Oats porridge with toasted nuts and raisins | Oatmeal with dry nuts
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: World
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Serves: 2 people
 
Healthy oats porridge with crunchy toasted dry nuts
Ingredients
  • 80 Gm or scant 1 Cup porridge oats or oatmeal
  • 550 Ml or 2¼ Cups~ whole milk
  • ¼ Tsp ground black pepper
  • ½ Tbsp butter (optional)
  • 2 Tbsp golden raisins
  • 1 sliced banana to serve
  • Little orange marmalade
  • Honey to squeeze on top
Dry Nuts:
  • 5-6 broken pecan halves
  • 5-6 broken walnut halves
  • 5-6 broken or slivered unpeeled almonds
Method
  1. In a pan, lightly toast the broken nuts till light golden
  2. In a thick bottomed saucepan or milkpan heat milk on low heat
  3. When it just scalds (just before it boils), add butter and black pepper powder and mix well
  4. Add in the oatmeal and lightly mix with a fork
  5. Add in golden raisins
  6. Keep heating on low flame till the oatmeal thickens. Let it not become very thick it will turn sticky and lumpy
  7. Serve immediately with a generous sprinkling of toasted nuts on top, arrange some sliced bananas, add a little orange marmalade and squeeze over honey. Perfect porridge within minutes!
Notes
Use unrefined, unflavoured oatmeal, add any flavours you like

Allow 40 Gm of oatmeal per person that is just a little less than half a cup

Adding butter removes stickiness from the porridge, a little butter is good along with the fibre. A little butter hurts no one, avoid it if you are on a diet or are medically advised not to eat butter or are vegan

If you are vegan, make with water instead of milk and skip butter

Use semi-skimmed milk if you want, whole milk adds creaminess

Add any kind of dry nuts you like, cashews, only almonds anything you have on hand, pitted dates will taste very good

Add sliced strawberries if you like

Add any other kind of jam, mixed fruit, strawberry etc

Adding black pepper powder acts as a seasoning and gives a savoury touch to porridge

Add some sugar if you like while making oatmeal but adding honey and fruits on top are healthier options to sugar
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/oats-porridge-with-toasted-nuts-and-raisins/