Easy, Tasty, Nutritious & Healthy Waffles

Makes 3-4 waffles

Ingredients:

1. 2 large ripe bananas mashed

2. 3 eggs approx. 150g total 

3. 30g rolled oats 

4. 60g Olands wholewheat flour 

5. 1/2 tsp baking powder 

6. 1/2 tsp vanilla powder (optional)

7. 1/2 tsp cardamon or cinnamon powder (optional)

8. A dash of salt (optional)

Makes 6-8 waffles

1. 4 large ripe bananas mashed

2. 6 eggs approx. 150g total 

3. 60g rolled oats 

4. 120g Olands wholewheat flour 

5. 1 tsp baking powder 

6. 1 tsp vanilla powder (optional)

7. 1 tsp cardamon or cinnamon powder (optional)

8. A dash of salt (optional)

Directions:

1. In a mixing bowl, mash 2 large ripe bananas.

2. Add 3 eggs and mix well.

3. Add 30g oats, 60g wholewheat flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder, 1/2 teaspoon cardamon powder or cinnamon powder and a dash of salt and mix well.

2. Add to the waffler maker, following the instructions of your waffler maker. For mine:

3. If you like your waffles crispy, brush the plates top and bottom with a bit of oil (I use olive oil).

4. With the waffle machine lid closed, turn on the waffler maker, there will be both red light and green light.

5. Once the green light is gone, the waffle maker is warm enough.

6. Use a spoon and add the batter into the plate (1 tablespoon of batter for each little heart waffle for mine), be careful that it doesn't overflow.

7. Close the waffle maker and the green light will turn on.

8. When the green light disappears, the waffle is done.

9. Turn over the waffle (optional) and close the waffle maker. The green light will turn on again. 

10. When the green light disappears, the waffle is done :-)

11. Remove the waffle into a plate with a wooden spatula. Enjoy with a slice of banana, a strawberry, a raspberry or a blueberry on top.

Additional Information:

Stumbled upon this super easy and super healthy recipe and was initially in doubt if it really is so good. Wow, it is. Super tasty waffles with no sugar or oil added. Super nutritious with egg, oats and wholewheat flour. I can't be more happy with it. If you don't use oil to make it, it won't be crispy, but it will be very nice and chewy. So we actually prefer to make it without using oil at all :-)

If you don't have a waffle maker at home, not to worry, you can make this into pancakes. In the morning, it is much faster for me to use the waffle maker and turn this into waffles in no time, and I don't have to stand at the stove watching the pan and flipping pancakes. 

I am very happy investing in a waffle maker. There is no need to buy expensive waffle maker. My waffle maker is the economic model (the cheapest one from Føtex Supermarket).

References:

https://www.valdemarsro.dk/bananpandekager/

Pumpkin Chocolate Almond Wholewheat Bread

Adapted from Sally's Baking Recipes:

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/pumpkin-chocolate-chip-bread/#tasty-recipes-66409

 

Ingredients:

1. 55g Olands wholewheat flour (25% of total flour weight)

2. 165g wheat flour

3. 1 tsp baking soda

4. 2 tsp cinnamon powder

5. 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder

6. 1/2 tsp cardamon powder

7. A dash of salt

8. 2 eggs 

9. 30g sugar

10. 50g brown sugar (total 80g sugar 36% of total flour weight)

11. 340g pumpkin puree

12. 120g vegetable oil (I use sesame oil) (54% of total flour weight)

13. 30g orange juice

14. 50g chocolate chips

15. A handful of almonds unchopped 

Pumpkin Puree:

1. 1/2 Hokkaido or Crown Prince pumpkin seeds removed

2. 8 dried dates pitted

3. 30g skimmed fresh milk

Directions:

Pumpkin Puree:

1. Bake 1/2 pumpkin at 170 degree C for 30 minutes or until soft.

2. Add 30g fresh milk, 8 pitted date and blend in a food processor until creamy and set aside to cool down.

Pumpkin Bread:

1. In a mixing bowl, add 55g Olands wholewheat flour, 165g flour, 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder, 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder, 1/2 teaspoon cardamon powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, a dash of salt and mix well.

