Healthy Heart Review

Blueberry Waffles Healthy Heart Style

Not all healthy heart recipes have to be bland and boring.    You can find recipes that not only look good but taste good as well.   In fact, with a bit of changes in your normal recipes you will not even notice that you are eating a healthy heart recipe and getting all the benefits that go with that.

Did you know breakfast doesn’t have to be boring?    What if I told you that you could sit down tomorrow and have blueberry waffles for breakfast - yummy huh?

I’m going to share with you my favourite blueberry waffles recipe.    Now you don’t have to stick with my choice of topping you can use any sort of fruit that you like…

So without further ado…

Blueberry Waffles Healthy Heart Style

Stuff you will need before you start cooking!

    * A waffle maker
    * 2 bowls
    * egg beater
    * metal mixing spoon
    * a saucepan
    * 1 cup wholemeal flour
    * 1/2 cup bran flake cereal
    * 1 teaspoon baking powder
    * 225ml low fat milk
    * 100 ml light thickened cream
    * 1 teaspoon clear honey, plus more to drizzle on top if  you like it that way
    * 2 egg whites

For the topping ….

    * 2 punnets (or about 500 gm) of  blueberries (you can also use frozen if you don’t have fresh)
    * 1  tablespoon  orange juice unsweetened concentrate or fresh orange juice
    * Sweetener like SugarTwin or Equal (use this sparingly tasting as you go) but not more than 1/2 cup

First up…

    * Heat up your waffle maker in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions
    * Grab your large bowl and add the flour, cereal and baking powder
    * Make a well in the middle of your dry ingredients and add the cream, milk and honey
    * In a separate bowl whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form.  Do not overbeat or your waffles will taste like leather!
    * Fold the stiffened egg whites into your bowl of batter until just blended
    * Pour your batter into your waffle maker.   Your batter should cover about 2/3 of the grid.    Cook for about 4 minutes or until the lid lifts easily.
    * Remove your waffle and keep warm while you make the topping and continue making waffles until you run out of batter

To make your topping

• Put one punnett of blueberries and the juice in a saucepan and ring to a boil, reduce heat slightly and cook, stirring, for 20 minutes or until the juice has nearly evaporated.
• Stir in sweetener to taste.
• Cook 5 minutes longer.

Assemble your waffles

    * Take your waffle, add some of the whole blueberries that you had not used, cover with topping and dig in…..

This recipe should be enough for a family of four trying to keep their heart healthy

Enjoy