Yoga Kitchen – Simple, healthy and vegan
Nowadays, the world’s most succesfull body-builders and athletes are recognizing the benefits of a plant-based diet. Sometimes their switch from omnivore to plant-based is a true lifestyle transformation! They manage to get even better performance results without the discomforts of animal sourced foods. And they feel morally better now that no more animals need to suffer or die for their appetite and sports diet.
A perfect plant-based alternative
One of these athletes and nutritional advisors is Canadian Derek Simnett. You can always check out his videos and enjoy his good-humoured, warm-hearted and honest contributions. I think I may have found the base for the following recipe for healthy oat cookies on one of his webpages or in one of his videos. But I made some adaptations to make them even more healthy.
These cookies, without any added sugar, are an excellent alternative for the industrial sugar loaded cookies that are sold in supermarkets as “Breakfast cookies”. They fit perfectly into a strategy to lower the sugar content in your foods.
colate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
What you need for about 12 to 16 cookies:
- 75 grs (1.5 cups) rolled oats, ground up into oat flour
- 50 grs (1 cup) rolled oats (not ground)
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed
- 30 grs (1/4 cup) sunflower seeds
- 30 grs (1/4 cup) pumpkin seeds
- 70 grs (2/3 – 1/2 cup) raisins, soaked overnight
- 30 grs (2/3 cup) unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1 flax ‘egg’ (2 tbsp. ground flax seeds mixed with
3 tbsp water) - 2 tsp baking soda
- Juice of 1 lemon (add just before baking)
This is how you make them a success:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.
- Prepare flax ‘egg’ and let soak for a few minutes in small bowl.
- Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl except the lemon juice.
- When all the ingredients are mixed together, add lemon juice and gently mix. Spoon mixture
out onto a lined baking sheet and bake for 15 – 20 mins depending on cookie size. - Take the cookies out of the oven off the baking sheet and let cool on a wired rack.
You can store these cookies in the refrigerator for 3-4 days in an airtight container, but I am sure you will want to finish them a lot earlier …
Enjoy!
High nutritional density
We can consider cookies like these as food with a considerably high nutritional density: relatively rich in calories and with an average moist content. The nutritional density of food can be calculated as the amount of calories per 100 grs of product. In healthy nutrition, it’s advisable to consume a lot of foods with a low nutritional density. Good examples of those are: vegetables and fruits. So we better consume these cookies with moderation.