Peanut Butter Oatmeal

Lately I've been craving peanut butter ? Lots! Almost each day and all day, it seems. I don't know whether or not my body is telling to top off on proteins after stirring from the lengthy iciness slumber, however fortuitously peanut butter is a scrumptious way to get protein.

Inspired both by means of the yearning itself and by the current fulfillment of adding peanut butter to rice cooking water for a easy and attractive side dish, this brief and clean oatmeal is cooked in coconut milk and water with herbal peanut butter and a touch cinnamon and nutmeg. The result is a warm, creamy and splendidly "peanutty" porridge that adds a little protein kick for your breakfast to assist start the day.

Do try it, you'll be pleased with how clean and engaging it is ? And a touch extra filling than the usual oatmeal porridge. Use easy or crunchy herbal peanut butter, but the crunchy peanut butter offers the oatmeal a pleasing evaluation in textures.

Other oatmeal porridge thoughts:

Chai Spice Oatmeal

Lemon Curd Oatmeal

Oat Porridge for Two

Oat Porridge and Fruit

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Cornmeal-Oat-Quinoa Pancakes with Dried Cherries

Years ago when I worked in a bookstore the Dummies series of how-to books were everywhere to be found on almost every subject available. I had quite forgotten about them until I was recently sent a review copy of Cooking with Quinoa For Dummies , which goes to show that the supply of how-to subjects is not yet exhausted.

Now having been familiar with this incredible food for years, I am no longer, nor are many or most of my readers, "quinoa dummies" via any stretch. But it become now not too a few years in the past whilst quinoa become handiest with no trouble available at forte food shops, however with a highly recent surge in popularity of this "superfood", quinoa ? Which includes various types of the entire grain, flour and flakes ? Is now effortlessly located at maximum grocery stores. I determined this book will be lots more than a complete introduction for those who are new to quinoa. Written by means of Cheryl Forberg, who acts as the nutritionist for the display "The Biggest Loser", it is also a radical guide to all the kinds and kinds of quinoa, the advantages of consuming quinoa, and a amazing kind of the numerous makes use of and techniques for cooking quinoa. Ideas for appetizers and snacks, breakfast and brunch, salads, soups, mains and cakes and even liquids watch for the cook dinner. There's lots to research from this e book, even for us quinoa veterans.

Of the over 140 recipes protected in this collection, the one that struck my fancy first changed into for gluten-unfastened cornmeal pancakes with oat flour and quinoa flakes. During the winter I'm constantly searching for pancake thoughts, and the leftovers from a huge Sunday morning pancake cook dinner-up consultation make remarkable homemade on-the-move breakfasts for my early growing husband and myself for that matter. And this one is just in time for Pancake Tuesday. I've adapted the recipe slightly, however the essentials of cornmeal, oat flour and quinoa flakes remain the identical, and make for notable chewy-textured pancakes with a pleasing nutty taste. Guilt-unfastened too, with out a brought sugar however simply the herbal sweetness of the grains. I'll be making these once more, and I desire you attempt them too.

Note: I received a copy for review, but the opinions expressed here and the adaptation of the recipe are my own.

Other breakfast and brunch ideas with cherries you will experience from my vegetarian kitchen:

Cherry Cornmeal Scones

Dried Cherry Scones

Cherry Ricotta Cr?Pes

Baked Cherry-Stuffed French Toast with Cherry-Orange Sauce

Raspberry-Banana Oat and Chia Seed Smoothie

I have not absolutely jumped aboard the chia seed bandwagon, but even supposing they're no longer the typical panacea as has been recommended, I don't thoughts taking benefit of the omega-3 acids, fiber, iron, calcium, protein, diet C, potassium and antioxidants that chia seeds provide. Apart from pleasant chia seed puddings, chia seeds are smooth to contain in smoothies, which I frequently experience for a wholesome, clean-to-digest and brief and smooth no-prepare dinner breakfast pick-me-up. And due to the fact chia seeds enjoy the identical soaking and fermentation approach that make the proteins in rolled oats digestible, they are a easy addition to the oat and yogurt mixture that I prepare the night earlier than my smoothie in a variation of the conventional muesli method ? Virtually stir oats and chia seeds into undeniable whole-fats yogurt and leave in a single day at room temperature, and the subsequent morning you've got a nourishing, tangy and delicious base for adding any variant of culmination and natural sweeteners to make a smoothie.

