By Dr Joe
If you have been out all morning shopping or doing whatever it is you fancy outdoors and you get back indoors looking ravenous, you need something quick.
A meal that you can rustle up in 10 minutes or less. Not too much to ask, is it?
You can apply the same principle to needing a quickie breakfast before you exit the house for work or a meeting.
The emphasis is on quick and that is where the peanut butter cinnamon oatmeal porridge comes in.
What’s more? No essential cooking skills required.If you can place a pot on fire, you can make this peanut butter cinnamon oatmeal porridge. No pretence necessary.
What do we need for this peanut butter cinnamon oatmeal porridge recipe?
Raw Oats X 1 cup and a half
Plant-based milk X 250 ml
Peanut butter X 2 tbs
Cinnamon
Honey X 1 tbs
Blueberries X 250 g
Avocado X 1
Almond flakes
Nutritional information for blueberries per 100 g
| Calories | 51 kcal |
| Total fat | 0.5 g |
| Saturated fat | < 0.1 g |
| Polyunsaturated fat | 0.1 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 14 g |
| Sugar | 9.1 g |
| Fibre | 2.4 g |
| Protein | 0.7 g |
| Salt | < 0.01 g |
Micronutrients in blue berries include Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Iron, Magnesium and Vitamin A
How to make the peanut butter cinnamon oatmeal porridge
>> Pour 250 ml of plant-based milk into a pot and add the raw oats. Stir together and place over heat. Stir intemittently.
>> Once oats begins to boil, add the peanut butter and stir together until all the peanut butter dissolves and mixes with oats homogenously.
>> Allow to boil whilst stirring every now and again. Now add in the honey and the cinnamon and stir together.
>> Allow to cook for about 4 minutes and turn off heat.
>> Pour oats into your desired bowl.
>> Scoop in the avocado flesh into the bowl of oats, then add blueberries and almond flakes.
That’s it. Enjoy your peanut butter cinnamon oatmeal porridge.
You see, it takes less than 10 minutes to prepare and you get a wholesome meal for your efforts.
Is this quickie breakfast blood sugar friendly? You bet it is. I got a blood glucose reading of 4.3 mmol/l (77.3 mg/dl). Pretty good, huh!
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Dr. Joe