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Pineapple Orange Sauce

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Learn how to make this easy, Healthy Pineapple Orange Sauce with only 6 ingredients and no sugar! In this video Karen Breyer will show you step-by-step how to make this amazing Healthy Pineapple Orange Sauce. This fruit sauce is so sweet, delicious, healthy and easy to make too! Pineapple Orange Sauce is an easy, healthy breakfast that adults and kids will love!

Try this Healthy Pineapple Orange Sauce on pancakes, French toast, shortcake, ice cream, in a sandwich and more. It is also perfect to use in my special Orange Cake recipe. What helps to make this Pineapple Orange Sauce recipe so amazing is that it is much healthier than other fruit sauces since it does not have any added sugar. It you are wanting to serve your family a healthy breakfast, and are looking for new healthy breakfast options, you have found a perfect recipe with this Pineapple Orange Sauce! Watch this video and try this delicious Healthy Pineapple Orange Sauce recipe today!

Pineapple Orange Sauce

Ingredients

  • 2 cups or 1 - 20 ounce can crushed pineapple, unsweetened
  • 1/2 cup orange juice concentrate
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract

Instructions

  1. Stir together the pineapple, orange juice concentrate, and honey in a saucepan. Continue to stir as the mixture comes to a boil.
  2. While waiting for the boil get the cornstarch mixture ready; In a measuring cup, dissolve the cornstarch in the water.
  3. Slowly stir the dissolved cornstarch mixture into the fruit filling. Do not stop stirring.
  4. Stir in the lemon extract.
  5. Continue to stir until the filling is thick. Remove from the heat and allow it to cool.
  6. Chill the filling in the refrigerator. The filling will continue to thicken in the refrigerator. When the filling is thick and chilled it is ready to spread on French toast, pancakes, toast, or as a filling for sandwiches or my Orange Cake recipe.

Notes

Make sure to keep stirring the filling mixture as long as it is on the heat or it will get lumpy and stick on the bottom of the pan.

This Pineapple Orange Sauce is delicious with the Orange Cake recipe found at Cookinglessonsfordad.com.

See a cooking demonstration of this Pineapple Orange Sauce recipe on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel.

© Karen Breyer

 

Healthy Banana Bread

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Learn how to make this Easy, Healthy Banana Bread! This is the best ever healthy banana nut bread recipe! In this video Karen Breyer will show you step-by-step how to make this Easy, Healthy Banana Bread recipe! Looking for healthy bread recipes that you can make for breakfast or a delicious snack or dessert? Look no further!

This delicious whole wheat banana nut bread just happens to be vegan, low-fat and sugar and dairy free so it can be enjoyed by almost everyone! If you are looking for easy baking recipes for adults or kids you found it! Watch this video and make this this best ever Healthy Banana Bread today!

Yield: 1 loaf

Healthy Banana Bread

Ingredients

  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup flour, unbleached
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
  • 1/2 - 3/4 cup bananas, ripe (mashed)
  • 1/2 cup coconut milk
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • Water (as needed)
  • Cooking spray

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray loaf pan with cooking spray.
  2. Mix dry ingredients together. Mix in walnuts.
  3. Mix mashed bananas, coconut milk, and honey together.
  4. Add enough water to make 1 1/2 cup total liquid and mix together.
  5. Briskly stir the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients.
  6. Pour mixture into pan and bake 40 to 45 minutes or until the bread is golden brown and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Notes

I like Kosher salt the best.

I prefer aluminum-free baking powder.

See a cooking demonstration of this Healthy Banana Bread recipe on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel.

© Karen Breyer

 

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

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Learn how to make this amazing Healthy Peanut Butter Cookie recipe! In this video Karen Breyer will show you step-by-step how to make these easy healthy peanut butter cookies. These peanut butter cookies only have 5 ingredients and will be the best healthy peanut butter cookies you have ever tried!

If want to learn how to make cookies, this simple peanut butter cookie recipe is perfect for you! Watch this video and try this easy, Healthy Peanut Butter cookie recipe today!

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 cups roasted peanuts, salted or unsalted
  • 1 cup whole wheat pasty flour
  • 1/2 - 1 teaspoon salt, Kosher (to taste)
  • 1/2 cup honey, warmed
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Add peanuts and flour to a food processor or strong blender. Blend until the flour and peanuts are the same texture.
  3. Add the salt (to taste) and blend to mix. Add less salt if the peanuts are salted and more if they are not salted.
  4. Warm the honey in the microwave until it is a liquid consistency (about 30 to 60 seconds).
  5. Add the peanut mixture to a bowl with the vanilla and warmed honey. Mix together.
  6. Pinch off pieces of dough and roll them into walnut size pieces. The dough should be soft, but not too sticky to roll in balls. If the dough is too dry mix in a little water (about 1 tablespoon). If the dough is too wet, mix in a little more flour until it is a soft consistency.
  7. Place the dough balls on a baking sheet and press them flat with your hands.
  8. Next press them down flatter with a fork in a criss-cross pattern. Dip the fork in water as needed to keep it from sticking to the dough.
  9. Bake for about 10 minutes or just until the cookie edges start to brown. Let them cool before removing them from the pan.

Notes

You can use a different type of salt if you do not have Kosher salt.

Use a microwave safe container when warming the honey in the microwave. Heat it until it is liquidy.

Be careful not to burn these cookies. Check them a minute or two early just in case they cook more quickly.

The honey needs to be warmed enough so it will pour like water.

The dough consistency should be similar to pie crust dough.

See a cooking demonstration of this Healthy Peanut Butter Cookie recipe on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel

© Karen Breyer

 

No Roll Pie Crust

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Learn how to make this super easy No Roll Pie Crust with only 4 ingredients! In this cooking video Karen Breyer will show you step by step how to make this easy pie crust. This is a very easy, healthy pie crust recipe that you do not need to roll out!

If you are looking for new healthy dessert recipes this easy pie crust recipe is perfect for your favorite pie filling! I make this simple whole wheat pie crust with my favorite Vegan Pumpkin Pie recipe. You can find that recipe at Cookinglessonsfordad.com.

If you want to make a homemade pie crust without the trouble of rolling out the pie dough, this easy No Roll Pie Crust is the pie crust recipe for you! This is perfect recipe for beginners who have never made a pie crust before. Try this easy, delicious, healthy No Roll Pie Crust recipe today!

 

Yield: 1 9-inch pie crust

No Roll Pie Crust

Ingredients

  • 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt, Kosher
  • 1/4 cup oil, vegetable
  • 2 tablespoons water

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Combine flour and salt in a pie pan.
  3. Add 1/4 cup oil to measuring cup. Add 2 tablespoons of water and whisk together with a fork until the oil is emulsified.
  4. Pour the liquid mixture over the flour. Stir the liquid into the flour with a fork. Mix well.
  5. Press the dough into the pie pan with your fingers. Cover the bottom of the pan and up the sides.
  6. Prick the dough on the bottom of the pan a few times with a fork.
  7. Bake for 20 minutes or until the pie crust just starts to brown.

Notes

If you do not have Kosher salt, you can use another kind.

You can add a little more water if the dough is too dry.

See a cooking demonstration of this No Roll Pie Crust recipe on the Cooking Lessons for Dad YouTube channel.

© Karen Breyer

 

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