Breakfast recipes:
Pancakes & Bakes
I reduced the chia seeds to 1 tablespoon and used frozen blueberries. I think it's pretty important to use a good quality vanilla essence though because that's the predominant flavour, if you omit the syrup.
I had it with maple syrup and would normally spread some kind of nut butter but we ran out.
This pancake recipe is super easy, just mash a ripe banana (the riper the better) and mix with a beaten egg. This is your batter which makes around 6-8 small pancakes. You just need a non stick pan on a low heat and a lot of patience.
It tastes like banana and has quite a wet texture. I'm quite amazed it worked though, I would make it again if I wanted a healthy alternative to pancakes.
My Favourite Breakfast Muffins are from here. I've made them twice already - easy, portable, healthy and delicious (especially when heated up for 30s in the microwave).
Baked Oatmeal
Blueberry and Banana, slightly adapted from here
Just combined 1 cup of oats and top with boiling water until just covered. In another bowl, mix 1 cup of blueberries (I used frozen and it worked), 1 chopped banana (with a little reserved to decorate), handful of walnuts broken up into smaller pieces, half a cut up pitted dates (the woolworths brand one seems very similar to medjool dates, just slightly less sticky), 2 tablespoons of cinnamon.
Once oats are soft, add 1/4 cup almond and coconut milk (or any milk). Mix dry ingredients with wet ones. Pour into baking dish and top with left over sliced banana. Put oven on 190 degrees celcius for 20 minutes and you are done.
Baked Carrot Cake Oatmeal from hereThis looked great but it was a little disappointing, I preferred the deliciouslyella one. It was very wholesome and made a great breakfast but it wasn't sweet enough (something I rarely say). The only sweetness in the base came from the raisins and the maple syrup from the top was hardly noticeable. I also found the top to be too unnecessarily oily, next time I would reduce the oil.
Overnight oats:
combine a cup of oats with 1.5 cups of almond milk, grate an apple, add a tablespoon of chia seeds, tea spoon of cinnamon, pinch of salt and a teaspoon vanilla extract. Then pop it in the fridge, excellent cold or warm. It reminds me of my go to porridge
My Go-To Granola
3 cups oats
1 cup almonds (or any nuts)
1 cup pumpkin seeds (or any seed)
1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup dates and 1/2 cup cranberries (or any dried fruit)
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil and 1 tbsp virgin coconut oil
3 tbsp maple syrup and 1 tbsp brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1tsp nutmeg
1 tsp ground ginger
3/4 tsp salt
Put in oven on 180 degrees celcius and bake until oats/coconut are golden brown. Be careful as it burns quickly.