Oatmeal Biscuits

Today I’m going to share with you a recipe for one of my favourite snacks, oatmeal biscuits. They taste great on their own, or you can add a bit of humus (see picture below), and they go great with soup. OK, I know the recipe doesn’t follow the rules of the plant-based diet because it uses oil (in the soya spread), but they are vegan and they taste great.

Ingredients

75g/3oz/⅔ cup plain flour

2.5ml/½ tsp salt

1.5ml/¼ tsp baking powder

115g/4oz/1 cup fine pinhead oatmeal (oatbran also works)

65g/2½oz/generous ¼ cup soya spread

1. Preheat oven to 200ºc/400ºf/Gas 6 and grease a baking sheet.
2. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Add the oatmeal and mix well. Rub in the soya spread to make a crumbly mixture, then blend in enough water to make a stiff dough.
3. You’ve got two choices at this point. The original recipe states ‘turn out onto a worktop sprinkled with fine oatmeal and knead until smooth and manageable. Roll out to about 3mm/⅛in thick and cut into rounds, squares or triangles. Place on the baking sheet’ If you’re like me, though, and you prefer to do things a bit more rustic and can’t be bothered to clean up your worktop afterwards, you can instead roll some of the mixture into a ball in your hands and flatten it straight onto the baking sheet.
4. Bake for about 15 mins or until crisp.