Gluten-free almond cookies from blogging duo Green Kitchen Stories that are tasty, delicious and healthy too
Keeping a stash of tasty but healthy treats to hand is a great way to stop you from reaching for the chocolate come four o’clock. These gluten-free blueberry, oat and almond cookies from David and Luisa – the couple behind Green Kitchen Stories – are just the ticket.
Inspired by a trip the pair made to a vegan bakery in New York these gluten and dairy free cookies are full of goodness and nutrients and super easy to make.
Ingredients:
- 150 g rolled oats (gluten-free, if intolerant)
- 100 g buckwheat flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 90 ml cold-pressed olive oil
- 120 ml (4 fl oz/ ½ cup) maple syrup
- 250 g (9 oz/1 cup) almond butter
- 90 g (6 tbsp) tahini (sesame paste)
- ½ tsp ground vanilla or vanilla extract
- 75 g (2 ½ oz/ ½ cup) blueberries
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 C. Grind the oats into a coarse flour, using a mortar or food processor. Mix with the buckwheat flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a large bowl.
- Heat the olive oil, maple syrup, almond butter, tahini and vanilla in a small saucepan over a medium heat. Stir until combined.
- Pour the melted mixture over the flour mixture, add the blueberries and fold everything together until combined.
- Shape into 2.5 cm (1 in) balls of dough and place a little apart on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment. Press down on each one gently with the back of a fork. Bake for 10-12 minutes – don’t over-bake or they will be dry. Let them cool for a few minutes and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
- These cookies are a bit fragile while warm but firm up as they cool down. They will keep in a cookie jar for 1-2 weeks.
Tip: You can replace almond butter with peanut butter, hazelnut (filbert) butter or cashew butter.
This recipe is taken from Green Kitchen Travels by David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl
