Banana & Peanut Butter Quinoa Porridge
Chocolate for breakfast always seems a huge treat and puts a smile on everyone’s faces! Add banana and peanut butter and you have a sublime warming bowl of goodness to set up a positive start to the day.
To change things up from traditional oat porridge, this delicious and filling chocolate porridge is made from quinoa flakes to give it some extra protein as well as minerals such as iron, calcium, magnesium, selenium and zinc. Suitable from 18 months.
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Banana & Peanut Butter Quinoa Porridge
Ingredients
- 1 Bananas (small)
- 55 g Quinoa flakes
- 375 ml Milk (of choice)
- 3 tsp Cacao Powder (or cocoa powder)
- 4 tsp Peanut Butter
- 2 tsp Maple Syrup (plus a little more to drizzle)
- 10 Chocolate Chips (dark or milk chocolate chips, drops or buttons)
- 10 Blueberries (optional)
Instructions
- Slice off a few banana rounds, to hold back for decoration. Then mash the remaining banana with a fork.
- Add in all the ingredients into a small saucepan and cook at a medium heat for 6-8 minutes until the quinoa flakes are soft and the milk has been absorbed. Add a little more milk if needed.
- Pour the mixture into serving bowls and sprinkle with banana slices, and a few chocolate drops and blueberries if you want.. Then lightly drizzle with some maple syrup.
Notes
- Buy quinoa flakes from your local health food shop or online – they are such a winner to have in your store cupboard and are the best way to serve fussy kids quinoa.
- 55mg quinoa flakes is ½ American cup, 375ml milk is 1 ½ American cups
- Nut-free: swap peanut butter for tahini (sesame paste), an egg or ground mixed seeds such as chia, hemp and flax
- Dairy-free: use dairy-free/vegan milk and dairy-free/vegan chocolate drops
- Stores in the fridge for up to 48 hours. If reheating and add a little extra milk of choice.
Per serving. Nutrition content in food is never consistent, so take these estimates with a pinch of salt! Also, our recipes tend to use low-GI carbs and sugars, so these values are not directly comparable with shop-bought UPFs.
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Why only suitable from 18 months?
Because there is a little naturally occurring caffeine in cocoa powder which is not so good for tinies
What is the purpose of the banana, we’re an entire family of banana-haters, could I just omit it altogether?
You can totally leave out the banana!
Any chance I can make this with quinoa – no flakes in? 🙂
yes you can – it would be a much thicker texture – more grainy and less porridge-like – you would also need to cook it for at least 12 minutes.
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