3 Ways to Include More Healthy Nuts in Your Diet

It's time to upgrade your regular snack time staples fried chips or crunchy nuggets. Enter nuts!

Not only do a handful of nuts boost your Vitamin B levels, but they are great skin food too. Especially, walnuts, that are great brain-food (Hello, razor-sharp memory!), and are the only nut that provides a significant amount of plant-based omega-3 fatty acid and are a convenient source of protein (4g) and fibre (2g). 

Walnut Pancakes with Maple Walnut Butter

Ingredients

125g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 medium egg
2 tablespoon maple syrup + extra to serve
280ml buttermilk
50g California walnut pieces, chopped + extra to serve
Oil for shallow frying
1 ripe banana, sliced 

For the walnut butter:
50g butter softened
2 tablespoon maple syrup
25g California walnut pieces, chopped

Method

1. To make the walnut butter, whisk the butter and maple syrup together until pale, stir in the walnuts and set aside.

2. Place the flour and baking powder in a medium bowl and mix to combine. In a jug, beat the egg and maple syrup into the buttermilk and whisk into the flour mixture, stir in the walnuts.
3. Heat a little oil in a non-stick frying pan and add 4 tablespoons of batter to make 4 pancakes. Cook for 2 minutes each side and repeat to make 8 pancakes.
4. Serve topped with walnut butter, banana, a drizzle of maple syrup and extra walnuts.

Walnut Crackers

Ingredients

220g of water
130g of flax seeds
140g of walnuts
30g of sesame seeds

Method

1. Grind the flax seeds
2. Crush the walnuts and sesame in the grinder.
3. Add the flax seeds, walnuts and sesame to the water, mix and leave to stand for 20 minutes.
4. Stretch them very well in a baking tray with vegetable paper, leaving a very thin layer.
5. Bake 20 or 25 minutes at 180°C until dry and crisp. Serve with a dip of your choice.

Chicken With Walnut Sauce

Ingredients

4 chicken breasts
60g of walnuts
100g of oatmeal
4 tablespoons of honey
4 teaspoons of soy sauce
Spices to taste

Method:

1. Crush the oatmeal and walnuts, without transforming them into flour.
2. Mix the honey with the soy sauce.
3. Cut the chicken breasts into small pieces.
4. Dip each piece into the soy sauce and honey, pass it through the mixture of oats and walnuts, and place in the baking tray with vegetable paper.
5. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown at 180°C.