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No Bake Oatmeal Cookie Recipe and Easy Oatmeal Cookies
For a no bake oatmeal cookie recipe, you can replace oats with ground up sprouted buckwheat for a much healthier cookie.
What is Buckwheat?
Buckwheat is actually a seed that unlike what its name implies has nothing to do with the wheat grain. Buckwheat is gluten free!
Easy oatmeal cookies can also be made with soaked and sprouted "raw" oatmeal. Finding "truly" raw oats may take you on a little bit of an adventure.
You can replace oats with a seed like buckwheat to create a similar oatmeal texture.
Sprouting the buckwheat will give your body much more nutrition and you can even dehydrate the buckwheat prior to grinding to give it that floury texture.
Adding warming spices and playing around with different nuts will help to create a very interesting no bake oatmeal cookie recipe.
I would also think adding
healthy saturated fats
like raw butter would only add a depth of flavor more reminiscent of a traditional oatmeal cookie.
What is Buckwheat?
Buckwheat is not a grass or cereal crop, but a plant crop that is related to the rhubarb plant.
The seed of the buckwheat is what is eaten. The outer husk is removed and the outer bran remains which gives buckwheat its rich color.
It has a somewhat nutty flavor and this seed has been traditionally used in Japan to make Soba noodles.
Nutritionally, buckwheat does come with some very nice properties such as a good source of B vitamins, magnesium, phosphorus, copper, and is considered a complete protein source.
A Warning about Buckwheat
Buckwheat is very high in oxalic acid very much like rhubarb which could create irritating crystals that could irritate your body and possibly help to create stones.
There is so much controversy over whether eating organic or inorganic oxalic acid is a problem. One of the main concerns is that oxalic acid can bind with calcium to form indigestible stones.
It may actually be plausible that as long as both oxalic acid and calcium are from organic sources or raw sources that the opposite may happen.
It is possible that organic oxalic acid could combine with organic calcium and actually help with the absorption of calcium into your body.
Until there is solid proof, just be aware of the potential problems that could exist with high amounts of oxalic acids.
Easy Oatmeal Cookies
I would probably add some sort of fat to help balance out the sugar content of this cookie. I personally like some fat and not too many carbohydrates in my cookies.
Oats also have a fairly high amount of oxalic acid as well as other anti-nutrients such as phytic acid. Soaking and sprouting your oats appears to make them more digestible.
Rolled oats and most oats found in stores these days have actually all been cooked as oats appear to have a great tendency to go rancid - very quickly.
There is actually such a thing as "raw" oats or raw oat grouts which are basically the oat grains. You will have to shop around for a good source and also find a way to keep them from going rancid.
Sprouted Grains
seem to be the wave of the future and this may be a way to see if your oats are truly raw or not.
