Nutrition | Gluten free breakfast
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
For those of us who are plagued with a gluten allergy, but enjoy a hot breakfast and are watching our sugar intake, consider taking a trip to your local health food store and grabbing the ingredients for the breakfast below.
It can even be customized for the lactose intolerant.
You will need:
1 tablespoon of 3-4 of the following grains, in any combination of your choice, raw or roasted:
- Buckwheat
- Quinoa
- Millet
- Rolled barley
- Rolled oats
*** Adding some slivers of ginger, especially during the winter season, can help guard against the seasonal sniffles and colds***
The expansion factor of these grains is ridiculous, so anything more than 4 tablespoons, even for the large eaters like myself, especially when you add the toppings, can end up as waste.
1 cup skimmed milk or soy/ rice/ almond milk for the lactose intolerant, sweetened or unsweetened – your choice.
For a lower fat option, cook with half cup water and half cup milk. Feel free to add more water depending on how soft or crunchy you like your cereal.
Combine in a medium sized saucepan, not too small because again, the volume expands, and bring to a slow boil. Slowly maintain, as vigorous boiling will cause the mixture to boil over.
Of course, using a medium, rather than a small saucepan would prevent any accidental boil overs before you get the heat setting just right.
Add (optional)
- 2-4 dashes of cinnamon/ nutmeg/ pumpkin spice, whichever fancies you
- 1 tablespoon Teff grain
It can take a minute to cook, well more like 20 minutes, so soaking the grains the night before helps.
I’d usually wake up, combine the ingredients, put on a medium fire and go take a shower. By the time I’m done my hot piping breakfast is about ready.
Top with your choice of:
- Dried currants/ raisins/ cranberries and/or chopped dried fruits like figs or apricot. These add natural sweetness to the mix.
- Fresh fruit – whatever is seasonal that you like. Strawberries, blueberries, apples, pears… tart, sweet, whatever you like.
- Sliced nuts like almond or chopped ones like walnuts
- Raw (or roasted) seeds like sunflower/ pumpkin seeds
With all those dried fruits, especially raisins and dried apricots you really shouldn’t need more sugar, but you can mix in a little agave nectar (rather than sugar) if you choose.
High fibre, protein packed and customizable… now if only everything can walk into your life that that! … but I digress.
Will be sure to get you off to a great start in the morning, and have you make it past those mid-morning munchies!
Thanks: Bamboo Chaser
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Yummy! i
Im betting with all that fibre, your plumbing will be up and functioning as if Joe the Plumber fitted you with some new pipes!
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