3 x recipes with oatmeal
You’re crazy if you don’t eat oatmeal for breakfast. This morning I made myself an oatmeal banana pancake: one of my recent favourites. If you search Instagram with the #oatmeal, you’ll find more than 14.000 photos popping up. We all thought we’d get fat from it a few years ago and that we needed to eat it to put on weight, now the whole world is slimming down by eating it. Okay, we’re sold, so I’m going to share a few simple recipes with you.
First a few benefits (and there are several; I have it on good advice):
Oatmeal is gluten-free, full of protein and fibre (also good to keep you regular) and very easy to prepare. If you cook it with water or milk you get porridge, but you can also add a scoop to your smoothie. Your smoothie becomes more nutritious and you’ll feel fuller for longer. I know that porridge can be a little boring on it’s own, but you can easily pimp it up with fruit, nuts, cinnamon or raw coco nibs for a wonderfully sweet breakfast. Now a few recipes that are not only meant for breakfast because you can enjoy oats all day long. Here they are:
Apple pie à la health coach Tessa
Tessa’s site is full of wonderful healthy recipes. I know that nothing beats a slice of genuine warm apple pie (with a dot of vanilla ice cream), but this is a healthy version and you might enjoy it. Believe me: it is good.
What you need and how to prepare:
6-8 apples (lightly sour)
500 g oatmeal or buckwheat flour
250 g raw nuts
100 g pumpkin seeds
100 g brown apricots chopped finely
4 eggs
6 tablespoons of coconut oil or 200 g butter (melted)
100 g coconut sugar or 6 tbsp of honey
3 tbsp cinnamon
Cake tray
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Wash the apples and cut them into thin slices.
You can leave the apple peel on. Dice the dried fruit finely.
Grease the cake tray with a brush and olive oil.
Place the eggs, oatmeal, coconut sugar/honey and coconut oil into a bowl and mix until a dough is formed. If the dough is not sticky enough, add one more egg. If you’re using oatmeal, you’ll need a spatula to push the dough into the tray.
Press half the dough flat on the bottom and then create an edge of about 1,5 cm up the sides. Use a quarter of the dough to create the edge.
Lay the apples on the bottom and throw a good amount of cinnamon on top. Throw a handful of linseed, pumpkin seeds, dried fruit and nuts on top of that. Create layers.
Take the last bit of dough and cut slivers to create a basket on top. You can add more nuts in to the spaces if you like (walnuts, hazelnuts or pecans).
Bake in the middle of the oven for around 45-60 minutes until the top is brown. Check if cooked after 45 minutes.
Oatmeal cookies
These cookies are the perfect in-betweener and a whole lot healthier that opening a bag of cookies, which is logical. I get that you think that it makes no difference whether you eat a bag of chocolate cookies or ten oatmeal cookies. There may even be more calories in the oatmeal cookies, but I wonder if you’ll even be able to. You’ll feel full after just a few oatmeal cookies and that is exactly what is so great about them. You can’t eat mega amounts, you’ll be stuffed.
Try this healthy variant from Chicks Love Food. Easy to make!
Oatmeal crackers
This is perfect for a Sunday: quick to prepare and you’ll have super healthy oatmeal crackers all week long. This recipe is from Ellemieke Vermolen and is super simple and delicious and even better with hummus on top. Here, these crackers are from Rens Kroes and just as delicious.
