Banana Cake


If you are one of those who love bakery, you must try this out. Wheat-free banana cake is delicious and easy to make. Only basic ingredients like are required, therefore, even beginners would not find it hard to prepare. It is low in calories and fats, making it suitable for people who would like to lead a healthy but enjoyable life. Let’s follow the below recipe and try it out now:

Serve: 16 Calories: 95 Fat: 0.9gm

2 eggs
½ cup raw sugar
4 medium bananas
½ tsp baking soda
1 Ÿ cups brown rice flour
½ tsp baking powder

Beat the egg with the sugar for about 7-8 minutes until triple in volume. Mash the bananas and add the baking soda, then fold into the egg mix. Combine the rice flour with the baking powder and fold into the banana mix gently but quickly. Pour into a non-stick baking tin and bake at 160C for approximately 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Five-vegetable Juice


Serves: 1 Calories: 109 Fat: 1.1gm

. 2 medium red tomatoes
. 1 clove garlic
. 5 small cucumbers
. 1 red bell pepper
. 1 tsp lime juice

Wash all the ingredients well. Perhaps the juicer and process all the ingredients together. Serve immediately.

For cold juice, chill the vegetables well before making the juice. Drink immediately for maximum benefit from this natural “vitamin pill”.

Thai fresh fruit salad



Rose apple
Fresh and crunchy with a mild fragrant flavour, the rose apple is a small pinkish-red, pear-shaped fruit. Although a juicy thirst-quencher, it does not have much flavour of its own and is mainly used in dishes to absorb and complement other flavours. Traditionally in Indochina it is used to make a cooling drink, administered for fevers

Serves 4 Calories: 97.96 Fat: 3.78g

4 tbsp fresh orange juice
2 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tbsp honey
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 bird’s eye chillies, chopped
120g (4 1/4 oz) red apple, diced
120g (4 1/4 oz) rose apple, diced
100g (3 1/2 oz) green apple, diced
60g (2 1/4 oz) cherry tomatoes, seeded and sliced
60g (2 1/4 oz) guava, diced
40g (1 1/2 oz) grapes, halved lengthways
40g (1 1/2 oz) string beans, cut into 2.5cm (1 inch) lengths and crushed
80g (2 2/3 oz) green mango, julienned
30g (1 oz) carrot, julienned
8 tbsp roasted ground almonds

To prepare dressing, mix orange juice, lime juice, soy sauce, honey, garlic and chillies in a large bowl. Add red apple, rose apple, and green apple, cherry tomatoes, guava, grapes and string beans to the dressing. Mix well, and then add green mango and carrot. Sprinkle with roasted ground almonds and serve.

Carrot casserole

Casserole dishes form the main part of the hot dishes served at Christmas. They are very useful from the hostesses’ point of view because they can be prepared well in advance. They keep well for two or three days when stored in a cool place the flavor of the rutabaga casserole, for instance, improves with reheating.

Homemade casseroles are Finnish cuisine at its best: nutritiuos and much easier to prepare than one would imagine and also exceptionally economical.

Preparation time: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes + 1 1/2 hours
Oven temperature: 350 °F (175°C)
Suitable for freezing

3/4 cup (2 dl) rice
1 1/2 cups (4 dl) water
1/2 cup (1,2 dl) milk
3 teaspoons salt
3 lb. (1 1/2 kg) carrots
3/4 cup (2 al) milk or a mixture of cream and milk
1/4 cup (50g) butter
3 eggs
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons salt
Coating: dried breadcrumbs, butter

1. Boil the rice in the water and milk mixture and cook until the rice starts to thicken just a bit.
2. Peel and grate the carrots.
3. Mix the grated carrots, milk, melted butter, eggs and spices into the rice pudding.
4. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish. Sprinkle with dried breadcrumbs and dot with butter. Bake in the oven until brown all over.