2. In another mixing bowl, add 2 eggs, 30g sugar and 50g brown sugar and mix well. Add 340g pumpkin puree, 120g vegetable oil and 30g orange juice and mix well.

3. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently mix well.

4. Gently fold in the chocolate chips and almonds.

5. Grease a bread pan with oil on all side and the bottom.

6. Pour the bread mixture into the bread pan.

7. Bake at 175 degree C for an hour, checking for doneness by inserting a tooth pick after it has been baking for 55 mins. If the tooth pick comes out clean, it means the bread is done. Take it out of the oven.

8. Let the bread cool down first before cutting and serving.

Additional Information:

I am trying to find out what can I make with my pumpkin puree and found this wonderful recipe!!!

I used Crown Prince pumpkin to make the pumpkin puree. I reduced the sugar from 250g to 80g (37% of total flour weight). I substituted the original recipe plain flour with 25% of Olands wholewheat flour. I reduce the chocolate chips from 120g to 50g and used dark chocolate chips. I added almonds. I use neutral sesame oil for this batch and it turned out great. I omitted ginger powder and clove powder as I didn't have them. Daddy FECS and C really liked it. We made this for Halloween tomorrow. We don't celebrate Halloween, but will be having family fun time instead.

References:

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/pumpkin-chocolate-chip-bread/

Easy Healthy 2-Ingredients Strawberry Ice-cream

 

Makes 2 scoops

Ingredients:

1. 1 handful of frozen strawberries (make sure that the big ones are sliced in half)
2. 1 frozen banana in slices

Directions:

1. Blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender (if you are using a Magimix blender, use the dessert program and stir with the spatula).

2. Scoop it out using an ice-cream scoop on a serving dish and enjoy :-)

Danish Apple Porridge - Æblegrød

Ingredients:

1. 1kg apples peeled, de-cored and cut into cubes

2. 60g sugar

3. 200ml water

4. 1 tsp vanilla powder

Directions:

1. In a medium size pot, add apples, water, sugar and vanilla powder and slowly bring to boil. You don't have to cover the pot.

2. Simmer for an hour or until cooked like porridge (no. 3 or 5 on my stove), stir occasionally.

Additional Information:

I made this today :-) I reduced the sugar from 70g in the recipe to 60g and Daddy FECS said it was sweet enough. Farfar loved it so much, he ate 4-5 portions at one go. All of a sudden, he was so energetic. He has recovered so much since June. Praise the Lord. Farmor ate 3 bowls. C ate 3 bowls or so. Daddy FECS ate 2 bowls. or so J ate 1 bowl.

References:

https://www.valdemarsro.dk/aeblegrod/

Peel the apples (but don't throw away the apple skin - use them to make apple chips)

Cut the apples into cubes.

In a medium size pot, add 200ml of water.

Add 60g sugar.

Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.

Stir and slowly bring to bowl. Once bowl, turn down heat and simmer under low heat (no. 3.5 on my stove) for 1 hour or until the apples are cooked and reached the consistency you desire. Adjust with a bit more water if needed,

Now it is done :-)

Eat it with Danish ymer, which is a little like yogurt.