This combination of yogurt, oats, chia seeds, raspberries and bananas makes for a specially clean and extensive breakfast smoothie ? So tasty, in fact, that it felt like I changed into consuming a sparkling dessert!

Other smoothies you may revel in:

Oat-Mango Smoothie with Blackberries

Blueberry and Maple Syrup Oat Smoothie

Pomegranate & Blueberry Oat Smoothie

Homemade Fruit and Nut Maple Granola

There is not anything quite like home made granola as I can now assert with self assurance, having sooner or later made my own. It's not some thing I eat all that often, however it does make for a healthful treat, quick breakfast or travel along snack. Granola is especially delightful served up with an amazing assisting of almond milk or yogurt and crowned with clean berries. It's a exceptional way to enjoy a generous serving of fiber, protein and essential nutrients too.

The benefits of creating your personal granola in your personal kitchen are many. To begin with, it is much less expensive than purchasing packaged granola that too regularly include components and subtle sweeteners, which might be overly candy, and which can be sometimes rather stale tasting. In addition, it takes hardly anytime at all to put together a truthful-length batch that continues properly if stored in a nicely-sealed container for a good many weeks. Simply mix up your components and bake at a low temperature for less than an hour. Your kitchen turns into splendidly aromatic and you'll need a few nibbles earlier than the pan is even cool.

Assembling your own also means you have general manipulate of the exceptional, choice and sort of the mixture. Use something aggregate of grains, nuts, seeds and culmination and sweeteners that fit your fancy. For sweetener, I used maple syrup, a touch bit of coconut sugar, and molasses for a deep and earthy, almost smoky taste. Having a staple supply of nuts and dried end result handy makes the opportunities infinite. I will likely in no way purchase save-offered granola once more.

No-Bake Blueberry Bars

The creation of blazing southwestern Ontario summer warmth method that it is time to enjoy refrigerated treats and the clean taste of summer season berries ? Or better yet, refrigerated berry treats! I'm particularly partial to blueberries and healthy and nourishing uncooked treats, so these two-layer no-bake raw blueberry bars combine the exceptional of each worlds. Chewy, cool and refreshing, those are best bars to preserve handy within the refrigerator or to p.C. Into a picnic cooler on warm days.

More blueberry delights from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Quinoa Blueberry Bites

Peanut Butter and Blueberry Shortbread Bars

Dumplings in Blueberry Syrup

Classic Blueberry Muffins

Baked Quinoa Brie Cakes with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

As a great deal as I revel in vegan food, there are times whilst simplest cheese will do. Paneer, creamy goat cheese, brie, feta and additional vintage Cheddar are only a few of my favorites. Here brie is incorporated with some grain to make a few baked savory desserts served with some basil pesto.

Other baked savories from Lisa's Kitchen you can enjoy:

Baked Mushroom Arancini

Baked Quinoa Falafel Bites

Spicy Baked Chickpea Koftas

Baked Chickpea Kofta Tacos with Avocado and Harissa

Oat and Peanut Butter Energy Nibbles

I'm a peanut butter addict, and additionally a huge fan of uncooked treats and little bites. These clean-to-make raw peanut butter and oat balls are a extremely good source of protein and an awesome healthy snack except. They aren't too sweet, with handiest a small quantity of maple syrup and coconut sugar added, along with a few dried cherries and some greater dark chocolate. You may also need to have greater than just a few nibbles, however they're unexpected filling if you only simply have one little ball.

I realize it's been quiet round here recently, however with the blazing unseasonable warmth wave that has been occurring for some weeks right here in London, Ontario, I haven't an awful lot felt like cooking. And to suppose, simply earlier than this started, there has been talk of turning on the furnace.

Other raw treats you can revel in from Lisa's Kitchen:

Raw Peanut Butter Fudge

Essentially Raw Pumpkin Bites

Raw Nut and Seed Chocolate Chunk Mint Energy Balls

Creamy Chickpea Flour Peanut Butter Maple Fudge

Blue Grape Oatmeal Breakfast Pudding

Cool weather makes for a great kitchen setting for the warming aromas of oatmeal and brown sugar baking right into a soft, creamy and spongey breakfast pudding. Resembling a bread pudding in texture and sweet sufficient to function a dessert, oatmeal breakfast puddings ? Wherein rolled oats are blended with entire fat yogurt the night time earlier than ? Are in fact a splendidly nourishing manner to start the day with masses of protein, fat and fiber.

