Maca Powder - Quick and Easy Recipes

Maca Powder has this sweet taste similar to butterscotch, chocolate or vanilla. Maca powder is quite popular in combination with fruit juices, yoghurt and milk.

The recommended daily dose of Maca is 4000 to 5000 mg. It is recommended to use one tablespoon of Maca powder per person in your recipes or preparations with Maca.


Maca Banana milkshake

Put the Maca powder and milk in the blender and mix with 1 or more of the following ingredients:
- banana
- sesame paste
- honey
- peanut butter/almond or macadamia paste.


Maca Courgette bread

Delicious for breakfast, lunch, a snack or with soup!
½ cup Maca powder
2 eggs
2½ cup whole wheat flour
1 cup milk
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup apple sauce
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
3/4 cup raisins or currants
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup pecan nuts, walnuts or almonds
2 cup grated courgette (3-4 small)
N.B: for vegans, replace eggs with 1 tablespoon egg substitute, mixed with 4 tablespoons water.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Put the dry ingredients, fruit and nuts in a large bowl, and make a dimple in the middle.
Beat the eggs in another bowl, and stir the rest into it (the courgette last).
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ones until they form a nice mixture.
Put everything in a greased tin (size: 23 x 30 cm) and bake for 30-40 minutes...until you can stick a knitting needle in and it comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes; take the bread out of the pan
Enjoy!


Maca Mocha

1 1/2 cup of coconut milk tonic
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 teaspoon Macafe
1 heaping tablespoon honey (or to taste)
Use a hand blender to blend ingredients together and heat until hot and steaming in a pot on the stove.


Special Banana Flip

This special banana "smoothie" has a delicious nutty flavor and is incredibly nutritious. It has a high calcium content and is ideal for those of us who are looking after our bones!
Ingredients:
1 banana
1 tablespoon of linseed
1 tablespoon of sesame seeds
2 teaspoons of Maca Powder
1 glass of evaporated milk
1 glass of chilled water

Put all the above ingredients in the liquidizer goblet and blend until the seeds are well broken and a homogenous mixture is obtained. Serve immediately.


Apple pancakes with Maca

Ingredients:
1¾ cup (1 can) of evaporated milk
1 apple, peeled, seeded and cut in small pieces
1 whole egg
3 teaspoons of white sugar (more sugar may be added if necessary )
2 teaspoons of melted butter or margarine
¾ cup of sifted flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Cinnamon powder to taste
6 teaspoons of Maca Powder

Blend the milk, apple, egg, sugar, melted butter and cinnamon until smooth. Add the flour and the baking powder and mix. Heat oil in a medium size skillet and pour ½ cup of mixture for each pancake. Fry each until it is brown on both sides. Serve with butterscotch, jam or your favorite syrup.



A Super Morning Smoothie

Ingredients
1 cup of your favorite fruit or fruit in season
1 cup of berrie juice, or pineapple juice, or apple juice, or just water
4 ice cubes
2 teaspoon of Sentia Gelatinized Maca Powder
1 teaspoon of Sentia Yacon Syrup

Put all the ingredients in a liquidizer and blend for about 1 minute. Serve immediately.


Maca Sponge

Ingredients
½ cup of Maca Powder
1 ½ cups of self raising flour
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of water
2 eggs
1/2 cup of cooking oil
5 tablespoons of chocolate powder
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 tablespoon of vinegar
1 teaspoon of vainilla
A pinch of salt

Put the water and sugar in a bowl and mix well. Add the eggs one by one, then the sieved flour, baking powder, chocolate powder and salt. Mix well. Add the cooking oil, vinegar and finally the vanilla. Beat until smooth.
Transfer to a lightly greased cake tin and bake at 425 degrees Fahrenhight for 25 minutes or until firm and golden. Leave to stand for a few minutes and then turn out onto a cooling rack. Decorate with sifted icing sugar.



Quick Recipes

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1 cup frozen strawberries
1 cup frozen blueberries
1 frozen banana
2 cup Tropicana light n' healthy weight watchers orange juice
2 Tbs Maca powder

I blend all the fruit and juice first until well blended, then add the maca at the very end and blend for another minute or so. If you drink it right away it's usually not detectable.
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1 cup frozen mixed berries

1 banana
1/2 cup whole milk plain yogurt (low fat is not good for ttc)
1 cup orange juice
1 T maca powder

Blend for blender about 2 minutes - nice, cold & tasty!
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One banana
5-6 frozen strawberries
handful of frozen wild blueberries
2 tablespoons maca
a splash of OJ
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Cookies: add ½ teaspoon of 100% Certified Organic Maca Power per cookie - since people are likely to eat more than one cookie, and the serving suggestion is one teaspoon of Maca root powder per day. Substitute 1 teaspoon of Maca powder for 1 teaspoon of flour.


