What is an Oatmeal?
Oatmeal is a breakfast food that is made from oats and water or with milk. This is not just delicious but it’s super healthy and packed with full nutrition and beneficial food items. There are many breakfast food options that goes in and out off-trend but you will never see oats getting off-trend as they have the perfect amount of healthy ingredients which one needs to kick start their day.
About Crunchy Apple Oatmeal Cookies recipe
Cookies are everybody’s go-to comfort food to enjoy on every occasion made with the goodness of perfectly chosen ingredients making them one of a kind. The fresh baked smell of cookies gives a pleasant cozy warmth to our home being everyone’s top favorite. Cookies have their own personal irresistible taste that one cannot stop themselves from eating and not being addicted to it. When it comes to choosing my favorite cookie recipe then it has to be this apple oatmeal one as it gives the perfect crunchiness, flavor, taste, and health benefits that one needs to have in their cookie.
Packed up with the best flavors of fresh apples, chewy oats, oils, autumn spices, etc… making this recipe a very special one to add to your list. One of my biggest reasons for making homemade recipes is to make sure of what goes inside my kids and to keep a check that my family eats healthy and delicious.
This is my way of making this super delicious, addictive, and easy-to-make recipe that suits perfectly well with all of your cravings. Hope you like and enjoy making and having it do let me know how it goes for you would love to hear your feedback on it. Please don’t forget to share it with your friends and family.
Happy Baking
Enjoy!
My more healthy and delicious Cookie recipes are:
- Eggless chocolate chip cookies
- Homemade Eggless Oat nut choco-chip cookies
- Healthy Chocolate Cookies Recipes
Different types of Oats
- Instant oats
- Oat groats
- Steel-cut oats
- Rolled oats
- Scottish oats
Benefits of oats
Oats are known to be one of the healthiest grains on earth they are gluten-free and have a great number of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fibers present in them.
Below is the list of 5 major health benefits present in oats: –
- Oats help in improving blood sugar control: Oats help in keeping lower blood sugar, mainly in people who are overweight or who have type 2 diabetes, and might also help with insulin sensitivity.
- Helps in curing colorectal cancer: Whole grains are a great source of dietary fiber which helps in reducing insulin resistance. The high amount of fiber in one person’s diet helps in reducing the risk of colorectal cancer in one’s body.
- Helps with digestion and obesity: Whole grains are always suggested because of their beneficial effects on the tract intaking oats have shown an immense level of health benefits from improved immune health to reducing the risk of obesity.
- It helps in better sleeping: Oats help you get better sleep due to their melatonin and complex carbohydrates.
Benefits of apple
- Apples may help in supporting weight loss: Apples are very filling and as they are high in fiber and high water content which helps in keeping you full for a longer period of time and helps in managing your appetite.
- Apple may help in promoting gut health: Apple contains a fiber known as pectin which acts as a prebiotic and helps in feeding your gut microbiota which is known to be a good bacteria in your gut.
- Can also help in preventing cancer: All the antioxidants present in the apple offer very beneficial effects against certain types of cancer such as breast, lung, digestive tract, etc.
- May help in fighting asthma: Apples are rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory which help in protecting our lungs from oxidative damage which helps in regulating immune responses and helps fight asthma.
- High in nutrition: Apples are a rich source of fiber and vitamins like vitamin C and also contain antioxidants like vitamin E.
Ingredients required to make crunchy apple oatmeal cookies recipe:
- 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch of ground nutmeg
- Salt
- 1 tbsp melted coconut oil
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp honey
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1/2 medium red apple
Stepwise instructions with images on how to make crunchy apple oatmeal cookies recipe:
Step-1 Take a bowl and add whole wheat flour, to it add old-fashioned oats, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, and salt. Mix it all together nicely.
Step-2 Take another bowl and add melted coconut oil, to it add vanilla extract, honey, and milk. Whisk is all properly.
Step-3 Add the oat mixture into your bowl filled with your whisked batter and mix both of them very firmly.
Step-4 Now take a medium size apple and sliced it into small dice pieces and add them into the mixture and mix it well.
Step-5 On a baking tray add small cookies shaped scopes of the mixture and let it bake for 350° F.
Step-6 Our crunchy apple oatmeal cookies are ready.
How to make crunchy apple oatmeal cookies
Equipment
- Bowl
- Baking tray
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- salt
- 1 tbsp. coconut oil melted
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp. honey
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1/2 medium red-apple
Instructions
- Steps for preparing
- – Take a bowl and add whole wheat flour, to it add old-fashioned oats, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, and salt.
- – Mix it all together nicely.
- – Take another bowl and add melted coconut oil, to it add vanilla extract, honey, and milk.
- – Whisk is all properly.
- – Add the oat mixture into your bowl filled with your whisked batter and mix both of them very firmly.
- – Now take a medium size apple and sliced it into small dice pieces and add them into the mixture and mix it well.
- Steps for baking
- – On a baking tray add small cookies shaped scopes of the mixture and let it bake for 350° F for 10 minutes.
- – Our crunchy apple oatmeal cookies are ready.
