Post-Workout Stuffed Potatoes
Feeling drained after your workout? This stuffed baked potato is your perfect post-exercise snack. Packed with potassium to prevent muscle cramps and quinoa with black beans for essential protein, it’s designed to aid muscle recovery and replenish your energy.
Ingredients
- 1 medium baking potato
- 25g quinoa
- 3 dried apricot diced
- 1 hand full fresh parsley
- ½ hand full fresh mint
- ¼ red onion finely diced
- 5 cherry tomatoes halved
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ can can black beans rinsed
- 2 tbsp tomato sauce
- 2 tsp mayonnaise you can use vegan mayo
- 1 spring onion diced
- sproats for topping
- pinch of sea salt and pepper
Instructions
- Bake the potato at 180*C for 45 minutes until completely cooked through.
- Whilst the potato is baking boil the quinoa for 10 – 15 minutes until done, then drain.
- Finely chop the parsley and the mint and mix with the quinoa along with the apricot, tomatoes, onion, lemon juice, vinegar and olive oil — combine.
- Halve the potato and and top with the quinoa mixture, some tomato sauce, black beans, mayonnaise, spring onion and sproats.