Perk up your porridge relationship
I love a meal of good honest oatmeal porridge. So warm and comforting in the cold mornings. So safe and secure. And yet easily – oh so boring. Especially when eaten at almost every breakfast in the cold season, as the tradition goes in many households here in Finland. Oatmeal porridge with butter. Oatmeal porridge with berries. Oatmeal porridge with milk. Oh my dear porridge, I love you, but we really need to spice things up if we want to save our relationship!
And so came the spices. Last week I got to taste this really interesting variation of oatmeal porridge in a PR event. Oatmeal was cooked with coconut milk and served with licorice sauce. The combination was so darn delicious! I had to try it at home and make my own version of it.
I cooked the oatmeal in a mixture of oat milk and coconut milk with some vanilla, and also added a ripe banana in slices. I topped the whole thing with licorice chia jam.
Oatmeal and licorice are both inherently Finnish flavours and they match beautifully with coconut and banana. There's north and south combined. There's something familiar and something surprising. Not dull anymore! This one truly perked up my porridge relationship and made the love stronger.
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COCONUT OAT PORRIDGE WITH LICORICE CHIA JAM
Coconut Oat porridge with licorice chia jam
Porridge:
- 2 cups oat milk (or other dairy free milk)
- 2 tbsp coconut milk
- 1 cup oat meal
- 1 sliced ripe banana
- ¼ tsp cardamom
- ½ tsp vanilla seeds or vanilla powder
- 2 tsp almond butter
Licorice jam:
- 1 cup oat milk
- 4 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tbsp grated licorice root extract stick or black licorice root powder
- 1-2 tbsp of liquid organic honey
- a pinch of vanilla powder /vanilla seeds
Place oats and oat milk in pan, stir well. Bring to the boil and stir. Add cardamom, vanilla and almond butter. Boil for 2-5 minutes until oats are thick and creamy. Prepare the licorice jam.
Pour the oat milk in a small bowl and stir in the chia seeds. Let sit for about 10 minutes. Stir in the honey and licorice root powder. Stir and let the liquorice powder melt into the mixture.
Pour porridge into bowl. Top with licorice jam. Serve and enjoy!
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HeirnLakuhillo kuulostaa ihanalta, tuleeko siihen todellakin vain puoli desiä nestettä?
moikka! jos haluaa paksua hilloa, niin silloin 0,5 desiä riittää. tosin muokkasin ohjetta nyt niin, että hilloa tulee vähän reilummin. :)
Oh gosh this looks delicious! I'm gonna have to seek out some black liquorice powder (harder to find in the UK) cos I only have the raw root powder but I need to have this :)rnI recently bought liquorice salt (http://www.rawliving.eu/saltverk-sea-salt-lakrids-90g.html) as a total impulse buy, do you have any suggestions how to use it?
thank you! yes, this black licorice powder has much more flavor and it suits well in sweet dishes. rnrnmy personal favorites are this: http://liquorice.nu/collections/all-products/products/raw-liquorice-powder AND this: http://liquorice.nu/collections/all-products/products/handmadernrnmaybe you could order them online?rnrnunfortunately i have no experience of licorice salt, so can´t give you any suggestions. hope you´ll find some nice way to use it! :)
Thanks! Yes I will. Although I can't see the second link, only the powder. What is the other?rnrnAlso what oats do you use?
the other link was licorice sticks, but apparently they don´t have them anymore...rnand i use just regular steel cut oats / rolled oats or gluten free oats.