Healthy Vegan Waffles

I've been transitioning myself over to a vegan diet. I'm planning on writing a proper post about it so I won't go into it here. I have talked before about starting a vegan diet so if you want some tips head over there to have a read first, and then come back and make these healthy vegan waffles!

Most weekends we make waffles or pancakes as a family. It's one of our traditions and I felt so sad that I couldn't sit down to eat waffles with my family. I just love lazy weekend mornings where someone is cooking the waffles, the children are playing and I'm hopefully reading a magazine or newspaper! I knew I had to find an alternative for myself so I looked up a vegan waffle recipe. I found this one on The Minimalist Baker and made a couple of changes as I didn't need mine to be gluten free.

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Healthy Vegan Waffles

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Keyword vegan, waffles

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes

Servings 6

Ingredients

• 1¼ cups unsweetened almond milk
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
• ¼ cup olive oil
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• ½ cup rolled oats
• 1½ cups plain flour
• 1½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• pinch salt

Instructions

1. Put the almond milk and vinegar into a bowl, stir and let sit for 5 minutes.

2. Mix the dry ingredients in another bowl

3. Whisk the rest of the wet ingredients into the milk and vinegar mixture.

4. Stir in the dry ingredients and let sit for another 5 minutes while your waffle maker heats up.

5. Spray your waffle maker with coconut oil and cook the waffles until they are crispy on the outside.

6. Serve with fruit and maple syrup or whatever you choose!

You can use another oil such as canola oil or coconut oil. I originally used coconut oil but I felt that it gave the waffles a distinctly coconut taste so I prefer to use olive oil.

I also found that they didn't rise as much as my usual waffles so I filled the waffle maker right up and kept an eye on them to tell whether they were cooked or not. These waffles are a little denser than my usual waffles but they were really delicious and I've also been having them in the evening with a dollop of vegan ice cream for a lovely treat.

I'm so glad that I've managed to make really nice healthy vegan waffles as it means that I won't feel like I'm missing out at breakfast (or dessert) time.

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