My new favorite breakfast…
Are you sick and tired of having the same breakfast over and over? Well, I am. My hunt for a new breakfast started a few weeks ago. Last Wednesday, I finally came up with a dish – oats coffee pudding. I love oats and hence I tried a pudding with it. Coffee is something that is unavoidable in the morning, so I added a few dashes of ground coffee to the pudding. It tasted great and the aroma of coffee from the pudding was so refreshing! I also added sweetened flaked coconut while making the pudding. Enjoyed the bite of the coconut as well.The best part was this pudding can be prepared the night before and chilled. In the morning, two things you have to do would be take the pudding out of the refrigerator and grab a spoon. And you could dig into the pudding.
Now, there is no rule enforced that this could be eaten only for breakfast. Anytime you feel like treating yourself you could have it. I actually made a whole lot of this pudding the night before and couldn’t resist sneaking a bit after my dinner.
Make it healthy by using skim milk and fat free condensed milk. Isn’t this the kind of breakfast you would love to have every morning?
Oats Coffee Pudding:
Ingredients:
- Instant Oats- 1 cup
- Skim milk- 1 cup
- Condensed milk, fat free- 1 cup
- Instant ground coffee, your favorite brand- 4 teaspoon
- Sweetened flaked coconut (optional)- 2 tbsp
- Agar agar strands (china grass), cut small- 1/4 cup
- Water to melt the agar agar- 1/2 cup
Instruction
- In a small pan, add agar agar strands and water, heat it and let the strands melt in water stirring occasionally.
- Strain the melted agar agar and keep aside.
- Don’t keep the melted agar agar for over 5 minutes as it will solidify soon.
- Combine the oats and skim milk in a saucepan and cook it over medium heat.
- When the oats is cooked, add the condensed milk and combine well.
- Taste it, if you need more sugar add more of the condensed milk.
- Add the sweetened flaked coconut and give it a stir.
- Add the ground coffee to the mixture and combine well.
- Finally add the melted agar-agar and combine everything well.
- Remove from the flame and pour to pudding bowls.
- When it has cooled down, keep it in the refrigerator and chill it.
- You could have this after an hour when it is completely set.
- Make this ahead of time and enjoy for breakfast or anytime you prefer.
Tips:
- You could use gelatin instead of agar agar.
- You could also add raisins and nuts.
- Instant Oats- 1 cup
- Skim milk- 1 cup
- Condensed milk, fat free- 1 cup
- Instant ground coffee, your favorite brand- 4 teaspoon
- Sweetened flaked coconut (optional)- 2 tbsp
- Agar agar strands (china grass), cut small- ¼ cup
- Water to melt the agar agar- ½ cup
- In a small pan, add agar agar strands and water, heat it and let the strands melt in water stirring occasionally.
- Strain the melted agar agar and keep aside.
- Don't keep the melted agar agar for over 5 minutes as it will solidify soon.
- Combine the oats and skim milk in a saucepan and cook it over medium heat.
- When the oats is cooked, add the condensed milk and combine well.
- Taste it, if you need more sugar add more of the condensed milk.
- Add the sweetened flaked coconut and give it a stir.
- Add the ground coffee to the mixture and combine well.
- Finally add the melted agar-agar and combine everything well.
- Remove from the flame and pour to pudding bowls.
- When it has cooled down, keep it in the refrigerator and chill it.
- You could have this after an hour when it is completely set.
- Make this ahead of time and enjoy for breakfast or anytime you prefer.
