Turmeric Oatmeal Porridge

It’s always good to tantalize your taste buds with a scrumptious, creamy, and warm homemade oatmeal porridge.

Turmeric Oats Porridge

Oats happens to be that one special ingredient that never went out of style with me. I tried all things oats and continue to be amazed at the number of recipe options available. Let’s quickly run through memory lane with the recipes I’ve done, I mean it’s the only honorable thing I can do for this versatile ingredient domesticated horses thrived on. You can do pancakes, waffles, oatmeal porridge, crepes well the list goes on but out of all my favorite and the easiest oats recipe is oatmeal porridge. All this time I’ve been cooking my oatmeal the conventional way so I wanted to try something new, behold turmeric Oatmeal porridge.

Turmeric Powder

Turmeric is a very common ingredient in Sri Lanka, it’s not just used in cooking only but also used in many Ayurvedic medicines. We, Sri Lankans, add this to almost every single curry we make, it’s not just adding the dash of yellow color to the curry, it also allows the release of curcumin when used in cooking. According to Healthline, Curcumin is the main active ingredient in turmeric, it has powerful anti-inflammatory effects and is a very strong antioxidant.

There are so many ways that you can add this ingredient to your diet, add to your curries while cooking, make golden milk or latte, add to your smoothie, or even to your regular oats porridge.

Ingredients for Turmeric Oats Porridge

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup of rolled oats
• 1/2 cup of first press coconut milk
• 01 cup of second press coconut milk
• 1/2 tsp of Finch turmeric powder – Shop Now
• 1/4 tsp of salt
• 01 tsp of white chia seeds
• 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
• 01 tbsp of maple syrup or liquid sweetener

Method

• Heat up a small cooking pot over medium heat and add rolled oats, second press coconut milk, salt, cinnamon, chia seeds, and liquid sweetener and cook for 03-05 minutes until rolled oats are par-cooked, soft, and tender. Make sure you stir while cooking.
• Next add first pressed coconut milk, Finch turmeric powder, and stir well to combine and cook for another 05 minutes until porridge gets a thick consistency.
• Pour the porridge into a serving bowl and let it cool down a bit.

Turmeric Oats Porridge

• Add some yogurt, curd, and fresh fruits on top and serve. I have served this turmeric oats porridge with a dollop of coconut yogurt, frozen raspberries, almond flakes, white chia seeds, and drizzled some maple syrup as a sweetener.