Apple Oat & Buckwheat Porridge
Servings: 5
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp butter or ghee to cook in
- 1 large apple or 2 small apples cut into 1 inch cubes
- 1 ½ cups full fat coconut milk or whole milk (raw milk if possible) plus more as needed for serving
- 1 cup water or more milk
- 1 ½ cups rolled oats I use sprouted oats for best digestion. See Notes for how to soak rolled oats if you like to do that
- ¼ cup buckwheat groats
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- ¼ cup honey
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp molasses
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch of sea salt
- Add-in options after cooking to boost nutrients such as flax meal, hemp hearts, grassfed collagen, and/or protein powder
Instructions
- In a large sauce pan, melt the butter over medium high heat, and add the apples. Cook the apples, stirring occasionally, until they are softened and caramelizing.
- Add all of the rest ingredients except the optional add-in’s, and stir together.
- Cook the apple oat and buckwheat porridge, with a lid on, over medium/low heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the oats and buckwheat are tender, and the liquid is absorbed.
- Scoop servings of the oatmeal into bowls, stir in any add-in’s you want, and garnish with a splash of milk or cream if you wish.
- Serve your apple oat and buckwheat porridge with breakfast protein sides such as eggs and/or breakfast meat. Greek yogurt and/or protein powder could also be stirred into the oatmeal for added protein.
Notes
- If your oats are not sprouted, and you would like to soak/sour them for best digestion, you can swap ¼ cup of the milk for yogurt and stir everything together to soak overnight. In fact, even though I have sprouted oats, I tend to get everything into the pot the night before anyway because it makes cooking it that much faster in the morning!
- You can cook a few eggs into this porridge too! It's a great way to get nutrient rich eggs into the kids if they aren't huge fans of eggs on the side. Simply whisk 2-3 eggs and add them into to cook with the oats and buckwheat. It makes the porridge even richer and creamier too!
- Any fruit will work for this recipe! Shop seasonally to change the flavor up, as well as nutrients! Berries or peaches in the summer! Apples and pears in the fall! In the winter we tend to do bananas or dried fruit like raisins in addition to apples which are readily available where I live most of the winter.
- You can double this recipe so that you have easy to warm up breakfast for more than one day! The porridge can be warmed up in a pan on the stove for up to 5 days. Add some splashes of water or more milk to re-heat the porridge.