Healthy snacks: delicious recipes and ideas

Healthy snacks satisfy the small hunger in between and are ideal for on the go. We’ll show you a few tasty alternatives to industrially produced nibbles from the supermarket.

Healthy snacks – enjoyment for in between

Whether for the small appetite in between or for the pure joy of enjoyment: Small and healthy snacks are popular and can often be eaten without much effort do it Yourself. We’ll give you inspiration for that little energy kick between meals that healthy and tasty are.

We recommend: Buy the ingredients regionally and seasonally if possible – this way you know where they come from and you get high quality.

Crisp bread – crispy, hearty, delicious!

Homemade crispbread is healthy and the ideal snack for in between. Whether pure or with one vegan spread – Crisp bread tastes delicious and can be combined in many ways. The kernels, nuts and seeds make this snack special rich in vital substances and vegetable proteins. You can adapt the basic recipe for crispbread flexibly: depending on what you like and what your pantry has to offer.

Ingredients for crispbread for snacking

Ingredients for two trays:

• 120 g oatmeal
• 250 g kernels, seeds and nuts (e.g. 100 g sunflower seeds, 50 g sesame, 50 g flax seeds and 50 g chopped almonds)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 500 ml of water
• 120 g Flour (e.g. whole spelled)

This is how you bake the crispbread

Preparation:

1. Mix the oatmeal, kernels, seeds, nuts and salt well with the water.
2. Now gradually stir the flour into the mixture.
3. Spread the dough very thinly on two baking trays and put them in the oven, preheated to 170 ° C.
4. After 10 minutes, take out the trays and cut the dough into pieces.
5. Bake the crispbread for another 50 to 60 minutes until it is crispy and golden brown.
6. Let the crispbread cool.
7. The crispbread will keep for at least a week in an airtight jar.

tip: Use different types of flour, nuts, seeds and kernels and give your crispbread a new one every time individual taste!

And another tip: With the ingredients you need for the crispbread, you have almost all the ingredients you need for homemade granola bars need. So you can make several healthy snacks from the ingredients you have already bought.

Hearty scones with vegetables – a healthy snack

If crispbread is too crispy for you, we recommend trying the hearty version of the sweet scones from England. The still warm vegetable cones taste best just like that, with a little butter or a vegan spread.

You will need for about ten scones:

• 250 g flour (e.g. whole spelled)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tbsp soft butter or vegan margarine
• 1 egg
• something milk or water
• 60 g spicy cheese
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 handful of parsley
• salt and pepper

How to prepare the scones:

1. Mix the flour with the baking powder.
2. Beat the egg in a measuring cup and then fill it up to the 125 ml mark with water or milk.
3. Grate the cheese and carrot very finely. Cut the onion into small cubes and chop the parsley.
4. Add the butter, egg mixture, cheese, onion, carrot, and parsley to the flour and knead until everything is well mixed. Season the dough with salt and pepper.
5. Form about 10 small balls and place them on a baking sheet.
6. Bake the scones in the oven at 220 ° C for about 12 to 15 minutes. They should be golden brown. But be careful not to get them too dark and thus dry.

tip: The scones are extra healthy if you Whole wheat flour use and z. B. add a handful of flaxseed to the dough. This makes the scones special filling, high in fiber and nutrients. And try a few drops as a healthy topping high quality oil (e.g. linseed oil or Pumpkin seed oil) on the still warm scone.

Fresh snack: cucumbers with a herb quark filling

Vegetable sticks are healthy, light and taste wonderfully fresh. We show you a slightly modified shape with cucumber.

You need these ingredients for about ten pieces:

• 2 cucumbers
• 250 g quark
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 onion
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 handful of herbs
• 2 tbsp dried tomatoes
• salt and pepper

Here’s how you go about the healthy snack:

1. Halve 1.5 cucumbers lengthways and remove the seeds so that the cucumber halves are hollowed out in a U-shape. Cut the hollowed-out halves into pieces about two inches long.
2. Grate half the cucumber very finely, squeeze out the water well and set the grated cucumber aside.
3. Finely dice the onion and garlic and cut the sun-dried tomatoes into small pieces.
4. Then chop the herbs.
5. Mix the quark with garlic, onion, lemon juice, herbs, tomatoes and the grated cucumber.
6. Season with salt and pepper and mix everything together well.
7. Fill the hollowed out cucumber pieces with the cottage cheese and garnish with a few herbs and a piece of dried tomato.

tip: The cucumber seeds go very well in a mixed leaf salad. Alternatively, you can also express it in the quark. You can also make the quark mixture partly from quark, sour cream, yoghurt or cream cheese produce. This is how the Fat content of the quark. But make sure that the curd doesn’t get too runny.

A sweet snack: dates with peanut butter filling

This sweet snack is a real powerhouse. The combination of sweeter date and strong peanut lots of protein – but also much sugar. That’s why you should only have this snack enjoy in moderation. Dates are mainly imported from the Middle East and are therefore not a regional ingredient. You can get the best dates in organic quality in the health food store around the corner.

For ten sweet date and peanut snacks you will need:

• 10 soft dates
• Peanut butter

1. Core the dates by making a single cut lengthways and then removing the stone.
2. Brush one half of the date with some peanut butter and place the other half on top.

tip: You can also use similar ingredients Energy balls make them yourself, which are an excellent snack alternative to the protein or energy bars available in the supermarket.

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