Recipe: Baked Pear, Sultana & Oat Slice
If you’re looking for a quick and easy on-the-go lunchbox snack – look no further than the plant-based baked pear, sultana and oat slice from our Preschool menu!
With lots of easy mixing, mashing and grating as part of the method, it’s a great recipe to create together with your little one over a weekend or afternoon. You can prepare the slice days in advance and store it in the fridge before popping a few pieces into the lunchbox. Serve with your favourite fresh fruit and let everyone enjoy this nutritious and easy-to-handle snack.
Recipe Ingredients:
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- 2 ½ cups rolled oats
- 2 cups almonds, raw blended into meal (or you can buy almond flour. You will use ½ cup almond flour)
- 1 tbsp cinnamon myrtle, dried
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup soy/oat/almond milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ cup dates, pitted, made into a paste
- 1 medium pear, grated
- ¼ cup sultanas
- ¾ cups Nuttelex
Flax egg:
- 1 tbsp Flaxseed, ground
- 2.5 tbsp Water, warm
Recipe Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Coat a baking tray with nuttelex or oil.
- Make the date paste:
- Soak dates in hot water for 7-5 minutes.
- Add water and dates to a blender and then blend into a paste
- Blend the almonds into a meal (or purchase almond meal).
- Make a flax egg by combining the flaxseed with warm water.
- Grate the pear and set aside in a small bowl.
- Add the dry ingredients to another bowl and whisk together.
- Add the wet ingredients in bowl and mix.
- Combine the dry and wet ingredients then add the grated pear.
- Mix and pour the mixture into the lined baking tray. Bake for 40 minutes depending on the thickness.
- Rest on a cooling rack before slicing.
- Serve with fruit and enjoy!
We offer Preschoolers fresh meals and snacks prepared onsite daily in our commercial-grade kitchen by our trained and passionate cook, all included in our daily fees. Our menu is 100% plant based, entirely free of animal products. The snacks and meals have been thoughtfully developed to appeal to children, but most importantly to be perfectly nutritionally balanced for children aged 2-6.
Our cook has crafted rotating seasonal menus in partnership with a registered dietitian and in consultation with Australian government guidelines for optimum age-appropriate nutrition. Our menu was also awarded the Excellence in Food & Menu Design award at the 2022 Excellence In Early Childhood Education Awards. This award recognised the hard work of our team to provide well-balanced, nutritious, and delicious food, that is considerate of the individual needs of children, allergies, sensitivities and cultures.
At Sustainable Play we encourage children to learn where their food comes from and to empower them with the tools to eat sustainably while being thoughtful to our planet and its animals. Children are encouraged to participate in planting, growing, and tending to fresh produce in the preschool garden – harvesting, helping prepare, cook, and then continuing the cycle by composting leftovers to be later used to feed our garden plants.[/ultimate_heading]