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Home Oat porridge with fruit and dates: a hearty start to the day

Oat porridge with fruit and dates: a hearty start to the day

Gepubliceerd op 31 juli 2024

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Taking care of your health feels great, but these days there are so many articles telling you to go fully plant-based, cut out carbs, or eat nothing but protein that it's hard to know where to start. Eat Right takes a different approach. Author Nick Barnard (founder of the brilliant brand Rude Health) brings us a new book about wholesome eating and positive energy. He teaches us to get back to basics: enjoying a variety of natural ingredients, prepared simply — just as our ancestors did — whether raw, cooked, sprouted, salted or fermented. That's music to my ears! How about you?

Breakfast for champions — that's what they call a healthy, nourishing and filling morning meal. This 'porridge with fruit and dates' — as it's called in the book — is absolutely a breakfast worthy of champions. Packed with fibre from the oats, the dried fruit gives your brain all the fuel it needs. I love a breakfast like this on busy days when I know that stopping for a snack might not happen. Trust me, this will keep you going for a long time 😉

Recipe

Oat porridge with fruit and dates: a hearty start to the day

A nourishing and warming oat porridge combining steel-cut oats and rolled oats, enriched with dates, dried apricots and apple. A hearty and flavourful breakfast to set your day up right.

Course	Breakfast
Kitchen	British
Servings	4

Preparation time

Preparation time	5 min
Total	15 min

Equipment

Porridge pot

Ingredients

75 g medium and coarse steel-cut oats, mixed
75 g fine and coarse rolled oats, mixed
450 ml milk, or a mixture of milk and water
pinch of ground cinnamon (to taste)
1 tbsp apple powder, or (since it can be hard to find) dry some fresh apple slices yourself and grind them
a handful of dates, chopped
a handful of dried apple, chopped into rings or pieces, with or without the skin
a handful of dried apricots, chopped
serve with cream, or a dollop of yoghurt
coconut palm sugar (optional)

Oat Porridge with Fruit and Dates

1. Stir together the steel-cut oats and rolled oats.

2. Heat the milk, or the milk-and-water mixture, in your favourite porridge pot.

3. Add the oats and start stirring. Stir in the cinnamon and apple powder, along with most of the chopped fruit; set a little aside to scatter over the finished porridge.

4. Let the porridge simmer gently for as long as needed, until it's just right. This usually takes around 4–6 minutes.

5. Pour in a little extra milk or milk and water if the porridge gets too thick. It should be thick and creamy, but still pourable. Serve the porridge, scatter the reserved dried fruit on top, then add as much cream as you like.

6. You can sweeten the porridge further by sprinkling over some coconut palm sugar. If you prefer cold cream alongside the hot porridge, spoon it into a separate bowl. Dip your spoon into the hot porridge and then into the cream. Hot and cold, cream and oats… a heavenly combination.

This recipe comes from the book Eat Right by Nick Barnard

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This recipe comes from the book Eat Right by Nick Barnard. The book is packed with inspiring recipes that make healthy eating accessible and delicious for everyone.

Serve the porridge straight from the pot and adjust the consistency to your liking by adding extra milk. A spoonful of cold cream or yoghurt alongside makes it complete.

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