Apple porridge assembled with ymer below, a bit of chocolate powder (Baby FECS' request) and apple porridge on top :-)

19 Sep 2024 (8Y9M3D)

Don't throw away the apple peel, they are the most nutritious part of the apples. Turn them into apple chips :-)

Bake for 1 hour or until dry at 100 degree Celsius

Done :-)

19 Sep 2024: Apple-skin chips ready for after school snack :-)

Homemade 10% Wholewheat Waffles

 

Makes approx. 10-12 pieces

Ingredients:

1. 200g flour

2. 25g Olands wholewheat flour or Graham flour (10% of total flour weight of 225g)

3. 3 eggs approx. 150g total

4. 350g skimmed fresh milk (Total liquid incl. eggs is 500g)

5. 1/2 tsp vanilla powder

6. 2 tsp baking powder

7. 2 TBS sugar

8. A dash of salt (optional)

9. 100g olive oil (or melted butter if you really can't do without butter, or half butter half olive oil :-))

Directions:

1. In a mixing bowl, mix all the ingredients in a hand mixer or whisk.

2. Add to the waffler maker, following the instructions of your waffler maker. For mine:

3. Brush the plates top and bottom with a bit of oil (I use olive oil).

4. With the waffle machine lid closed, turn on the waffler maker, there will be both red light and green light.

5. Once the green light is gone, the waffle maker is warm enough.

6. Use a spoon and add the batter into the plate (1 tablespoon of batter for each little heart waffle for mine), be careful that it doesn't overflow.

7. Close the waffle maker and the green light will turn on.

8. When the green light disappears, the waffle is done.

9. Turn over the waffle (optional) and close the waffle maker. The green light will turn on again. 

10. When the green light disappears, the waffle is done :-)

11. Remove the waffle into a plate with a wooden spatula. Enjoy with some icing, strawberry jam, a scoop of ice-cream or simply eat it on its own :-)

Additional Information:

On Thursday, Baby FECS was having waffles from the school's Høstmarked (Harvest Day) and wanted to have more at home. It was a long time since we used our waffle maker. Today is Sunday, and we have a bit more time. We made these waffles today. 

I followed the recipe and used 125g of melted butter, but found that it was too much as the oil came out and flow out of the plate. Thus, I reduced the melted butter to 100g. Daddy FECS and Baby FECS loved these waffles. You can eat the waffles with this easy homemade strawberry ice-cream.

The amount of sugar in the original recipe wasn't sweet enough, I have increased the sugar to 2-3 tablespoon instead of 1 tablespoon. Using butter instead of olive oil will make the waffles more crispy, but less healthy. So play with the proportion of using butter or olive oil for the trade off between taste and healthiness. 

Sometimes I increased the wholewheat flour to 15% of total flour weight i.e. 35g. I tried using 20% but the waffles weren't as tasty.

Below is the original recipe from Valdemarsro:

1. 225g flour

2. 1 egg

3. 250ml water

4. 200ml skimmed fresh milk

5. 1/4 tsp vanilla powder

6. 2 tsp baking powder

7. 1 TBS sugar

8. A dash of salt

9. 125g melted butter

Update 20 October 2024:

Today I used Olands wholewheat flour instead of Graham flour and it turned out superb. I used 35g wholewheat flour (15.5% of total flour weight) and it turned out great.

References:

https://www.valdemarsro.dk/vafler/

https://www.valdemarsro.dk/belgiske-vafler/

https://www.valdemarsro.dk/spinatvafler/

https://www.valdemarsro.dk/spidskaalsvafler/

https://www.valdemarsro.dk/madvafler-ala-okonomiyaki/

The wholewheat flour I use is Graham flour from Føtex Supermarket.

In a mixing bowl, add 200g of flour (Please ignore the scale)

Add 25g of Graham flour (Please ignore the scale)

Add 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla powder and 2 teaspoon of baking powder.

Add 1-2 tablespoon sugar.

Add a dash of salt (optional)

Add 3 eggs

Add 350g of skimmed fresh milk.

Add 100g of melted butter.

Mix well.

Brush the top and bottom plates of the waffle maker with a bit of oil (We use olive oil)

Turn on the waffle maker, a red and green light will come on. Wait until the green light goes off. That means that the waffle maker is warm enough.

Add the batter into the plate, be careful it doesn't overflow and close the waffle maker.

When the green light disappears, they are ready. Turn over the waffle and close the waffle maker again.

When the green light goes off again, they are done.