My hubby is becoming quite the baker. He has been practicing with bread and cobblers over the past few months and has gotten quite good. One of the things we have been doing is adding more fiber and food with more nutrients to our meals. One easy way to do this is by adding Chia to our baking. We have been talking about how you can sprinkle chia seeds on foods to boost your nutrition, but did you know they’re easy to bake with as well?
Chia seeds can be used as replacements for foods within recipes, such as eggs and fats, because of their binding and thickening characteristics. For a recipe with texture, such as cookies, muffins or breads with nuts, seeds, etc., whole chia seeds work great, whereas ground chia seeds are great for cakes, brownies and other less-textured baked goods. So we added some ground Chia Seed to this delicious peach cobbler my hubby made the other night. You cannot taste the chia at all so adding it is a smart option to your baking too!
Here are 10 great ways to use Salba Chia:
1. Sprinkled on top of salads (think sesame seed)
2. To make healthy pudding
3. To thicken soup or gravy
4. Mixed in oatmeal, yogurt or a smoothie
5. To make homemade energy gel
6. As a “breading” for baking chicken
7. In a meatloaf recipe!
8. Chia seeds soaked in fruit juice as a topping for ice cream or cheesecake
9. Baked in cookies, brownies or cake
10. Soak chia seeds in milk and mix through hot oatmeal
Give this easy recipe a try!
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Banana Bread
Ingredients
1 package Pamela’s Baking & Pancake Mix, which can be found at natural food stores. Follow directions on the package for “Pamela’s Muffins” and add the following:
1-1/2 each ripe bananas – mashed
1 cup canned pumpkin puree
2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice
4 tablespoons ground Salba
Instructions
The package calls for sugar as the sweetener, but try using 1/3 cup Agave Nectar. Continue to follow directions for baking. These can be made as bread or individual muffins. Great served warm and topped with apple butter or homemade preserves
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In baked goods like bread.
I’d put it in my daily oatmeal. I’d love to try them in the meatload, too!
Thanks for the giveaway…add to our bran muffin recipe.
I would add it to my morning smoothies
I put them into my oatmeal in the am and then in muffins.
This would be great for any type of baking!
I would add it to smoothies, or bake it in some cookies.
I would like so much to try the chia, in breads, heck I will sprinkle in spaghetti sauce, in smoothies, thanks
We would use it in all of our baking-breads, cookies, brownies.etc.
i would use it in my oatmeal!
I would use this in meatloaf one of my familys favorite dishes..It sounds awesome 🙂
we make lots of pumpkin and banana bread this time of year, so i would use it in those
I would use them in making oatmeal cookies!
I would use it to bake cookies!
I would add them to everything just like I try to do with flax seed!
I would make No-bake Salba Chia Oatmeal Cookies!
Making cookies
I’d add it to bread!
I would add the chia seeds to the oatmeal raisin peanut butter cookies that we make.
I would like to make that Mexican Tortilla Bake!
I would add it to a lot of things so my kids wouldn’t notice, like pancakes!
I would use it as a crunch factor in classic cookies like oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies!
I would for sure sprinkle on salads just for the filling up factor, i wonder what it would be like for a breading for baked chiken
well I’ve been using it for years just putting it in smoothies or just plain water. Great for dieting and filling you up.
I’ve been wanting to make chia pudding
I bake all our bread so I’d add them to that :+)
I would use them in in oatmeal, yogurt, banana bread.. I’d probably add them to everything lol
I would use the seeds in my oatmeal for breakfast and in soups! They’re a great way to make soups thicker and more filling.
I like the avacodo smoothie and the smores.
I may add some into soups this winter
I have never used Chia before and I’d like to try it in salads and eggs. I’d love to try it in breakfast items to get more healthy fiber into my 2 sons.
I already use chia! I like to make whole grain and seed biscuits. I make them with different whole grain flowers, seeds, always chia because it helps hold them together as I’m typically not using eggs, and add honey, dried fruit, etc. You can roll them right onto a cookie sheet, the cut them into squares, and bake til golden. I often have them for a snack or breakfast.
I alway have a chia seed gel in my fridge, 3 parts almond milk, 1 part chia seeds. So easy to add to my yogurt, has a nice tapioca like texture, or my instant oatmeal. I add dry chia seeds to my thermos of soup for lunch, thickens it up nicely.
I would add them to muffins and breads
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I’d like to add it to cookies and make puddings
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I would add chia to my pancakes & smoothies.
I would add them to my muffins that I make every week.
in muffins
I would add it to banana bread!
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I would use it in muffins and breads.
I’ve never used these before but they would be great to bake with and to add into oatmeal or smoothies.
I love using chia seeds instead of eggs in breads and cakes
Meatloaf for sure
I’d put them into desserts
I use this in my pound cakes
I would like to try making my own breads with these.
I add chai seeds to my muffins. I really enjoy it in my morning oatmeal.
I love adding chia to my no bake balls.
I noticed that you can replace some of the flour in baking with chia–I could add this to bread (I bake our bread at home.)
I want to make the tofu-pumpkin-pie-with-salba-crust/
Muffins and Smoothies
I would add a little to just about everything!
I would try adding Chia seeds to my Cranberry Walnut muffin recipe.
I usually use Chia in my oatmeal, but would love to use it for baking oatbran muffins or a pound cake too.
I am hoping to win this for my 21 yr old daughter who is a VERY healthy eater and cook. I know she would love to add them to her daily healthy smoothies she makes and in her cooked oatmeal and other things. She likes baking too so very well may like to try adding to one of her yummy recipes.
I would use it in smoothies, muffins, and as a topping for yogurt and hot cereal.
I make chocolate chia cookies.
I went to their site and one thing that I would bake with these is this recipe salbasmart.com/salba-banana-nut-mini-muffins/
add them to pancakes, muffins, cookies, cakes
I would add chia seeds to morning muffins or pancakes!
I often make muffins to take as on-the-go breakfasts during the week, and I’m always looking for ways to ramp up the nutrition of them. I’d love to add chia seeds!