Fruity Oat Balls
This is a super easy, 3 ingredient recipe to make treats for your 'fur' legged friend. If like me you don't always eat your bananas before they go soft, this is the perfect recipe to use them up.
Ingredients
- 100 gr banana
- 40 gr blueberries
- 35 gr apple sauce
- 100 gr oats
- 50 gr plain flour use gluten free if necessary
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170deg C
- Blend the fruit in a blender or food processor until it is puree consistency
- In a large bowl, mix the fruit puree into the oats
- Add half the flour to the mix. Depending on how fine the oats are, you might not need to add all the flour. Very fine oatmeal will soak up more of the puree and so less flour will be needed. I use medium size oat flakes, so I needed to use all the flour. If your pooch has a gluten allergy, just use gluten free flour here. You want to end up with a dough-like consistency.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and break it up into little pieces, rolling them between your hands to make small balls approx. 2ch in diameter. If you find the dough sticks to your hands, roll the pieces in flour to coat them.
- Place all the balls on a baking tray. You shouldn't need to grease it first. Bake in the oven at 170deg C for 25-30 minutes, giving the tray a shake halfway though the cooking time.
- Once cooked and cooled, try them out on your test subjects. My 2 beasts LOVED them!
Notes
The fruit in this recipe can be swapped for other fruit: if you don't have blueberries, you could do all banana for instance.
I used up the remains of a jar of apple sauce. If I hadn't had any, I could have added chopped apple.