Christmas Oat Balls - Joulun kaurapallot
These Christmas oat balls are like gingerbread dough but without butter, white flour and refined sugars and I actually like them better than gingerbread bites I posted a year ago. You don't even need any household appliances to make these (except one to warm up the peanut butter for easier combining). They are also so quick to make so they make a great food gift this near to Christmas. They got their inspiration from these but as I'm too prejudiced to try using those spices, so I've stuck with the "normal" Christmas spices. Five years earlier I would have been experimental enough to try adding turmeric etc, but nowadays I find life too short to try possibly bad alternatives so I stick to those combinations I know are good or which are simple enough (I'm getting old, I know...). And as it's Christmas time, I decided to get festive (and traditional and old) and hid an almond into one of them (if you didn't know about the almond hiding tradition you should read this).
They taste good without the Christmas spices too; try substituting vanilla extract for cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. The peanut butter taste will be more nuanced then.
Other Christmas treats:
Soft White Nougat
Gingerbread Chocolate - Piparisuklaa
Liquorice Fudge - Lakritsitoffee
Gingerbread Bites - Piparpallot
Yummy and almost as healthy as sweet can get... These bites are full of fiber and glutenfree (if you choose glutenfree oats) and taste like peanut-ty gingerbread dough! Hide an almond into one of them and notice how everyone tries to pick the right one!
Ingredients:
- 2/3 cups (160 ml) instant oats
- 2 Tbsp coconut flour
- 2,5 Tbsp peanut butter
- 1 Tbsp maple syrup
- 3 Tbsp finely grated apple (or apple sauce or apple juice or water)
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground cardamom kardemummaa
- a dash of ground ginger
- + some juice or water, if needed
- (1 almond)
- coconut flakes
Instructions:
- Stir oats and coconut flour together.
- Put peanut butter, maple syrup, grated apple (or your preferred "wet ingredient"), cinnamon, cardamom and ginger in a microwavable cup. Microwave for 30 sec, stir together and microwave for 15 sec or more, until they are runny and can be stirred together but not boiling.
- Pour the heated peanut butter - syrup -mixture on top the dry ingredients and quickly stir everything together. If the mixture is too dry, add some water ornjuice until the mass sticks together.
- Roll the dough into 10 balls and hide an almond into one of them.
*Nutritional information is based on average values and is a rough estimate.
Terveellisempi vaihtoehto pikkuleiville ja muille makeisille: kuituiset kaurapallerot ovat kuin maapähkinäistä piparitaikinaa! Jos piilotat vielä mantelin yhteen palleroon, huomaat pian kuinka kaikki yrittävät valita sen oikean palleron...
Ainekset:
- 1,6 dl pikakaurahiutaleita
- 2 rkl kookosjauhoa
- 2,5 rkl maapähkinävoita
- 1 rkl agavesiirappia ja vaahteraesanssia (tai 1 rkl vaahterasiirappia)
- 3 rkl hienoksi raastettua omenaa (tai hedelmäsosetta tai mehua tai vettä)
- 1/2 tl kanelia
- 1 mmt kardemummaa
- ripaus inkivääriä
- (1 manteli)
Valmistusohjeet:
- Sekoita kaurahiutaleet ja kookosjauho.
- Laita pähkinävoi, siirappi, omenaraaste (tai valitsemasi nestemäinen ainesosa), kaneli, kardemumma ja inkivääri mikronkestävään kulhoon ja lämmitä mikrossa n. 30 sec. Sekoita ja tarvittaessa lämmitä lisää, kunnes ainekset sekoittuvat hyvin yhteen ja neste on juoksevaa.
- Kaada lämmitetty pähkinävoiseos kuivien ainesten päälle ja sekoita tasaiseksi. Lisää tarvittaessa hieman vettä (tai mehua), kunnes muodostuu muotoiltava taikina.
- Pyöritä taikinasta 10 palloa. Piilota yhteen manteli.
*Energiasisältö perustuu keskimääräisiin arvoihin ja on karkea arvio.
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