Baking for weight loss: dietary baking recipes

Put down the shaker and check out these seven amazing healthy, protein-rich breakfast recipes.

It's time to reconsider your views on morning meals. To treat yourself to a sumptuous breakfast, you don't need a serving table and don't have to prepare fatty, fried and sugary foods. All you need to prepare a delicious and healthy breakfast at home is a pinch of baking soda, oatmeal, spices, fruits, nuts and, of course, protein powder!

Add favorite recipes from athletes and BPI staff to your protein arsenal and you'll have a fantastic selection of healthy and delicious breakfast options—we're talking muffins, bars, scones, and even homemade cookies. These dishes are so appetizing that it will be difficult for you to resist the temptation to enjoy them more than once a day. But no one said you couldn’t have breakfast during lunch, right?

Types of oat flour and production methods

Many derivative products lose some of the properties of the main ingredient. But this does not apply to oatmeal. It not only preserves all the benefits of the grain, but also improves its absorption by the body.

In some countries, even children know how to make oatmeal at home. For example, in England they cannot imagine a single type of baked goods without it; even the cheapest bread must add it.

Our fellow citizens mainly use it to prepare pancakes and cookies of the same name. Slightly less common on the tables are pancakes, pie, cheesecakes and bread. In fact, there are a lot of recipes, but more on them later. First you need to understand the types of flour. There are two of them - oatmeal and the classic finely ground version.

The name “tolokno” comes from the word “toloch”, “to grind”. Oat grains are sprouted, then soaked or steamed, dried, then lightly fried, peeled and crushed. Jelly and porridge are prepared from the resulting mass. For baking, flour from ground mature grains is used. At home you can use Hercules flakes. It is indispensable for preparing dietary products. Even its slight presence makes the finished dish softer and airier.

Oatmeal is more beneficial for the body, since due to its large consistency it contains more biologically active substances. But you should understand that its shelf life is much shorter.

Pie for those who are losing weight

Cottage cheese is an excellent dietary product that can turn any baked product into a dietary dish. Mix half a kilo of low-fat cottage cheese, 3 tbsp. l. semolina, 1 tbsp. l. starch, 2 tbsp. l. sugar and 3 egg yolks. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until fluffy, then carefully fold them into the curd mass. We will also need canned apricots or peaches, which we will cut into small pieces. Carefully grease the baking dish with oil, fill it with curd dough and sprinkle chopped fruit on top. This cake will bake for about half an hour at a temperature of 180°C. Serve it hot, generously sprinkled with powdered sugar and ground cinnamon.

How to prepare and store oatmeal

Making oatmeal is very simple. The most basic way is to grind oatmeal in a blender or coffee grinder. It is better to use whole grain cereals or unprocessed oats for grinding.

It takes longer to cook oatmeal, but the result is worth it. For this you will need natural grains. Before making oatmeal, they need to be soaked for several hours, or preferably overnight. Then steam and dry thoroughly. All that remains is to grind it with a masher, and the healthy flour is ready. Oatmeal produces a more pleasant taste if you fry the grain in a dry frying pan for a couple of minutes before grinding it.

Regardless of whether you prepared oatmeal yourself or bought ready-made, you need to know how to store it correctly. The product is valuable not only for people. All sorts of bugs and insects will happily feast on it, so be prepared to protect your wealth.

For storage, the most optimal are glass, hermetically sealed containers, which should be placed in a dry, dark place. So, before you make oatmeal, take care to prepare a place for storing it.

Oatmeal pancakes

Not every housewife manages to cook pancakes. Even experienced craftswomen have problems with this, let alone beginners. Oatmeal pancakes are a win-win option. They will definitely work out. Cook without thinking.

Ingredients:

• Oatmeal – 1 cup
• Wheat flour – ½ cup
• Water – 500-600 ml
• Egg - 3 pcs.
• Salt - a pinch

How to make oatmeal pancakes, recipe

The water must be heated to room temperature. Sift the flour, mix the two types used. It is necessary to sift the flour. Many people skip this point, but the quality of the finished dish largely depends on it.

In a separate bowl, beat the egg with salt. No need to add sugar. Oatmeal itself is slightly sweet, and as a rule, pancakes are served with honey, jam, or jam.

