Healthy breakfast

Today I’m gonna make a tasty and healthy breakfast. My son has a vacation, so he’s going to help me. We will make delicious cookies with persimmon and orange smoothie. You love this!

As I sad before, about 99 % of biscuits in the supermarkets contain unhealthy and even harmful ingredients. See more in the article Vegan cookies.

That’s why today we’re going to make tasty cookies ourselves. Egor usually chooses all ingredients himself, I only help him.

This time he decided to use some sunflower flour. It remains a little after we made halva. This recipe is here.

Then he used flax flour a little. He ground some buckwheat in a coffee grinder. You can buy buckwheat flour here.

You can use any type of flour you want, it depends on your taste. You can also add some sesame, poppy, nuts, carob or cocoa if you want a chocolate taste. Egor added some melted coconut oil for better texture. We also put a dash of salt and soda. We don’t use any sugar, we decided to eat cookies with sugar free jam. You can buy it here.

Then Egor mixed all ingredients and left the dough to stay for 10-15 minutes. We don’t have an oven in this apartment, but we figured out how to solve this problem. We cook cookies in a pan without oil.

Not long ago I learned some important information. According to the research, heating honey is contraindicated as it causes adverse effects. Cooking it deteriorates the quality and loses its essential enzymes and nutrients. Heated hunny can actually produce delirious effects in the body.

So we don’t use it any more in our cookies. Alternatively, you can pour cooled cookies with it.

Today we’re gonna make unusual smoothie. It’s a bright and mouth-watering cocktail full of vitamins and minerals. It’s easy to cook with a blender. We will use a persimmon and an orange.

Persimmons are a healthy and nutritious fruit that can be added to your diet in many ways:

1. it reduces risk of cancer
2. aids in digestion
3. helps improve eye health
4. boosts immune system
5. improves blood circulation
6. aids in lowering blood pressure

Orange health benefits:

1. full of vitamins and minerals
2. lowers cholesterol
3. protects kidneys
4. regulates blood pressure
5. promotes weight loss
6. keeps teeth and bones healthy
7. protect cardiovascular system

Now you know how healthy your drink will be. Let’s start!

We need ripe persimmon, because unripe fruit has a tart taste and it’s not good for our smoothie.

A small amount of ginger will give the smoothie spicy taste, but don’t overdo it.

Ingredients:

• 1 persimmon
• 1 orange
• 1/2 cup of water
• 1/4 tsp grated ginger root

Persimmon should be washed. If you want, peel from persimmon can be removed. Remove the stem and persimmon seeds if needed. Cut the flesh into small pieces  and place in a blender bowl.

Peel the washed orange, cut it into cubes and put in a bowl with persimmon.

You can add some honey if you want, but for our taste the smoothie is sweet enough.

Add 1/4 tsp grated ginger root, 1/2 cup of water and grind all ingredients in a blender for 2-3 minutes.

Pour the nutritious drink in to a glass. You can sprinkle it with ground cinnamon.

Enjoy your breakfast!