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Spicy brown rice porridge with apple

Spicy brown rice porridge with apple

By: Lee Holmes

Cancel tomorrow’s breakfast plans – this spicy brown rice porridge with apple needs to head to the top of your priority list


Servings

2

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe


Ingredients

  • 1 cup brown rice, soaked in filtered water for
1 hour & drained
  • 1L coconut or almond milk, plus extra to serve
  • 1 apple, peeled, cored & cut into matchsticks, plus extra to serve
  • ¼ cup flaked coconut (optional)
  • ⅓ cup pistachios, roughly chopped, plus extra to serve
  • ⅓ cup raw cashews, roughly chopped
  • 8 saffron threads

  • 5 cardamom pods, bruised or crushed

  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

  • ½ tsp alcohol-free vanilla extract or vanilla powder
  • Sea salt, to taste

  • 2 tbsp raw honey or rice-malt syrup, to serve (optional)
  • Dehydrated or roasted apple slices, to serve (optional)
  • Edible flowers, to serve (optional)

Method


  • Mix rice and milk in large saucepan over medium heat and bring to boil. Add apple, flaked coconut, if using, nuts, spices and vanilla. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, for 30 mins, or until milk has been absorbed and rice is cooked through. Optionally, season with salt and sweeten.
  • Serve topped with extra chopped pistachios, apple matchsticks and milk. Add a dehydrated apple slice and an edible flower or two, if using.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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