Super Healthy Spicy Oatmeal Custard All-day Breakfast

Total Time: 18 mins Preparation Time: 8 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 56 g oatmeal (about 2 ounces)
• 365 g water (about 1.6 cups) or 365 ml water (about 1.55 cups or 12 1/2 fl.oz.)
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger (to taste)
• 1 dash ground cardamom, to taste (cautiously)
• 1 dash fresh ground cloves, to taste (incredibly cautiously)
• 1 dash fresh ground allspice, to taste
• 2 g millet seeds (about 2/3 teaspoon)
• 5 g sunflower seeds (about 1 teaspoon)
• 5 g currants (they're smaller so you get more of them per gram!) or 5 g raisins (about 1 tablespoon)
• 4 g wheat flakes (such as crushed up weetabix, about 3/4 tablespoon)
• 5 g wheat bran (1 tablespoon) or 3 1/2 g oat bran (1 tablespoon)
• 2 1/2 teaspoons splenda sugar substitute or 2 1/2 teaspoons sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
• 2 large egg whites or 1 large egg
• 40 g nonfat milk (about 1 1/3 fluid ounces) or 40 ml nonfat milk (about 1 1/3 fluid ounces)
• 1 teaspoon splenda sugar substitute or 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
• 1 dash ground nutmeg
• 1 dash ground ginger
• 1 dash fresh ground cloves (cautiously again!)
• 23 g plain fat-free yogurt (about 1 tablespoon) or 23 g cream (about 1 tablespoon)
• 2 teaspoons granulated artificial sweetener or 2 teaspoons splenda sugar substitute
• 2 teaspoons strawberry jam, to taste (or apricot or orange jam or marmalade or fresh fruit or fruit puree such as strawberries)
• 1 dash ground ginger

Recipe

• 1 weigh oatmeal into a large microwaveable breakfast bowl and add vanilla flavouring, seeds, currants and spices to take your fancy - i chose a lot of ginger, some cardamom (not too much!), hint of clove (seriously cautiously!), all-spice. a nice combination as i am getting bored of cinnamon!
• 2 add water.
• 3 in a separate very small bowl weigh in the wheat bran, wheat flakes and splenda and mix it together well for a couple of seconds with a bone-dry teaspoon. put aside.
• 4 place oatmeal bowl into microwave and cook on full power for about 3 1/2 minutes keeping an eye on it to prevent it bubbling over after the first couple of minutes.
• 5 when just bubbled up to almost overflowing stop the microwave (quickly :) and remove from microwave and allow the porridge to drop back into bowl for a few seconds.
• 6 pour on the wheat bran, flakes etc. and stir in well to mix and sweeten the oatmeal.
• 7 break and separate the egg whites into the bowl (or if not feeling brave, separate them in a different bowl first then you can mix the 'custard' in that bowl (i guess that way you could even whisk it up like a meringue if you felt like it :) before pouring across the porridge - i didn't bother as i was making this up as i went along and it still turned out great!).
• 8 add the milk, vanilla flavouring, splenda, clove, nutmeg and ginger into the egg whites and gently stir together well for a few seconds.
• 9 ideally, leave to cool for five minutes so that when cooking the custard the oatmeal doesn't burst through. (have included this in the 'cooking' time.).
• 10 put bowl back into the microwave and cook on medium power for a couple of minutes until it's rising up again. stop microwave and remove. it's ready for the topping.
• 11 spoon on a couple of teaspoons of nice thick creamy plain yoghurt or cream in the middle only. add a teaspoon of granulated sweetener directly onto the yoghurt and massage it well with the teaspoon into the yoghurt to mix it in well.
• 12 sprinkle another teaspoon of sweetener across the top of the egg- around the yoghurt.
• 13 sprinkle some more ground ginger across it all if you like it (i like!) or other spices - to taste.
• 14 dab the jam/jelly or fresh fruit in places across the top.
• 15 devour!
• 16 of course --.
• 17 -- if you can resist the urge to demolish it - this would be wonderful served chilled with ice cream and fruits, especially if part or even all of the water were replaced with milk/cream, or some milk powder were added to the porridge prior to cooking.
• 18 this is so yummy! and it really is terribly good for you.
• 19 even if you use milk, sugar and even (well maybe :) cream for topping it would still be good for you and give you loads of energy and an excellent protein and amino-acids boost!
• 20 i was going to add some chunky-bits of peeled chopped-up apple (right at the start is best time to add apple if you do decide to, so it softens nicely) but i felt that would be just too much! depends how hungry you feel :) - i often do that and it's nice but i wasn't that starving this morning!
• 21 if you can't eat it all in one hit - leftovers can be kept in the fridge and eaten completely chilled - not warm, chilled!