Tag: 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

Perfect Saturday Breakfast: Yoghurt, Raspberries with Toasted Oats and Nuts

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Perfect Saturday Breakfast: Yoghurt, Raspberries with Toasted Oats and Nuts !

Ingredients (2 servings):
– 300ml natural 3.8% yogurt
– 250g fresh mashed raspberries
– 60g oats
– 30g chopped cashew nuts

Method:
1 Wash and mash fresh raspberries until smooth
2 Toast (dry fry, no oil) oats and chopped cashew nuts until golden for ~2-4 minutes
3 Arrange in the glass: natural yogurt, mashed raspberries, warm toasted oats and nuts. Repeat.
4 Serve 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