Quinoa Porridge with Berries | Recipes From A Pantry (2024)

Posted on28/01/201811/10/2019Updated on11/10/2019

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This Gluten Free Quinoa Porridge with Berries is a dreamy breakfast that is light, fluffy, and full of flavor. This protein packed breakfast porridge recipe tastes like dessert in a healthy bowl.

Suitable for Vegan and Gluten Free diets. Post includes Weight Watchers points.

Can you believe it is fall already. Wow, time flies. It seems like it was just summer, caftan moments, pool days, potlucks and sunshine just few days ago. Well now that it is colder we start thinking about comfort food breakfast that make getting out of bed much much easier.

Like healthy and nourishing breakfasts that are filling but light — filling enough to keep the hunger pangs at bay and light enough to spend all morning outside with the mini chefs. Healthybreakfasts and breakfast porridge recipes like this Gluten Free Quinoa Porridge with Berries.

This protein packed sweet quinoa recipe is a great recipe for breakfasts, long family brunches, doubles up for tomorrow’s lunch and quick lazy dinners.

Even better this recipe is affordable and easy to double or triple to feed a crowd. If you love quinoa then you probably have some leftover in the fridge which you can use to whip this up.

You can eat this warm with a drizzle of maple syrup or if you want you can eat it cold, topped with slightly frozen berries in warmer months. Yeap, flexibility is the name of the game here.

So feel free to whip up a bigger batch, portion in mason jars, store in the fridge for a few days so you have an easy grab and go breakfast.

Guys, welcome to your new go-to healthy gluten free breakfast and anytime eat recipe all year long!

So, let’s get started on this warm, creamy and comforting quinoa porridge recipe.

Make Quinoa Porridge with Berries in 7 Easy Steps

• Step 1. Gather your ingredients: quinoa, milk vanilla, cardamom (one of my favorite spices), apple, berries, honey, pumpkin seeds, and almond butter.
• Step 2. Wash quinoa under a running tap, rubbing it through your fingers for about 3 mins. This removes the bitter outer coating.
• Step 3. Let quinoa drain for a few mins.
• Step 4. Add quinoa to a pot with milk (500 ml), vanilla and cardamom and bring to a boil.
• Step 5. Reduce to a simmer, cover, and allow to cook for 15 mins. During this step, you will see tiny spirals coming out of the quinoa (aka the germ).
• Step 6. Remove quinoa from heat, fluff the grains and allow them to cool for 10 mins.
• Step 7. Top Quinoa Porridge with berries of your choosing (strawberries and blueberries are a popular choice in my household), pumpkin seeds, honey, and the remaining milk mixed with almond butter.

How To Make Quinoa Breakfast Porridge With Leftover Quinoa

• Add left over quinoa into a saucepan.
• Add some plant based milk to the amount you like and reheat over a low flame till warmed through.
• You can also warm it in the microwave at 30 second intervals till warmed through.

Healthy breakfast perfection, wouldn’t you say?

Quinoa Breakfast Porridge Tips

• You can use both single color or multi color quinoa.
• You can use leftover quinoa in this recipe as long as it is not seasoned.
• I prefer almond milk, followed closely by drinking coconut milk, for this recipe.
• You can use honey or regular milk if not vegan.
• Add brown sugar instead.

Gluten Free Quinoa Porridge Variations

The beauty of this Quinoa Breakfast Porridge is that you can add sooooooooo many flavor variations to it. Basically, anything you like.

Flavor Variations

• Cinnamon
• Cardamom
• Orange zest
• Almond milk
• Soya milk
• A dash of rum – not for breakfast though 🙂 – more like early supper.

Topping Ideas

• Raspberries
• Blueberries
• Mango
• Banana slices
• Shaved chocolate
• Papaya
• sunflower seeds
• A dusting of vanilla sugar
• Peanut butter
• Gluten free granola for crunch

Quinoa Porridge with Berries Weight Watchers Points

There are 5 Freestyle SmartPoints in a serving of this quinoa porridge.

What To Serve With Gluten Free Quinoa Porridge

Instant Pot Orange Strawberry Jam.

Rosewater Raspberry Jam.

More Gluten Free Breakfast Recipes (and Breakfast Porridge Recipes)

Instant Pot Quinoa.

Instant Pot Jamaican Cornmeal Porridge.

GingerbreadBuckwheat Waffles.

Instant Pot Polenta Porridge.

Plus a lunch one just because => Grilled Avocado Stuffed with Veggie Quinoa

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