Breakfast Links (Not-Sausage Roll)
1 cup hot water ¾ cup quick oats
1 Tbsp onion powder 1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp nutritional yeast ½ Tbsp Pero, coffee substitute
1 ½ Tbsp Mock Aminos OR 1 Tbsp yeast paste
3 Tbsp potato flour 2 tsp beef-like seasoning
2 Tbsp olive oil ½ cup gluten flour, heaping**
First, add the hot water to the quick oats. After this is mixed add the remaining ingredients leaving the gluten and potato flour until last. Roll into breakfast link shapes and bake on a cookie sheet at 350 for 35 min. For more moist links you may choose to steam them a little before serving.
For a larger not-sausage roll add 1 tsp poppy seeds, ¼ tsp cayenne and ½ tsp garlic powder. Bake longer. The next day you may slice and fry each piece.
**You may replace about ½ of the gluten flour with 2-3 Tbsp of chia seeds, if desired
Carob Marble Cereal
NOTE: Almond flour, the “magic” ingredient, gives these carob marbles a nice, crisp, crumbling crunch despite the absence of any leavening.
1 cup oat flour (I just blend oatmeal)
1 ½ cups whole wheat or spelt flour
1 cup almond flour
1/3 cup roasted carob powder
1 ½ tsp Pero (cereal coffee-replacement powder)
½ tsp salt
Mix all these ingredients together. Then in a small saucepan melt together:
2 Tbsp coconut oil
¼ cup coconut sugar (this creates a “richer” brown color)
Add this mixture along with 1 cup of water to the flour mixture. Knead together, adding a little flour if necessary, until you have a somewhat dry cookie dough consistency. (It shouldn’t stick to your hands). You may form the balls any way you wish, but here is the fastest method I have found. Split mixture into two logs approximately this diameter l-------------------------------I. With a large knife slice each log into sections this wide I-------I. Roll each of these sections into a fat pencil-sized log and then slice into little “pillows.” Each of these “pillows” may then be rolled between your palms into a carob marble. (This is reminiscent of playing with play dough, and good place to get little ones and the whole family involved.)
Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 10-15+ minutes or until lightly browned and quite dry. (The exact time will depend on the size of the balls.) Stir half way through. I usually further dehydrate these in the cooling oven to make sure they are very dry. After they are cooled they may be stored in an airtight container.
These are shelf stable for at least two weeks (that is the longest they’ve lasted without being eaten at our house.)
Makes about 2 cookie sheets full.