So I’ve finally got round to snapping some photos of Leon’s Breakfast Banana Split so I could make it into a recipe post!
Cheat day was Sunday this week as we went to Prezzo for a meal with the family. Let me just say that I definitely won’t be going there again! The service was atrocious and the food was vile. I’ve never seen such a sorry looking, pale, pathetic pile of calamari. My pizza was okay but certainly wasn’t worth wasting a cheat day on. Give me a Da Mario’s any day! We skipped dessert because they kept us waiting so long!
Actually, as I read through this, I haven’t had as healthy a week as I thought! Lots of naughty treats sneaking in every day! I clearly can’t be trusted with chocolate in the house – in my defence, I didn’t buy it, Nick bought it as a present for me. But I have done more walking I suppose due to the lovely warm, sunny weather we’re having so hopefully it’s evened out!
Saturday - Pineapple, apple, carrot, lime, ginger & cucumber juice | Kale salad & harissa vegetable wrap from South Coast Roast | Roast chicken thighs with broccoli & sweet potato mash | Banana | 1 banana & oat cookie (recipe here) | 25g mixed nuts & raisins | Yeo Valley lemon curd yogurt | 90 min walk
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Sunday - (Cheat day) Chocolate digestive | Digestive biscuit | Calamari starter & Bianca pizza from Prezzo | Crusty white bread with allioli | Creme egg | Original Pop Chips | Jude’s salted caramel ice-cream | 3 squares of Lindt Lindor milk chocolate | 90 min walk
Monday - Apple, pineapple, ginger, broccoli, beetroot, celery, cucumber & carrot juice | Pesto chicken with caramelised aubergine & roast tomatoes (recipe here) | Buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup (recipe here) | Banana | 30 mins Way of Gray ‘Head to Toe’ & ‘Plankin” workouts
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Tuesday - Pineapple, apple, broccoli, ginger, lime & carrot juice | Buckwheat pancakes with caramelised bananas | Spaghetti hoops with scrambled egg | 1 digestive biscuit | 1 square of Lindt chocolate | Yeo Valley greek style yogurt with coconut | 2 hour walk
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Wednesday - Apple, ginger, broccoli, celery & carrot juice | Pesto baked cod with roasted aubergine, courgette & mushrooms | Kale salad with feta | 75g natural yogurt with banana | 1 Tunnock’s tea cake | 60 min walk
Thursday - Pineapple, apple, celery, ginger & lemon juice | Breakfast banana split (recipe below) | Chicken thighs with cucumber & rice noodles (recipe here) | Flapjack (recipe here) smothered in Nutella because they weren’t actually that nice! | 1 square Lindt chocolate | 60 min walk
Friday - Banana | Flapjack with Nutella | Prawn & chicken laksa | 1 square Lindt chocolate | ½ a pepper, mushroom & broccoli egg muffin (recipe adapted from this one) | 30 min Way of Gray ‘Strictly Sickly Cardio’ & ‘Mystical Bod’ workouts
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Just to reiterate, this recipe is taken from the Leon cookbook and is not my own. I’m merely reproducing it here as I couldn’t find it online anywhere.
Breakfast Banana Split recipe
The bircher muesli needs to be made in advance as it needs to soak in the fridge for at least an hour or overnight.
Ingredients (for 2 people):
- 2 bananas
- 1 apple
- 40g nuts (cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias)
- 10g butter
- 2 tablespoons natural yoghurt
- 1 tablespoon runny honey
- 2 tablespoons bircher muesli
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1. Bircher muesli is one of those things that sounds really complicated but actually isn’t. There’s loads of different ways to make it but for the purpose of this recipe we just juiced a Golden Delicious apple into 40g of oats. Obviously you can use shop-bought apple juice, we just happen to own a juicer. If you’re not sure of amounts then just mix it to a porridgy consistency as when it’s sat in the fridge the oats will absorb the juice.
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2. Peel the bananas and cut them in half lengthways.
3. Core and roughly chop up the apple. Toast the nuts over a medium heat in a frying pan, then remove and roughly chop.
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4. Heat the butter in a frying pan, add the honey and cook the bananas flat side down for 3 minutes or until golden.
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5. In a clean bowl, mix together the yoghurt, the bircher, the chopped apple and the toasted nuts.
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6. Place the bananas on your breakfast plate (2 halves each) and top with the yoghurt and nut mixture
