Quinoa and Chia Porridge with Fruit

Try cooking quinoa in milk (cow, soy, or almond) and adding some sweet spices and fruit to make a great hot breakfast cereal. This Quinoa and Chia Porridge recipe is super-healthy (high in protein and essential amino acids) and easy to make: just put all the ingredients into a pot and bring to a boil. Then simmer, stir, top with your favorite add-ons, and enjoy!

Even before it’s ready, you will know it will taste amazing, because while it slowly simmers away it will fill your kitchen and your house with the most amazing aromas on earth. Neighbors will come knocking. Vanilla bean, cinnamon and cardamom spices wrapped in a hot milk and caramelized stone fruit flavor will float and dance all around you …

Here are the ingredients you’ll need for 2 – 4 servings:

– 3/4 cups quinoa

– 2 cups almond milk (or your favorite nut milk)

– 1/2 cup water

– 5 TBSP chia seeds

– 1 TBSP coconut butter (optional)

– 2 TBSP sweetener of choice (raw honey, maple syrup)
pinch sea salt

– 1 ’empty’ vanilla pod (after I scrape the vanilla seeds and use them in whatever recipes, I keep the pods and use them to flavor porridge like this or other liquids)

– pinch ground cinnamon

– 3 green cardamom pods

– 3 slices of fresh turmeric (or 1/2 tsp ground turmeric)

– a handful of currants (or raisins)

– 1/3 fresh peach, roughly sliced/chopped

– 1/3 fresh nectarine, roughly sliced/chopped

Continue on to the next page to see the preparation instructions and suggestions for the topping …

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