Photo: Whole-Grain Breakfast Porridge Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup red or wild rice
- 1/2 cup steel-cut oats
- 1/4 cup pearl barley or farro
- 1/2 cup farina or wheat cereal
- 1 2-inch piece orange peel
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 to 2 tablespoons packed dark or light brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup dried fruit (cranberries, cherries, raisins and/or chopped apricots)
- Chopped nuts, maple syrup and/or milk, for serving (optional)
Directions
Up to 12 hours before serving, put the rice, oats, barley and farina in a 6-to-10-cup rice cooker. Stir in the orange peel, cinnamon stick, sugar, salt and 5 cups water. Add the dried fruit.
Close the cooker, set the timer and program for the porridge cycle so that breakfast is ready at the desired time. (If you don't have a porridge setting on your rice cooker, program for 50 to 55 minutes.
Serve the warm porridge with nuts, syrup and/or milk, if desired.
Per Serving: Calories: 287; Total Fat: 1 gram; Saturated Fat: 0 grams; Protein: 8 grams; Total carbohydrates: 62 grams; Sugar: 13 grams; Fiber: 5 grams; Cholesterol: 0 milligrams; Sodium: 151 milligrams
Photograph by Kana Okada
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By deblefefb
Vermont
on January 30, 2013
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This is delicious and hearty. I don't have a rice cooker but combined all the ingredients except those to add when servng and cooked on the stovetop over low heatfor about the same time as suggested. It is a nice mixture of creamy and nice chew. I have been enjoying it all week by just warming in the microwave and adding a splash of milk and chopped berries. Yummy, satisfying and healthy, what more could you want when it's -10 F!!
By Orcwarrior
Fullerton,Ca
on January 10, 2013
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Mmmm
By mcowens
on November 02, 2012
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Oh, yes, this is Heaven! Of course, I had to change a few things.... First I don't have a rice steamer; so I made 1/2 the recipe for lunch one day and refridgerated the rest for breakfast for the next few days. Put all but the nuts in a large saucepan, bring it to a boil, cover, reduce the heat and cook for 50 minutes. Easy. I changed some of the ingredients to use what I had: pumpkin spice instead of orange peel, blackstrap molasses [packed with vitamins and nutrients] instead of sugar. When it was ready I added chopped almonds, cut up a small apple, almond milk, a squeeze of agave sweetner and grated fresh nutmeg on the top! This recipe is highly adaptable; use whatever grains you have/like. I bet it would be good with yogurt!
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