Sweet Dates with Nuts-Strawberry Smoothie Porridge Bowl

I am calling this smoothie porridge bowl "Sweet Dates with Nuts".  Hope you enjoy!

A FEW WORDS ABOUT DATES

In the Bible, dates are referred to many times, often in reference to their sweetness.  Dates continue to be grown and eaten in-- and exported from-- the Middle East.  Our North American grocery stores now also sell soft delicious Medjool dates grown in the USA.  Such a nice change from the hard cake of dates I knew as "dates" when I was a girl in rural Saskatchewan.

Dates also turn out to have the highest nutritional profile as a sweetener. They contain vitamin K, magnesium, selenium, antioxidants  and of course, fibre.  Early risers during the time of Ramadan (fasting all day) eat dates for breakfast as a chief way to get through the day.   

Date Syrup

Many Middle Eastern cooks make a date syrup-- dates and water-- as a delightful sweetener and for baking.  There are different methods, some more traditional methods with a 100% hands-on approach: soaking the dates, squeezing all the "juices" through cheese gauze, and then cooking the date juice down with constant stirring until a honey-like texture is obtained.  

I made a syrup by pouring boiling water over  2 cups of Medjool dates and letting them overnight.  Next morning I sieved out as much liquid as I could and boiled it down.  I mashed the leftover bits and they are a mass I can call "date butter"-- basically, jam. Very yummy.

The syrup I used in the smoothie porridge bowl, along with thin almond butter to represent "the nuts."  

So, here are the suggested ingredients:

*simple strawberry-water smoothie

*almond butter, thinned with a bit of H2O 

*date syrup (see above)

*coconut yogurt

*strawberries

*Hemp seeds

ENJOY!

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Blueberry-Apple-Cinnamon Smoothie Porridge Bowl

This pretty blueberry-apple-cinnamon smoothie porridge bowl is another in a series of delicious  nutritious plant-powered breakfast bowls.

Here are the ingredients I layered on so you can go get any that you like the looks of for tomorrow's breakfast:

Always start out with a base of creamy oats, either overnight oats or hot, cooked oats.

 

And add in/on the following:

*blueberry-banana smoothie with blueberries, chopped banana, almond milk and a scoop of plain coconut yogurt.

*blueberries

*walnuts

*organic unsweetened apple sauce

*cinnamon powder

*chia gel

If you make this smoothie porridge bowl and want to share it on Instagram  please use hashtag #smoothiemoves so we can admire your work!

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Vanilla-Strawberry Smoothie Porridge Bowl

This healthy delicious Vanilla-Strawberry smoothie porridge bowl gets a nutritional and flavour boost with a scoop of vegan protein powder in the smoothie!

The foundation of every porridge smoothie bowl is the oatmeal porridge:

And then you layer on ingredients such as:

• Vanilla-strawberry smoothie that includes fresh or frozen  strawberries, a scoop of vanilla protein (I used Vega) and vegan coconut or soy or almond yogurt and a small amount of plant milk
• Handful of fresh or frozen (thawed) strawberries, halved
• Shredded coconut
• Cacao nibs
• Hemp seeds

If you make this densely nutritious smoothie porridge bowl, hashtag a photo with #smoothiemoves on Instagram so we can say hi and admire your creation!

Strawberry-Banana Smoothie Porridge Bowl

Here is tomorrow's Strawberry-Banana Smoothie Porridge Bowl-- the ingredients I used this morning are listed below so you have time to pick them up today.

We always start with a bowl of creamy nutritious porridge.  You can make it over night by soaking the oatmeal in plant milk or, like us, you can cook the oats as usual. 

And here is what we added:

• simple strawberry-banana smoothie (strawberries, chopped banana, water)
• strawberries
• banana pieces
• blueberries
• chopped walnuts
• short line of chia seed gel
• cacao nibs
• coconut shreds
• almond milk (not shown)

If you make this, take a photo and post on Instagram with hashtag #smoothiemoves so we can admire your work!

 

Pineapple-Blueberry Smoothie Porridge Bowl

My husband and I generally have a smoothie and a bowl of oatmeal porridge for breakfast.  It was only a matter of time until we blended the two into a "smoothie porridge bowl."

I am going to hashtag these recipe ideas as #tomorrowssmoothiebowl on Twitter and Instagram, the point being that you might like the looks of it, but maybe you don't have the ingredients you would like or try.

Pineapple-Blueberry 

Porridge Smoothie Bowl

Start with a lovely creamy bowl of oats, either steaming hot or overnight oats that you have soaked in plant milk for 8 hours or over night.

(Ours contains about a small

 handful of Thompson's raisins. )

2. Now, gently pour on about a 1/4 of a cup of fairly thick, sludgy smoothie-- I am using plain blueberry smoothie here (blueberry, banana and water).  

3. Add on pineapple chunks, banana rounds and a sprinkle of hempseed.

4. Enjoy with your fave plant milk, or as is!

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