Carrot Oat Bread Rolls 🥕 | Healthy, Tasty and Ready in No Time!

Looking for a quick and easy bread recipe? You’ve come to the right place! You may think preparing your own bread is tedious and time-consuming. Well, it can be, but it doesn’t have to be. These buns you can prepare in 30 minutes (including the baking), and then enjoy the smell and taste of fresh, oven-baked bread!

Carrot Oat Bread Rolls • 9 rolls

Ingredients:

1 cup (= 2.5 dl) oats
1 cup (= 2.5 dl) all-purpose flour
1 cup (= 2.5 dl) grated carrot (1 small to average size carrot)
1 tbsp baking powder
½ tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
¾ cups (= 1.75 dl) water

Method:

Preheat your oven to 200 °C (=390 °F). Grate your carrot into a bowl. Add all the dry ingredients and mix well. Slowly add the water while mixing the dough. The dough should be quite thick and sticky (check the photo below). Use a wet spoon and your fingers to form 9 equal sized bread rolls onto a baking tray. Decorate with some oats if you wish. Bake at 200 °C (=390 °F) for 15 minutes.
Serve with (vegan) butter while they’re still warm! 😋

Today, I felt like doing something extra, rather than just giving you a recipe. Therefore I counted some nutritional values.

Here’s what only one bread roll will give you:

• 1.9 g fiber (2.7 g if you use whole wheat flour instead of "regular") (8/11 % of your minimal daily need)
• 95 µg RAE vitamin A (10 % of your daily need if you’re a male, 14 % if you’re a female)
• 7.3 µg selenium (15 % of your daily need if you’re a male, 18 % if you’re a female)

Health benefits:

• Fiber: This food component will make you feel satiated longer, supports the functions of your bowel, relieves constipation and lowers your cholesterol levels. More about fiber here!
• Vitamin A: Vital for vision! Lack of vitamin A will first result in night blindness and eventually, make you lose your sight once and for all. Vitamin A also boosts your immune system and keeps your skin in nice condition.
• Selenium: This mineral is an antioxidant, it protects your cells, and the functions of the thyroid gland, immune system, and keeps your hair and skin normally beautiful.

This is also my entry to Fruits and Veggies Monday hosted by @lenasveganliving. Here you can find Lena’s post about the contest and all the wonderful entries of the week. Sharing the food love in #fruitsandveggiesmonday is the best way to start a new week if you ask me!

-Jasmin ❤