Winter mornings can be hard to come to terms with especially in January. I find this month quite bleak at times. I think the best way to help us through is to make it more exciting. It doesn’t have to be grand gestures but anything that will make your life more exciting. I love to cook so I find that inventing new recipes to wake up to is like therapy.
My favourite meal is breakfast and I often find I will leap out of bed for a good one. Which is most mornings to be honest. This one was so worth the jump into the cold room. It was a tasty, sweet and filling breakfast. Also it can be eaten all year round not just in winter. I loved it and I hope you will too.
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Serves 2 – 4
Equipment
- Small saucepan
- Measuring scales
- Blender
- Teaspoon
- Tablespoon
- Small baking tin or loaf tin
- Greaseproof paper
- Sharp knife
- Chopping board
- Skewer
- Cooling rack
Ingredients
- Lime x 1
- Medjool dates x 4 – 8
- Mild or hot chilli powder x 1 – 2 tsps
- Raw cocoa powder x 1 – 2 tbsps
- Oats x 90g
- Almond flour protein x 60g or protein powder of your choice
- Walnuts x 30g (or a nut of your choice)
- Pumpkin seeds x 10g
- Sunflower seeds x 10g
- Chia seeds x 10g
- Flax seed x 10g
- Bananas x 1 large
- Coconut water, water or milk of your choice x 200 – 400mls
- Ground sweet cinnamon x 1
- Oil for the base of the pan
- Honey x 1 – 2 tsp (optional)
Method
- Place a small saucepan of hot water onto a high heat on the hob.
- Bring to the boil and put the lime into the water.
- Turn the heat down to a simmer and leave to cook for 10 minutes.
- After the 10 minutes drain through the colander and place the cooked orange into the blender cup.
- Slice the Medjool dates lengthways and remove the seeds
- Put the dates, mild or hot chili powder, raw cacao powder, oats, almond flour protein powder or protein powder of your choice, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, flax seed, banana, coconut water, water or milk of your choice and ground sweet cinnamon into the blender.
- Blend all these ingredients together.
- Once all the ingredients are blended together pour into a large bowl with a lid.
- Store in the fridge overnight.
- The next day preheat the oven to 200°C or gas mark 6.
- Measure the baking tin and cut the greaseproof paper according to the measurements.
- Scrunch the paper in your hands.
- Place the paper inside the tin and add a little bit of oil to the greaseproof paper on the base.
- Remove the mixture from the fridge and poor into the tin.
- Spread the mixture as evenly as possible across the base of the tin.
- Once the oven has preheated put the mixture into the oven and bake for about 25 – 30 minutes.
- When the porridge is gold brown on top remove from the oven.
- Put a skewer into the porridge if it comes out clean ish it’s done.
- If not put the porridge back into the oven for a further 3 – 5 minutes until it comes out clean ish.
- Take the baked porridge out of the tin.
- Put on the cooling rack and leave to cool until warm.
- Drizzle a teaspoon of honey over the baked porridge.
- Then serve and enjoy.
Chili, Lime and Chocolate Baked Protein Porridge was a tasty was to start my day. It was easy to prepare and cook. The porridge was slightly time consuming to cook so I would recommend getting up early to cook it. Or you could make the porridge and freeze it for another occasion. Although, if you are using a rice protein powder it’s best to check that you can freeze it. It’s tasty served warm or cold. However you decide to eat this dish, as always, please enjoy. Thank you xxx
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