Recipes — The Renata Collective

Baked Five Spice Chinoise-Style Pork Tenderloin

Reminiscent of the BBQ pork at Chinese restaurants, this easy to prepare pork tenderloin recipe features Chinese 5 Spices powder (available at most grocery stores) which gives this dish its fabulous, unique and familiar flavour. A simple marinade that becomes the baste and delicious sauce for the plated tenderloin slices, served with rice and steamed broccoli drizzled with sesame oil and sprinkled with sesame seeds, creates an impressive and delicious dish you’ll serve with pride to family and friends.

Sweet Potato Chocolate Pudding

This Sweet Potato Chocolate Pudding is a vegan delight! Even if you aren’t vegan, it is a delicious dessert to make for family and friends or to treat yourself! A few simple ingredients and you have a healthy, nutritious, fabulous dessert to surprise and delight with! Serve it on its own or with some whipped coconut cream, dairy whipped cream, berries, chocolate shavings, a cookie ir fancy wafer, a chocolate heart or a decadent Lindor chocolate truffle… Yum!

Strawberry Heart Muffins - Gluten and Dairy Free (has eggs...)

Start your day with this gluten and dairy free (it does have eggs), healthy, hearty (see what I did there?) muffin with a crumble topping and a strawberry slice that looks like a heart. A perfect treat for you and for those you love!

Five Minute Green Onion Flatbreads

These are so easy to make and so so good! This is an old recipe from when I wanted to recreate the scallion pancakes served at many Chinese restaurants. I just love those and didn’t want to have to wait until another visit to a restaurant to enjoy these delicious flatbreads/pancakes.

Salad Greens with Tarragon Honey Dijon Vinaigrette

The vinaigrette dressing really is the star of this salad with the tarragon adding a wonderful subtle flavour. The dressing can be made ahead and kept in your fridge for a couple of weeks. I drizzle it over burgers, sandwiches, oven roasted veggies – it’s such a versatile vinaigrette to have on hand! For the salad, I add all kinds of yummy ingredients to make it a meal. Use your imagination and your tastes to craft your perfect healthy salad!

Pumpkin Spice Latte

Start your day, or treat yourself on a cool crisp afternoon, by making this healthy and delicious Pumpkin Spiced Latte. It’s easy to make and rivals those fancy, expensive, high-calorie coffee shop versions. My version has fewer calories, no sugar-spiking syrups and only a bint of coffee (or you can leave it out altogether). It is a creamy, warming and fabulous Fall beverage.

Cranberry Chia Sauce

Cranberry sauce - some people love it and some people pass on it altogether. While I love a tart cranberry juice mixed with sparkling water, I find traditional, and especially commercial, cranberry sauce too sweet for my taste, so I make a healthy Cranberry Chia Sauce instead, keeping it very simple with very little processing and sweetened with a bit of maple syrup. What is leftover after Thanksgiving is wonderful as a jam – a slice of baguette with a bit of brie topped with some cranberry chia sauce – delish!

Wholesome Breakfast Bars

With the start of the school year and for many a new work routine (back to the office), quick and easy breakfasts are a must. These Wholesome Breakfast Bars are just the thing to grab and go in the morning to fill you up with a nutritious start to your day and with ingredients to boost your brain power, help keep you energized and full until lunch time.

4 in 30 Squares (No Bake, GF, DF)

AKA – No Bake Almond Flour Cashew Butter Snack Squares. Pretty long name for squares that only have a handful of ingredients and are ready in less than 10 minutes, then set in the fridge for 30-60 minutes. You had me at Almond Flour as I love the flavour and texture it gives to baked goods. These made with all-natural peanut butter are just as delicious! Yum! Why are these called 4 in 30 Squares? Read the recipe to find out!

Super Easy Baked Chicken

I’m all about easy recipes in the summer time. Here is another super easy recipe, similar to my ‘alternative wing’ recipe and adds great flavour to baked chicken. It’s quick to make and have for dinner hot or to make ahead of time and keep in the fridge for a cold lunch or to cut up to add onto a crisp salad. It’s a great picnic take-along! If you want to keep your kitchen cool, pop these on the BBQ to cook!

Chocolate PB Rice Cake Crumble Snack

Another no-bake treat – the ingredients are very similar to the Tik Tok Rice Cake PB Cups but this time in a crumbled snack. I made mine super simple with just 3 ingredients. Quick to make - mix together, spread out on a pan, put in the fridge to set, break it up and there you go! So yummy a snack!

Strawberry Bliss Bites

When the weather is hot, I love a quick to make, no-bake, one-bowl-no-food=processor-needed treat recipe. These nutrition-packed strawberry bliss bites are stored in the fridge and make a cool treat when you need a bite of something healthy and a little sweet for that bit of energy you want.

Flax Egg

Flax eggs – like chia eggs – isn’t egg at all but rather a healthy egg substitute in vegan baking. A hen’s egg adds leavening (rising), binding, flavour and colour to a baked good where a flax egg or chia egg adds the binding but no rising of the batter. Flax eggs are best used in coffee cakes, pancakes, muffins and squares – baked goods that do not need a lot of rising.

TikTok Corn (or Rice Cake) PB Cups

TikTok is a wealth of trending things. Some are worth trying, like the rice cake, or in my instance, corn cake, PB Cup. They are no-bake, take 5 minutes to make and They. Are. Delicious! Seriously, you have to try these!

Nutty Date Caramel Tartlets

A no-bake, quick to make, decadent treat that is so very delicious and satisfying. They are pretty to look at too and to include on a sweet table and as they can be kept frozen, they are great to have in the freezer for when friends drop by or for meal planning, well, more like treat planning, to have a healthy treat at the ready when the sweet tooth calls.