baked buckwheat
January 29, 2011 Today’s juice was much better than yesterday’s. Refreshing + energizing!
Green Juice
- 2 smallish red apples
- 1 large cucumber
- 1/2 lemon
- 2 handfuls spinach
The foam was super thick today!! I picked up some fresh ginger today and can’t wait to throw that in too. Juicing can obviously get pretty expensive, and my veggie funds are not unlimited. I’ve been getting some great deals at our local natural food store, Natural Grocers. I found organic cucumbers for $.99/lb, which put them under $1/piece. I also picked up 2, 5lb bags of organic apples, on sale for $3. Score! I’ve been flying through lemons lately too! I found bags of 9 organic lemons at Whole Foods for $5. They’re actually cheaper than the bagged conventional lemons. Score!
While slurping down this green beauty, I was reading my comments from yesterday’s post. Someone asked how to cook the buckwheat breakfast cookie without a microwave. I know it can’t be made on the stovetop, but maybe you can bake it? It definitely takes longer, but is still doable for a busy morning.
It takes the same amount of time to throw together as the microwave version. You could make it, then throw it in the oven, and do typical morning things for 30min and then your breakfast will be ready!
You can even take this on the go! I wasn’t sure if it was going to pop out of the little soup crock, or if it would stay together.
But it totally worked!! Look at this HUGE breakfast cookie!! It’s definitely not cookie-like. More muffin-like. And 100% delicious.
Want to take this bad boy to go? You could slice it in 1/2 and smear peanut butter and jelly in the middle.
Buckwheat Muffin Bake [serves 1]
- 1/4c ground buckwheat groats [untoasted]
- 1T whole buckwheat groats
- 1/2-1t cinnamon
- 1/2T vanilla
- 1/2 large banana
- 1/4t baking powder
- 1 flax egg [1T ground flax meal + 2.5T warm water, whisked]
- 1T chia seeds
- 2T chopped walnuts
- 4T almond milk
- Preheat oven to 350*
- Whisk flax egg together and set aside for ~3-5min.
- In a small bowl mash banana until egg-like.
- Mix in almond milk + vanilla with a fork.
- Mix in buckwheat, buckwheat groats, cinnamon, baking powder, chia seeds, and walnuts.
- Mix in flax egg.
- Lightly grease a small oven-safe dish, add mixture, smooth, and bake for 30 minutes. [I used a personal size soup crock]
*You can use 1 flax egg or sub 1 egg white or 1 chia seed egg.
*This was just barely sweet. If you want a little more sweetness, add in 2t maple syrup/honey/sucanat.
*Use 1/3c pumpkin or applesauce, if you don’t like banana.
*Add 1-2T of other mix-ins like chopped dried fruit, fresh chopped fruit, chocolate chips, or coconut.
Oh, this was fabulous. I topped it with peanut butter, grape jam [fruit juice sweetened], and unsweetened coconut.
Want a bite?
Pretty sure this is on tabs for tomorrow morning as well. Might have to throw some chopped apple in there too, or maybe a carrot cake version?
If you wanted to make a bunch of these on a Sunday, to prep for the week ahead, they should refrigerate + freeze really well. Bake as directed, then let cool completely. For the freezer, wrap in saran, then foil, then pop in a bag. For the fridge, wrap tightly in saran, then store in a bag or container. Defrost in the fridge the night before you want to eat it. Then, heat, top, + go!
Tomorrow, we’re headed out in the morning to HOUSE HUNT!!! We’re just in the beginning stages and aren’t even sure if we’re definitely buying. Depends what we can find. We don’t have the biggest budget right now, and Ft. Collins is more expensive than you’d think! I’m excited to get started though! Then, we’re heading to Denver for the Love Grown Foods grand opening of their new production space!! LGF granola just started being sold nationwide, so be on the lookout!
BED!
Ashley
Recipes, buckwheat, green juice
Reader Comments (106)
This bake looks amaaaazing! Definitely need to get some buckwheat on my grocery list.
every.single.day you come up with awesome recipes! Love you for this Ash :)! Happy Saturday!
Wow that buckwheat cookie/muffin is so puffy!!! Holy volume, i love that! It looks great, as does your green juice.
Have a great weekend, Ashley!
The juice looks yummy - I'm going to give it a whirl! xx
That buckwheat cookie looks ahhhmmmaazzziinngg! I am gonna have to give it a try. I like to try out new grains :) The juice looks perfect, I make one similar to that but I use romaine instead of the spinach!
I'm usually not a fan of muffins. But this "muffin" looks worthy of a try! It looks so incredibly dense and delicious!
Good luck with the house hunting, so exciting!!!