I've made oatmeal breakfast puddings within the past with apples, blueberries and spices, and with fresh cherries and almonds. This time I decided to take advantage of some beautiful seedless blue grapes along with almonds again. Not to be burdened with black grapes, blue grapes have essentially the equal deep sweet flavor as Concord grapes but without the seeds. If you cannot find seedless blue grapes, Concords may be used ? Simply squeeze the cease of each grape opposite the stem to separate the skins from the pulp, discard the skins, and press the pulp thru a strainer to get rid of the seeds. If the usage of seedless purple or black desk grapes, add a further tablespoon or of brown sugar to the pudding.

More blue grape recipes from Lisa's Kitchen:

Tuscan Grape and Rosemary Focaccia (Schiacciata a l'Uva)

Blue Grape Pancakes

Baked Blue Grape Pancakes

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Sweet Potato and Chickpea Patties with Avocado and Tomato Salsa

I enjoy little bites, and summer season is specifically desirable to savory desserts and patties. My desire is normally to bake maximum varieties inside the oven as it cuts down on oil and time too as the whole batch will commonly healthy on one sheet. My brand new test in savory little bites has everything you want for a complete meal ? Candy potato, chickpeas, oats and seeds. They are mildly spiced, with a slightly crusted outside and a soft and succulent middle. Golden and packed full of protein and fiber, this could now not be the ultimate time they seem on my desk. I've absolute confidence that even the carnivores at the table might not be complaining approximately the shortage of moo in each chunk.

The serving opportunities are countless. You can serve them in tortilla wraps, pita wallet, buns, or simply as they may be with a few salsa and a aspect salad. My choice became to serve them up over a few toddler kale after which pinnacle with a spicy avocado and tomato salsa, with some goat cheese biscuits on the aspect. Filling and fresh, it is quite an awful lot a problem loose meal, however great every time of 12 months.

Other patties and cakes to enjoy from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Potato Patties Stuffed with Spiced Green Peas (Aloo Matar Tikki)

Chickpea Patties Smothered in Vegetable Gravy

Quinoa Goat Cheese and Parmesan Cakes

Chickpea Quinoa Pumpkin Burgers

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Baked Cherry Oatmeal Pudding

Fresh sweet wine-crimson summer season cherries might be my favored snacking fruit, which could make pitting sufficient of them to get past my mouth and right into a recipe an unsure exercise ? Constantly better to have a long way too many handy, at the least in my residence. But once they do continue to exist lengthy sufficient to be placed into something like this oatmeal pudding, the outcomes are extraordinary ? Baking cherries elevates their candy taste and, blended with the essence of almonds, fills your kitchen with heavenly aromas.

This recipe is a remix of a baked apple-blueberry oatmeal breakfast pudding that scored a massive hit with me and my husband a bit even as ago, and if something this proved to be an excellent more success. The procedure of soaking oats in a single day in yogurt no longer most effective breaks down the grain's complex proteins into easily digestible additives, further the outcomes bake right into a gentle and creamy spongey pudding that can be eaten as a dessert or for breakfast.

Other thoughts from Lisa's Kitchen:

Baked Apple-Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Pudding

Apple-Oatmeal Breakfast Streusel Cake

Cherry Vanilla Ricotta Muffins

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Baked Cherry Oatmeal Dessert Puddings

It's high-quality how cooking in ramekins can flip a reasonably ordinary recipe into something that looks gourmand. That's just what I did with a baked cherry oatmeal breakfast pudding that I enjoyed recently, turning them into these splendid soft and spongy cherry and oatmeal dessert puddings with a few tweaks like marinating the cherries in balsamic vinegar to deepen their flavor. They were additionally an excuse to burn up some the bags of fresh candy cherries that by some means keep arriving at my residence.

The aroma of cherries and almond essence baking inside the kitchen will make everybody want to get right to the dessert path, however these stylish little puddings are not too sweet in any respect and wholesome sufficient to eat for breakfast if you have any left over.

More pudding ideas you may enjoy:

Lemon Sponge Pudding

Cherry Pudding Cake

Cherry Clafouti

Chia Seed Pudding

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Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal Pudding Cake

Oatmeal is quite popular breakfast fare round my residence, but it is typically honestly cooked on a stove-pinnacle and served undeniable with a bit milk, maple syrup and a few berries. But I do experience going the more step every now and then to make a baked oatmeal pudding, and with plenty of pumpkin pur?E in the freezer, it became an clean desire to go along with a baked pumpkin oatmeal with all of the pie spices that fill the kitchen with scrumptious aromas.

