Good morning, my friends!
It’s Fruits and Veggies Monday again, the best way to start a new week! Let’s share our latest yummy vegan creations in this post made by the contest host, @lenasveganliving! Did you already see her Pear Mille Feuille recipe? Amazing, right? If you wish to surprise someone with a dessert looking like it came straight out of the Master Chef kitchen, this is the one!
There are these maple oat bars I love to buy from grocery store, they’re super crunchy and delicious. After eating the last one, I looked at the ingredients list and said to myself “I can make these myself as well”. So I did. Here’s the result, I’m not going to lie, they didn’t turn out exactly like the store bought ones, but oh boy, how delicious they are! (I ate three right after they came from the oven…) These bars aren’t the healthiest choice out there (not the unhealthiest either), but I like to have a little sweet dessert quite often and these oat bars are perfect for that purpose!
Maple Oat Bars
Ingredients:
1 cup (= 2.5 dl) oats
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp maple syrup
2.5 tbsp (= 35 g) melted (vegan) butter/margarine
pinch of salt
a few tbsp water
Method:
As always with my recipes, just mix all the ingredients together in a bowl. Use a few tablespoons of water in order to have a dough instead of a crumble. Spread a relatively thin layer of the mixture evenly onto a baking tray in the shape of a quadrangle. Cut it into squares or bars before baking (check the photo below). Bake at 225 °C (= 440 °F) for 10-15 minutes, depending on how crispy/soft you like them.
Enjoy them warm with a crunchy outside and a soft inside! However, they’re still delicious when they have cooled down!
For those of you trying to avoid white sugar, I made another version, an Apple Cinnamon one: you want to follow the instructions, but change the ingredients a bit. Leave the sugar out, and use ¼ cup (= 0.6 dl) applesauce instead. Also leave the water out and add 1-2 tsp cinnamon. 💚
Have a lovely and delicious week!
-Jasmin ❤
That might be healthy but I'm not a fan of cereal bars. They are too dry for my tastes...
Thanks for your post.
I've found you because @viking-ventures has featured you in her Entry for the Pay It Forward Contest
You could always dip them in milk, or break them up and treat them just like cereal. Or add raisins to keep up the moisture content. Cover them with chocolate... lots of ways to add moisture!
Thank you for the support @trincowski! And so great ideas to add moisture @viking-ventures, I should ask guidance from you whenever I feel like I need it, haha!
I love oat bars. It is always nice to have a quick grab and go snack handy. I will be trying out your recipe for sure.
I came over because your post was featured in this weeks Pay it forward curation contest by @viking-ventures
Exactly, oat bars are the perfect quick snack! If you make these, let me know how they turned out.
Thanks for stopping by @headchange!
Looks yummy oats and maple syrup can't go wrong :) and you found another use for your applesauce ;) I remember that post haha
Thanks @steven-patrick! I couldn't agree more, oats and maple syrup, that's a combo which will always work! There are so many uses for applesauce. I have many more I want to try, luckily I have a freezer full of applesauce, haha! :)
We've already chatted a bit, but I'm back...
I have chosen to include you in my entry to the Pay it Forward Curation Contest for this week! As such, I have followed you, resteemed and upvoted this post. Keep up the great work! Please consider joining this contest with your own entry.
I'm flattered, thank you so much!
I actually participated about a month ago, and I just love this contest, supporting each other is so important! However, I found it really hard to find new quality content here on Steemit, especially regarding health. It requires a lot of time and effort to search and choose who you pick for the pifc, so I have to say that I raise my hat to all of you doing it every single week!
I'll go check out that post of yours right away! :)
Actually, I find most of my entries on Discord promo channels.
You must have participated just before I started judging entries. (Obviously, I don't judge my own. lol.)
I should get more into Discord channels as well, I've only joined one channel, and I'm really not even active there. I haven't even heard about those promo channels! I just wish I'd have a couple of extra hours each day... I'd use them wisely on Steemit!
Yeah, time is an issue. I spend a lot of time on my writing and always wish for more time/energy.
Many of the Discord servers have a channel for promotions. Some of them have rules (like upvote one/two posts before posting your own) and others you can just drop the links.
