How I Created This Recipe?
Recently, I have been obsessed with this chocolate quinoa porridge for breakfast. In fact, the story behind this recipe is quite sad (funny?). One morning, when I was preparing my usual steel cut oats for breakfast, I realise I didn’t have sufficient amount of oats left (sad story😔). Seriously, who can just eat 1/4 cup of oats for breakfast? Out of the disappointment, I decided to be adventurous and replaced part of the oats with quinoa. The result was literally phenomenal! 😎 I am basically having this for breakfast every single day for the past month and I didn’t even get bored with it yet.
Experimenting With Different Plant Milk
I tried to make this with different kinds of plant milk. My conclusion is that oat milk makes the creamiest and fluffiest porridge for this recipe☺. You can definitely use almond milk or coconut milk if you wish. This post is not sponsored by Oatly, but the lovely people there did send me some of their delicious Oat milk. I have been a HUGE Oatly fan since I had it in Stockholm few years ago and I immediately fell in love with it! I did find them sometimes in some grocery stores in Hong Kong, but they haven’t officially launched their products here. Luckily, God has heard my prayer and Oatly are finally coming to Hong Kong this year (YAY!).
Easy-To-Prepare Breakfast
I usually cook this quinoa porridge using a slow cooker. It’s so simple. All you need to do is to throw everything into the slow cooker the night before. Set it at low setting and it will be ready the next morning! 🙆🏻♀️ You can also cook them on the stove top, but it will take around 15-20 minutes. To serve, I usually like adding nut butter on top of it when it’s still hot. So the nut butter will become melty 😋
Slow Cooker Chocolate Quinoa Porridge (Vegan, Gluten-free, Refined Sugar-free)
Course: BreakfastCuisine: WesternDifficulty: Easy1
servings15
minutes15
minutesIngredients
1/4 cup steel cut oats
1/4 cup quinoa
1 cup oat milk
1/2 zucchini (shredded)
1 apple (diced)
1/2-3/4 cup water (depends on how creamy you want your porridge to be)
2/3 Tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp chai spice
1 Tbsp raw cacao powder
1/2 Tbsp carob powder
1 tsp maca powder
Directions
- On the night before, rinse the quinoa using a fine mesh. Shred the zucchini and squeeze as much water as you can from it. Dice the apple.
- Mix the first 8 ingredients into a oven safe pot until everything is well combined.
- Place the pot into the slow cooker and slowly pour water into the bottom of the slow cooker until its level is about 1 inch below the top of the pot.
- Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. Stir before serving.
- Serve with maple syrup, more oat milk, raw cacao nibs, brazil nut butter and fresh fruits.
