Plant-based Breakies from leftover bread
🌱🍪 Why the name of breakies? Brea(d) and (coo)kies. Grandma Sita’s plant-based creation helps you run out of stale leftover bread and ripe (brown) bananas, is fun to do with kids, and is the perfect in-between healthy snack.
🍞🤔 Did you know that for every loaf of bread eaten, half a loaf is thrown away in households? Explore creative ways to repurpose leftover bread into new plant-based treats like Grandma Sita’s yummy breakies, which are good for your budget as well as your health and that of the planet. And ready, set, and bake!
- INGREDIENTS
For a baking tray, approx.
4 slices of stale leftover bread
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips (optional)
A splash of oat drink (or any non-dairy milk)
FRUIT
1 cup blueberries (or any berry)
2 cups ripe bananas
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
Note: Following the cup method for measurement units, we discovered that the volume of the cup is always the key; you don´t have to weigh the ingredients. A cup has the same volume of ingredients (liquid or dry) as a glass or a mug.
- METHOD
1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
2. Cut the bread by hand into small chunks.
3. Cut the bananas into pieces and smash the pieces of banana with a fork until a creamy texture is achieved.
4. Combine all ingredients in a bowl: chunks of bread, smashed bananas, blueberries, raisins, dark chocolate chips, a generous drizzle of honey, and a splash of oat drink until well mixed. Add more oat drink as necessary or until the mixture is a bit sticky to the touch.
5. Roll the mixture between your palms to form balls; the size is up to you.
6. Carefully place the balls onto the baking tray. Bake the breakies until golden brown for around 10-15 minutes at high temperature (approx 200/220 º C).
7. Remove the baking tray from the oven. Let them cool on a rack for a while. Move them onto a ceramic dessert plate. Bon Appetit!
👵💚 Grandma Sita’s tips:
*Breakies can be frozen after you have shaped them into balls. Let the balls thaw for approx. half an hour before baking them.
*Instead of blueberries, change them depending on seasonal fruit and check your pantry or cupboard shelves for chocolate chunks, nuts, and seeds that can be added as well.
*Brown (overripe) bananas are a fantastic ingredient for plant-based baking. Bananas can replace eggs in some recipes and work especially well to achieve a moist result. To use bananas as a substitute for eggs, replace one egg with one ripe, mashed, or pureed banana. Check out our best plant-based recipe ideas for you to try! 
http://www.sita-nena.com/7-ideas-overripe-bananas/
♻️ Grandma Sita embraces a zero-waste approach in your kitchen, transforming every part of your food into something valuable. Start with a breakies cooking workshop with the kids and parents of Forældrenes Børneklub and enjoy the benefits of sustainable living—one workshop at a time!
📱🛒 Every cooking workshop, Grandma Sita inspires action by utilizing as much food rescue as possible to minimize food waste. These plant-based breakies were made with food surplus in Surprise Packs (local bakery and grocery store) provided by Too Good To Go, the 1 anti-food waste mobile application. Fighting food waste together!
➡️ Forældrenes Børneklub is family-based association in Nordvest, Copenhagen. Volunteers are parents with children aged 0-6, who plan & organize all activities.
🌎 An estimated 40% of bread produced yearly is wasted in households. All of us can act at home to reduce our waste, and every single one counts. So, what if you could do one thing to reduce food waste in your kitchen? Let’s bake breakies, don’t waste!