Pour water into the egg mixture in a small stream, add flour little by little and keep kneading. The dough will be quite thick. Don't be alarmed. Everything is as it should be. It should be left alone for 35-40 minutes. Just remember to cover it with a napkin or lid first. After the specified time, pour in the rest of the water and mix everything thoroughly.

Now you can bake pancakes from oatmeal. Heat the pan. It doesn’t hurt to grease the surface with lard or butter before the first pancake. Although, if the frying pan is non-stick, you can skip this point. The pancakes are very tender and soft, and they are slightly thicker than regular pancakes.

And if you add a little mineral water with gas during kneading to make the dough more liquid, you will end up with thinner and more holey oatmeal pancakes. You can serve them with jam, condensed milk or any other sauce or preserves.

Oatmeal pancakes with milk

Fans of simple and healthy breakfasts will definitely love this recipe. Pancakes made with oatmeal and milk are healthier than those made with wheat flour. And their taste is much richer.

Ingredients:

• Oat flour – 250-300 g
• Milk – 400-500 ml
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sugar – 1-2 teaspoons (optional)
• Salt - a pinch
• Soda - a pinch
• Vegetable oil - 1.5 tablespoons

How to make oatmeal pancakes with milk, recipe

You can buy ready-made flour, or you can make it yourself. First you need to beat the eggs with salt and sugar. Add milk to them, mix well. Add flour and slaked soda.

Mix everything several times to avoid lumps. Let stand for a quarter of an hour. Bake in a well-heated frying pan.

When the pancake has set and fried on one side, carefully turn it over with a spatula or toss it and fry on the other side. Stack the pancakes so they don't dry out. Pancakes made from oatmeal with milk can be served with different sauces, or they can be stuffed with meat, mushrooms, and cottage cheese.

Oatmeal muffins

Dedicated to all lovers of delicious baked goods! Oatmeal muffins will appeal to both children and adults. And for those who watch their figure, they will become a real salvation when you want something tasty. You can prepare them with different fillings to suit every taste: with cherries, apricots, raisins, bananas, nuts and even chocolate.

Ingredients:

• Oat flakes – 150 g
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 1 dessert spoon (you can skip it)
• Yogurt - 1/3 cup
• Lemon juice - 1.5 tablespoons
• Baking powder or slaked soda - a pinch
• Shelled walnuts - 50 g
• Salt - a pinch

How to quickly make oatmeal muffins, recipe (without filling)

From the total amount of flakes, set aside a tablespoon, grind the rest in a blender into flour. Separate the yolks and beat them with sugar until foamy. Add all other ingredients and stir. At the very end, pour the remaining oatmeal and ground nuts into the future muffins.

Beat the egg whites and salt until foamy and add to the resulting dough. Divide it into the molds, filling them one third full. At this time, preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake the muffins for half an hour. Do not open the oven door. Oatmeal muffins are ready.

Banana cookies

The recipe is so simple that any child can prepare the delicacy. As for me, it is much more budget-friendly than the previous option, but at the same time it is in no way inferior to it either in taste or in the number of useful properties. It's also dairy-free and sugar-free.

Tip: to make cookies with bananas, it is better to take a ripe and soft tropical fruit. This will make it easier for you to crush it and mix it with porridge.

You will need:

• 1 tbsp. oatmeal;
• 1 banana;
• 1 egg
• 1 table sweetener;
• cinnamon to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Set the oven to preheat to 180 degrees.
2. Mash oatmeal and banana in a bowl, then add beaten egg, sweetener and cinnamon. Everything needs to be turned into a homogeneous mass.
3. Take a baking tray, but put baking paper on the bottom. Now shape your cookies.
4. Place the dough in the oven for 10 minutes. But if you want a crispy treat, leave it in the oven for another 5 minutes on high heat.

The recipe makes 12 servings. This dessert is well suited for a small family feast; both adults and children will enjoy crunching banana sweets.

Oatmeal cookies without flour

This recipe is dietary. Flourless oatmeal cookies are very satisfying, aromatic and crispy. Be sure to try it. It will appeal not only to those who watch their figure.

There is also an option for oatmeal cookies made from muesli with dark chocolate.

