.

ROOIBOS INFUSED VANILLA ICE-CREAM

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INGREDIENTS:
11/4 cup milk
5 Tbls Rooibos loose tea leaves
2 eggs
1/2 cup castor sugar
2 Tbls vanilla paste
2 cups cream

In a saucepan, bring the milk to the boil and turn off heat. Add the tea leaves and allow to infuse for about 5 minutes. Allow to cool.
Beat the eggs and sugar till fluffy, add the vanilla paste and beat till well combined. Add just one cup of the cooled milk tea to the egg mixture as well as the cream and briefly mix.
Run mixture through an ice-cream maker according to instructions.

**if you don’t have an ice-cream maker, beat the cream until stiff, fold in the egg mixture and the milk. Make sure to not beat the air out.
Pour mixture into a plastic freezer bowl and freeze for about 6-8 hours. Mix the ice-cream every 11/2 hours.

Zucchini Bolognaise

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Serves: 4-6
Prep time: 20-25 mins

we really love turning our favorite dishes into low calorie dishes without going on a “cardboard” or “ice” diet. You can’t even tell that it’s not real pasta. Remember, don’t boil the zucchini pasta at all, it will become zucchini pap. If you like fresh vegetables like us, put raw zucchini pasta on your plate, pour hot Bolognaise sauce over and voila.

Ingredients:
2 Tbs Olive Oil
1 Onion, finely chopped
2 Tbs Minced Garlic
1 Red Chili, chopped
500g Beef Mince
1/4C Curry Paste
1 Red Pepper, chopped
500g Napoletana Pasta Sauce
500g Zucchini Pasta
1/4C Grated Parmesan Cheese

Method:
Heat oil on medium heat in a frying pan. Sauté onion and garlic till soft. Add in the chili and stir. Add mince, cook for 5-7 mins or until browned.
Add curry paste and cook for another 2 mins. Add the red pepper and pasta sauce. Simmer for 5 mins. Add the Zuchini pasta into the mince sauce.
Cook and stir for 1-2 mins.
Zuchini must still be a little crunchy.
Serve with Parmesan cheese.

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