Mediterranean Breakfast Cake with Greek Yogurt
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Mediterranean Breakfast Cake with Greek Yogurt is best way to start your day. Loaded with Greek yogurt, eggs, lemon zest, figs, and honey, it makes healthy breakfast cake! Done in 30 minutes! Delicious!
Once you see the ingredients for this healthy breakfast cake, you will see how great it fits to traditional Mediterranean diet.
In case you are not sure about it, let me say:
Greek yogurt may be primarily a wholesome breakfast staple, but it’s also an incredible tool when it comes to baking. It can be used, just like other dairy products, to make moist and tender cakes, biscuits, breads, and more.
When it comes to fruits, apples , oranges , pears , strawberries , grapes , dates, figs , melons, and peaches are more then welcome!
If you wonder what can you eat for dessert on a Mediterranean diet, this Mediterranean Breakfast Cake with Greek Yogurt ticks all the boxes both for breakfast and dessert!
Here’s why: polenta, strawberries, olive oil, blood orange, honey, Greek yogurt, phyllo, Ricotta cheese, lemons, tangerines are ingredients you can put together to have healthy Mediterranean desserts. There are links for most of them I added when listed all the fruits recommended in Mediterranean diet.
Done in 30 minutes, this Is one of the simplest and healthiest cake recipes you can imagine !
For baking this batch of Mediterranean breakfast, you need two fresh figs.
However, if you have dried figs only, you may soak them in tea or red wine overnight, cut to quarters and continue with the process as written in the recipe box.
We enjoy the slices with tea or coffee.
Mediterranean Breakfast Cake with Greek Yogurt
Mediterranean Breakfast Cake with Greek Yogurt is best way to start your day. Loaded with Greek yogurt, eggs, lemon zest, figs, and honey, it makes healthy breakfast cake! Done in 30 minutes! Delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 6 Tbsp flour
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Lemon zest to taste
- 5 Tbsp Greek yogurt
- 2 figs, cut to quarters
- Honey to spread over the slices, once the cake is baked
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 180 C/ 356 F.
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In a medium sized bowl, mix egg, sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, lemon zest and yogurt.
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Spray the bread dish with oil.
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Pour the mixture into the dish and place the fig quarters on the top.
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Bake for 23 minutes or until skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
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Serve while still warm and spread with honey.
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