So my previous porridge post featured various fruity options to go with porridge but this week I have been honing my porridge making skills and trying a few different things. I have 3 new healthy recipes for porridge and more to come I am sure.
Raspberry porridge
Berries are superfood and raspberries have a sweet, sour taste that tantalisingly tickles the taste buds. Perfect for waking you up in the morning, lazylocks.
Recipe (serves 1)
40g porridge oats
300ml semi-skimmed milk
1 tsp honey
75g raspberries
To serve
25g raspberries
tbsp greek yogurt
Method
1. Stir oats, milk and honey together in a pan with a wooden spoon until nearly at the consistency you like. (This is where you get to be goldilocks and get it 'juuuust right'). Be careful to keep to a medium-low heat, if you get impatient and turn it up then your porridge will be lumpy - and if you struggle with mornings like I do then lumpy porridge may seem as great a tragedy as Goldilocks fate.
2. Squish the raspberries and stir them in so that they break up and turn your porridge a little pink.
3. Transfer to your bowl, top with rasps and a wee dollop of greek yogurt and watch out for bears.
2. Add the milk and honey and transfer pan to heat - stir with a wooden spoon until your porridge is approaching the consistency you like. At this point add the mashed banana and let the porridge reach your desired consistency.
Chocolate for breakfast not dream-like enough for you?
Mixed berry-mango porridge
Try this exotic option for your morning meal.
Recipe (serves 1)
30g porridge oats
300ml almond milk
1 tsp honey
6 or so raspberries
To serve
1 cup mixed frozen berries
A few pieces of chopped mango
Method
1. Stir oats, milk and honey together in a pan with a wooden spoon until nearly at the consistency you like.
2. Squish the raspberries and stir them in so that they break up and turn your porridge a little pink.
3. Pop half your frozen berries in the bottom of your bowl and pour in your porridge. Top your bowl with the rest of the frozen berries and and mango. Eat immediately so that your fruit doesn't cool your porridge too much! We don't want to have a real Goldilocks with mama bears porridge moment now do we?
I am sure there will be further chapters on the porridge front but until then...beware of becoming a morning bear.
Healthy Food Love, Fayerie Faye x
Raspberry porridge
Berries are superfood and raspberries have a sweet, sour taste that tantalisingly tickles the taste buds. Perfect for waking you up in the morning, lazylocks.
40g porridge oats
300ml semi-skimmed milk
1 tsp honey
75g raspberries
To serve
25g raspberries
tbsp greek yogurt
Method
1. Stir oats, milk and honey together in a pan with a wooden spoon until nearly at the consistency you like. (This is where you get to be goldilocks and get it 'juuuust right'). Be careful to keep to a medium-low heat, if you get impatient and turn it up then your porridge will be lumpy - and if you struggle with mornings like I do then lumpy porridge may seem as great a tragedy as Goldilocks fate.
2. Squish the raspberries and stir them in so that they break up and turn your porridge a little pink.
3. Transfer to your bowl, top with rasps and a wee dollop of greek yogurt and watch out for bears.
Porridge makes a great start to the day and trying just one porridge wasn't good enough for goldilocks, so I didn't stop at raspberry porridge…
Chocolate-banana porridge with strawbs
Chocolate for breakfast? No, you are not still dreaming. Wake up to see this fairytale come true.
Recipe (serves 1)
30g porridge oats
1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
300ml almond milk
1 tsp honey
1/2 banana mashed
To serve
1/2 banana sliced
5 medium strawberries chopped
tbsp greek yogurt
5 almonds - crushed/sliced (depending what Old Mother Hubbard has in)
Method
1. Stir oats and cocoa powder together in the pan thoroughly.
2. Add the milk and honey and transfer pan to heat - stir with a wooden spoon until your porridge is approaching the consistency you like. At this point add the mashed banana and let the porridge reach your desired consistency.
3. Transfer to your bowl, top with sliced banana, strawberries, my ever present blog of yog and the crushed almonds. And then devour like a bear that just caught a little blond girl stealing its breaky.
Chocolate for breakfast not dream-like enough for you?
Try this exotic option for your morning meal.
30g porridge oats
300ml almond milk
1 tsp honey
6 or so raspberries
To serve
1 cup mixed frozen berries
A few pieces of chopped mango
Method
1. Stir oats, milk and honey together in a pan with a wooden spoon until nearly at the consistency you like.
2. Squish the raspberries and stir them in so that they break up and turn your porridge a little pink.
3. Pop half your frozen berries in the bottom of your bowl and pour in your porridge. Top your bowl with the rest of the frozen berries and and mango. Eat immediately so that your fruit doesn't cool your porridge too much! We don't want to have a real Goldilocks with mama bears porridge moment now do we?
I am sure there will be further chapters on the porridge front but until then...beware of becoming a morning bear.
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