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Healthy Baked Goods Recipes Made Without Gluten and Sugar

Lamb Leg Steak with Peas and Onions & Rosemary Parsley Sauce

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Retro spring dinner updated…this is easy, made in one pan and oh so good.

Lamb Leg Steak with Peas and Onions & Rosemary Parsley Sauce

Rosemary Parsley Sauce:

  • 1 large garlic clove – cut in half
  • 1/2 cup fresh rosemary (.75oz package) – stems removed
  • 1 cup fresh parsley
  • 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh black pepper
  • 1 small lemon – zest and juice
  • 1/2 cup olive oil (or more if you want the sauce thinner)
  1. Place all the ingredients in a food processor and combine until ingredients are a thick sauce consistency. Place in small bowl, cover in plastic and let ingredients get to know each other while cooking the lamb.
  2. note: if you don’t use all the sauce you can freeze the remaining in Ziploc bags for a later use.

Lamb Leg Steak:

  • 1 lb lamb leg steak
  • Kosher salt and pepper
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 whole garlic clove
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Heat the olive oil in an iron skillet with the whole garlic. Salt and pepper both sides of the lamb steak. Remove cooking garlic before it burns! Place steak in the heated pan and cook on high for 6 to 8 minutes on each side, remember brown means tasty food. Move pan with the steaks to the oven to complete the cooking. About 10 minutes to medium rare, and if you like your meat more done, just leave it in a few minutes longer.
  3. When lamb steak is done, remove to platter to rest.

Green Peas and Pearl Onions:

  • 1 cup frozen petite peas – defrosted
  • 1 cup frozen pearl onions – defrosted
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  1. In the iron skillet that the lamb steak cooked in melt the one tablespoon of butter on a medium heat, add the peas and onions and sauté for 2 to 3 minutes (if peas and onions are still slightly frozen cook a bit longer).

Plating:

Spread the sauce on the serving platter, place rested and sliced lamb steak on top and add the peas and onions on the side of the platter and bon appetite.

Roasted Chicken & Vegetables Biscuit Topped Pot Pie

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Nothing better than a good old fashion Chicken Pot Pie, well this is an elevated flavorful gluten free version that you will just love.

Lemon-Thyme Chicken with Carrots and Potatoes

Ingredients for roasting:

  • 6 chicken thighs
  • 1 lb carrots
  • 1 head of cauliflower
  • 6 springs of rosemary
  • 6 springs of thyme
  • salt and pepper
  • paprika
  • olive oil
  1. Preheat oven to 400. On a rimmed baking sheet place the chicken, carrots, and quartered cauliflower. Season all with salt, pepper and paprika and toss with olive oil. Place the rosemary and thyme springs under the chicken thighs. Bake in oven for 35 to 40 minutes.
  2. While the roasting is happening you get to make the rest of the pie:

for the pot pie gravy:

  • 1 large yellow onion – finely diced
  • 4 large cloves of garlic – finely minced
  • 10 oz sliced crimini mushrooms
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/2 cup Pamela’s Gluten Free Flour
  • 1/3 cup unsalted butter
  • 3 cups of vegetable broth – divided
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
  • 1 cup frozen peas
  • 1 cup frozen roasted corn
  1. In an over proof frying pan heat the olive oil, add the onion, salt and saute for 5 to 7 minutes. Add the mushrooms to the onions and continue to cook for 5 to 6 minutes, add the chopped garlic and continue to saute for 3 more minutes.
  2. Add the butter and flour to the pan and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, add the thyme and rosemary, 2 of the cups of the vegetable broth and cook for about 10 minutes and you should have a nice thick gravy. Taste to see if you need to add any additional salt and pepper. Add the frozen vegetable to the pot.
  3. When the chicken and vegetables are done roasting cut into bit size pieces and add to gravy. Stir to combine all the ingredients. Top with biscuit dough (see below) and bake at 450 for about 20 minutes.

for the biscuits:

  1. Mix the dry ingredients together, add the butter and combine with you hands or pastry blender until the mixture looks like coarse crumbles. Add the milk, stir and combine to form the batter.

for the biscuits:

  • 2 cups Pamela’s gluten free flour http://www.pamelasproducts.com/
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoon Xyla http://www.xylitolusa.com/
  • 1/2 teaspoon unsalted butter
  • 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk

Focaccia Bread

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This is your answer to the question “is there no tasty moist gluten free bread?”  This Focaccia bread is terrific and you can finally eat a bread that you don’t have to toast to make it edible.

This is focaccia bread that is topped with shallots…see note below

Horseradish Crusted Roast Beef

Ingredients for basic focaccia bread

  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 tablespoon Xyla or 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 tablespoon active dry yeast (about 1 1/3 packets)
  • 1 1/2 cup Pamela’s Gluten Free Flour
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • non stick spray
  1. Dissolve Xyla / honey in the warm water, add the yeast and let sit for about 5 minutes. (Note you will not get a big foam since you are not using actual sugar)
  2. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, xanthan gum and salt.
  3. In another separate bowl mix the egg with the olive oil, add to the yeast mixture and mix well.
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine well. It is an easy mix that can be done by hand so no need to dirty the standing mixer.
  5. Spray a 9 by 9 in pan with the non stick spray, spread the dough into the pan, cover with plastic wrap and let sit in a warm spot for about 20 minutes.
  6. While the bread it resting preheat the oven to 400.
  7. Bake for 25 minutes, let bread cool in pan, and you are ready to serve.
  8. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine well. It is an easy mix that can be done by hand so no need to dirty the standing mixer.

Focaccia Bread topped with sautéed shallots

  1. While the bread is in the oven baking, saute thinly sliced shallots in 1 to 2 tablespoons of butter and add to the baking bread for the last 10 minutes of it’s bake (this way the shallots are cooked but not burnt).

Focaccia Bread with fresh herbs

  1. If you have fresh herbs like, thyme, lemon-thyme, rosemary, or basil: just add two tablespoons of the herb to the dry ingredients & sprinkle some on top of the dough before baking and you will have a very herby bread.

Lamb Chops marinated in Rosemary and Garlic

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Easy one pan lamb chops.

Lamb Chops marinated in Rosemary and Garlic

Ingredients

  • 2 – Lamb Shoulder Blade Chops

for the marinade:

  • 4 – 5 sprigs of rosemary- removed from stems & chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves – chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions

  1. Combine the rosemary, garlic, salt and peppers corns in a mortar & pestle and crush together for a few minutes. Add the mashed ingredients to a zip lock bag, add the olive oil, combine and then add the chops. Work the marinade into the chops and let sit on the counter for about an hour.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  3. Preheat a cast iron skillet on the stove top. Place the marinated chops into the heated skillet and brown on each side – about 4 to 5 minutes per side.
  4. Place skillet in oven to finish cooking – about 15 to 20 minutes.
  5. Remove from oven and let chops rest 5 minutes before serving.