Late Breakfast Smoothie

[kerravonsen]

Ingredients:
* quick-oats (just poured out from my new container of quick-oats... which ended up being more than what would be in a sachet)
* dried apricots
* apricot jam
* 1 raw egg
* Greek Yoghurt
* maple syrup
* low-fat milk

I'll class this one as a fail. It wasn't inedible, it just wasn't good. A combination of too many oats and the dried apricots meant that the drink... needed to be chewed. It wasn't smooth at all. Oh well.

Comments

[watervole]

On the other hand, oats and dried apricots make a great starting point for muesli. Add nuts and seeds and it's great - though I'd use jumbo oats rather than quick oats.

[kerravonsen]

But I don't like muesli. 8-(

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Soak the oats and apricots, maybe even overnight. I think it would taste really good if it was, you know, a smoothie rather than a chewie. :-)

[kerravonsen]

But I did soak them overnight! I do that normally, so that the oats can be softened. That went without saying, so I didn't say it.

I think the apricots would probably have to be soaked and stewed in order to make them soft enough.

Tomorrow's breakfast is currently soaking in the fridge.
* oats
* 1 chopped apple
* 1 spoonful molasses
* Greek Yoghurt
* 1 raw egg
* 1 T cinnamon
* low-fat milk

I'm interested to see what the molasses does to the flavour. Mind you, the apple will probably be chewy too, apples don't puree that well. Especially as this one still had the skin on! Oops.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Must've been the apricots, then. Pity you can't buy frozen, like you can with berries, which would make a nice easy addition. Maybe some tinned ones would work well?

[kerravonsen]

I'm wary of tinned, they won't have the same nutrients, and they are highly likely to have added sugar.