British

Porridge with Berries

Name: Porridge with Berries
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 160 g rolled oats; 800 ml water; 200 ml milk; 280 g mixed berries; 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Porridge with Berries is British home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Heart healthy Diabetic friendly Low sodium High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

160 g rolled oats
800 ml water
200 ml milk
280 g mixed berries
1 tsp ground cinnamon

How to cook it

Tip the oats into a saucepan with the water and bring it to a simmer over a medium heat, stirring now and then so nothing catches on the bottom.
Cook for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring, until the oats have softened and the porridge is thick. Pour in the semi-skimmed milk for the last minute to make it creamy.
While it cooks, warm the berries in a small pan or in the microwave until soft and juicy. A bag of frozen summer fruits is cheaper than fresh for most of the year and works just as well.
Spoon the porridge into bowls, top with the warm berries and their juice and dust with the cinnamon. The fruit does the sweetening, so there is no need for sugar or honey.

Serve it with

A British breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Porridge with Berries, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something cool and fresh
- Brown Sauce
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Porridge with Berries carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Porridge with Berries
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Casserole
Gluten	Yes	Bubble and Squeak
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 210 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 38 g
Fat: 4 g
Fiber: 8 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 30 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Porridge with Berries takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.