Soft, creamy and chewy, this oatmeal pudding comes out of the oven like a flour-much less espresso cake, and is as nourishing as it is straightforward to prepare. Soaking rolled oats in undeniable right high-quality whole fat yogurt in a single day earlier than baking breaks down the grain's complicated proteins into effortlessly digestible components and effects in a lovely spongy and almost custardy texture inside the completed cake. And, of route, there is pumpkin and a few toasted pecans? It's not too sweet, either, sweetened with only a sector cup of maple syrup, but you can make it a sweeter dessert pudding cake by using growing the maple syrup to a half cup. You can use canned pumpkin without difficulty as lengthy as it isn't the already spiced and sweetened pumpkin pie filling.

More autumn delights from Lisa's Kitchen:

Apple-Oatmeal Breakfast Streusel Cake

Homemade Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Energy Bites

Pumpkin Scones

Spiced Pumpkin Waffles

Amazing Lentil Energy Bites

Protein bites are an first rate and delicious way to begin your day and also are very reachable to have around when a little wanted pick-me-up snack is needed at any point for the duration of the day. I continually try and make sure some chunk-size protein snacks are accessible. I've made dozens of various such snacks over the years, and I will continually be making new ones. They have become an important home made staple.

And searching for new thoughts, what higher way to without a doubt ensure that you are getting a boost of protein for your snacks than to feature lentils, that's the specifically particular element of those attractive little energy bites. Earthy lentils not most effective add protein, however they're mixed with oats, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds and almond butter ? All plentiful resources of protein themselves ? To make a bite that's really loaded with proteins, textures and tastes.

Dried shredded coconut, darkish chocolate and a bit maple syrup add even more taste to these remarkable electricity bites. Each bite is a medley of flavors and textures ? Earthy, nutty, chocolatey and candy however now not overly so ? And delightfully gentle, chewy and crunchy. Eating simply one will rarely do because they're so delicious, but they're very filling too. And like so many vegan protein snacks, they may be without a doubt easy to make with only measuring gear, a bowl, a blending spoon and your hands ? No need for the food processor for this recipe.

This recipe comes from The High-Protein Vegan Cookbook: 125+ Hearty Plant-Based Recipes , a new plant-based cookbook from Ginny Kay McMeans — author, photographer and blogger behind Vegan in the Freezer — that features recipes high in protein. Shortly before Christmas I received a copy for possible review on my blog, and I didn't realize that I was hungry at the time until I opened the book and started rifling through the pages.

As a vegetarian, and I expect even greater so for vegans who comply with a strictly plant-based eating regimen, likely the maximum frequently asked question after "simply what DO you devour?" is "just in which DO you get your protein from?" ? As if vegetarians and vegans only ate leafy inexperienced salads and greens. In fact, I've lengthy known that many plant foods are an wonderful supply of protein, including nuts, seeds, legumes and quinoa. But I admit that it wasn't a lesson I knew thoroughly after I first have become a vegetarian, and it is an essential vital lesson to study even extra so for folks who are starting out on a vegan weight loss plan.

The trick for vegans or even for those who just want to incorporate more plant-based meals into their diet is to use a variety of these plant proteins throughout the day to make sure that you are getting all of the nine essential amino acids that don't always appear in every plant protein by itself. Nut butters, for example, are always a quick and easy high protein go-to for me during the day, in addition to the legume and grain based dinners I make. And it doesn't hurt to combine these plant proteins with fruits, vegetables and seasonings into delicious and interesting creations, which is exactly what Ginny Kay McMeans does in The High-Protein Vegan Cookbook: 125+ Hearty Plant-Based Recipes .

This new cookbook is split into six chapters for consuming tantalizing and excessive protein plant-based totally foods at some point of the day. "Power-Up Appetizers" gets your party going and your appetites dancing with recipes which includes Lentil Balls in Sweet and Spicy Red Sauce, Tempeh Stuffed Cremini Mushrooms and Chickpea Salad Crostini. "Breakfast Power" will have you ever starting your day with energizing Buckwheat Coconut Porridge, Savory Quinoa Breakfast Cups or possibly Lemon Strawberry Protein Muffins. One should not forget "Lunch Bowls, Chilies and Sandwiches" and your mid-day meal could be particularly fun with a few Portobello Mushroom Gyros, possibly a Chopped Chickpea Salad Veggie Bowl or a Touch of the Tropic Rice Bowl. "Portable Snacks" like those extremely good lentil strength bites, Tropical Lemon Protein Bites and Chocolate Cake Munch Cookies will preserve you energized every time you experience like a lift, and "Protein-Packed Dinners" will entire your busy day with thoughts like Chickpea Tortilla Fajita Stacks, Three-Layer Tacos with Kale Salad and Superpower Stuffed Poblano Peppers. There's also a bankruptcy on making your very own seitan and using it to make Steamed Seitan Smoky Nuggets, or if you please, Steamed Seitan Chipotle Links ? The recipes on this bankruptcy may be utilized in a number of the other recipes in the book.

