Savoury Pumpkin Loaf

This delicious recipe was adapted from one I found in a Woolworths catalogue. I simply substituted the white flour for oat flour and didn't add some of the unnecessary ingredients to make it more calorie friendly. 

Ingredients

650g diced pumpkin

1 onion

250g sliced mushrooms

¼ c cashews

3 eggs

½ c oat flour

½ cheese

1c spinach

Method

Roast pumpkin until softened. Fry onion and mushrooms. Toast cashews and chop finely. Combine pumpkin, onion, mushrooms, and cashews with the oat flour, eggs, cheese and spinach. Spoon into loaf pan and sprinkle with extra cheese. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

265 CALORIES PER SLICE – MAKES 6

Chocolate Protein Brownies

I love the fact I can eat brownies without feeling guilty! These had me really suspicious. The batter was ok, when they came out of the oven they were alright but the next day, they were delicious! I made 12 brownies and worked it out to be approximately 67 calories per slice.

Chocolate Protein Brownies

1 large overripe mashed banana
1/2 cup of oats blended into flour
3 tb cocoa
2 tb stevia
2 scoops chocolate protein powder
1 whole egg
1 egg white
1/2 cup almond milk
1/2 cup vanilla no fat yogurt (makes everything I bake so moist!)

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Blend oats, cocoa, stevia and protein powder together and then add to a mixing bowl. Blend banana, eggs, almond milk and yogurt until smooth and add to the dry mixture. Stir until combined and pour into a baking tray. Bake for approximately 20 minutes but keep checking it as I think there would be a fine line between nice and rock hard. It will be cooked when you can skewer it and it comes out clean.

The next night I hadn't eaten very much so had lots of calories to make up and really felt like something sweet so I combined half a banana with half a scoop of protein powder and 2 tb almond milk and whipped it up until it was mousse consistency. I popped that in the freezer for about an hour, broke up one of the protein brownies and drizzled PB2 on top. Best. Dessert. Ever. Made me feel like I was eating healthy Cold Rock!