Vaalia Mother's Day Recipes

This Mother's Day, make your mum feel special, inside and out with Vaalia Low Fat Yoghurt!

This May, show your mum you care and spoil her inside and out with Vaalia Low Fat Yoghurt! Keeping with tradition is often the way to go, so what better way to treat your mum than with a healthy brekkie in bed, prepared with loving care!

Vaalia Yoghurt tastes rich and creamy, is low fat, low GI, gluten free and contains no artificial colours, flavours, sweeteners or preservatives. Packed with three active probiotic cultures including the most researched probiotic in the world Lactobacillus GG (LGG) plus Acidophilus and Bifidus, adding Vaalia yoghurt to your mum's special day is one of the healthiest and most nutritious gifts of all. Follow one of these brekkie recipes below for a healthy start to the day.

Cold Fruit Crepes

Ingredients:
150g (1 cup) plain flour
pinch of salt
1 medium free range egg (60g)
175ml of low fat milk
175ml Vaalia Low Fat Natural Yoghurt
sunflower oil to grease pan
Serve with fruit and Vaalia Yoghurt

Makes approx. 12 thin crepes
Serves 6

Method:

1. Place egg, milk, Vaalia Yoghurt and salt in a bowl and whisk lightly. Gradually add in the sifted flour and whisk until you have a smooth pancake batter. If you can, allow batter to rest for about 30 minutes.

2. Heat a heavy-based crepe pan over a medium heat. When hot brush the base of the pan lightly with a little sunflower oil, then pour in enough batter to cover the bottom of the pan with a thin layer. Allow to cook till golden, then turn and cook the other side.

3. Repeat until all the batter is used up, adding more sunflower oil to pan as required. Stir the batter occasionally and add extra milk if consistency thickens.

4. Serve crepes with seasonal fresh berries e.g. strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or poached apple and sliced banana and a dollop or two of your favourite Vaalia flavour!

Variations:

For the crepe recipe itself, you may prefer to use a flavoured Vaalia in place of Vaalia Low Fat Natural Yoghurt. Vaalia Lemon Crème is perfect for traditional lemon crepes!

Handy Hints:

Crepes freeze well. Freeze individual crepes in a freezer bag with a layer of baking paper in between to prevent crepes sticking.

Nutritional Analysis Per Serve:

864 kJ (206 Calories); 9.6 g Protein; 3.7g Total Fat (1.4g Saturated Fat); 31.5g Carbohydrate (13.2g Sugar); 189mg Calcium (24% RDI).

Did you know?
Most of us aren't including enough calcium containing foods in our everyday diet. A delicious serve of Vaalia Cold Fruit Crepes provide a great calcium boost to kick start your day!

Breakfast Dried Fruit 'n Oat Muffin

Ingredients:
150g (1 cup) self-raising flour
pinch of salt
110g (1/2 cup) caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 medium free range egg (60g)
125ml (1/2 cup) Vaalia French Vanilla Yoghurt
50g melted butter
30g of dried apricots (chopped)
30g of sultanas
30g of oats

Makes 6 large muffins

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. To make paper cases, cut 6 x 20cm square pieces and line muffin pan.

2. Mix the flour, salt and caster sugar together. Add vanilla extract, egg, Vaalia Yoghurt and butter and beat until smooth.

3. Add approximately ¾ of the diced apricots, sultanas and oats to the muffin mixture and fold through. Spoon the mix into the muffin paper cases and sprinkle remaining apricot, sultanas and oat mixture on top of each muffin. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, or until risen and golden. Allow to cool slightly.

4. Serve muffins warm or cold with Vaalia French Vanilla Yoghurt on the side.

Variations

If you prefer your muffins less sweet, replace Vaalia French Vanilla Yoghurt with Vaalia Low Fat Natural Yoghurt.

Dried fruit and oats can be replaced with a similar quantity (90g) of muesli or berries of your choice.

Nutritional Analysis Per Serve:

1250kJ (298 Calories); 5.7g Protein; 9.0g Total Fat (5.2g Saturated Fat); 48.5g Carbohydrate (27.5g Sugar); 69mg Calcium (9% RDI).

Did you know?

While the probiotics in Vaalia Yoghurt don't survive baking in the oven, adding Vaalia Yoghurt to this muffin base gives them a great light texture and keeps the total fat content below 10g per serve. Using Vaalia yoghurt as a low fat cooking ingredient also provides all the other great nutritional benefits of dairy foods such as protein, B group vitamins and calcium.

Because probiotics are living organisms, they cannot survive the cooking process, but a side serve of Vaalia straight from the fridge will do the trick!

For more Vaalia serving suggestions and delicious recipes to inspire visit www.vaalia.com.au