One of the best services is Ginabot. She comes with a server as well. She sends you notifications of all sorts of Steem activities. She sometimes falls behind, but normally she's very good. Here is an invite to that one. Hopefully, someone can help you set it up - I can't remember how it was done, lol.
https://discord.gg/
My discord, btw is viking-ventures #2883
Thank you for the tips! This Ginabot seems really helpful, I'll have to get acquainted with it this weekend! :)
Oat bars are always something I'm happy to toss together, and I can just about smell how delicious these are from here! A yummy entry as always Jasmin. I came home with almost 40 pounds of apples yesterday, so I think I am going to put together some apple oat bars today. :)
Oat bars are really nice, so simple to prepare but smells and tastes really nice! Now is the perfect time for you to create some apple goodies, I'm salivating just from thinking about everything you could make! Enjoy the apple oat bars if you decide to make them! 😋
Thank you @plantstoplanks! :)
I need try these.... anything with Maple 🍁
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You're right, anything with maple syrup is delicious! 😍
Oh my yum!!! These are fantastic and I totally hear ya on having sweets often 🤷🏼♀️ I tend to like the desert/bars I make more so than the store bought, probably because I know exactly what is in them plus the added love :). Not too long ago I made a similar recipe but rather than apple sauce, I used almond butter. Pretty yum but quite messy to make.
@jasmink you knocked it out of the park with this one. I’ll take one of those maple crunch bars any day of the week. Great entry friend!
Thanks @puravidaville! Almond butter in oat bars sound delicious as well, oat bars are so great, you can throw nearly anything in them and the result will be tasty. It's also true that love as a secret ingredient makes everything taste better! 😋
It really does.
Hi @jasmink 😃Looks like another wonderful recipe and I actually have all of the ingredients to try this one :) I'll let you know how it turns out!!
@viking-ventures is the one who featured your in this week's contest. Keep up the great work.
Hey @tryskele, nice to hear from you again, and thank you for the lovely comment! :) Isn't it a nice feeling when you find a recipe you could try and you already have everything for it? I'm looking forward to seeing how your bars turn out!
Thank you so much for your lovely compliment Jasmin, you are very sweet. Your Oatmeal bars are truly delicious and if you replace the margarine with virgin coconut oil and the sugar with raw coconut sugar, or use only maple syrup, they would be even healthier. Well done my Dear 🍒 🍌🍑🌿🍍🍓🍇
Those a great suggestions, Lena, using virgin coconut oil would probably give a nice tinge as well! 😋
Thanks for the feedback! 😊
Another simply delicious from @jasmink 😘 everybody can re-bake this one. If you ate 3 pieces once it ready... I think I can't stop myself from eating this kind of desert before I sleep 😂
Thank you @cicisaja! I also sometimes have a bad habit of overindulging before going to bed, haha! But occasionally it's totally fine, we don't have to eat perfectly every day! 😊
Well.. I never knew how to eat perfectly 😂😂😂 I smoke cigarettes, eat anything that all my heart.. there're only two kind of foods for me.. the delicious one and the fantastic delicious 😂😂 and this one .. I can tell from its look.. must be a fantastic organic delicious.
Haha! Well that if something is a compliment, you're too sweet! 😘
You know.. I love to candied anything and love the sweet meals too😊 and yes.. this is a compliment😘
Awesome! I will put the regular butter back in and try this one. I've never had a lot of luck with English "flapjack" recipes (as they call them in England.) But maybe this one will work for me. I'll probably use my muesli blend... Hmmm, maybe one of the school projects for my girls today!
(BTW, my mother also trained as a dietitian - she's retired from it now - and is raw vegan.)
Yes, sounds awesome! In my opinion, the sugary bars are great to have as dessert, whereas the applesauce ones are a better option for a healthy snack. I hope these ones will work for you!
I'd also love to try a raw vegan diet, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work for me. Since it can be really cold in Finland during autumn, winter and spring (sometimes summers are quite chilly as well), I feel that I need my warm meals! A raw vegan diet is a really interesting one, have you ever tried to follow it or at least tastes some raw vegan dishes? I'm curious to hear. :)
My parents do a lot with their dehydrator. They may not have the freezing temps of Finland, but they do have the humidity as well which makes cold feel colder, I'm sure you know all about humidity in Finland! (Honestly, if I were to move back to Europe, I'd want to live in Finland.) So, anyway, not everything they eat is cold. You can heat in the dehydrator to 105F without damaging the nutrients/enzymes. (I don't know what that translates to in C, about 40, I guess.)
