Recipe - Single Serving Protein Rice Pudding

One of my favourite Indian restaurant, features a delicious rice pudding with gulab jabun (a indian  syrup soaked Timbit doughnut). This was the first time I had ever had rice pudding and I was hooked.
After scrolling though pages of recipes that made enough to serve an army, I decided to search "single serving" which came up with enough rice pudding for two sometimes three people still!

After that fruitless search I decided to wing it and make up my own recipe. I decided to go sugar free with this as well.

• 1/3 cup skim milk
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder -> 25g protein
• 1 egg -> 6g protein
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 cup rice

Mix everything together and bake @325 for 30 minutes

Some of the best additions to this are

• Raisins 
• added before or after baking depending on your preference
• Cinnamon
• Fresh strawberries
• I like to throw mine on top for the last 5 minutes of baking so that they are warm 

Recipe Review - Protein Pancake

Four Ingredient Protein Pancakes

I am not sure where this recipe originally came from or who created it,
I found a blog post on Pintrest (this is the post) it included the recipe saying that it had come from a magazine.

• 1 large mashed banana
• 2 eggs
• 1/8 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp vanilla whey protein powder

I mixed all this in my blender, I used coconut oil to keep the pancakes from sticking to the pan. 

I have to say that this recipe didn't work as well as I had hoped, 

The pancakes where black on the outside and still raw on the inside, I tried to make a few different sized pancakes thinking that this might change the result. It was a little better when I made the pancakes small (2 inches across) but didn't totally fix the problem. I used about half the batter doing this before I decided to pour the rest in the pan and try cooking one big pancake in the oven @350 for 10 minutes. This was way more successful, my suggestion would be baking these in a muffin tin I would guess it will make about 8 pancake "muffins" 

Baked Pancake out of pan

Baked Pancake in pan I might have squished the side a little oops..

The best result from cooking on the stove

Chocolate Cake Batter Protein Oatmeal

Chocolate Cake Batter 

Brownie Batter

Oatmeal

1. 1 Cup Water
2. 1/3 cup Quaker Quick Oats

Bring the water to a boil,  Cook the oatmeal for 5-10 minutes until its just a little thinner than you would like

1. 1 scoop Chocolate Protein Powder 
2. 2 tbsp water
3. 1 fresh banana 
4. 1 tsp vanilla 
5. 1 tbsp cocoa powder (optional) *

Mash banana until its smooth, add water and vanilla, mix that into the banana before adding protein powder. stir together and then add to oatmeal. 

Substitutions 

Water --> 

1. strong coffee (which goes SO well with chocolate) 
2. strong tea. I prefer a vanilla tea. (I have never tried any dessert teas but I have heard you can get them from stashtea, tealish and teavana
3. 1/2 cup water + 1/2 cup;
1. Almond Milk
2. Rice Milk
3. Soy Milk
4. Coconut Milk

Banana --> 

1. use half a banana 
2. 1/2 cup apple sauce  don't use the extra 2 tbsp water, 
3. Chia seeds (leave them sitting in 2 tbsp of water for about 10 minutes) 
4. Greek Yogurt don't use the extra 2 tbsp water

Additions 

1. Strawberries (this is my favourite)
2. Coconut oil & Shredded coconut
3. Almonds 
4. Nutella 
1. I prefer to mix in some crushed roasted hazelnuts 
5. Peanuts or peanutbutter
6. Chocolate chips
7. Icing sugar
8. Caramel
9. Sweetners
1. Maple Syrup
2. Honey
3. Sugar
4. Stevia

*the cocoa powder makes it extra chocolaty, read the nutrition labels carefully because some of them have lots of hidden sugar

Tip! if you like your oatmeal "softer" cook it with more water (or substitute) for longer. Just base when its done on the consistency

If you mix the protein powder right into the oats it will sometimes get grainy.

Apple Pie Protein Oatmeal

Apple Crisp/ Apple Pie/ Cinnamon Apple

 Protein Oatmeal

1 Serving

10 minutes

25g of protein 

Ingredients

1. Large Apple
2. 1/2 cup water
3. 1 tsp vanilla
4. 1 tsp cinnamon

Slice the apple into 1/8 thick 1 inch by 1 inch pieces. Put the apple, water vanilla and cinnamon in a pot to boil. Cook on med-low to med until the water evaporates and the apples are soft this takes about 7 minutes.

1. 1 cup water *
2. 1/3 cup Quaker Steel Cut Quick Oats
3. 1 scoop Vanilla Whey Protein Powder **
4. 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Boil water, add in oats. Cook for about 5 minutes or until oatmeal reaches desired thickness stirring occasionally. The oatmeal should be a thinner than you want to eat it. 

1. Once oatmeal is finished pour it into bowl, add cooked apples and stir, stir in protein powder and sprinkle with remaining cinnamon.
2. Or stir the protein powder into the oats and pour over apples (don't stir) and eat it layered as such more like an apple crisp.

Boiling the apples is something that is great to do on your meal prep day, do two or three apples with the addition of 1 tsp of lemon juice to the water as well.

* I like to use tea instead of water both vanilla, cinnamon, apple spice.

** The link to the protein powder I use, I buy both the chocolate and the vanilla at Costco