Chicken teriyaki

A Japanese classic. Found the recipe in one of my mum's magazines and the result turned out to be quite nice.

Ingredients
serves 4
800 g chicken fillet (preferably thighs or breast cut into smaller pieces)
2 tbsp grated ginger
2 garlic cloves
½ finely chopped chili
4 tbsp mirin (Japanese rice vinegar)
75 ml soy sauce
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tsp potato flour
1 tbsp sesame seeds

Peel and finely chop the garlic. Mix mirin, soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic and chili in a plastic bag. Add the chicken pieces and make sure all are covered. Let them marinate for about 15 minutes.
Take out the chicken pieces from the marinade and fry them in some oil in a frying pan. Put the pieces in a pot instead, pour of the marinade and add 100 ml water. Simmer under lid for about 40 minutes. Mix the potato flour with 2 tbsp water in a separate bowl. Add this mixture to the pot and let it boil. Sprinkle over the sesame seeds and serve with stir-fry veggies and some rice (if wanted).

Hanna's sweet potato moussaka

I've never made moussaka before and I'm pretty sure this is not really the way to make it but I wanted to try and make my own version of it using sweet potato. Not really sure if it can even be called moussaka but that's the only name I could come up with.

Ingredients
serves 3-4
400 g mince meat
1 onion
1 capsicum
1 garlic clove
200 ml passata
cayenne pepper
oregano
paprika powder
salt and pepper

125 ml cream
150 g grated cheese
25 g butter
extra cheese for topping

1 sweet potato, peeled
1 eggplant

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
Chop the onion, garlic and capsicum finely. Fry off in some olive oil for a few minutes. Then add the minced meat and let it get brown. Add the passata together with all the spices and let it simmer together for about 5-10 minutes. While it's simmering; add the butter and the cream together in a separate pot. Let it get warm, then add the cheese and let it melt. Cut the sweet potato and eggplants into slices about ½ cm thick.
Grease an ovenproof dish with some butter. Add a layer of the meat sauce, follow with the sliced aubergine, then add one thin layer of the cheese sauce. Put on the rest of the meat sauce, then the sliced sweet potato and last finish it off with the rest of the cheese sauce and top off with some extra cheese. Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes.

Breakfast bake

I wanted to try something else to have for breakfast other than the usual eggs and bacon or pancakes. So I found this recipe which we decided to try; Paleo Breakfast Bake. I put a little bit of whatever I had at home in it.

Ingredients
serves 3-4
6 eggs
3 beef sausages
3 slices bacon
1 onion
½ capsicum
1 tsp paprika powder
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp turmeric
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Fry off the sausages and the bacon for a couple of minutes. Let them cool.
Put all ingredients in a bowl (including the sausages and bacon) and fold gently to combine everything.
Pour into a greased oven-proof dish.
Bake for 45 minutes.

Cauliflower mash

Something I've heard of lately but I've never tried was mash made from cauliflower. Yesterday we tried it and had it together with a nice steak and a few greens beans. It was really, really nice and super easy to make.

Boil the florets of a cauliflower head until soft; about 10-15 minutes.
Drain the water.
Add a big nob of butter (or however much you want) then mash using a hand mixer until smooth.
Add in some cream (I only used about 2 tbsp since I thought the mash was already quite soft).
Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Very easy, very tasty and a perfect alternative in order to have a low carb meal.