June 7-15, 2009: Steel-Cut Oats

porridge. This wintertime I've graduated to porridge using steel-cut oats. If you're non acquainted amongst steel-cut oats too thus read these posts past times FatFree Vegan Kitchen - this is where I showtime discovered them. Then I discovered 'em inwards the flesh (or grain, rather) at Habib Wholefoods on Flinders St over summer.

Initially I idea that this breakfast would suck upwards every bit much fourth dimension too coin every bit it does water. Organic groceries are rarely cheap, particularly on Flinders St, too these oats accept longer to laid upwards than their rolled rivals. But I've learned that I desire exclusively a 1/4 loving cup of oats each morning, making them much cheaper than the Kellogg's materials I unremarkably buy, too they laid upwards inwards the fourth dimension it takes me to shower. Best of all, they sustain me until luncheon fourth dimension similar cipher else.

I guess what sets steel-cut oats apart from the regular form is the texture. There's a existent kernel to them, something you lot tin sink your teeth into, also every bit that comforting sludginess. I've been cooking them upwards amongst orangish juice, H2O too a few spices earlier stirring dried cranberries too blanched almonds through at the end. Except for this morning, when I used rice milk too the terminal of roughly apple-pear crumble:

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makes two Cindy-sized serves

1/2 loving cup steel-cut oats
1 loving cup water
1 loving cup orangish juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Chinese 5 spice
1/4 loving cup blanched almonds
2 tablespoons dried cranberries

In a medium-sized saucepan, stir together the oats, water, juice, salt, cinnamon too Chinese 5 spice. Bring the mixture to the boil too thus trim back the oestrus to really low, embrace the pot too laid upwards until close of the liquid has been absorbed past times the oats. SusanV estimates 30-45 minutes, but mine cause got taken every bit trivial every bit twenty minutes, thus continue an midpoint on them.

Take the porridge off the heat, stir through the almonds too cranberries too serve the porridge inwards bowls.