I'm searching forward to trying a number of the creative and tempting recipes from this adorable cookbook. A unique way to Ginny for arranging a duplicate to be despatched to me.

Notes approximately the recipe:

The recipe known as for lentils but did now not specify what kind to apply. Based at the commands, I decided that inexperienced lentils could paintings great due to the fact they are brief to prepare dinner and I thought that the feel would paintings well with the electricity bites and so that they did. For the chocolate, I used a satisfactory dark chocolate from a bar that I cut into portions as I didn't have any chocolate chips handy. I used easy almond butter, however chunky almond butter might also be a first-class alternative. Depending how huge you make each bite, you may become with 30 to 32 bites approximately 1-inch in diameter, as I did, in place of the 36 indicated within the unique recipe.

The dough got here together quite properly, so the proportions have been just fine as turned into the taste, but it changed into considerably sticky and stuck to my arms and for this reason a piece messy. To make the aggregate less complicated to form into small balls, the subsequent time I make these bites I assume I will stir in extra hemp seeds, upload a few cacao powder, maybe some finely chopped dried fruit, inclusive of apricots or cherries, and possibly add a wee bit greater chocolate. I might additionally use old-fashioned oats as opposed to short-prepare dinner oats. A tablespoon or two of coconut flour could also be a attention. Overall, I cherished the recipe and no adjustments are required. My pointers regarding these delights are definitely the reflections of a cook dinner and baker that enjoys fussing round inside the kitchen and trying new creations.

Other vegan protein snack thoughts you will enjoy:

Raw Peanut Butter Chocolate Nut Squares

Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Bars

Raw Pistachio Cashew Halva

Raw Nut and Seed Chocolate Chunk Mint Energy Balls

Oat and Peanut Butter Energy Nibbles

Tahini Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Tahini is a condiment or paste made from sesame seeds and has a consistency similar to nut butters. It figures prominently in Middle Eastern cuisine, and one of the most widely recognized makes use of of tahini is the valuable function it performs in most hummus arrangements. You could make your personal from unhulled, hulled, sprouted or toasted sesame seeds, however I haven't begun to do that. I already make so a lot of my very own staples and there's only so much time in a day. I even have a few favorite shop-bought brands that work nicely for me, and my choice is usually to get natural tahini, without any additions and that most have a resemblance to the consistency of nut butters, which means I keep away from varieties that have a watery consistency.

And tahini is this type of various component and one which I even have emerge as an increasing number of smitten with through the years. In addition to the signature element it adds to many Middle Eastern meals, tahini may be was super sauces, dips and salad dressings. I even have additionally end up keen on tahini with regards to sweet treats.

Craving cookies, I determined to characteristic tahini in preference to a number of the usual favorites such as peanut butter and almond butter, although your favored nut butter could be used rather for stellar results. These smooth-to-make chewy oatmeal cookies have a chunk of a crunchiness from chopped almonds, a mild sweetness from a small amount of pure maple syrup, and are dotted with pieces of wealthy properly-great dark chocolate. But if you're like me and sincerely revel in the nutty and slightly sour flavor of tahini, it makes for a really perfect backdrop to the other substances without being overpowering like a few nut butters may be. My husband and I are each enthusiasts of tahini, so we loved those cookies till they have been all-too-quickly finished. But they may be being baked again in the future quickly.

Other recipes offering tahini from Lisa's Kitchen:

Tahini Freezer Fudge

Middle Eastern Inspired Spicy Chickpea, Eggplant and Tahini Stew

Mini Tahini Cups with a Creamy Coffee Date Filling

Roasted Broccoli with Miso-Tahini-Tamari Sauce

Creamy Tahini Lemon Dressing with Fresh Herbs

High Protein Breakfast Bars

Like so a lot of us nowadays, my husband not often has time within the morning for a proper wholesome breakfast earlier than going off to work. Pouring a bowl of cold breakfast cereal or having a shop-offered breakfast bar is a quick repair for plenty human beings, however the urge for food for morning nourishment is only in brief whetted by means of those relatively processed and sugar-encumbered meals. Without taking plenty time in any respect, I can without problems make him one or weeks' really worth of brief morning breakfast bars which might be a ways extra nutritious than whatever bought at the store.

