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?

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.