Oat scones with tahini and mashed avocado

Photo by Agnes Maltesdotter

Scone love

Having a favourite scone recipe in the back of your head is a winner. In under half an hour you can have freshly baked bread for your weekend breakfast or brunch, something to go with your evening soup or - my fave - something to carry on your picnic in to the woods!

I find these ones to be the right combination of crumbly, sweet…and slightly addictive. They’re easy to make and I really think you should try them! I have this recipe as my base recipe and then sometimes change what flour I’m using depending on what I have at home/what flour that is available/to fit any allergies etc. I shared my Almond flour version of these scones over at my friends at Food Pharmacy - something to check out as well!

AND one last thing, these scones can also be served as a savoury dessert together with some coconut cream (or yoghurt) and a berry/fruit compote or chia berry jam! Delicious!

Oat scones with mashed avocado

6 servings

Ready in: 25 minutes

Ingredients
6 dl / 2 1/2 cups cups oat flour (or a mix of your favourite flours, I sometimes use 1/3 buckwheat flour or 1/3 almond flour)
1/2 dl / 0.2 cups rolled oats
1 Tbsp potato starch
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 Tbsp chia seeds
1/2 tsp salt
a handful dried fruits or berries, such as organic mulberries and goji berries
5 Tbsp cold-pressed rapeseed oil
2 dl / 0.8 cups oat mylk, or any plant based mylk of your choice

For serving

1 ripe avocado, smashed in to a chunky spread

tahini

How to

Pre heat the oven to 175 degrees.

Mix all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add the oil and mylk and blend in to a sticky dough. Try not to kneed it, but only blending it together, this will give you more fluffy scones!

Form scones using two spoons and put on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes, until the scones are lightly golden around the edges.

Serve the scones straight from the oven, with some (lots of) tahini and smashed avocado. ENJOY!

Almond and oat scones with coconut yoghurt and strawberry chia jam

If someone would ask me what my perfect weekend morning would look like I would probably mention these. It's something special with freshly baked bread, I think is has something to do both with the love someone out in to it, the taste, the texture AND the lovely smell it gives to the whole kitchen - and even apartment if you have a quite small place like myself. 

Anyway, before you scroll down and start tossing ingredients together I just want to write that except from serving the scones with coconut yoghurt and strawberry chia jam as I did here, they are also very delicious served with savoury toppings, such as avocado and sprouts! Well, that's all, let's bake! 

Almond and oat scones with coconut yoghurt and strawberry chia jam

8 scones 

Ingredients

200 grams oats

100 grams almond flour

2 tsp psyllium seed husk

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1/2 tsp salt 

0.5 dl / 0.2 cups cold pressed coconut oil

0.5 dl / 0.2 cups almond butter

3 dl / 1.3 cups unsweetened almond milk 

Strawberry chia jam

2 dl / 0.8 cups frozen strawberries 

0.5 dl / 0.2 cups water

2 tbsp chia seeds

For serving

Coconut yoghurt

fresh basil 

How to

Pre heat the oven to 235 degrees Celsius / 440 degrees Fahrenheit. Cook the strawberries in a small sauce pan with the water for a couple of minutes. Remove from heat. Mix until smooth using an immersion blender. Add the chia seeds to the strawberry sauce, stir and let sit for 30 minutes, stirring every now and then to avoid clumping. 

Mix 2/3 of the oats to a flour. Mix all the dry ingredients in a baking bowl. Mix the rest of the ingredients in to a smooth mixture, pour in to the mixing bowl. Fold everything together in to a sticky batter. Form in to 8 scones and put on a baking tray. Bake the scones in the middle of the oven for 15-20 minutes, until they get lightly golden and crispy. Let cool for a bit

Serve the freshly baked scones with coconut yoghurt, strawberry chia jam and fresh basil. 

* This is a recipe from “Två Dagar” distributed by Göteborgs-Posten, published 10th of February 2018. Recipes, styling and photo by me. 

Saffron scones with coconut yoghurt and fresh fig compote

Saffron scones with coconut yoghurt and fresh fig compote 

Makes 10 scones

Scones

4 dl oat flour 

3 dl buckwheat flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 

1 tbsp potato starch 

1 tsp himalayan salt

1/2 gram pure saffron, ground 

1/2 dl organic raisins (or dried organic apricots, cut in to small pieces)

75 g cold pressed olive oil

3 dl oat yoghurt 

Fig compote

8 fresh green figs 

1/2 organic orange, freshly squeezed juice + zest 

1 tbsp honey 

1 tsp chia seeds (optional, for a thicker consistency)

1 pinch pure vanilla powder 

To serve

coconut yoghurt 

fresh figs 

How to

Scones: Pre heat to oven to 225 degrees Celsius. Mix the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Mix oil and oat yoghurt, add to the dry mixture and combine quickly with a wooden spoon, the mixture should be quite sticky. 

Form in to 10 small scones, dredge with a bit of oat flour and put on a baking sheet. Bake in the middle of the oven for about 10-12 minutes, until scones are slightly golden and crisp on the top.

Fig compote: Wash and quarter the figs. Zest and squeeze the orange, put all the ingredients in a small saucepan and cook on medium heat until a compote, stirring all the time to avoid burning. 

Serve scones freshly baked with coconut yoghurt and fig compote. 

Happy holidays and lots of love! 

Recipe from a spread for Swedish food magazine Allt om Mat winter 2016. Photo by Jonny Lindh.