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Super healthy, mouth-watering recipes to try out

Whether it’s for yourself and your household, or for guests you’ll be hosting – It’s sometimes difficult to prepare food that’s as healthy as it is delicious. 

Luckily, we stumbled upon some winning recipes! These recipes are sugar-free, high protein, vegan and keto and calorie controlled – and tastes amazing.

Peanut butter & vanilla protein cookies

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Ingredients

  • 80g Instant Protein Porridge
  • 20ml milk (2 tbsp)
  • 40g Peanut butter
  • 20ml maple syrup/honey

Tips

If you don’t want to roll cookie dough out, make little balls with your hands and flatten nicely with a fork. You can add choc chips to this recipe!

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees.
  2. In a bowl, mix your nut butter, milk and sticky sweetener of choice. If they are not combining, heat mixture up in the microwave for 30 seconds.
  3. To that bowl, add your porridge.
  4. Use your hands to form a dough and let it rest for 5 minutes.
  5. Roll dough out to the thickness of a R5 coin between two sheets of baking paper.
  6. Cut out cookie shapes.
  7. Bake for 8 minutes or until golden brown!

 

Cherry & vanilla protein smoothie

Ingredients

  • 1 frozen banana
  • 1/2 cup frozen cherries
  • 20g Vanilla Instant Protein Porridge Premix
  • 1 cup milk of choice/water
  • Sweetener drops/honey
  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • 20g Vegan Brownie Premix  (optional)

Instructions

  1. Combine 1 frozen banana, 1/2 cup frozen cherries, 20g Vanilla Instant Protein Por ridge premix, sweetener and 1 cup milk or walk to a blender.
  2. Blend until combined.
  3. Add ice and blend again.
  4. Add more milk or ice and blend to desired consistency.
  5. Add 20g Vegan Brownie Premix and stir through if you want to add a chocolate taste.
  6. Top with your fav crunchy bits or granola.
  7. Enjoy!

 

Apple & cinnamon protein waffles

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Instant Vanilla Protein Porridge
  • 1 egg
  • 120ml milk of choice
  • Additional 30ml milk of choice
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup chopped apples
  • Ice cream for serving

 Instructions

  1. In a medium sized bowl add 1 cup Instant Vanilla Protein Porridge
  2. In a separate bowl whisk 1 egg and add 120ml milk of choice.
  3. Add milk and egg mixture to the Vanilla Protein Porridge and mix to combine.
  4. Add 1 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp cinnamon to the mixture and mix.
  5. Add your additional 30ml milk of choice and stir until combined.
  6. Add 1/2 cup chopped apple to the batter and mix until incorporated.
  7. Spoon batter onto greased waffle iron and cook for about 5 minutes making sure it doesn’t burn
  8. Top with vanilla ice cream and apple slices!
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