Homemade and healthy pasta / pizza-sauce

Since I posted a recipe for a pizza dough last week I figured I'd make a healthy and delicious sauce for on your pizza or pasta. This sauce is purely made out of vegetables and some seasoning, so no worries about your diet!:)

What you're going to need:

• 2 cans of diced tomatoes (400 grams each)
• 2 red onions
• 6 cloves of garlic
• 2-3 tsp of dries Italian herbs (I prefer to use fresh herbs but I only had dried herbs this time, but it works as well)
• 3-4 tsp of honey 
• salt and pepper for seasoning

Instructions:

1. Chop up the onions and garlic finely
2. Heat up some olive oil in a sauce pan and fry the onions until soft (5-8 minutes) on a low heat
3. Add some more olive oil and add the garlic and stir
4. Add a pinch of the Italian herbs and stir again
5. Let this simmer for another 5 minutes
6. Into a large measuring cup, add the diced tomatoes and blend  until smooth
7. Add the blended tomatoes to the sauce pan and stir
8. Add the Italian herbs, salt and pepper, stir and let it simmer for 10-15 minutes
9. Taste the sauce, if the sauce is too sour, add honey to your personal preference
10. Stir and let it simmer for another 5 minutes

Well, there you go! A pizza and pasta sauce, without added sugar and made out of only vegetables and seasoning! 

I used this sauce for a yummy panini today, the only thing you'll need for one panini is two slices of bread, butter, some cheese and a few tablespoons of the sauce. Spread the butter on the outside of the bread then turn the bread around and add the sauce and the cheese, grill for about 5 minutes and you have a delicious and quick lunch or snack!

Smoothie-time!

I have been going to the gym a lot recently, to make up for the 1,5 week I didn't go. This morning I woke up and looked in the mirror and was happily suprised to see that my tummy is slightly changing! Now I'm even more motivated :) I'm glad I made some before-pictures so that when I have reached my goal I will be able to look back to where I started.

I decided to not go to the gym today but to do a workout home instead. I think I'm going to focus on my tummy today, doing a lot of crunches, situps etc. because my legs are still super sore from yesterday (yesterday was leg-day) ;'D they're sore but it feels good somehow.

This morning I felt like making a smoothie, it was super yummy and very healthy!

what you'll need:

• 1 banana
• 1 orange
• 1 kiwi
• 1 cup (or about 150 grams) of yoghurt (I used strawberry greek yoghurt)

instructions:

1. Cut the orange in half and squeeze it out by hand or use a juicer
2. take the skin of the kiwi and cut it up in pieces 
3. Cut the banana up as well
4. Put the banana, kiwi, yoghurt and orange juice into a blender and blend it up!

I absolutely love this smoothie, it tastes like a dessert for breakfast and it's super healthy! I usually have smoothies for breakfast if I'm going to workout, 

I hope you'll like this recipe and stay healthy!:)

Yummyyy homemade pizza dough

Yesterday I had a craving for some seriously unhealthy food, but I have been having one cheat-day after another the past two weeks so I decided to make my own pizza dough. It does take a little bit more time than just popping a pizza into the oven, but it's so much healthier and just as delicious!:)

This pizza dough recipe is super simple and you don't need a lot of ingredients! Perfect for a day when you plan to eat healthy but decide to give in to your growling stomach!

what you're going to need:

• 7 grams of yeast

• 1 cup  (warm) water

• 1 tsp honey

• 2,5 cups flour

• 0,5 tsp salt

• 1 tbs olive oil

This recipe is for 2 (medium-large sized) pizza's. 

instructions:

1.    Put the warm water into a small bowl, and add the yeast and honey, let this sit for approximately 15 minutes.

2.    Add into another (big) mixing bowl the flour and the salt, stir a little to combine. 

3.    Add the water-honey-yeast mixture to the mixing bowl

4.    Knead this until it forms a dough. Sometimes there will be some leftover flour, just add a little more water to let the flour stick to the dough.

5.    Add the olive oil to the dough and knead again.

6.    Dust your countertop with some flour to prevent the dough from sticking.

7.    Take the dough out of the mixing bowl and knead thoroughly for 10 minutes.

8.    Put the dough back into the big mixing bowl and put in a warm space to let it rise. I usually let the dough rise by putting the bowl into my kitchen sink, adding some warm  water into the sink and covering the bowl with a kitchen towel.

9.    Around this time you should heat up your oven to 230 degrees Celsius or to 450 degrees  Fahrenheit.

10.Take the dough out of the bowl and shape it into your desired shape.

11.Take a fork and make some holes into the dough to let it air.

12.Bake your pizza dough for 10 minutes

13.Finally, add some pizza sauce and your desired toppings and bake the pizza for approximately 20 minutes (or until the pizza is nice and golden)

what I really love about this recipe is that it's super yummy, yet it has no added sugar and bad stuff like that:) so it's totally fine to eat without cheating on your diet (depends on what kind of diet you are on of course;) )