I've not tried following a vegan or even a vegetarian diet (I like to joke that I would starve to death - I am more in the paleo/primal direction myself) - but I actually found that we have many of the same concerns and ideas, just slightly different ways of achieving them. However, I have had some of their raw vegan stuff - especially their desserts. Very good!
(I have to be careful as I am intolerant to soy in any form.)
I'd actually like to incorporate some of their desserts into my diet. They are good, rich and filling without too much bad stuff.
I think for me 40 C wouldn't be warm enough, I even like to drink my tea almost boiling hot... But I really appreciate people who can follow a raw vegan diet every day of the year!
You talking about having had tried some raw vegan stuff made me think about one thing I always like to highlight, a versatile diet. People should get rid of the mindset that they can't try any vegan foods since they're not vegan, for example. I mean, how it's going to hurt anyone if you try something new and even happen to like it? Trying new foods is fun and you can find some things you really enjoy, so it's a real win-win!
I went a bit off-topic here, but I just love to talk about food and diets and eating habits, I hope you don't mind!
I totally agree that versatility in diet is so important. I've learned to like many things that I never thought I'd like - mostly because there's little I won't try. (Yes, if I get to Sweden, I thoroughly intend to try surstömming. I don't know what smelly things you Finns eat though. I do have a pot of viili in my fridge most of the time.)
I've even had (safely-prepared) raw meat and fish. It's strangely close to the raw vegan principles there...
lol on the hot tea. My ex-sister-in-law is one of those. She's Bengali. But I've been told that even fresh tea straight from the kettle goes into the microwave for a minute or two!
When I was little my sister would eat viili with sugar and cinnamon as a snack after school. I absolutely hated it, I never was a huge fan of dairy products, my mom has told me that as soon as I learnt so speak, I said that I don't want to drink milk since it tastes bad, lol.
Surstömming in Sweden can be a challenge, it isn't the most appetizing thing in the world! If you ever come to Finland during Easter, you should try Mämmi, it looks awful, some people are disgusted by it and some people absolutely love it. I think it's the same thing with surströmming in Sweden. But it's a great thing to taste everything, how could you know whether you like it or not if you don't taste it?
Yeah, sometimes our tastes and preferences are a good guide. Especially with dairy where it can easily be an allergy issue.
My mother has never really liked beetroot, but she likes the beet greens, so grew a whole bunch of beets one year. Not wanting to waste the beetroot, she put a bunch in her smoothie... Turns out, she's allergic to it! She's fine with the greens, but can't have the root.
I agree that you don't know if you don't taste though. My mother (again) loves durian. I haven't tried it, unable to get past the gym sock smell of it, but I was a lot younger then, and would love to give it a try now just to say I have.
The "Allt för Sverige" etc, programs are wonderful because usually at least once during the series, they make these guys try some of the really nasty-looking/smelling dishes of the countries. It's funny, but such a good experience for them!
Have you had snow yet? We're going through our first snowy period of the season right now. Just a generous trace on the ground now, but I like snow.
That seem easy to prepare. Maybe I'll give it a try one of these days. I hope I won't burn them. 😂
As you know, @viking-ventures featured your article on her post as an entry to the Pay It Forward Curation Contest. The contest is open to everyone so you are welcome to join.
Quick and easy are my two favorite words when it comes to baking and cooking, I like to show you recipes you can very easily try yourself as well. If you decide to try these oat bars, just don't make the layer on the baking tray too thin so you won't burn them! 😉
Thanks for stopping by @macoolette! :)
I like those words! Perfect for people like me who do not know how to cook. 😊
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It looks yummy. I like what you did. You have a great talent to do this just looking at the ingredients. I also like your posting composition. You are not just directly telling how can maple oat bars be made. You started with an interesting story and then followed by how to. You are sharing your experience also. Thanks for your post and Thanks to @viking-ventures choosing your post in pifc curation contest. About this contest he already mention in his comment. He is a very great curator. I am continuously learning things from him.
Thank you @mmunited, I really appreciate all this positive feedback from you! I love the Pay It Forward Curation Contest, it's great to see how this community is so keen on supporting other Steemians!
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