These easy 5-ingredient quinoa breakfast cookies are made with oats and raisins. They’re the perfect on the go healthy and easy breakfast treat.
Let’s use the word “cookie” loosely today. Because I’m calling these cookies and yet I can’t stop eating the batch of these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies I made the other night.
Both call themselves a cookie but they couldn’t be further apart on the cookie spectrum if they tried.
There’s a time and place for legit chocolate chip cookies and there’s a time and place for 5 ingredient, hearty, healthy breakfast cookies too.
Let’s talk about the latter.
About 50% of the week my breakfast looks like this:
About 50% of the week my breakfast looks like this:
-eggs
-1/2 a banana
-berries of some sort
-nut butter of some variety drizzled over the fruit
-1 or 2 slices of bacon
-<insert some carby goodness here>
Sometimes it’s a Van’s waffle, sometimes it’s a piece of Ezekiel bread or a small portion of a breakfast grain bowl but from here on out it might just forever be these.
5 ingredients (we’re not counting salt & vanilla because what self-respecting person who has ever set foot in a kitchen doesn’t have those on hand?!), 15 minutes and you’ve got healthy breakfast cookies on your plate to fill your carb loving void.
If you’re expecting soft batch chocolate chip texture, you’ve got another thing coming to you. These ain’t it.
If you want something healthy you can chow down on with your cup of coffee and not think twice about how many you eat, I got you, kid.
Digging the cookie for breakfast thing? Try these cherry power cookies or these classic breakfast cookies made with almonds, cherries and coconut.
Prefer to keep cookies for dessert? How about a classic oatmeal raisin cookie that’s both vegan and gluten free then instead? Or you can try these simple gluten free peanut butter cookies too. They’re soft, chewy and packed with pb flavor.
Oatmeal Raisin Quinoa Breakfast Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup oats
- 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, mix together the banana, egg and vanilla.
- Add the remaining ingredients and mix together.
- Spoon the mixture onto a greased or silpat lined baking sheet in heaping spoonfuls.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Gina Matsoukas is an AP syndicated writer. She is the founder, photographer and recipe developer of Running to the Kitchen — a food website focused on providing healthy, wholesome recipes using fresh and seasonal ingredients. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets both digital and print, including MSN, Huffington post, Buzzfeed, Women’s Health and Food Network.
Hi Gina, Mind reader! I just got back from the grocery and had almost bought raisin! (But I didn’t, lol)!
I think you added that banana-hater tag for me ? But these cookies are fab! I love the quinoa!!!!! Woohooo quinoa is the second best..not really grain…after buckwheat! Actually, idk….they bother are so awesome!
I love putting quinoa in my cookies And I am loving this whole combination of ingredients you’ve got going on here. Power cookie is right!
Added diced apple instead of raisins and an extra 1/4 cup of quinoa. Made some tasty muffins!
These cookies are delicious and so easy! Thanks for sharing. I added in some chocolate chips for an extra sweet hit and they’re incredible :)