Cakes & Breads: add 1 teaspoon of 100% Certified Organic Maca Power per slice of cake/bread. Substitute 1 teaspoon of Maca powder for 1 teaspoon of flour.
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1 cup fruit on the bottom yogurt (I use raspberry)
1 banana
1 box silken tofu (soft)
OJ to taste
Frozen raspberries or blackberries
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6 oz. Simply Orange 1 TB. maca

then I added:

1 banana
1/4 c. frozen Welch's white grape/raspberry juice concentrate
1/4 cup mango puree
1/2 6 oz. cup of Stonyfield chocolate yogurt
6 ice cubes
*****2tbs of Maca, milk (a little less than 1 cup) a banana, 3 frozen strawberries and 3 icecubes and some chocolate syryp
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11 cup Simply Orange
1 cup grapefruit juice
1.5 cups of frozen mango
2 tablespoons vanilla yogurt
1 tablespoon maca
*****I take two tablespoons of Maca and place in Blender. I pour at least two cups of water, and one or two packets of Swiss Miss Cocoa Mix-Milk Chocolate.pour into a cup with Land O Lakes Half and Half..lots of Half and Half
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try 1/2 cup Simply Ornage, some banana, a few frozen strawberries and 2 or 3 ice cubes and the maca
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milk, banana, chocolate syryp and ice

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1 small bag of frozen mixed berries
1 cup simply orange
1 medium banana
2 tablespoons vanilla yogurt
1 tablespoon Maca*****
1 container mixed berries yogurt
4-5 frozen strawberries
1 banana
Simply Orange, however much you need to add to mask the taste
2 tablespoons of Maca
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Maca Smoothie
2 bananas
8oz orange/pineapple juice
2 cups ice
2TB maca
2 scoops in Chocolate Soy Milk
Megan's Favorite

2 Tablespoons of Maca
1/2 Cup - Milk [Rice, Almond, Soy or Cows']
1 Tbsp. - Almond or Peanut Butter
4 Dates
4 Ounces - Plain or Vanilla Yogurt
1 Tsp. - Bee Pollen
1/2 Tsp. - Cinnamon


Banana Basic

2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
8 oz of fruit juice
8 oz of pure water
2 bananas


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The Hot Tomato

2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
1 1/2 Cups - Tomato Juice
Fresh Cucumber Slices
1 to 2 Stalks of Celery
Green, Red and/or Yellow Peppers
1 Tsp. - Cayenne Pepper
1 Tbsp. - Sour Cream
Dash of Tabasco Sauce
Season to Taste (Salt, Pepper, etc.)


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Island Holiday

1/2 Cup Papaya Juice
2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
1/2 Cup Pineapple Juice
1/2 Cup Guava Juice
1/2 Cup Orange Juice


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Fruit - Chocolate Delight

BLEND:
2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
8 oz Milk (Soy, Almond, Rice or Cows')
8 oz of pure water
Fruit of your choice (1 cup)
Maple Syrup, Honey or other sweetener - to taste
Add carob or chocolate powder - to taste


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Evacu-Maca
1/2 Cup Prune Juice
3/4 Cup Apricot Juice
2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
1/2 Cup Orange Juice


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Summer Lunch

2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
1 Banana
1 Tbsp. - Sesame Seed (Tahini), Peanut or Almond Butter
2 Cups - Milk [Rice, Soy, Almond or Cows']
1 Tbsp. - Maple Syrup


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Crazy About Cocoa

2 Cups - Rice, Almond, Soy or Whole Milk
1 Tbsp. - Carob or Cocoa Powder
1 Tbsp. - Honey
2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca


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Winter Energizer

1 1/2 Cups - Rice, Soy, Almond or Whole Milk
1/2 Cup - Black Cherry Juice
2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
1 Banana


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Too Healthy To Be True

2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
2 Cups - Carrot Juice
2 to 3 - Sprigs of Parsley
1 Apple (Sliced)
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Jinn's Formula

2 Cups - Goat's or Whole Milk
1 Tbsp. - Vanilla Protein Powder
2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
2 Tbsp. - Flax or Sunflower Oil


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Lee's Exotica

1 Banana
1 Cup - Orange Juice
1/2 Cup - Pineapple Chunks
1/2 Cup - Papaya Chunks
1/2 Cup - Mango Chunks
2 Rounded Tablespoons of Maca
1/2 Cup - Sliced Strawberries
1/2 Cup - Sliced Kiwi
1/2 Cup - Crushed Ice

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