Ingredients:

• Oat flakes – 150 g
• Banana – 2 pcs.
• Almonds, pistachios, raisins, pumpkin and sunflower seeds - 50 g each
• Natural honey - 3 tablespoons

How to make oatmeal cookies without flour

Grind the flakes into flour. Not all, but half. Preheat the oven, dry almonds, pistachios, and seeds in it. Grind them, but not into flour, but so that small pieces remain.

Mash the banana with a fork into a puree. This can be made easier by lightly sprinkling it with sugar or powdered sugar. Add to the total mass, mix.

Add honey and raisins, place the resulting dough on a baking sheet. Bake for 20-25 minutes in an oven preheated to 190 degrees. Flourless oatmeal cookies are very tasty. This is a great option for a healthy breakfast and snack during the workday.

Dietary cottage cheese dessert with gelatin

Gelatin curd dessert is a soufflé that can be successfully complemented with fruits, berries and cocoa. The dish is low in calories as it does not contain sugar.

• pour a glass of low-fat milk into a saucepan and place on the stove
• pour a heaped spoonful of gelatin into the milk
• heat the milk, stirring constantly and do not bring to a boil
• rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, add vanillin and liquid honey
• mix cottage cheese and milk until smooth
• You can add fruits or berries to the mixture
• Place the mixture in the refrigerator until thickened

curd soufflé

Diet oatmeal cookies without flour

Baking made from oatmeal is mostly dietary, but few people can believe it when they try it for the first time. For example, dietary oatmeal cookies without flour. Would you really think that this yummy food, very similar to energy bars, is so healthy and has absolutely no effect on your figure?

Ingredients:

• Oatmeal - 2 cups
• Raisins - a handful
• Sugar - 1 teaspoon (or a couple of sweetener tablets)
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Vanillin - a pinch
• Cinnamon for flavor

How to make dietary oatmeal cookies without flour, recipe

Preheat the oven. Beat eggs with vanilla. Mix oat flakes ground into flour and all other ingredients. Add the egg mixture and let the finished dough stand for a quarter of an hour. Line a baking sheet with parchment and place the cakes on it. Bake diet cookies without flour for 15 minutes. Cool and serve.

Healthy cookies

Love the crunch of homemade cookies? Prepare them from bran, and then your favorite delicacy will become much healthier. To prepare it, in a blender bowl, mix two chicken eggs, 4 tbsp. l. honey, half a glass of flour, 30 ml of rum, a little ground cinnamon and turn it all into a homogeneous mass. Then pour 2 cups of oatmeal, 50 g of chopped almonds, 150 g of dried cherries and orange zest into it. Mix the dough thoroughly again, form identical balls from it and, lightly pressing on top, place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Place the oatmeal cookies in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 200°C until they are browned. After which you can brew tea and enjoy the fruits of your labors.

Oatmeal pancakes with kefir

This recipe will help you out when you want to pamper yourself and your loved ones with delicious and healthy treats. Oatmeal pancakes made with kefir are prepared in a matter of minutes, and turn out no worse than any more expensive dessert.

Ingredients:

• Oatmeal – 1.5 cups
• Kefir – 1.5 cups
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons
• Vegetable oil – 2 tablespoons
• Salt and soda - a pinch each

How to make oatmeal pancakes with kefir, recipe

Kefir needs to be warmed up a little. Mix all other ingredients and leave to brew for half an hour. Don't worry if the dough turns out a little runny. It will thicken.

Grease the frying pan with vegetable oil using a brush. Place future pancakes with a spoon and fry on both sides until golden brown. Serve oatmeal pancakes with kefir with condensed milk, jam or sour cream.

Oatmeal pancakes

Fluffy pancakes, generously doused with syrup or sauce, without which no American family can imagine their diet, are becoming increasingly popular in our country.

Oatmeal pancakes are a real treat. Be sure to try them.

Ingredients:

• Milk – 200 ml
• Eggs - 1 pc.
• Oatmeal – 120 g
• Sugar – 2 tablespoons
• Salt and soda - a pinch each
• Vegetable oil - ½ spoon for dough and about 2-3 for frying

How to make pancakes from oatmeal, recipe

Beat the egg into a bowl. Add salt and sugar and whisk by hand. Pour milk warmed to room temperature in a thin stream and stir.

