Quinoa porridge with banana, dried apricots, anise and fennel seeds
I love a warm bowl of porridge in the morning. And you don’t have to be stuck with just oats! You have a huge choice of glutenfree grains. Not only ‘real’ grains (like oats and rice), but also pseudo grains (like quinoa, but also teff and amaranth). If you cook quinoa and combine it with banana, you get a rich, sweet porridge. Here with an extra sweetness from dried apricots. Seasoned with star anise and fennel seeds. This porridge feels like a hug in a bowl!
Delicious for wet and colder months! Do you like porridge? Check out this recipe for millet porridge with orange and dried figs.
Quinoa is a pseudo grain
Quinoa is often classified as a grain, but it is actually a pseudo grain. Pseudo grains are seeds of grasses. The best known is buckwheat, but millet has also traditionally been known lat least here in the Netherlands. And quinoa, which comes from America, has now also become completely established as well.
Is quinoa glutenfree?
All pseudo grains are glutenfree. So is quinoa.
Quinoa and Medical Medium
Quinoa is on the list of filler foods,although it’s not a big favourite like millet. It’s not healing but it won’t do any harm either, beside taking op space from healing foods.
Quinoa porridge with banana, dried apricots, anise and fennel seeds
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- cooking pot
- sieve
- (electric coffee) grinder for the seeds
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup (black) quinoa
- ½ cup plantbased milk or water
- 1 banana
- 3 dried apricots preferably not orange, dark ones are unsulphured
- 1 star anise
- ½ teaspoons fennel seeds preferably freshly ground
- 1 pinch Celtic sea salt
Topping
- ½ handful cashew nuts raw or roasted
- ½ handful hemp seeds raw or roasted
Instructions
- Rinse the quinoa under the tap. I usually do this in a sieve.
- Bring the milk to the boil and cook the quinoa for 20 minutes with the star anise, fennel seeds and salt. Simmer gently with the lid on the pan.
- Cut 2 apricots into small pieces and cook with the quinoa.
- You can soak the other apricot in hot water. The time that the quinoa is cooking is not enough to make the apricot completely soft, but just enough to get a slightly softer bite.
- Remove the star anise from the porridge. You do not eat this.
- Puree the banana through the porridge.
- Serve with the soaked apricot, the cashew nuts and the hemp seeds on top.
Did you make this porridge or do you have any questions? Just leave a comment!