Made with oats and spelt, almond butter, tahini, and hemp, chia and flax seeds, those baked breakfast bars are packed with nutrients along with approximately 13 half of grams of protein each, and best take approximately 40 minutes from begin to complete to make up to two weeks' really worth of breakfasts. And with semisweet chocolate chips and dried cherries delivered, and sweetened with honey or maple syrup, they are bars that are not just more healthy however tastier than breakfasts out of a box. Once you attempt those, you'll be looking forward to breakfast.

Other excessive protein recipes to attempt from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Balls

Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Bars

Quinoa Nut and Fruit Protein Bars

Chocolate-Covered Hemp Seed Protein Bars

Amazing Lentil Energy Bites

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Tahini Oatmeal Cookies {Vegan}

For the past few years, my approach to baking has modified. I avoid delicate sugars, a number of the baked items I make are now free of eggs and dairy, and every so often they're free of wheat flour as well. Cookies are one such instance, and due to the fact an excellent shop-sold cookie is tough to locate ? They're nearly continually too candy for my more savory tastes, and include components I don't often realize a way to pronounce or perceive ? I constantly make my very own cookies when I have a yearning.

And craving a good oatmeal cookie, I came up with this recipe that comes together in infrequently every time in any respect. Somewhat changed and tailored from my recipe for tahini oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies, they are eggless, flourless, and no extra oil or butter is wanted both due to the addition of tahini. I'm made those two times within the beyond few weeks, with a few adjustments the second one time around. These cookies have a nice chewy texture, with a slightly nutty flavor from the addition of almond flour and tahini, and are rather like a chewy granola bar. I desired the oats to shine, however for variation, fold some darkish chocolate chunks, raisins or chopped nuts into the batter.

Other vegan pleasant cookies to revel in from Lisa's Kitchen:

Quick and Easy Tahini Ginger Cookies

Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bites

Cashew Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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Strawberry Chia Oat Bars

I made these oat bars with a strawberry jam filling with clean breakfasts in mind, however they have been so exciting that I observed myself serving them for dessert as nicely. The cookie-like oat crust is made with sunflower seeds, pepitas and tahini for an excellent supporting of protein and taste that might make it a treat all through itself. But a strawberry chia seed jam filling and a mild streusel-like topping of greater of the oat, seed and pepita combination makes those bars very just like a berry crisp.

Although they flavor candy, there aren't any refined sugars ? Just maple syrup and the cane sugar used to sweeten the jam ? Or some thing else to sense responsible approximately on this recipe. They hold properly within the fridge for as much as every week in the event that they closing that lengthy, and freeze nicely too.

Recipe notes: I used a combination of both strawberry and raspberry chia seed jam. World of Chia jams are available at many grocery stores, but if you can't find chia seed jam — in which chia seeds are used instead of pectin to thicken the fruit spread — then any good quality jam without refined sugars would work fine as well. And if you don't have pepitas, then use another 1/4 cup sunflower seeds instead.

Other breakfast bars to experience from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Cherry Nut Bars

Quinoa Nut and Fruit Protein Bars

Chocolate-Covered Hemp Seed Protein Bars

Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Bars

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Blackberry Chia Jam Breakfast Bars

My breakfasts most often consist of oats or other rolled grains soaked overnight in plain whole fat yogurt in the muesli tradition and then topped with fresh or dried berries — it's a very healthy and filling way to start the day. But there are times when I like to prepare something a little different ahead of time but without sacrificing nourishment or convenience. So I often will make pans of breakfast bars filled not just with oats but also with nuts, seeds, and fruit.

These breakfast bars with a blackberry jam filling have all of the above, and chickpeas too for some extra morning protein and a creamy texture in the cookie-like crust. Like my strawberry jam chia oat bars, these are tasty enough to have for dessert too, even though they have no added refined sugars and just a moderate amount of maple syrup.

These breakfast bars should be stored in the refrigerator — made with coconut oil, they will be too soft if left at room temperature. But they will store well for up to a week if they could last that long.

Other breakfast recipes to enjoy from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Strawberry Chia Oat Bars

High Protein Breakfast Bars

Chia Muffins {Vegan}

Apricot Almond Energy Bites

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