Healthy Vegan Doughnut Recipe With Blueberries
I have never been a big fan of doughnuts but this Healthy Vegan Doughnut Recipe With Blueberries is a real game changer.
Recently I stumbled across one of Jamie Oliver’s healthy doughnut recipes and was fascinated by the fact that he simmered his doughnuts in water rather than frying them in a big pan full of oil. This got me so intrigued that I decided to come up with an even more nutritious, sugar-free, vegan option.
Therefore, I got my organic whole grain spelt flour of the shelf and enthusiastically started replacing the dairy and egg products to make it vegan-friendly.
If you follow my blog regularly you will probably know that I’m a big fan of chia seeds. Consequently, I grab every chance to incorporate them into my dishes as often as possible. In case you would like to learn more about the health benefits of chia seeds I recommend checking out my post about Chai Chia Pudding.
How to make homemade doughnuts
Healthy doughnuts are fairly simple to make, once you have mixed the dough roll it out 1.5cm thick. While I like keeping things simple by using a pint glass and an empty spice shaker to cut out the doughnuts, you could also use an 8cm and a 3cm cutter.
Afterwards, carefully transfer them into a pan with boiling water and watch them puffing up just as nicely as their unhealthy cousins. For me, this is like watching my favourite tv-series, I’m quite a big child when it comes to these kinds of things. 😉
Once 10 minutes have past transfer the doughnuts to a frying pan with a tiny bit of oil and fry them until they get a nice golden-brown crust. Add the blueberries and keep flicking the doughnuts until they are fully covered in jammy blueberries. Finish them off with a dairy-free yoghurt of your choice and sprinkle with cinnamon.
Your turn
What about you, have you ever had healthy doughnuts before? Are you going to try them? I’m looking forward to finding out in the comments. 🙂
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Enjoy 🙂
Healthy Vegan Doughnut Recipe With Blueberries
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon milled chia seeds
- 3 tablespoons filtered water
- 3/4 cup Medjool dates
- 2/3 cup wholegrain spelt flour
- 2/3 cup plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 cup ground almonds
- 1/4 cup filtered water
- 1 pinch sea salt
- olive oil
- 2 cups blueberries
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup optional
- 4 tablespoons coconut or soy yoghurt
- ground cinnamon optional
Instructions
- Stir the milled chia seeds into the water and let sit for 10 minutes to make chia egg.
- Place the pitted dates, flours, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, ground almonds, the chia egg, a pinch of sea salt and 70 ml of water into a food processor and blitz until it starts forming a dough.
- Knead the dough ball on a dusted surface for about 2 minutes.
- Roll out the dough 1.5cm thick, cut out the doughnuts with a pint glass or an 8 cm cutter. Use a 3 cm cutter or any other round utensil to cut out the centre.
- Repeat the process until all the dough is gone.
- Fill a large pan with water and bring to boil, simmer the doughnuts for 2.5 minutes from each side.
- Remove the doughnuts carefully and empty the water from the pan.
- Heat up the oil in the frying pan over medium heat and fry the doughnuts from each side until golden-brown.
- Add the blueberries to the pan and let simmer until they release their juice.
- Keep turning over the doughnuts until they are fully covered in blueberry sauce.
- Drizzle the maple syrup on top or just add the yoghurt of your choice.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Could you bake the doughnuts rather than fry ? 🙂
Hi Oonagh, I have never baked them before, but I would imagine that it would work as well, maybe try 175°C for 15-20 minutes.
If you do let us know how they turned out. 🙂