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Recipe: Banana Oat Cookies
🍪👨🍳These fast & easy cookies are a great homemade option any time you crave a sweet treat.
You can use either old-fashioned rolled oats or instant oats – but the rolled oats will give you a chewier cookie.
Makes 12 cookies.
Ingredients:
1 large ripe banana
1 cup (80 g) oats
⅓ cup (85 g) natural peanut or almond butter
½ Tbsp honey or maple syrup
Optional: 2 Tbsp raisins or cacao chips
Directions:
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and preheat your oven to 350ºF/177ºC.
In a medium mixing bowl, mash the bananas and stir in the oats until well combined.
Add the rest of the ingredients and stir until mixed. The cookie dough will be sticky – but if it seems too loose, add some more oats until it reaches a cookie dough consistency.
Drop the dough by tablespoon onto your prepared pan and place in the oven. Bake for 12-14 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool.
Recipe by: Dr. Saara Haapanen
Photo Credit: Canva by Eugen Barbu’s Images
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Recipe: Orange Vinaigrette
This fast & easy orange vinaigrette will have you wondering why you don’t make homemade dressings for your salads more often!
It also can be used as a marinade or sauce for poultry and fish.
Makes 8 servings.
Ingredients:
2 Tbsp onion, diced
1 tsp orange zest
Juice of 1 orange
Juice of 1 lemon
2 tsp Dijon mustard
½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp freshly ground pepper
⅓ cup (80 ml) extra-virgin olive oil
Directions:
In a mini food processor or blender, blend the onion, zest, orange and lemon juice, mustard, salt, and pepper. When combined, drizzle in the olive oil and blend until smooth.
This will keep in the fridge for a couple of days. Enjoy!
Recipe by: Dr. Saara Haapanen
Photo Credit: Canva by vanillaechoes from Getty Images
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Recipe: Braised Celery
😋 When you think “celery” you probably think of it as an ingredient in other recipes – or notice it’s usually left over in a veggie platter.
This recipe will definitely have you rethinking celery because it’s a serious flavor bomb!
A couple of tips: the quality of the broth plays a big role in the flavor of this recipe. If you have homemade broth, it’s definitely worth using.
Beef broth is the classic braising liquid for this recipe, but feel free to experiment!
Makes 4 servings.
Ingredients:
8 stalks of celery, rinsed and trimmed
1 Tbsp grass-fed butter
Pinch sea salt
Pinch freshly ground black pepper
½ cup (120 ml) beef or vegetable broth
Directions:
If the outer stalks of your celery are tough or fibrous, peel them with a vegetable peeler. Then, slice the stalks diagonally into 1-inch pieces.
Melt the butter in a medium saute pan over medium heat. Add the celery, salt, and pepper and cook until it begins to soften (about 5 minutes).
Add the broth. Stir, cover, and reduce heat to low. Let cook for about 5 minutes, until the celery is tender but before it turns mushy. Remove the cover and let cook another 5-7 minutes so that the broth can reduce into a glaze.
Serve and enjoy!
Recipe by: Dr. Saara Haapanen
Photo Credit: Canva by jirkaejc from Getty Images