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• Den's ice cream

• Coconut Oil Bread (using a bread maker).  Tasty and nutritious.

• Pancakes

• Marrakesh Chicken and Lentils

• Organic Carrot Cake

• Quick and Tasty Coconut Spuds

DEN’S ICE CREAM RECIPE

1 tin of coconut milk
2 egg yolks
about 4 tablespoons of coconut oil in liquid form
juice of a lime and the zest
150 ml water
a packet of gelatin or carageen to make up 1 pint of jelly
sweetener of your choice.

Method:  Prepare the gelatin or carageen in the water according to the instructions on the packet and stir well to make sure it dissolves.

Blend the coconut milk (both the more solid cream and the milk from the tin), virgin coconut oil and egg yolks together thoroughly, add the lime juice and zest and blend again then add the water/gelatin mix and blend again.

At this point I add my sweetener. I use either a herb called stevia or a sweetener called splenda. The freezing of the ice cream will make the taste less sweet than it tastes at this stage, so I add enough sweetener to make the mix taste a bit too sweet. This needs a little experimentation and the results depend on the sweetener you use and how sweet you like it.

Then I pour it into my ice cream maker and 20 minutes later I have a wonderfully healthy coconut and lime ice cream. You could pour it into a container and freeze it in the freezer if you don't have an ice cream maker.

Notes:
I also use a few drops of lime oil, which adds a wonderful kick but it's very hard to find here in the UK. I got mine from the American Spice Company. You could do the same with lemon oil, which is easier to find here, or if you want more lime flavour add the zest of another lime.

The gelatin or carageen jelly mix is to stop the ice cream freezing solid in the ice cream maker. Without sugar it would start to go solid very quickly and ruin your machine. The jelly replaces the action of the sugar so that you can churn the ice cream without a disaster.

Be warned, after it has been frozen in your freezer it will need some time to thaw out before eating as it will freeze very hard. Commercial ice creams have sugar as well as other additives that stop ice cream from freezing solid, but homemade ice cream sets rock hard.  So give it time to start to thaw before you eat it. Or pour it into lolly moulds.

As I use a machine to churn my ice cream I don't know if the coconut oil would come out of suspension if you simply made up the mix and put it into the freezer to set. I haven't tried this yet.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Here's a tip from Lori Holland, one of our American readers who has found a way to stop ice cream from freezing solid.  A tip that she picked up in Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook means that after the freezing the ice cream in an ice cream maker, she "ripens" it.

To "ripen" ice cream (or frozen yoghurt) you need to use a traditional style ice cream freezer.  After churning, remove the lid and dasher and cover the top of the freezer with waxed paper or foil.  Plug the hole in the lid with a small piece of cloth; replace the lid.  Pack the outer freezer bucket with enough ice and rock salt to cover the top of the freezer can using 4 cups of ice to 1 cup of salt.  Ripen for about 4 hours.

When using an ice cream freezer with an insulated can, after churning remove dasher and replace lid.  Cover lid with ice and cover with a towel.  Ripen for about 4 hours.  Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook - 11th edition.

COCONUT OIL BREAD RECIPE FOR BREAD MACHINE

In this order:

360 ml water
1 tablespoon sugar
1 heaped teaspoon salt
350 gm wholemeal flour (organic if possible)
150 gm plain flour (organic if possible)
3 tablespoons virgin coconut oil
1 packet yeast
sprinkle sesame seeds on top once the dough has stopped rotating

For extra flavour and crunch add one or more of the following at the recommended time for your machine: broken walnuts -  pumpkin seeds -  sunflower seeds - linseeds

PANCAKES

2 eggs
2 tablespoons virgin coconut oil
1 teaspoon molasses
1/8 teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons sifted flour
60 grams baking powder

Blend together eggs, oil, coconut milk, sugar, and sea salt. Combine flour with baking powder and thoroughly mix into batter. Heat 1 tablespoon of coconut oil in a frying pan. Spoon batter into hot pan making pancakes about 2.5 to 3 inches in diameter. Batter will be thick but will flatten out when cooking. Makes about 8 pancakes.

MARRAKESH CHICKEN AND LENTILS

• 1 tbsp. Virgin Coconut oil

• 4 skinless chicken breasts chopped into pieces

• 6oz wholemeal flour

• 8 oz brown lentils, rinsed and picked over

• 1 bunch spring onions, chopped

• 12 whole dried apricots (3 oz.), quartered

• 5oz golden raisins

• 2oz fresh parsley, chopped

• 1/2 tsp. fresh ginger, chopped

• 1/2 tsp. Salt, or to taste

• 1/4 tsp. EACH ground allspice, cinnamon, cumin and red pepper (cayenne)

• 120ml water with 1 teaspoon of vegetable Bouillon powder dissolved into it.

Heat oven to 350°F.

Heat the coconut oil in a frying pan

Coat the chicken pieces with flour, shaking off excess.

Add to frying pan and cook until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Remove and place on a plate.

Add lentils, spring onions, apricots, raisins, parsley, ginger, salt and spices to frying pan. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute.

Transfer to an oven proof dish.  Put the chicken on top.  Add water, cover and place in oven.  Bake 30 minutes, uncover and bake 20 minutes longer or until chicken and lentils are tender.

Serves 4

ORGANIC CARROT CAKE

• 8oz organic grated carrots

• 8oz organic soft brown sugar

• 6oz organic virgin coconut oil

• 4oz organic plain wholemeal flour

• 2oz organic chopped walnuts 

• 2 organic free range eggs

• Grated zest of 1 organic orange

• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Beat all the above ingredients together and place in a baking tin greased with virgin coconut oil.  Cook in preheated oven at 180^oC / 350^oF for 45 - 60minutes. (Check with a metal skewer - the cake is ready when it doesn't stick!)

QUICK AND TASTY COCONUT “SPUDS” (POTATOES)

Ingredients:

• 1 LARGE BAKING POTATO PER PERSON (preferably organic)

• 1 CLOVE GARLIC PER PERSON (preferably organic)

• 1 DESSERT SPOON OF ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL PER PERSON

Preheat oven to 200^oC.  Melt the coconut oil in the oven in a large baking dish. Peel and thickly slice the potatoes and the garlic and place them in the dish, making sure they are well covered with the melted coconut oil.  Sprinkle to taste with organic sea salt.  Check them after 20 minutes and turn.  Cook for a further 20 minutes, or until crunchy (and very yummy!)

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