Oh, how we love our morning cereal! But always consumed with the same yoghurt or milk and the same fruit can quickly get boring. And after all, a little variety does not harm anyone! How should it look like? Cereal with a difference? No problem: how about muffins, a casserole or just a homemade muesli?
You can’t really decide. But you don’t have to! The main thing is that it is healthy, goes quickly and is practical – even for take away if the alarm clock has not rung again.
And there the small cereal muffins are really impressive. Because without sugar and flour, they are really similar to the muesli classic and are well suited for utilizing brown bananas, which otherwise usually find no buyers.
Muffins for breakfast! Who would have thought that? 😉
Recipe for a tin of breakfast muffins
- 300 g ripe bananas (approx. 2 to 2 1/2 bananas)
- 75 g of oatmeal
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 60 g blueberries
- 2 tsp Young Kitchen Oatmeal spice
Crush the bananas roughly and mix with the remaining ingredients, except for the blueberries. Then fold in the berries. Load the muffin tin with small muffin tins and fill in the dough (approx. 1 tbsp per tin). Bake at 220 ° C (fan oven) for 5 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 180 ° C (circulating air) and bake for another 15 minutes.
Since it can get very hectic in the morning before you leave the house and many like to stay in bed “only 5 minutes” longer, we have another cereal variant that can be prepared on a stressful morning or prepared the evening before leaves: The cereal casserole.
The fruit is cut in no time, the ingredients are quickly mixed together and while you are getting ready in the bathroom, the oven does the rest of it by itself. The nice thing? Whether to go as a breakfast or an anti-afternoon low agent, the casserole can also be pimped up with coconut flakes, nuts or dried fruit.
Here you can feast on what it takes without a guilty conscience.
As it can get very hectic in the morning before leaving the house and many people like to stay in bed “only 5 minutes” longer, we have another cereal variant that can be prepared even on a stressful morning or the evening before: The muesli casserole.
Recipe for muesli casserole
- 1 kg natural yoghurt
- 250 g oat flakes
- 1 handful of roughly chopped walnuts
- 4-5 tsp honey (depending on how sweet you like it)
- 1 nectarine (or other fruit)
- 4 teaspoons Young Kitchen Oatmeal spice
Mix natural yoghurt, oatmeal, half of the walnuts, honey and Young Kitchen Oatmeal spice well. Grease the baking dish, cover the bottom with oatmeal and pour in the yoghurt mixture. Cut the nectarine into thin slices and spread on the casserole dish. Spread the remaining nuts and some Oatmeal spice on the muesli casserole.
Bake at 180 °C (fan oven) for 20 minutes. Fruit salad goes well with it.
But do you prefer the classic with milk and yoghurt? No problem, then let’s just whip up a homemade muesli!
Recipe for homemade granola
- 3 cups of oatmeal
- 1 cup of nuts (almonds, ground nuts, cashew nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts)
- cup of seeds (pumpkin, pine or sunflower seeds)
- cup of coconut chips
- 1 cup of honey or maple syrup
- 1 cup of olive oil
- 2 tsp Young Kitchen Oatmeal
- 1 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 180 °C. Mix oat flakes, nuts (coarsely chopped), seeds, coconut chips, cinnamon and salt in a bowl. Mix with oil and honey until honey and oil are evenly distributed. Spread the mixture evenly on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake on the middle shelf for 25 to 40 minutes. The granola should be nice and crispy.
Leave the granola to cool completely on the baking tray so that it becomes firm and store it in a storage container away from light and air. The tasty mix can be kept for up to two weeks (if it should survive that long at all).
The whole thing can be topped with dried fruit.
