Old-Fashioned Toasted Oat Cookies Premium PD Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 cups organic old-fashioned rolled oats, toasted (270 grams of oat groats flaked)
• 2 medium organic bananas washed, peel diced fine and banana fork mashed
• ½ cup erythritol
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 Tablespoons cacao nibs
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• ½ cup frozen or fresh cranberries, optional

Oven Baked Directions:

1. Watch PD-Ed Lesson #322 | Baking Oatmeal Cookies & Fiber Fueled Microbes, read all Directions and Notes
2. Spread measured rolled oats onto a rimmed baking sheet and place on the center rack in the cold oven
3. Turn oven on to 400 degrees and toast oats 10 minutes -until fragrant (mine are ready when the oven reaches 350 during the preheat )
4. While oats toast, wash banana, peel, dice peel finely, and mash banana with a fork
5. Add smashed banana and peel to a mixing bowl
6. Add all remaining ingredients and stir well before incorporating toasted oats
7. Add toasted oats and stir together gently using a fork or Danish dough whisk
8. Line baking pan with parchment paper or a silicone mat
9. Make 12 mounds using a ¼ cup measuring cup or an ice cream scoop
10. Using a regular mouth jar ring as a guide, press and flatten each cookie (thick is better than thin)
11. Add frozen or room-temperature cranberries to top of cookies being careful not to press hard into cookie dough and misshape them
12. Bake at 400 degrees on center rack for 20 minutes
13. Cookies will crisp as they cool
14. Allow to cool completely and store in an airtight container in the freezer or fridge
15. Refrigerator Storage: 12 cookies fit into 2-wide mouth quart jars when made using the regular mouth jar ring as a guide

Notes & Pro Tips:

• • Breville Smart Air mini oven half-batch directions are below if you do not have a large oven
  • Thicker cookies have a better texture than thin (a regular mouth jar ring is a perfect circle guide)
  • The oat groat measurement is for those who flake oat groats into rolled oats; disregard if you do not have a flaker
  • Flaking Oat Groats: In a jar, add 270 grams of oat groats, 3 teaspoons of water, cover, shake, and wait eight hours or overnight before flaking to produce thick-cut, dust-free rolled oats

• Organic rolled oats are recommended to avoid the ingestion of mold-inhibiting chemicals used on conventional rolled oats
• Save money on bulk organic oats with protectivediet.com/Azure or purchase bulk oats from your health food store
• Finely diced banana peels baked as suggested offer fiber with the texture of raisins without the negative impact of concentrated sugar
• Healthy gut microbes survive exclusively on plant fiber
• Microbes ferment and digest fiber to produce short-chain fatty acids
• Short-chain fatty acids are anti-inflammatory and tighten the epithelium (gut wall).
• A tight epithelial wall protects us from inflammation, disease, viral and bacterial infection
• A tight epithelial wall prevents food particles from entering the blood, causing an inflammatory response labeled as a food allergy
• We witness members on a Protective Diet eliminate gluten and other food allergies after their 30-Day Detox and Taste Bud Reprogramming is complete
• Their newly developed protective gut microbial population is fed a variety of daily plant fiber with Protective Diet recipes to produce healing anti-inflammatory short-chain fatty acids
• This dietary practice heals and repairs the epithelium protecting us from physical illness and suffering
• Make and eat PD recipes every day and the rest will be managed by our trillions of resident microbes
• They control our life experience, health, mood, cravings, energy, metabolism, fitness, and appearance
• With PD-Ed I’ll show you exactly how to manipulate your microbes to improve your life with health independence by becoming the boss of your body

Serving Suggestions:

• Serve with cold soymilk, Protective Coffee or Adult Hot Chocolate for dunking
• Refrigerate or freeze uneaten cookies; they are preservative-free
• After dinner on cold winter nights we enjoy cookies with Protective Coffee or Adult Hot Chocolate topped with warm frothed soymilk
• In the heat of summer we dunk these protective dunkables in ice-cold organic soymilk
• Protective Organic Cocao Nibs:
  Unsweetened cacao nibs are chips of the raw cacao bean
  We add them to baked or steamed recipes for a nut-like texture and protective quercetin and theobromine
  Quercetin neutralizes free radicals that cause cellular damage, aging, and a variety of diseases, including heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s
  Theobromine functions as a vasodilator to help lower blood pressure and improve athletic performance
• Cacao is Neuroprotective:
  The neurotrophic effect of cacao flavonoids increases cerebral blood flow in healthy subjects three hours after cacao consumption
  Increased blood flow to gray matter in the brain has been shown to account for healthy angiogenesis as well as the growth of new hippocampal neurons involved in memory processing
  Increased blood flow in the middle cerebral artery may account for protective effects against dementia and stroke
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5465250/
• Cacao is Cardioprotective:
  Increases Nitric Oxide production
  Cacao has platelet inhibitory effects reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and reducing risk of thromboses
  Blood clot symptoms can include headaches, the sensation of burning throbbing muscular pain, itching, or fatigue
  Knowing these symptoms may assist you in a time of need
• Cacao Reduces Appetite:
  The smell of chocolate leads to a satiation response which is inversely correlated with ghrelin level
  Ghrelin is a hormone produced to signal hunger, and chocolate smelling and eating can reduce appetite and improve food satisfaction
• Cacao and The Intestinal Microbiota:
  Finally, the effects of cacao polyphenols on the composition of intestinal microbiota must be noted
  In a human trials conducted on healthy volunteers, consumption of a high-cacao flavanol beverage for 4 weeks, containing 494 mg flavanols, significantly increased the growth of Lactobacillus spp. and Bifidobacterium spp. in comparison to a low cacao flavanol drink (182)
  These bacteria maintain an anti-inflammatory status in the bowel
  How about an Adult Hot Chocolate tonight?

6 Cookie Half Batch Baked in The Breville Smart Air Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups organic old-fashioned rolled oats, toasted (135 grams of oat groats flaked)
• 1 medium organic banana washed, peel diced fine and banana fork mashed
• ¼ cup erythritol
• 1 Tablespoons cacao nibs
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoons vanilla
• ¼ cup frozen or fresh cranberries, optional

Breville Smart Air Directions:

1. Watch PD-Ed Lesson #322 | Baking Oatmeal Cookies & Fiber Fueled Microbes, read all Directions and Notes
2. Spread measured rolled oats onto the baking pan and toast at level 4 in the Breville
3. While oats toast, wash banana, cut ends off, peel, dice peel finely, and mash banana with a fork
4. Add smashed banana and peel to a mixing bowl
5. Add all remaining ingredients and stir well before incorporating toasted oats
6. Add toasted oats and stir gently together using a fork or Danish dough whisk
7. Line the baking pan with parchment paper
8. Make 6 mounds using a ¼ cup measuring cup or an ice cream scoop
9. Using a regular mouth jar ring as a guide, press and flatten each cookie (thick is better than thin)
10. Add frozen or room-temperature cranberries to top of cookies being careful not to press hard into cookie dough
11. Bake at 350 degrees on center rack for 20 minutes (no need to preheat the small oven)
12. Cookies will crisp as they cool (do not bake longer to crisp; they will become too dry)
13. Allow to cool completely and store in an airtight container in the freezer or fridge
    Refrigerator Storage: 6 cookies fit into a wide-mouth quart jar when using the regular mouth jar ring as a guide