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If you’re not yet on the raw buckwheat porridge bandwagon, it’s about to change.
When soaked overnight and blended with a frozen banana, berries and a superfood powder boost, the gluten-free buckwheat plant (not grain!) makes a perfectly creamy, nutritious and satisfying breakfast. Pop your buckwheat porridge into a container and top with berries, and you have a breakfast you can have at your desk or to restore after a workout.
What’s in it for you?
Raw buckwheat is an incredible source of easily digestible protein (13.3 g per 100 g!), fiber, and vitamins (iron, manganese and magnesium are among them). Buckwheat helps to control blood sugar, supports heart health, and is non-allergenic.
One of my favorite recent discoveries that’s become a staple in buckwheat porridge is raw dried berries that come in powdered form. A super convenient solution for winter, when berries are out of season. One teaspoon of raw dried berry powder is equal to a handful of fresh berries, and because of gentle freezing is loaded with vitamins, antioxidants and nutrients.
I’m loving Arctic Power Berries brand and their Blackcurrant, Blueberry and Sea Buckthorn powders. Think fresh picked wild Finnish berries with no additives whatsoever.
I’ve been adding them to all kinds of breakfasts from smoothies to warm oatmeal bowls, and turmeric latte (the sea buckthorn turmeric latte!). I’ve also been bringing pouches with small amounts of berry powders with me on trips for an easy breakfast topping solution.
Having grown up with a garden in the backyard of our country house outside Moscow, I love and miss the real flavors of wild berries like black and red currants and sea buckthorn.
Founders of Arctic Power Berries, best friends Anna and Eve, had the same issue when they moved to London — the berries at the farmers market just didn’t taste the same as back home in Finnish Lapland. I get you, girls! That’s how Arctic Power Berries were born.
Enjoy this delicious porridge and have fun experimenting with all the different wild berry flavors (and use code BERRIES for 10% off your order).
Raw Buckwheat Porridge Recipe
(makes 2-3 servings)
Ingredients:
- 1 cup hulled buckwheat groats + water for soaking
- 1 cup almond milk (or nut/seed milk of choice)
- 2 tablespoons Arctic Power Berries Blackcurrant Powder
- 1-2 frozen bananas (depending on how sweet you like it)
- 2 tbsp. peanut butter (or try almond butter!)
- 1-2 scoops Sprout Living Vanilla Lucuma Plant-Based Protein (optional, extra protein & yumminess)
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla powder (optional)
Toppings (get creative!)
Chopped mango, raspberries, coconut shreds, toasted buckwheat, and another sprinkle of Blackcurrant Powder.
Directions:
- Place the buckwheat groats into a mason jar and cover with filtered water.
- Soak for 1 hour to overnight.
- Drain and rinse the groats well in a strainer.
- Blend groats with the rest of the ingredients until creamy.
- Add toppings.
- Enjoy with love!
Morning Mantra
“I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903