Acai Bowl

Recently I've been looking at healthy snack recipes, getting bored of the same old smoothie recipes and I stumbled across an Acai bowl (basically just a bunch of fruit blended up topped with granola and more fruits). So here is the recipe I tried which was make shift because I didn't have all the ingredients.

To make this Acai bowl I used;

- Handful frozen raspberries
- Handful frozen strawberries
- Handful of blackberries
- 1/2 banana
- 1 table spoon of ground organic flaxseed
- 1 cup almond milk
- Granola


Method ;

I blended all the ingredients together in a blender for about 1 minute and then poured the contents out into a bowl, added granola and some honey to make it taste even better, and voila you have yourself a quick healthy snack. What's your favourite healthy snack?

Wagamamas Dining Experience

I had Wagamama for dinner tonight and loooooved it. I've been there a few times before but today I decided to try something new and I was really happy with it. 

For those of you that haven't been to Wagamama's before it's a traditional Japanese and Asian inspired  restaurant that offers dining in a casual setting. 

I love the features of this restaurant, the service is always really friendly and quick. They've incorporated Japanese-style seating and the whole feel of the restaurant is quite unique. Anyways that's enough from me, i'll go onto what i enjoyed tonight... 

 pulled pork gyoza - this was delish **

 grilled pork bulgogi wrap

Chilli Squid with shichimi sauce

 Prawn Raisukaree

Teriyaki Chicken Donburi

As you can see alot of eating went on (obviously I had some assistance with that - thanks bae;)) but I really did enjoy everything tonight, I remember my first trip to Wagamama didn't end so well but now I've mastered the art of choosing what's best on the menu. I didn't get to have a desert because by that time i was just too full, but next time i'll eat with caution to make sure there's room to try something from the desert menu. 

Wagamama' have recently added a online recipe book and i'm definitely going to have a try at cooking some dishes from there sometime soon and see how that turns out!

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Prawn, Avocado & Watermelon Salad

         

    For the saints                                                                       For the sinners

This super healthy & tasty dish is so quick and easy to make it requires next to zero effort. It's packed full of all that good stuff and is 3 of you're 5 a day if you're counting! The picture on the left was before i decided to go all out and add cheese and dressing just for more flavour as i was feeling peckish but that's completely optional. 

To make this salad I used;

- 1/2 bag of mixed leaves

- Handful of prawns

- 1 whole mini avocado

- 1/3 of watermelon

- Table spoon caesar dressing (optional)

- Table spoon Parmesan cheese (optional)

- Sliced lemon (optional)

Method - 

 I actually baked the prawn and avocado in this salad just because i wanted to try something new. I marinated the prawns with a clove of garlic by grinding the clove and mixing it with the prawns in a small bowl. I also added some a teaspoon of lemon juice into the bowl and left it to soak up all the flavour for about half an hour. However, most frozen prawns are already pre-cooked and only require defrosting which would save you a lot of time if you're in a hurry. 

To bake the avocado i simply cut it up into 4 quadrants and placed it in a baking tray alongside the pre-marinated prawns and left it in the oven for about 15 minutes.  When the prawns and avocado were ready, i just put my salad ingredients all together in my bowl, added the prawns and avocado then i was done!

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Reggae Reggae Chicken Salad

Chicken salads are pretty much irresistible to me. Here's my recipe for a tasty chicken salad perfect for a light lunch or dinner.

I Used :

- Chicken ( Preferably breast fillets) 

- 1/2 a sachet Reggae reggae jerk bbq marinade 

- 1/2 a sachet So Juicy sticky bbq marinade

- 1 tablespoon olive oil

- Salt & Pepper

- Mixed fresh peppers

- Mixed salad greens

- Avacado

- Chickpeas & sweetcorn ( optional ) 

- Grated mature cheese

Marinating the perfect chicken :

 Cut up the chicken breast fillets into any shape or size you prefer. Also cut the peppers into medium- sized pieces. Bring the chicken and the pepper into a bowl ready for marination.

 - Now add one tablespoon of olive oil to the bowl and season with salt and black pepper.

 - Finally, add in the jerk bbq marinade and so sticky marinade and mix together until all the chicken is covered in the seasoning.

I then left my chicken in the fridge for a few hours to let it soak in the flavour.

When it was ready i put it on a baking tray and stuck it in the oven for 30 minutes turning it around half way through.

When the chicken is cooked through just mix your salad ingredients together, add the chicken on top and voila. 

Salmon & Couscous Salad

Salmon has recently become my faves because it tastes so damn good and is also good for you so that's a double win. I love salmon and couscous salad because its so quick and simple to make and is also filling.

I found this simple recipee online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/couscoussaladwithpan_93103 but had to tweek the recipee a little bit to go with the ingrediants i had available and this was the final result:

Salmon & Couscous Salad 

Calories : 315