Oat and Nut Flapjacks

Oat and Nut Flapjacks

Really easy to make and delicious, but check out the ingredients if you are sticking to eating for your dosha type. See my suggestions for each ingredient.

Kapha influences the heavy, moist aspects of the body. Balance Kapha with warm, light food. Dry food, cooked without much water, minimum of butter, oil and sugar. Stimulating foods with pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes. Kaphas need to watch the consumption of too many sweet foods.

You can ring the changes by adding, pumpkin seeds, chopped almonds, dried fruits and even drizzle some good quality chocolate across the top after cooking.

You can also change the type of ingredients that you use to suit you and your family.

Ingredients

• 4 ozs of butter or coconut oil, or any nut butter of your choice. (Kapha should reduce all oils but now and then you can make these, use extra virgin olive oil)
• 3 ozs of coconut sugar ( Kapha should use 2ozs)
• 2 tablespoons of maple syrup or agave syrup. ( Kapha only 1)
• 8 oz of good porridge oats
• A handful of chopped nuts and seeds for example chopped almonds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, dried fruit. You can mix in whatever you fancy.

Directions

Preheat the oven to approx gas mark 4 and lightly grease or line a shallow tray, or use a really good non-stick tray.

Gently melt the butter/oil, and syrup and mix together, now add the oats and nuts that you have chosen.

Press into your shallow tray using a wooden spoon to compact your mixture.

Cook for about 20 to 25  mins, keep an eye on it after 15 mins as this mixture can burn easily.

Let the tin cool and cut the flapjack into squares in the tin, its easier to cut when its still warm, this mix goes quite brittle when cold. I like to break it naturally, but if you like squares cut it whilst it's warm.

Leave it to cool completely in the tray before removing it.

Enjoy x