Granola Cups
What if you could turn regular granola mix into granola cups to have for breakfast. It's an easy and elegant way to hold yogurt, chia pudding or loaded overnight oats to add more protein to your breakfast meal without compromising taste.
Ingredients:
105g old fashioned oats
55g chickpea flour
100ml water
30g flaxseed powder
15ml coconut oil
1/4tsp fine sea salt
55g almond butter
35g raw honey/ date syrup
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tsp cardamom powder
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
Directions: (Timestamps: 4:12 - 11:23)
Preheat oven to 350˚F.
Combine water and flaxseed powder in a mixing bowl to make flax gel. Whisk well to prevent clumps.
To the flax gel, add in coconut oil, fine sea salt, almond butter, raw honey or date syrup, cinnamon powder, cardamom powder and ground nutmeg. Combine this mixture very well using a wooden spoon or whisk.
Next add in old fashioned oats and chickpea flour, combine the mixture well and set it aside.
Cut some parchment paper into squares measuring 5.25 X 5.25 inches to flatten equal portions of the granola dough.
Divide the mixture into 6 equal parts using a food scale for precision.
Place a portion of the granola mixture on a piece of parchment paper then place another piece of parchment paper on it and flatten the dough starting from the middle then moving outwards ensuring that the middle part is as flat as the edges. If the edges are too thin, it’s likely that they’ll burn while the middle of the granola cup is still baking. Repeat the process for the remaining dough until you are all done.
Alternatively, thinly spread the entire granola dough on a parchment-lined baking sheet, bake it, cut it into shapes and snack on it or pair with milk.
Brush a cupcake bakeware with coconut or avocado oil to prevent the granola cups from getting stuck to the bakeware after baking. Bake these granola cups for 20 minutes until golden and hard enough to form a shell. Once they're done baking gently use a pallet knife to ease the granola cups out of the bakeware and let them cool on a baking sheet.
Once cooled, you can store them in the fridge and for breakfast, you can serve them as you prefer. A few suggestions include spooning yogurt, chia pudding, or overnight oats into the granola cups or plain fruit if you want to pack it for lunch to have as a snack instead.
Each granola cup contains about 6.5g of protein which does not sound significant but with the different serving suggestions the protein content surely adds up.
