Category: Oats

Simple and Healthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies !

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Healthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies


Ingredients:
– 150g ripe banana
– 100g oat flakes
– 50g all-purpose flour
– 30g butter
– optional: 1 tbsp cane sugar
– 30g almond flour

Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 180C
2 Combine oat flakes, flour, sugar, almond flour with grated butter and bananas: mix everything until smooth
3 Form dough with a cookie cutter (1 tbsp dough for 1 cookie)
4 Bake the cookies at 180C for 20 minutes, serve with black tea or milk 🙂

Healthy Banana-Oatmeal Pancakes: quick and delicious breakfast !

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

J.R.R. Tolkien
Healthy Banana-Oatmeal Pancakes

Ingredients:
– 180ml Kefir
– 1 large ripe banana
– 1 cup (200ml) oatmeal
– 1 egg
– dash of salt
– 1/3 tsp cinnamon
– sunflower oil for frying

Method:
1 Preheat a skillet, add some sunflower oil
2 Combine grated banana with Kefir, oatmeal, an egg, salt and cinnamon: mix well until smooth
3 Pour 1 tbsp of batter for 1 pancake, fry until golden both sides, medium heat
4 Serve with fresh fruits and enjoy !

Summer time – time for early breakfasts in the balcony: yoghurt, blueberries, toasted oats and almonds !

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

V. Nabokov

Ingredients (for 2 persons):
– 400ml natural yogurt
– 400g fresh blueberries
– 100g oats
– 40g chopped almonds

Directions:
1 Toast oats and chopped almonds ~2-4 minutes until golden at medium heat (no oil, no butter)
2 Sprinkle washed blueberries over the yogurt
3 Sprinkle warm toasted oats and almonds over the yogurt and enjoy

Quick Healthy Breakfast: Yoghurt, Blueberries, Toasted Oats and Cashew Nuts

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

Ingredients (for 2 servings):
– 400ml natural yogurt
– 200g fresh blueberries
– 80g oats
– 40g chopped cashew nuts

Directions:
1 Toast oats and chopped cashew nuts ~2-4 minutes until golden at medium heat (no oil, no butter)
2 Sprinkle washed blueberries over the yogurt
3 Sprinkle warm toasted oats and cashew nuts over the yogurt
4 Enjoy and have a great day

Light Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies !

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

Pablo Neruda
Light Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:
– 140g oat flour
– 60g sugar
– 4g Vanilla sugar
– 4 tbsp milk
– 2 tbsp olive oil
– 30g dark chocolate morsels
– 1/4 tsp salt
– 1/2 tsp baking soda + 1/2 tsp vinegar

Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 180C
2 Combine flour+sugar+Vanilla sugar+milk+olive oil+salt+baking soda+vinegar: mix everything well
3 Add chocolate morsels to the dough and carefully mix to not destroy the morsels 🙂
4 Form the round cookies from the dough and put them on the baking paper
5 Bake the cookies at 180C for 10 minutes
6 Enjoy 😉

Plum Oats Crumble

Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Plum Oats Crumble

Batter ingredients:
– 175g flour
– 100g oat flakes
– 100g butter
– 55g sugar
– 4g Vanilla sugar
– 2 lemons zest

Filling ingredients:
– 20 chopped plums without stones
– juice of 1/2 lemon
– 80g sugar

Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 180C
2 Combine filling ingredients and put them into a battered baling form
3 Combine batter ingredients and mix them to crumbles 🙂
4 Sprinkle crumbles over the filling
5 Bake the cake 40-55 minutes until golden at 180C
6 Serve with fresh mint !

Healthy Banana Oatmeal Muffins !

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh.
“There there,” said Piglet. “I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Ingredients (for 10-12 muffins):
– 90g oat flour
– 120g ripe bananas
– 75g quark or cottage cheese
– 2 tbsp sugar
– 4g Vanilla sugar
– 1 egg
– 1/2 tsp baking soda & 1/2 teaspoon vinegar
– 1/2 tsp cinnamon
– 1/4 tsp salt

Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 180C
2 Dough: mix all ingredients in a bowl (baking soda+vinegar at the last step)
3 Pour the dough into a buttered muffin form
4 Decorate muffins with oat flakes and bake for 30-35 minutes at 180C
5 Serve with Kefir or black coffee