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Thursday, September 07, 2006

Millet porridge - Gluten free breakfast recipe

This recipe is:
  • Gluten free
  • Dairy free
  • Egg free
You'll notice yesterday I was whinging on about not having anything sizeable to eat for breakfast. Well this morning gluten free wife (aka Lyndsay) was up with the larks (aka Edith the baby) and made a pot of millet porridge.

Millet porridge, now there's a hearty breakfast for you. Mostly because you almost always make way too much and so you can have as many bowls as you like.

Here's how...

Millet Porridge Recipe

Enough millet grain for one person - how much? Oh I don't know, a cup? A bucket?
About 4 times as much water
A pinch of salt
Loads of dried fruit - any types (optional but it does help add sweetness. You can go over the top though. This morning's millet porridge was more like dried fruit with millet.)
Alternative sweetener - syrup, or if you want to stay all GI-low, go for apple juice, or Agave Syrup - yep you read it right, syrup from a cactus. Just saw it in the shop yesterday and gave it a go. It's sweet.

Boil your millet for about half an hour adding more water if necessary. I often give it a little bit longer as the last few minutes make the millet porridge nice and soft.

You can add a spot of milk if you like, chopped nuts or whatever you fancy.

And if you have made too much, like I usually do, millet porridge is great the next day too.

posted by Gluten Free Food Freak at 10:46 AM

10 Comments:

  • Hi from England! I have been making millet porridge for a while now but didn't have a proper recipe so I make it like porridge oats and cook it for about five minutes. I will try your recipe as it seems I have been under cooking it. I usually throw some blueberries into the porridge along with some goji berries amd it really is yummy!! Thankyou for your recipe.

    By Blogger Cortes Fan, at 1:51 PM  

  • where can i buy millets ... i cant find it in tesco/ dunnes/ sainsbury ??

    By Blogger Pankaj Biswas, at 1:10 AM  

  • HI Pankaj

    Our local tesco sells millet grain, but if yours doesn't you could try one of the online retailers like goodnessdirect.co.uk?

    Cheers

    Roger

    By Blogger Gluten Free Food Freak, at 7:23 PM  

  • Try Holland and Barrett's we bought it there yesterday and now are in the throws of cooking far too much --- ratio 1:5 millet to liquid gives a nice porridge ... and stay the duration of about 45 minutes of cooking it.
    ENJOY!

    By Blogger Major Adventures, at 11:40 AM  

  • The problem with millet porridge has always been the length of time it takes to cook - most mornings you just can't afford 45 minutes!

    So we've started sticking it in the slow cooker (crockpot) on low the night before with one cup of millet grain, 5 cups of water and various dried fruit and fresh fruit.

    You come in in the morning and just ladle it out. Mmmm...

    Now if someone can tell me how to stop the porridge sticking to the bottom (oiling it doens't work), then we'll be sorted :-)

    By Blogger Gluten Free Food Freak, at 4:14 PM  

  • Hi from the USA! I love your blog. I just went on a no gluten diet about 2 months ago and love to find new recipes. I have been trying use up some millet I bought for a recipe and came across your blog. I am so excited to try this. Thanks 'gluten free food freak' for the slow cooker idea. Here is the US we have bags that can go in your slow cooker. I think the brand name is GLAD. Anyway, I'm off to start my millet porridge!

    By Blogger leslie, at 12:10 PM  

  • Am I cheating? I use millet FLAKES, they are white and taste fine. You can add them to ordinary oat porridge - no need to cook. I buy them from a wholefood stall at our local market.

    By Blogger big mamma, at 10:42 AM  

  • Am I cheating? I use millet FLAKES, they are white, and taste fine. You can add them raw to oatmeal porridge, at the end of cooking. I can get them from the wholefood stall at our local market.

    By Blogger big mamma, at 10:47 AM  

  • Cheating? LOL - not at all. Millet flakes will just make a different sort of porridge. They do cook a lot quicker than the whole grain.

    By Blogger Roj, at 9:24 PM  

  • Absolutely horrible!!!! I fixed this for breakfast this morning and it was absolutely horrible. Ewww, I guess this is a texture that one has to appreciate or be raised on. I tried to force myself to eat it, but I only felt like I was gonna puke it back up. I really wanted to eat it due to all the dried fruit I had put in it. Well, at least I can say I tried it and I hated it. ;)

    By Blogger Chendrell, at 11:55 PM  

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