Seeded Oatcakes


Healthy oatcakes recipe utilizing no flour or oil with further seeds. These oatcakes are made with a combination of five other seeds that upload taste, crunch and nutrition. Oatcakes are so primary to make that you'll marvel why you ever used to purchase them!



INGREDIENTS

  • 1½ cups / 150g Rolled oats
  • 2 tbsp Sunflower seeds
  • 2 tbsp Pumpkin seeds
  • 2 tbsp Sesame seeds
  • 2 tbsp Chia seeds
  • 2 tbsp Flax seeds
  • a pinch Salt
  • ¼ tsp Baking soda
  • 1 cup / 235ml Hot water
  • 2 tbsp Mixed seeds, to sprinkle on top

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Pre-heat oven to 375F / 190C
  • Grind the oats utilizing a small blender. They don’t ought to be a effective powder, until you desire effective oatcakes. I just like the tough variety so 30 seconds is enough.
  • Mix collectively all of the dry meals in a bowl (leaving 2 tbsp of combined seeds to higher later) and upload the hot water a tablespoon at a time till it varieties a strong dough that doesn’t keep on together with your hands. Use boiled water that has been left to face for a number of minutes.
  • Form a agency ball together with your hands. Add extra oats if you’ve further too a lot water.
  • Leave the ball of dough to face for 5 minutes to assist all of it stick together.
  • Press the dough out on non-stick paper utilizing your palms to kind one piece about 5-10mm in thickness.
  • Sprinkle on a combination of 2 tbsp of all of the seeds on higher and press into the dough.
  • Using a blunt knife or spatula rating out the oatcakes – If making triangles simply rating with four traces to make 8 oatcakes.
  • Bake for about 30 mins till the oatcake begins to move golden.
  • Remove from the oven and cut into separate oakcakes whereas nonetheless hot.
  • Leave to cool for 10 mins after which spoil aside and take pleasure in inside 5 days, though they're greatest fresh.
  • Return to the oven for 5-10 mins till bone dry in case you desire to retailer the oatcakes for a number of weeks.
  • Always retailer residence made oatcakes in an hermetic container


This oatcake recipe is excessive in plant protein and fibre. It’s the correct crunchy base for a savoury or candy dip.


This gluten-free oatcakes recipe is respectable for wheat-free, vegan and oil-free diets. Ensure those oatcakes are gluten-free via utilizing gluten unfastened oats. I at all times make with gluten unfastened oats and it truly works truly well.

These oatcakes are made with out any palm oil in contrast to most which are purchased inside the shops.


I commonly make a quite spherical form of dough to get triangular oatcakes. But any form works properly – plenty of byte sized squares make for a helpful on-the-go snack to maintain on your bag.


Any hulled seed works properly on this oatcake recipe so simply use no matter seed you've got on your retailer cupboard. I at all times attempt so as to feature a little bit of chia or flax as this facilitates to make a agency combination that doesn’t keep on together with your hands.

Keep your seeds inside the freezer pretty as soon as open because the air and pale reasons them to move rancid in a number of weeks. Seeds or nuts final for months inside the freezer.

Most commercial oatcakes have further oil and it is typically palm. I needed to make oatcakes which are unfastened of any further oil. They style even higher than the retailer purchased ones on account of being freshly baked.

Palm oil plantations are guilty for a lot of the destruction of the rainforest so I attempt to maintain away from shopping for it. Also the palm oil in most retailer purchased merchandise isn’t wholesome either. If it’s now not nice for you or the planet it’s a little bit of a no-brainer to maintain away from palm oil the place possible.


Its very hard to purchase oatcakes which are gluten-free, palm oil-free and wheat-free but primary to make your own. Freshly baked oatcakes style a lot higher than their retailer purchased counterparts.

These oatcake crackers are loaded with protein and fibre from the combination of seeds and oats.

If you desire to retailer those oatcakes for a number of weeks I might suggest double baking. A 2nd bake after chopping will make certain they're dry sufficient to be stored. Because I like a primary life and meals via no means lasts lengthy in my area I bake simply once.


You can upload oil in case you desire to the oatcakes after including the hot water. 1 tbsp of a warmth secure excessive smoke level oil like rapeseed is sufficient to offer a a little crispier oatcake. I’ve made this recipe 3 instances and discovered the oil doesn’t truly make a lot difference to the cease end end effect so choose to make those oil free.