Clean Eating Sweet Potato Pancakes

I have come to find out that I am loving cooking lately! I love coming up with new ideas for my family, especially breakfast foods. I am so over the sugary cereal. This morning I had a left over sweet potato and I had seen recipes online for sweet potato pancakes. I decided that I wanted to try it this morning. These can also be used if you are on the 21 Day Fix or following a Paleo diet.

Ingredients:

1 small sweet potato
2 eggs
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
1-2 tsp cinnamon
A dash of nutmeg (optional)

Optional Toppings:
Maple syrup (be careful because if you use to much it has a lot of sugar in it)
Coconut butter
2 tsp honey

Mix all of these ingredients together in a bowl. I cooked mine on a skillet griddle and was able to make 4 small pancakes out of this mixture. Because these are easy to burn cook on medium heat and it takes a little longer to cook because it is a sweet potato.

My final thoughts:

These were much tastier then I thought that they would be! I really liked them and because there is protein and a powerhouse of nutrients from the sweet potato my hunger has been kept at bay.

21 Day Fixers:
1 red, 1 yellow, 1/4 purple

Nicole McDuffie
Independent Beachbody Coach

Lemon Chicken Supreme

We have been searching for some new recipes lately just to come up with something different then the normal weekly dinners we were having.

I came across this one and cooked it last night. What I loved about it is it is a crockpot meal and was super easy to make. What I loved the MOST about it is that it tasted delicious and was so juicy! All of my kids ate it without complaints, a rare occurrence in this house!

Lemon Chicken Supreme:

4 chicken breasts (or as many as you need, but you may need to increase ingredients if you add more)
1 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp rosemary (I was out of rosemary last night, instead I used fresh cilantro and I think I like it better then the rosemary!)
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 Tbs butter (real unsalted butter)
1/4 c chicken broth
1/4 c fresh lemon juice (I used a whole lemon, peeled it, and juiced it with my food chopper)
Dash of salt and pepper

Wash chicken, pat dry, season w/salt and pepper.
Melt butter in frying pan and brown chicken and then transfer to crock pot.
Add a little water to the pan and scrap out any brown bits and pour over chicken
Mixed the rest of the ingredients together and pour over the chicken.
Cover and cook on high for 4 hours or low for 7 hours.


We served this with steamed carrots and brown rice. We will be adding this recipe into our rotation of dinners! If you try this let me know what you think!

Nicole McDuffie
Independent Beachbody Coach