The Yoga Nut

Recipes

Yoga & Nutrition: Yoga Nut!

Yoga and nutrition go hand in hand.

What we eat can gently support how we move, breathe and feel, on and off the mat. I like to keep things simple, seasonal and kind, listening to what the body needs rather than following rules.

My Day Yoga Retreats are paired with a nourishing recipe to match the mood of the practice. Here are a few favourites to enjoy at home.

Omega-3 Cake with Bananas

Ingredients

  • 2 bananas
  • 2 handfuls of golden linseeds
  • 2 handfuls of sultanas or raisins
  • 4 oz of cashews
  • 3 oz of organic self-raising flour or almond flour
  • 1 dessert spoon of coconut oil
  • 1 egg (whisked)
  • Ground sweet cinnamon, to taste
  • A drop of milk

Method

  • Soak the cashews in around ½ pint hot water, then whizz them up with the bananas.
  • Add the sultanas, linseeds and cinnamon, then wait for the mixture to cool.
  • Stir in the flour and the egg, then pour into a rectangular tin and bake at 150–160°C for around 30 minutes, or until the cake passes the “knife test”.
  • Turn out onto a wire cooling rack and store in an air-tight container when cool.

Breakfast Tea Bread

Ingredients

  • 4–6 teabags (Earl Grey / Builders / Assam etc.)
  • 2 oranges (juiced)
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • 5 dates (finely chopped)
  • 3 oz of cashews
  • 2 oz of sunflower seeds
  • 2 oz of pumpkin seeds
  • 3 oz of almond flour
  • 3 oz of wholemeal flour
  • 1 inch of raw chopped / grated ginger
  • 1 dessert spoonful of coconut oil
  • 2 handfuls of sultanas

Method

  • Soak the teabags, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and sultanas in a bowl of hot water for an hour.
  • Remove the teabags and whizz up the ingredients.
  • Add the ginger, orange juice, dates and lemon zest.
  • Gently fold in the flours.
  • Line a cake tin with coconut oil and bake in the oven for around 30 mins at 160°C.
  • Turn out onto a wire tray to cool, then transfer to an air-tight container.

Spring Equinox Apple Loaf

Ingredients

  • 4 oz of butter
  • 3 handfuls of raisins soaked in Earl Grey tea
  • 3 chopped apples (cooked in butter until soft)
  • 6 oz of plain baking flour
  • 3 oz of chestnut flour
  • 2 oz of ground almonds
  • 1 handful of whole almonds
  • 3 oz of coconut sugar
  • Any sort of milk (you can use almond milk)
  • 2 handfuls of golden linseeds
  • 1 egg (beaten)
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Method

  • Rub in the butter with the flours and ground almonds.
  • Add the raisins and Earl Grey tea (discard compost teabags).
  • Mix thoroughly with the apples, sugar, linseeds and bicarbonate of soda.
  • Stir in the beaten egg.
  • Add milk if needed.
  • Give it all a jolly good stir and pour into a 1 lb cake tin lined with coconut oil or butter.
  • Place in a preheated oven. After about 10 minutes add the whole almonds to the top of the cake at judicious points.
  • Return to the oven and cook until a blunt knife comes out clean.