Oat recipes for breakfast bars & snacks

PipneyJane

Have you looked at the recipes listed at the start of the Grocery Challenge?  There are a lot of oat based snack bars, etc, listed that could be used for breakfast, in the fourth or fifth post down.  (The recipe index is long.)

My favourite oat-based snack is Flapjack.  My recipe is from Rose Elliot's Cheap & Easy cookbook.  It makes about 12 flapjack bars.  I normally use maple syrup:-

100g butter
175g rolled oats
6 tablespoons muscovardo sugar (soft dark sugar)
1 tablespoon golden syrup  (or use treacle or maple syrup)

1. Preheat the oven to 180c.  Line a lasagne dish with baking parchment.
2. In a medium sized saucepan, melt the butter.
3. As soon as the butter is melted, turn off the heat and stir in the sugar and syrup.  Stir until the sugar has dissolved.  (Use a wooden spoon.)
4. Stir in the rolled oats.  Ensure they're well coated.
5. Tip into the lasagne dish.  Smooth out and press down with the back of your wooden spoon, until you've got a compressed and even layer.
6. Bake at 180c for 20 minutes.   
7. Using a blunt knife, cut into bars while still hot and soft from the oven. (The flapjacks will harden as they cool.  You won't be able to cut them later.)  Leave in the lasagne dish until cold and set hard.

- Pip

rach_k

My base for overnight oats is bog-standard oats just about covered in fruit juice (or water or milk if you prefer; I use apple juice), then a layer of yoghurt and top off with fresh, frozen or pureed fruit.  You can add extras like grated apple, raisins, cinnamon, chia seeds - whatever you like really.  As long as the oats are soaked overnight by something wet, they'll be good.  The rest is just preference.  

littlegreenparrot

I do it as a ratio, 1 part oats to two part liquid. 
So for me it's half cup of oats, 1 cup of oat mylk. But of course any kind of liquid would work - other plant mylks, water, milk, juice or whatever. 
Experiment to see what you like, it is very good made up with chocolate milk, or just with a spoon of cocoa mixed through.            I like it with a spoon of instant coffee stirred in, but the children might not appreciate that!
Then I top it with whatever fruit I have lurking around chopped up, usually whatever is on offer in Aldi or I have found reduced or if theres none left a spoonful of jam mixed in. 

You might also like to try looking up recipes for baked oats, I've seen a few that look lovely although I havn't tried yet. 
It seems like a good idea to bake up a tray while cooking dinner and have breakfast all sorted for a few days. 

Whitefiver

I often have porridge oats with ice cold milk poured over them just before eating. Usually add some berries, raisins, cacao nibs or what ever is to hand. There is a difference in the flavour of the oats (to me anyway), with some varieties tasting like cardboard! The best flavoured oats that I have found to eat this way (so far) are Tesco Scottish oats - lovely sweet(ish)flavour.

joedenise

I also make baked oats but they do take a bit of time to bake so definitely if you're rushed better to do it the night before.  You can make a batch and eat them cold but have to say I prefer them freshly baked.  I usually serve them with some fruit and yoghurt as well.

You definitely need to add the eggs otherwise they don't rise at all as I discovered when I forgot.

bouicca21

I had often heard of overnight oats but had no idea how to do it, so thanks for the recipe. It was delish.
My own flapjack recipe is easy peasy. 100 g rolled oats, 75g butter/marge, 75g sugar.  The type of sugar will affect the texture - chewier with dark brown sugar, crisp with Demerara.  Mix together and bake for about 15 minutes, cut into slices while still warm.  I use a 7 inch sandwich tin.

Toonie

joedenise said:

How about some biscuits?  Posted on here several years ago - Twinks Hobnobs:

8oz sr flour
8oz sugar
8oz porridge oats
8oz margarine
1tbsp golden syrup
1tbsp hot water
1/2 tsp bic soda
mix flour, oats and sugar, melt marg, syrup and water in a pan stir in bic soda and add to dry mix, mix well, make smallish balls and put on greased tray and flatten slightly with a fork, 180oc for 15 mins, cool on the tray, you just want them golden in oven not brown

Really easy and makes loads.

Haven't made any for ages, think I might have to make some but it will have to wait until after my holiday as haven't got any syrup in the cupboard and not doing any more shopping until after!

I've not made Twinks in ages! Guess that's on my To Do list for the weekend!

PommeVerte

Thankyou everyone, we made the hobnons... delish ! And wil be doing oaty breakfast bars today for school mornings ready for the new term, omg the summer went by so fast. 

Still havent got round to being organised enough to do overnight oats im ashamed to say !! Think its just a habit to get into, i seem to just tumble into bed exhausted after the children are all asleep and ive put the house back together. Ive promised myself i will do it tonight tho, otherwise i end up eating nothing for breakkie and then scoffing biscuits and crisps at 10am ! 

joedenise

I usually make the overnight oats once I've got dinner on the go.  It only takes a few minutes and then I can sit down while dinner cooks.  If I leave it until it's nearly bedtime I usually forget and end up having to find something quick in the morning, something like cornflakes or weetabix which I don't find anywhere near as filling!

goldfinches

I've decided to try making low fat, low or no sugar oaty crumbles as a way to use up my dried fruit mountain while economising on breakfasts for the next few weeks. Could that be something that you could again combine with dinner or even make at an entirely different time of day so that you could portion it out when cold and then just whip it out of the fridge in the morning?