Add butter, flour, slaked soda and leave the dough to sit for a quarter of an hour. Then use a spoon or a small ladle to place the resulting mass onto a heated and oiled frying pan.

Fry over medium heat until done. On one side, oatmeal pancakes are fried for about 1-2 minutes. You can serve it with sweet, sour or spicy sauce.

Curd chocolate coconut

You will need a little more time to prepare this dessert. It is better to use farm cottage cheese made from skim milk as a base.

You will need:

• 400 g of cottage cheese with a minimum percentage of fat content;
• 4 tbsp. l. cocoa;
• 2 eggs;
• 100 g coconut flakes;
• 4 tbsp. l. sweetener;
• 1⁄2 tsp. soda;
• 1 tsp. baking powder.

Cooking method:

1. Turn the thermostat on the oven to 180-200 degrees.
2. Mix cottage cheese with cocoa and beaten eggs in a large bowl.
3. Add shavings, sweetener, soda and baking powder. Knead into a homogeneous dough.
4. Cover a baking sheet with parchment and grease the paper with refined oil. With wet hands, form small circles, 1-2 cm thick.
5. Place everything in the oven for 25-30 minutes.

Serve the treat completely cooled. This coconut dessert will be especially delicious when combined with herbal tea.

Cheese pancakes with oat flakes without flour

When preparing some baked goods, you can completely omit flour. Want to try? Prepare cheesecakes with oatmeal without flour. They turn out airy and very filling.

Ingredients:

• Cottage cheese – 200 g
• Egg
• Oatmeal - a couple of spoons
• Vanillin
• Sugar - to taste
• Vegetable oil

How to make cheesecakes with oatmeal without flour

Mash the cottage cheese with a fork so that there are no lumps, add the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. Leave the dough for half an hour. Then place the lumps formed with wet hands on a heated frying pan. Lightly press them with your hands to get the desired shape. Fry on both sides until done.

Cheesecakes with oatmeal without flour can be served with any sauce or jam. And they are also very tasty without additives.

Energy boom

Minimum ingredients – maximum benefits. This is exactly how you can characterize the following recipe for a dessert made with kefir without eggs. It is better to use green apples; during baking they will give the delicacy a pleasant, sweet and sour taste.

You will need:

• 350 g oatmeal;
• 2 tbsp. kefir;
• 2 apples;
• 1⁄2 tbsp. l. honey

Cooking method:

1. Add kefir to the oatmeal porridge little by little - the finished mass should have a thick consistency, like pancake dough.
2. Set the bowl aside for 30 minutes, covered with a kitchen towel.
3. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
4. Grate the apples on a fine grater.
5. Add the remaining ingredients to a bowl of oatmeal: honey and fruit puree. Mix everything thoroughly.
6. Place baking paper on the bottom of the baking sheet. With wet hands, form cookies.
7. Place the dough in the oven for 25 minutes.

Dessert is best served cold.

This recipe is needed for those who work or study all day. Lack of energy leads to loss of performance and treats will help you stay alert and full of energy throughout the day.

Oatmeal bread in the oven

Making fragrant bread is difficult even for experienced housewives, but if you use this recipe, even beginners will get amazing results. Bread made from oatmeal in the oven turns out fluffy, aromatic, tasty and very satisfying. Be sure to try it.

Ingredients:

• Oat flour – 300 g
• Wheat flour – 120 g
• Water – 180 ml
• Live yeast - 4 g
• Malt - 0.5 spoons
• Salt – 1.5 tablespoons
• Sugar – 2 spoons
• Butter – 8 g

Heady apples

The only thing tastier than fresh apples are baked apples. Moreover, they are prepared very simply and quickly. Take four large, firm apples and cut out the core with a sharp knife, being careful not to cut through them. In a small bowl, mix 4 tbsp. l. brown sugar and a quarter teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Add 1 tbsp. l. Add this mixture inside each apple. Then carefully pour dry white wine into and around the apples, wrap them tightly in foil and place them on a small baking sheet. We put our fruits in the oven and leave them for about an hour at 180°C. When the apples are completely softened, you need to cool them, after which you can serve them to guests.