GORDON RAMSAY RECIPES

An ingredient that can not miss in your handouts, especially to prepare a delicious, nutritious and full of energy breakfast

THE oat flakes they are not only useful to prepare porridge, but they are a very versatile ingredient in the kitchen.
Always keep an escort and use them, for example, for one healthy and tasty breakfast. Are you looking for ideas? Here 5 recipes for you.

Porridge

We have talked many times about this recipe that can be prepared with or without cooking and with many different ingredients.
The base is always the oat flakes and milk, although for a lighter version you can also prepare it with water.
If you do not have time to cook the oats in the morning prepare the evening before going to bed the version without cooking also known as overnight oatmeal. Just mix 30 g of oat flakes with a glass of milk or water and let the mixture rest in the fridge overnight. If you want it more creamy you can also add chia seeds that releasing their gel will make the porridge very similar to a cream.
If instead, in the morning, you have a few more minutes to spend on breakfast, bake 30 g of oat flakes with a glass of milk or water in a saucepan until you get a soft mixture. Once ready sweeten to taste with sugar, honey or maple syrup and add what you want between fresh or dried fruit and mixed spices.

Barrette oats

This is an idea for the breakfast on the go, what you take away because maybe you do not have time to do it at home. These bars are also a great snack for the afternoon and are very easy to prepare.
Just blend 10 dates of Medjoul without seed with two tablespoons of oat flakes, a few almonds and two tablespoons of coconut flour.
You can also add del cocoa for a chocolate version and you can give a little extra crunchiness with some mixed seeds.
Once the mixture is ready roll it out into a fairly small rectangular mold and cover it with baking paper and crush it with your hands. Let the refrigerator rest for a few hours and then cut the bars.
You can also make small bon bon instead of bars turning the mixture into many balls.

Granola with oats

Preparing granola at home is really very simple.
Just mix it around 500 g of oat flakes with 50 g of almonds, 50 of hazelnuts and 50 of raisins and cashews (or what you prefer), 150 g of maple syrup diluted with 80 ml of seed oil, 80 ml of water and 100 g of honey.
Arrange the mixture in a baking pan lined with parchment paper and bake at 180 degrees until golden brown.
Let it cool and break it into a granola.
You can also add mixed seeds and dried and dried fruit as you prefer.
The granola has a thousand variations, have fun creating your own.

Oat and banana cookies

These delicious sweets are very easy to prepare because they only have three ingredients, or even two if you want.
The base is made of bananas and oats and you can then add raisins or nuts, chocolate chips, coconut flour and whatever you prefer.
To prepare the crushed mixture the pulp of two bananas with the fork and add a few tablespoons of oat flakes (about 6) until it reaches a soft consistency, but not too liquid.
Complete with of raisins, cinnamon and what you prefer and then with a spoon pour the mixture a little at a time on a baking sheet. Cook at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.
For a chocolate version add cocoa and chocolate chips.

Plumcake with oats

This is a breakfast cake for the whole family based on oats and hazelnuts, flavored with cardamom.
To prepare it finely chopped 100 g of oat flakes until they are turned into flour.
Then mount 2 eggs with 150 g of brown sugar, 50 ml of seed oil, and then add the pulp of two ripe bananas, a sachet of baking powder and oats.
Coarsely chopped 100 gr of hazelnuts and cardamom seeds and join the rest.
Fill a plumcake mold lined with parchment paper and decorate with minced oats and hazelnuts. Bake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.

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From drinking only a coffee to eating the first meal of the day late, here's what you should never do in the morning. And what yes!

A wrong breakfast or, even worse, a skipped breakfast can jeopardize the whole day (and the diet!).
So let's learn how to start off on the right foot. To start here 5 errors to avoid in the morning.

1. Skip breakfast

Unpardonable and very serious error.
The meals of the day are 5 and one of these is breakfast.
We could say that it is the most important meal because it is what allows us to start with the right energy.
Do not you have time to prepare something to put under your teeth? Arrange in the evening before going to bed or put the alarm clock a few minutes before. Breakfast at the bar is not always the solution. It can be the exception, but not the rule.

2. Drink only a coffee

Many people say that in the morning they can not bring anything but a coffee.
Although it would be good habit have breakfast within 30 minutes of awakening, you can send it back for a couple of hours and maybe bring something to the office with you because at some point in the morning you will certainly feel a stomach hole. Some ideas: a small sweet sandwich with ricotta and jam or salted with ham or, acnora, a yogurt and some wholemeal biscuits. But then, do not forget the half-day snack that can simply be a fruit.
Even having breakfast on your feet is not a good habit. It takes 5 minutes. Sit down, have a quiet coffee and eat something.

3. Eat too much or too little

How it's not good to eat brioches with butter and cappuccino every morning, in the same way it is not correct to consume only fruit or centrifuges.
Breakfast is an important meal that must provide the right amount of energy and nutrients. They must not be missing good carbohydrates, proteins, fibers and fats and therefore a fruit juice or a fruit salad are not enough.

4. Have breakfast very late

It can be granted a late breakfast only on the weekend or during the holidays because waking up and having breakfast practically when it is time to have lunch, it blows all the balance of the day.
During the week, even if you do not have rigid schedules to go to work, always try to wake you up soon.
This will bring you enormous benefits that you do not even imagine.
You will have more time in the morning to devote to your passions and yourself and to relax before starting the day, you will have much more energy and you will face the day with positivity and desire to do.
Maybe, after breakfast, if you have some time available, you can also do someoutdoor physical activity.
Remember that the morning to the gold in the mouth, so jump off the bed!

5. Avoid dairy products and bread

Unless you are vegan or intolerant, do not disdain the cow milk, which is a good source of protein.
Also the yogurt for breakfast with whole grains it's the perfect combination of nutrients. Do not replace it with the vegetable one unless it is for an important reason.
The yogurt more complete is that Greek lean and with few sugars and rich in proteins and lactic ferments.
Also the bread it is the scarecrow of many and in fact we tend to consume more rusks, light packaged whole products or "sugar-free" for breakfast.
But perhaps not everyone knows that the wholemeal bread or rye or cereals, maybe home-made, has a caloric intake in some cases higher than certain products packaged and sold as healthy, but as far as nutrients beats everything else.
Do not give up a healthy slice of bread and jam for breakfast.

The ideal breakfast

To conclude, therefore, you want to know which one is ideal breakfast in our opinion?
A cup of milk and coffee, a slice of toasted whole wheat bread with a veil of jam he was born in butter with only dried fruit, like almond or peanut butter (without sugar).
If you love spoon breakfasts, then try one yogurt with cereals or the porridge with milk, oats, fresh fruit and if you also go with some chocolate. Finally, we recommend to lovers of salty eggs and toast.
Your day will be great!

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