Healthy Recipes to Decorate Your New Year's Eve Table

During the 4-day quarantine period, including New Year's Eve, it seems inevitable that our hand will always go to snacks. Unfortunately, these snacks are often unhealthy in terms of easy accessibility. Yeditepe University Kozyatağı Hospital Nutrition and Diet Specialist stated that it is possible to decorate New Year's Eve tables by trying new and healthier recipes and gave examples of this year's most popular healthy and delicious recipes.

Falafel

1 medium-sized onion
1 bunch of parsley
3 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of sumac
1 dessert spoon of paprika
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1 teaspoon of coriander
1 dessert spoon of salt
5 cups of boiled chickpeas
½ pack of baking powder
3 tablespoons of whole wheat flour
1 dessert spoon of olive oil

For the sauce;

1 glass of yogurt
1 tablespoon of tahini
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
1 clove of garlic

Leave it in the refrigerator for an hour, then roll it into a ball and bake it in the oven and enjoy it with the sauce.

Baked Chips

Three beets or potatoes
Three tablespoons of olive oil
1 dessert spoon of salt
1 teaspoon of powdered garlic
1 teaspoon of sumac

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Peel the beets or potatoes thinly, and you can get thin slices with a mandolin slicer. Put the sliced beets or potatoes in a bowl, mix them well with the garlic, olive oil, and spices, and let them rest for 10 minutes. Line the baking tray with greaseproof paper and spread the beet or potato slices on the paper so that they do not overlap. Bake for 15-20 minutes, and bake with the oven door open for 5 minutes. You can mix the chips that come out of the oven with salt and serve. You can add any spices you want.

Whole Wheat Grissini

1 tea glass of einkorn flour / whole wheat flour/almond flour/oat flour
2 tea glasses of whole wheat flour
1 tea glass of warm water
2 dessert spoons of olive oil
1 teaspoon of instant yeast (or baking powder/ baking soda)
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of dried basil
1 teaspoon of the blue poppy
1 tablespoon of oatmeal
1 tablespoon of chia seeds / 1 tablespoon of linseed

You can use any alternative you want to diversify.

Mix warm water and yeast in a bowl. Mix the flour and salt in a separate bowl and add your favorite flavors to them. Add the yeast and water to the dry mixture and add olive oil. Knead the dough for 3-5 minutes and divide it into equal parts with the help of a damp cloth. Give the dough pieces you separated a long roll shape (13 pieces) with your hands and let them rest for a while (until the oven heats up) on the tray. Bake in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15 minutes, depending on the level of crispness you want, if you want them more crispy, you can bake for another 5-10 minutes by reducing the temperature to 150 degrees.

No-Bake Gluten and Sugar-Free Brownie

10 dates
2 tablespoons of coconut
1 tablespoon of cocoa
½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
½ cup of ground hazelnuts

Soak the dates in water to soften them and remove the seeds. Pass all the ingredients through the robot, add 1-2 tablespoons of date juice, and then wrap it with greaseproof paper in a square shape and keep it in the refrigerator. You can decorate the top as you wish. Bon appetit.

Healthy Sugar-Free Cookies

200gr almond flour or whole wheat flour
50gr coconut oil
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons of molasses
½ baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
1 dessert spoon of powdered ginger
1 dessert spoon of cinnamon
½ teaspoon of vanillin extract
A little less than ½ cup of almond milk

Combine all the ingredients and give it the shape you want and bake in the oven.

Puffed Buckwheat

1 cup of buckwheat
1 handful of red fruit
2 tablespoons of semi-fat labneh
1 dessert spoon of honey
50 gr dark chocolate (70% cocoa)

Pop the buckwheat in a saucepan over high heat by shaking it continuously, setting it aside, and waiting for it to cool. On the other side, mix labneh + honey + fruits in the blender. Pour the buckwheat flakes into the mixture, then cut them into small portions and place them on greaseproof paper. Rest in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. While resting it, let's melt our chocolate in a bain-marie, then cover the rested flakes with our melted chocolate and leave it in the refrigerator for another 10 minutes. Bon appetit.