You hardly participate anymore if you don't have oatmeal for breakfast. This morning I made an oatmeal banana pancake; one of my favorites lately (here you can read the recipe).
I believe that if you search for #havermout on Instagram, there are more than 14,000 photos that come up, and I haven't even mentioned #oatmeal. A few years ago, we thought we would get round from it and that we should take it to gain a bit of strength, but now the world is actually getting slimmer from it. Well, we all believe in that, so I'm going to share a few simple and delicious recipes with oatmeal with you.
First, a few benefits of this hype (because there are definitely some; I thrive on it):
Oatmeal is gluten-free, packed with proteins and fibers (also very nice for digestion) and it's very easy to prepare. If you cook it with water or milk, you get porridge, but you can also add a scoop of it to your smoothie . Your smoothie becomes much more nutritious right away and you feel full for a long time. I understand that porridge is a bit boring, but you can quickly jazz it up with lots of fruit, nuts, cinnamon, raw cocoa nibs and you have a delicious sweet breakfast. Now I'm going to share a few recipes with you that are not necessarily meant for breakfast, because you can have oatmeal all day long. Here they come:
Apple pie à la health coach Tessa
Tessa's site is full of delicious healthy recipes. I understand that nothing beats a real warm apple pie (a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side?), but this is a healthy variant and maybe you need that sometimes. Believe me: this is also so delicious.
Here's what you need and how to make it:
6-8 apples (slightly sour)
500 g oatmeal or buckwheat flour
250 g raw nuts
100 g pumpkin seeds
100 g dried apricots chopped into small pieces
4 eggs
6 tablespoons coconut oil or 200 g butter (melted)
100 grams coconut sugar or 6 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons cinnamon
pie dish
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Wash the apples and slice them thinly.
You can leave the skin on the apple. Also chop the dried fruit into small pieces.
Grease the pie dish with a brush and olive oil.
Put the eggs, oatmeal, coconut sugar/honey, and coconut oil in a bowl and mix until a dough forms. If the dough doesn't stick well, you can add another egg. If you use oatmeal, you'll need a spatula to mold the dough into the pie dish.
Press half of the dough flat on the bottom of the dish and create a border of about 1.5 centimeters that you push up slightly. From a quarter of the dough, make the border in the pie dish.
Place a layer of apples on the bottom and sprinkle a good amount of cinnamon on top. Then sprinkle some flaxseed, pumpkin seeds, dried fruit, and nuts over it. Make several layers this way.
From the last dough, roll strips with which you can create a lattice on top of the pie. You can press some nuts into this (walnuts, hazelnuts, or pecans).
Bake the pie in the middle of the oven for about 45-60 minutes until the top is brown. Check after 45 minutes if the pie is done.
Oatmeal cookies
These cookies are also delicious as a snack and much healthier than when you open a roll of cookies, that's logical. I understand that you think it doesn't matter whether you eat a roll of chocolate cookies or ten oatmeal cookies. There might even be more calories in the oatmeal cookies, but I'm curious if you can manage it. After a few cookies, you are already satisfied, and that's also what is nice about these oatmeal cookies. You just can't eat a ton of them, because then you're stuffed.
Try this healthy variant from Chicks love food. So easy to make!
Oatmeal crackers
This is a really nice Sunday project: it's so quick and you have homemade super healthy oatmeal crackers for the whole week. This recipe from Ellemieke Vermolen is very easy and incredibly delicious, and it's even better when you spread it with hummus. Here, these crackers from Rens Kroes are also delicious.
