Oatmeal Banana Cookies

When I first started this blog, my goal was to showcase the Portuguese cooking that I miss so much. But this blog turns out to showcase as well the evolution of my food interests and discovery of new ingredients and flavors. For example, I had never even heard about quinoa until I came to Singapore, now it´s one of my favourite ingredients, I could have it every day. I had never used lime (Portuguese cuisine only uses lemon) or simply hated oats. I thought they were tasteless and boring. Now, not only I won´t go out of the house in the morning without having a nice bowl of it, but also keep searching and trying new recipes with oats.

So today I made oatmeal banana cookies and, honestly, these were the best homemade cookies I have ever made and eaten in my life. It has just the right flavours I love.

Ingredients

100 gr of oats
75g of flour
80 gr of light brown sugar
1 tea spoon of baking powder
1 tea spoon of cinnamon
1 large or 2 small ripped bananas
20 gr of olive oil
1 tea spoon of vanilla essence
Dark chocolate chips (optional -  I have no choice but to use them, my son loves chocolate!)

Preparation

Turn on the oven at 180º.

Combine the oats, flour, sugar, baking powder and cinnamon.

On a plate, smash the banana using a fork and add on the olive oil and vanilla. Incorporate this mix into the oats still using the fork, as if you were still smashing the banana. That´s how you´ll be able to blend everything together. Takes about 2 minutes. Then add the chocolate chip, 2 table spoons are more than enough.

After 15 minutes in the oven, the cookies are ready to be savored!