Improving recipes

Today I made some lovely cranberry and hazelnut flapjacks. This is the recipe I used but it can be altered to make it healthier.

Cranberry and Hazelnut Flapjacks

 Preparation: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

100g Natural Selection Ideal Ingredients Dried Cranberries150g butter75g golden syrup125g  jumbo oats125g porridge oats50g roasted hazelnuts, chopped.

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 180°C (Gas mark 4) and grease tin with butter. In a saucepan gently melt the butter, then add the sugar and golden syrup. Heat until smooth and syrupy. Add oats, cranberries and hazelnuts and mix well. Place the oat mixture into the tin and press down gently with the back of a spoon. Bake for 15 minutes in the oven.

It neglects to say how much sugar so I used 100g of brown sugar for the colour. How to make them healthier: 

1. Measure in grams how much sugar you needed and replace with same weight of maple syrup. 

2. Maple syrup has lower sugar than golden syrup so as long as its thick enough to hold your oats together use that!

3. Almonds have more protein, less calories, less fat tons more calcium and magnesium. 

Adding any dry ingredient like fruit flakes, protein powder, or nuts just substitute that weight of dry ingredient from the oats. Try it out!!!
Original recipe from Natural Selection