That looks so amazing, but there's no way I could wait 30 minutes to eat in the morning!! Maybe making them the night before would be good for me
Good luck househunting! I think we looked at over 30 houses before we found ours last year. Luckily our realtor is my mom so she was patient and wanted us to find the best house for the least amount of money!
This reminds me of baked oatmeal and I can see why. So good!
Just wanted to say that I am SO glad you posted about that juicer!! As soon as I read your post I clicked right over to Amazon and purchased it! I had been wanting a juicer, but didn't realize I could get one for $100 :)
That looks so yummy. I definitely want a bite! I don't have buckwheat groats but I do have oat groats? Do you think subbing would work in this recipe??
Happy house hunting :)
This looks delicious Ashley. I rarely cook with buchwheat so it would be fun to try this!
Best of luck house hunting this morning.
I have a HUGE bag of buckwheat groats. Never opened. Time to open! :)
Ooooohhh, I love how voluminous it is!! Bookmarked!
That looks so good. Like a mini loaf of bread! Where did you buy your buckwheat groats? I wonder if Whole Foods would carry them...
I cannot wait to make this - it looks even better than the breakfast cookies you but at the store! YUMMMMM :)
Wow, I bet I could only eat half of that magnificent thing!
Uh, yum. This would be perfect for Sunday brunch!! :)
Wow, that buckwheat muffin looks delicious! I will have to give your recipe a try
Good luck with your house hunt. It might take a while, but it will be totally worth it when you find the perfect house. It took us a good six months of looking, but we love our house.
Cucumbers in juice is my favorite.
That muffin looks so good! I was going to buy some buckwheat groats this week anyway, because Gena has a cereal recipe I wanted to make- think I'll definitely try that muffin out too.
I love Natural Grocers. I go on Sunday mornings right when they open and buy more than my fair share of $1 produce bags - very useful for juicing.
you are making me want to dig out my juicer. that juice looks so delicious!
and that buckwheat thing looks pretty yummy too :)
good lord, does that look good! I wonder, do you think I could use oats instead of the buckwheat groats??
Mmm, that bake looks awesome! Good luck house hunting! :D
xo
I'm thinking it would work for sure. Just use 1/4c + 1T of them. You could even give them a little grind if you wanted. I know Angela [oh she glows] made a lot of "baked oatmeal" dishes last year sometime, so you could reference her recipe section if you want. :)
Yay!! No one ever knows what store I'm talking about. LOVE it!
Thanks Lee!!!
I bought them at a store called Natural Grocers. Our WF has them in bulk as well, but if you can't find them in bulk, Bob's Red Mill makes them. Check in the GF section!
If you grind them [blender/coffee grinder] it should work, but I don't think with whole oat groats. Those take a lot longer to cook than buckwheat groats. :)
I need to strike a deal with amazon!!! ;)
Lucky!! We have great realtors though...which is definitely a bonus!
I used to be the same way!! Had to eat as SOON as I woke up...but now, I do the hot lemon water in the morning, so I don't eat right away. My stomach has somehow gotten used to it. :)
Thank you Sabine!!!!! :)
Oh my gosh, epic breakfast!
Good luck with your house hunt!
Whoa, that looks AMAZING! And so little time in the oven! I want to try!
Wow you r muffin looks amazing~ which taste better the microwave or the oven version?
That looks amazing! YES I want a bite :) Thank for always providing great recipes and good luck with house hunting!
Wow! I will definitely have to try that. It looks so good!
That looks scrumptious -- thanks for the version for us microwaveless cooks out there! House hunting sounds exciting! Let us know how the ginger works out in the smoothies-- it's my favorite thing to have in one -- besides kale, of course :)
That plop cake looks plane worthy!
Oh, thank you! I'm so happy to have this oven version of your breakfast cookie. I am trying to get away from using the microwave for a anything other than heating my rice bag to warm my toes in bed. This version looks amazing and I like that I can make several at one time and then have them to enjoy all week. Good luck with the house hunting. Hope you find some awesome options in your price range. I think it's a good time for buyers.
This looks so good! I love all of your grain recipes. I have practically all of them in my favorites!
We just got back from house hunting this morning! Our budget isn't huge either, but we ended up falling in LOVE with a house. It just felt like it should be our's, you know? Now to see if we can afford it...
This looks awesome! I have to stop reading food blogs when I'm hungry...
EVERYTHING I bake turns out muffin-like. No matter what it is - cookies, cakes, quiche, tofu-meat loaf... they all turn out like muffins.
What exactly are groats? Just wondering if you could help me out! :)
I'm so excited for all of your buckwheat recipes!!! I cannot wait to try them :-) P.S. Went skiing this weekend and thought of you and your hubby. Do you ever hit the slopes?
That really does look awesome. I don't have any buckwheat but I wonder if I could sub any other grain for it?
That muffin looks so delicious and healthy at the same time. I'm going to try that recipe!