Honey Peach Chicken Skewers

It’s summer time again, well almost. This time of year South-African’s love to braai (barbeque). Sometimes I get tired of the same old thing over and over again. So we tried something new for the grill. It’s quick and easy to make, and tastes real good. Hope you enjoy it.

   

Honey Peach Chicken Skewers

Makes 4 skewers

Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts cubed

250g Dried peaches

60ml Honey slightly warmed in the microwave to make it runny

Chicken spice

You will also need skewers.

Method:

Stack the chicken and peaches on the skewer.

Baste the chicken with Honey and lightly spice it with the chicken spice.

Braai until cooked, it will take about 10 – 15 minutes.

Enjoy with summer salads.

Breakfast Health Rusks

So I’ve never tried making rusks before, and I must say it didn’t go too bad. Except that it maybe burned a little, and my right bicep is twice the size than my left one. I will definitely make this recipe again.

I found the base of this recipe on the beautiful Nigella’s website (thank you!!) I made a few changes to suit our taste and lifestyle, and viola, a tasty breakfast rusk.

Almond, Cranberry, Health Rusks.

Health Rusk

Ingredients

1 Kg Self raising Flour
15 ml Baking Powder
5 ml Salt
4 Cups All Bran Flakes
2 Cups Oats
1 Cup Sunflower Seeds
1 Dried Cranberries
1 Almonds (shavings)
1 Cup Coconut
3 Wheat-Bix blocks crumbled up  
500g Butter
1 1/2 Cups Brown Sugar
4 Large Eggs
500 ml Buttermilk
125ml Milk

Method

1. Heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius 
2. Mix all dry ingredients in your biggest mixing bowl. 
3. Melt Butter in pot and add sugar, stir until sugar is dissolved. Cool down for a few minutes. 
4. Add Butter mix to dry ingredients. 
5. Beat Eggs, Buttermilk and Milk together and add to mixture - Mix all until well combined 
6. Divide dough into baking trays. Press dough down and mark rusks with a sharp knife. 
7. Bake for 1 hour. - Let cool in Baking trays. 
8. Set oven to 100 degrees Celsius
9. Cut rusks on marked lines and lift rusks out onto bigger trays or foil-lined oven rack. There has to be some spaces between rusks.
10. Dry rusks out for 4 hours. (mine only needed 3 hours)

These rusks looks good and tastes great (after I scraped of the burned bits). If you don’t have time to eat in the mornings, this would make a great snack to keep you going.

Happy Baking!!

Yoghurt Pudding

So maybe I have a bit of a sweet tooth, I love desserts! As a kid I never used to eat chocolates or sweets, my mom always tell people about how I once threw a tantrum in the grocery store because I wanted an apple. If only it stayed this way.

Over the years I’ve fell in love with desserts especially cheese cake. This weekend I tried to be a bit adventurous and my family was the food critics. I was a bit uncertain if my idea would work, and I must admit I was very nervous!

My dad loves pudding and has very high standards when it comes to his beloved dessert. What happened? It was a great success! YAY!

I created a yummy, cheese cake inspired pudding. It tasted so good, and it is so healthy. The combinations can be endless, and I hope you have fun creating your own combinations. I’m even considering using this as a breakfast in summer.

Yoghurt Pudding

Yoghurt Pudding 
Ingredients:
Plain Yoghurt
Honey
Lemon Juice
Dried cranberries
Dried cling peaches
Tennis biscuit


Directions: 

1. First dice the dried cranberries and peaches in to smaller pieces. Put it in a pot with just enough boiling water to cover the pieces. Stew the fruit until all the water has cooked away, this will release the natural sweetness of the dried fruit and allow the flavours to marry. 
2. Now take 2 cups of plain yoghurt, add 2 tablespoons of honey and 1 teaspoon of lemon (obviously you can flavour it to your taste). Put the yoghurt in the microwave on high for 1 minute, take it out and stir. Put it back in for another minute, again stir and set it aside. 
3. Now comes the easy part. Crush the tennis biscuits and put it at the bottom of your ramekins. 
4. Put a layer of the stewed fruit over the tennis biscuits followed by the warm yoghurt. 
5. Leave in the fridge to cool and set for at least 2 hours. 

Layers before adding the warm yoghurt

As you can see this is a super easy and very versatile recipe. You can try different ingredients, yoghurts, even add spices like cinnamon. This could also make a nice breakfast if you use oats or muesli instead of tennis biscuit. Definitely a keeper in my recipe book.

I hope this recipe inspires you to try something different this week!