I had quite a good valentine's day, despite being alone. Not just 'single' alone, but fully alone alone. As in, the only words I spoke were to my dog or myself. But, to celebrate - because I like to celebrate everything, I'm going to be dead one day so I should make the most of it - I created my own valentine's day paleo lunch! Seriously, I made up a new recipe!
I made spiced sweet potato pancakes with peach-berry sauce! There're a ton of 'paleo' pancake recipes out there that use all kinds of different flours as long as they're gluten free, but I don't really like using them much. Not only are the difficult for me to get, but I think there's a serious risk of them becoming a habit and then before you know it, you're back eating a high-carb, high-processed food diet, just gluten-free. Which is not so cool. So, while my 'pancakes' are not anything like a regular pancake, they weren't exactly fritters, either. But, they are 100% paleo, no grey area at all! However, it's fairly high-card, so a 'sometimes' food. I shall call them... fritakes!
Ingredients (for 1 person, because *sniff* I'm all alone!):
1 smallish carrot (about 75g)
1 medium sweet potato (about 95g)
1t each of cinnamon, ginger, allspice (or use 3t of pumpkin pie spice)
1egg
1T coconut oil
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Sauce:
1/4 cup mixed frozen berried
1/2 peach
2t honey (if necessary)
Nut to top, if desired.
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Instructions:
- Chop up carrot and sweet potato and boil until tender.
- Drain well. Add the spices and stir in to moisten.
- Using a stab blender (or potato masher if you're old-school) blend/mash until smooth.
- Stir in egg.
- Heat frying pan with the coconut oil. Fry small batched of mixture until crispy on both sides.
- To make the sauce, just heat all the ingredients in a small saucepan gently until they release some of their juice. Pout over finished fritakes. Sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Rough nutritional breakdown? Sure!
Calories: 460
Carbs: 65g
Fat: 20g
Fiber: 10g
Enjoy :)
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