Tag: food habits

Chocolate Matcha Coconut Cupcakes

My friends are coming over for a cup of tea today, so I decided to put my apron on and bake cupcakes! Today I’ll be making chocolate flavoured cupcakes with green matcha & coconut icing. Like many of my recipes, this one is created for people who are intolerant to dairy and gluten, but nonetheless the cupcakes still taste amazing.matcha-green-tea-cupcakes-chocolate-frosting_511218

Yield: – 12-15 cupcakes, prep time – 30 min, baking time – 30 minutes, total time – 1 hour

Macros:

Total calories per portion:  about 260 kcal

Protein – about 5g

Carbs – about  15g

Fat – about  20g

Ingredients:

Cupcakes

  • 200ml almond milk
  • 3 scoops of vanilla protein (optional)
  • 2 Tbsp stevia
  • 80ml cup rice bran oil (you can use peanut or almond butter if you prefer but the dough will be drier) 
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 240g gluten-free flour
  • 3 Tbsp Cocoa powder
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 1/2 tsp Apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • ½ cup roughly chopped walnuts or pecan nuts

Icing

  • 200 ml unrefined (virgin) coconut oil
  • 1 ½ Tbsp stevia
  • 6 Tbsp coconut milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 5 Tbsp green tea matcha powder
  • 3 Tbsp organic sugar-free chocolate chips (to sprinkle)

Cooking directions3c6d8d80-b8a5-0133-8287-06e18a8a4ae5

Cupcakes

  • Preheat your oven to 180C. Line a cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
  • Add dry ingredients to the bowl (flour, protein, baking powder, cacao, stevia, salt) and mix well.
  • Pour milk, vanilla extract, bran oil into dry mixture and whisk until well combined. If the batter looks too dry, try adding a little bit more milk.
  • Pour apple vinegar or lemon juice onto baking soda (the two will burst into bubbles – these will give extra rise to the bake). Immediately stir into the batter. Add walnuts and mix for 20 seconds.
  • Fill each paper cup to 3/4 of the way. Bake for 20-25 min or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow them to cool completely on a wire cooling rack before frosting.

Icing

  • While your cupcakes are in the oven, you can start on cream.
  • Whisk the coconut oil until it gets fluffy  
  • Add in stevia, matcha tea powder, vanilla extract and coconut milk and mix together until nice and smooth
  • Once the cupcakes are cooled, pipe the cream onto cupcakes, sprinkle on top with chocolate chips

Enjoy!

How to improve digestion

I want my 45mins attention….. Please!! Yours Crying Stomach

No way!!Don’t count me. I am going to take my nap after the lunch. Hey are u joining for the badminton session tonight after dinner?? What about coffee after dinner? Really????

You will thank me when you scroll down.

Digestion is the prime activity in body which needs and involves attention of almost every system and cell in the body . It should not be impaired or disturbed as it the first step of body towards various system nourishment.

There are 7 things to avoid immediate after eating meal .

  1. Bathing :

Never bathe immediately after meal. It causes increased blood supply to extremities i.e. limbs and other body parts,it also fetch nervous system attention towards skin by water stimulation, which reduces blood flow towards stomach and can hamper the process of digestion.

  1. Exercise :

Exercise immediate after meal can cause increased stress on cardiac activity and can also increases the blood supply towards muscles causing indigestion and also cardiovascular ailments if practiced often

  1. Smoking:

Smoking   cigarette after meal can trigger hyper acidity and indigestion. Study shows one cigarette after meal is equivalent to 10 cigarettes in terms of ill effects on body.

4 Tea/coffee/liquor :

Higher acidic contents in alcohol make protein contents in food hard which are difficult to digest and may cause habitual constipation. According to Ayurveda theories initial phase of digestion is madhur ras dominant (the sweet taste), the bitter taste of tea and coffee can impair the micro digestion and absorption of nutrients in blood.

  1.  Fruits:

Fruits immediate after meal cause meal to lie in stomach and fermentation occur due to acidic nature of fruits.  Bloating of stomach, heaviness occurs. Fruits should be eaten 2 hrs before or after meal

  1.  Sleep:

Sleeping immediately after meal causes delayed digestion and absorption of nutrition. Digestion is conscious effort of body if the important system like brain is involved in sleeping activity, the cardiac rate is reduced then the digestion will be delayed causing various kaf dosha diseases  due to half digested substances which are equal to toxins .

  1.  Sex:

Sex immediately after meal causes stress on cardiac activity. Cardiac circulation rate is increased during the digestion process, the sexual act further can increase the circulatory rate abnormally. Also the increased flow of blood towards the sexual organ and other peripheral muscles will hamper the both activities at a time.

in General health April 22, 2016

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