Pappa’s Healthy Oatmeal Porridge

My Dad makes healthy (excellent) oatmeal porridge. For this recipe use 1 portion oats  to 2 portions of water.

Ingredients

To make four portions:

• 2 cups large flake oats (or steel cut oats)
• 4 cups water
• 1 tsp salt in water
• 1 cup frozen blueberries
• handful of dried apricots, chopped
• handful of dried cranberries
• handful of slivered almond
• handful of dates, chopped
• handful of raisins
• half handful of pepitas

Method

1. Bring the salted water to a boil.
2. Add 1 Tbsp of oats and stir immediately so it doesn’t boil over and then add the rest of the oats.
3. If using large flake rolled oats stirring constantly, takes about 5 minutes.
4. If using steel cut oats stir constantly until ready (25 minutes)…before adding anything.
5. Then add blueberries, and stir in the rest of the dried fruit, stir to combine, add 1 tsp of vanilla at the very end.

Serve on it’s own or topped with maple syrup and a bit of table cream.