Powerful Purple Porridge
This superfood rich porridge can be done hot or cold as overnight oats, and is full of nutrients and goodness, perfect to nourish your body first thing in the morning and will not have your blood sugar shooting through the roof! It is particularly high in fibre, magnesium, iron and selenium - great for Endometriosis and fertility!
Servings: 2 people
Calories: 566kcal
Ingredients
Porridge
- 1/2 cup GF jumbo oats preferably organic
- 1/4 cup buckwheat groats
- 1/4 cup quinoa
- 2 cups water filtered
- 1 /2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 3 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 cup non-dairy milk e.g. coconut, cashew, almond, oat
- 2 tsp cinnamon powdered
- 1.5 tbsp hemp powder
- 1 whole banana large & mashed
- 1 cup frozen blackcurrants
- 1 tsp coconut oil organic cold-pressed
Topping
- 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
- 1 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 1 tsp shelled hemp seeds
Instructions
Overnight Preparation
- Soak the oats, buckwheat groats and quinoa in a large bowl in plenty of water (filtered) and the apple cider vinegar overnight - these will double in size overnight! You are soaking these to get rid of the anti-nutrients.
- Measure out the blackcurrants and leave out to defrost overnight
Making Porridge
- Drain and rinse the oats, buckwheat groats and quinoa.
- Add rinsed grains to a pan with the non-dairy milk and cinnamon.
- Bring the pan to the boil and turn down to simmer for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the chia seeds, blackcurrants, hemp powder, mashed banana and coconut oil to the pan, stir well and heat through for 1-2 minutes.
Serving
- Serve the porridge in a bowl, top with the seeds and enjoy! You may want to add more milk if you like it runnier.
Notes
Here are a few substitutions suggestions you might try!
- Non-Dairy Milk: you can always use dairy milk if you want instead of non-dairy.
- Coconut oil: you can substitute butter instead if you cannot have coconut. You want to have a small amount of fat to help absorb the fat-soluble nutrients.
- Grains: you can use all oats if you do not wish to use buckwheat groats or quinoa - just adjust to have 1 cup in total for 2 people (though this depends if you like alot of porridge or not!).
- Hemp powder: you could use other protein powder, or you could use cacao powder for a chocolatey taste!
- Seeds: you can change these to however you fancy! If you are seed cycling to improve your menstrual cycle, then use those seeds you require. If you are being luxiourious you could toast your seeds - though this does reduce the nutritional power somewhat - though very tasty!