Q: There's a restaurant in my neighborhood that makes a delicious sweet quinoa porridge. On the menu it's listed as "Quinoa Porridge with agave nectar, cinnamon, cardamom, golden raisins, cream, and fresh berries."
I'd love to recreate this for breakfast at home. Can you help me figure out how to make this?
Sent by Tracey
Editor: Tracey, we don't have an exact recipe for this, but here's a great place to start:
• Quinoa Porridge at Feasts and Fotos
It has agave nectar and milk, and we think you could definitely adapt and tweak it.
Readers, any advice or good recipes to share?
Related: Heavenly Porridge from Tim of Lottie and Doof
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I would add some granola on top for crunch!
I would adapt the Feasts and Fotos recipe by using nut milk or coconut milk in place of the milk & yogurt and a diced madjool date added to the pot during cooking-YUM. And granola on top is a GREAT idea, one of my favorite hot cereal toppings.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Quinoa-Porridge/Detail.aspx
you have to check out the comments to really get the proportions right ... it tastes good as is, but you can use any kinda of liquid in place of the almond milk, ie, coconut milk
I'm no raw food vegan, but I somehow have taken to following Gena over at Choosing Raw, and she has done a bit of experimentation with this as well!
FYI, many of her recipes actually ARE cooked....
http://www.choosingraw.com/quinoa-breakfast-porridge/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChoosingRaw+(Choosing+Raw)&utm_content=Google+Reader
This is more of a hot cereal than a porridge but perhaps it is a good place from which to jump:
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/warm-and-nutty-cinnamon-quinoa-recipe.html
While the quinoa porridge looks great...it kills me that it's topped with agave nectar! Why is that ingredient continuing to sneak into foods that are being billed as healthy?
Read all about it here --
http://eatlovedrink.com/2011/01/31/whats-the-deal-with-agave-nectar/
You must be talking about Green Eggs Cafe in Philadelphia! I attempted to replicate the porridge here: http://felonykirsch.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/quinoa-porridge/
There is a recipe in Good to the Grain by Kim Boyce. I haven't tried it but a close friend did and loved it... I keep meaning to try it out.
Check out this recipe on Feed Your Sister!!! It's delicious and so heart-warming during these cold winter mornings!!
http://feedyoursister.blogspot.com/2010/10/quinoa-oatmeal.html
thanks for all of the suggestions! @mhirsch, yes- i'm talking about Green Eggs! i'll try your recipe and see how it goes. :)
Mmm, this sounds good! Makes me wanna try it not just with quinoa, but also with amaranth, another seed that acts like a grain. Amaranth is naturally very sweet and is high in protein, calcium, and other good things. Oh, and it's delicious! (For savory, I stuff chard leaves with amaranth, feta, and raisins. So good, just not my idea of breakfast.)
Ooh...I like the amaranth idea...both as a breakfast cereal and stuffed with chard. Thanks!
Lynn at The Country Tart has a breakfast quinoa and a great chai amaranth recipe. But the quinoa pudding with blueberries........MMMMMM
http://countrytartrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/06/vanilla-quinoa-pudding-with-blueberries.html
"Urban Pantry" has an incredible vanilla-quinoa pudding recipe, too. I blogged about it here: http://seasonal-menus.blogspot.com/2010/05/urban-pantry.html
My husband and I made the above-linked recipe this morning. We eat qunioa pretty frequently, but using it as oatmeal takes a little bit of getting used to. The recipe can definitely be made your own - adding apples and bananas to the pot seems like a great idea to add a touch of needed-sweetness. Certainly a good starter-recipe! Thanks for the link!
This is a little after-the-fact, but thought I'd say I made the porridge with amaranth (I didn't have quinoa at home, or else I would have used that). Amaranth doesn't really break down very much, so it never really came to a porridge-like texture. I love the flavor so much, though. It really doesn't even need any sweetener, since amaranth is so naturally sweet. I think next time I'd make a multi-grain mix with amaranth, quinoa and short-grain brown rice. Would be perfect for those odd occasions when you have a bunch of leftover, random grains in the fridge.