This Overnight Quinoa Breakfast Porridge is a delicious excuse to break out your slow cooker. It tastes like strawberries and cream (while being a healthy, protein-packed way to start your day!)
Slow cookers are usually reserved for dinners. My slow cooker’s typical day looks something like this: fill up with yums in the morning, hangout for the whole day cooking up whatever yums are inside, delightfully surprise us when we arrive home in the evening to a warm cooked meal.
(Plus a day full of nerves on the tulip-man’s part, who still doesn’t trust the slow cooker not to burn down our whole house) (he’ll learn).
But who says slow cooker recipes can only be dinners? Today we’re setting our slow cookers to cook overnight to create the most warming, delicious breakfast!
This isn’t just any breakfast. This is quinoa for breakfast. You heard it here first, folks! We’re subbing our usual oats for quinoa, a protein-rich, high-fiber super “grain”.
Throw in some strawberries, banana, milk, and almond butter and we’re on our way to a strawberries-and-cream-esque breakfast that’s about to fill your house with the tasty aroma of Saturday morning. Quinoa oatmeal, let’s do it.
Ingredients
- 1 cup dry quinoa 180 g, rinsed
- 2 cups any variety of milk 473 mL, I used vanilla soy
- 1 ½ cups fresh or frozen strawberries 200 g, halved
- 1 banana sliced
- 2 Tbsp almond butter 30 g
- Honey to taste
Instructions
- Slow Cook: Add quinoa, milk, strawberries, banana, and almond butter to a slow cooker. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
- Serve: Serve warm, topped with sliced fruit, honey, and any nuts or seeds you have on hand.
Nutrition Information
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I first published this recipe on Amanda’s Cookin’.
Ross W Noggle says
New movie call ” the Game Changers” all about plant protien and how eating flest kills you Plus Arnols Sharshneggar is a vegiie now and does not eat pigs,cows, etc..Has pro footalls plays say how much
Susie says
I love this idea! But mine burned in the crockpot pretty badly 🙁 unfortunately I left it a little longer than 8 hours…okay maybe a lot longer, so that’s probably what did it. Lol. But I am so traumatized by the burn smell haha that I think when I make it again I will leave it for only 4 hours. Or at least check on it often instead of leaving it overnight while I am asleep (I’m new to crockpot cooking hee hee)
Sarah says
You could also try the crockpot liners! Things seem to burn less badly with those if you forget something in there, and cleanup is so easy 😀
Mary ann Rolfes says
how can you add honey when they dont eat honey
Sarah says
You could use another sweetener, like maple syrup, brown sugar, or agave nectar!
Christine M Bohm says
Can you freeze this?
Sarah Bond says
I haven’t tried freezing this so I can’t say for sure, but I think it would work! 😀