Sweet potato sticks

 Today has been one of those extremely cold days here and I wanted to eat some snacks but no snacks were available. I has sweet potatoes though…so I made easy sweet potato sticks

Sweet potato sticks ( Basked sweet potato snacks)

Sweet potato sticks

Ingredients 

1. 1 medium large sweet potato boiled for 20-22 minutes until soft.
2. 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
3. 4 tablespoons each of butter, cream cheese
4. 1 large egg
5. 1/4 teaspoon salt
6. 2 cups all purpose flour

Pre heat oven to 400 degrees F

In a bowl mix together butter and cream cheese until well combined. All sugar and mix well. Add the mashed sweet potatoes and the egg and mix well. Add the flour and salt and mix with a spatula. The dough may be a bit sticky.

In a baking sheet spread the dough with a spatula until it’s 1/2 cm thick. 

Note: I cut the dough into square with the spatula before baking. After 15 minutes at 400 degrees, I cut them into sticks and baked at 300 for 10 more minutes

Bake for 10 minutes and flip and bake for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to 300 and bake for 10 minutes. Cool and enjoy

Zucchini corn cakes

This recipe is called a cake for lack of any other proper term. This is not a cake nor does it have sugar as an ingredient. But it turns out a bit sweet because of the natural sugars in corn

This is a great sports night snack

Zucchini corn cake (grilled corn and zucchini patty)

Zucchini Corn Cakes

Ingredients

1. 2 cups frozen corn thawed
2. 1/2 cup each of grated mozzarella cheese, bread crumbs
3. 11/2 cup grated zucchini (Squeeze some water out of it)
4. 1/2 -1 cup all purpose flour (Depending on how watery your zucchini and corn are)
5. 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper or more to taste

Pulse the corn 5-7 times. Mix all the ingredients and divide it into 6-8 parts and make it into 1/2 inch thick patties and let it set in the fridge for 30-60 minutes. Heat a grill and grill on medium heat for 3-4 minutes in each sides

Let it cool a bit and serve 

apple chips

A couple of weeks ago we went apple picking. After eating fresh apples, after eating two batches of yummy apple pie a few apples were still sitting there and I did not want to make apple pie ago, cause it is getting close to pumpkin pie time. So I made apple chips, my kids favorite. And super easy to make and yummy to eat

Apple Chips

Apple chips

Ingredients

1. 3 apples peeled and sliced into 1/8 inch or thinner circles
2. 1 tablespoon white sugar
3. 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Lay the apple chips in a single row and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mix. Bake for 45 minutes. Let cool a bit and enjoy

Power balls

There has been a bounty of sweet potatoes at my super market and I have been making the sweet potato scones and I was searching for some other recipes for sweet potato. I found the recipe to make with protein rich nuts. The balls are super delicious and power house of protein. You can make it into squares or bars or any other shape which is convenient to you

Power Balls (Protein rich breakfast balls)

breakfast protein bars

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup cooked sweet potato 
2. 2 packets quaker quick oats with walnut and raisins
3. 1/4 cup unsalted sunflower seeds
4. 1/4 cup almonds
5. 2 tablespoons each of dates paste, peanut butter
6. 1 tablespoon honey or to taste
7. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
8. 1 tablespoon sesame seeds



Calorific info for the power balls

Pulse the oats, sunflower seeds and almonds till they become coarse. Add the rest of the ingredients and pulse till it all comes together. Make into walnut sized balls and store it in the fridge. Enjoy your breakfast balls rich in protein