Chocolate Peanut Butter Porridge Recipe

6. January 2021
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Prep time: 5 minutes

Serves: 1

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You only need 5 minutes or less for this delicious, healthy, vegan chocolate peanut butter porridge recipe! We make this porridge in the microwave or just pour hot water over it and it’ll be ready within a minute. There is no need for a sauce pan, cooking or whatsoever. The combination of the dark chocolate porridge with cocoa powder, the peanut butter and the banana is perfect and makes it taste like a peanut butter cup porridge or reese’s porridge.

Healthy chocolate banana porridge low calorie

This healthy chocolate peanut butter porridge with banana is so easy to make, super healthy and full of proteins! What is important to keep this chocolate oatmeal porridge recipe healthy?

  • Oats: important to use instant or quick cook oats as they only need hot water to become soft
  • Protein: we have oats, banana, peanut butter, cocoa powder, chia seeds etc
  • Carbohydrates: oats porridge is so healthy and beneficial for weight loss as it keeps you full longer, lowers the blood sugar level and prevents cravings
  • Fats: we take in healthy fats coming from the peanut butter and peanuts, important to use 100% peanut butter without any additives

Instant Oatmeal Porridge in the Microwave

It is so easy to make oatmeal porridge healthy! Many people ask, ‘can you make porridge with water?’. I always nod and am a fan of healthy oatmeal recipe! It is so easy to make the porridge microwave recipe or just using hot water for instant porridge.

First, we should clarify how do you make porridge? The porridge ingredients are essential here. For the instant porridge, we need either instant oats or quick cooking oats. This way we can just use hot water or put the oatmeal in the microwave. The instant and quick cook oats, are oats that are softer and smaller, thus they don’t need a lot of heat or a lot of liquid to become soft. Rolled oats, steel cut oats, oat bran, oat groats and Scottish oats are not suitable for this recipe.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Porridge Recipe

What to put in oatmeal? I have a couple of favorite recipes, such as banana chocolate porridge, peanut butter porridge or apple cinnamon oatmeal. To all my recipes I also add chia seed to make it become a truly protein porridge recipe. For the perfect porridge oats there is not much needed! For oatmeal spice I always add a dash of cinnamon to it, to enhance the rich flavor and it also benefits the body.

Is porridge good for weight loss? Definitely yes! My protein oatmeal breakfast surely benefits for weight loss. As they are all made with water it is a vegan porridge and low carb oatmeal, full of protein. Making porridge with the best oatmeal benefits your health, body and definitely your taste buds.

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Vegan chocolate porridge with cocoa powder

How to make porridge vegan? Very simple, in order to make this banana chocolate peanut butter porridge vegan, we just don’t use any milk and instead use hot water. This will make the oatmeal chocolate banana porridge with peanut butter low calorie. Some may wonder whether this will influence the taste, but the cocoa powder in porridge with chocolate adds the amazing taste to the porridge cacao recipe. For this vegan banana chocolate porridge with peanut butter I only use raw cacao powder which is dark and rich in flavor and sugar free.

In case you really want porridge with chocolate, I recommend to use sugar free chocolate. Cinnamon porridge is another great addition to the amazing flavor, cinnamon enhances the sweetness of the entire chocolate peanut butter porridge! It does not take much to make porridge healthy, especially with the ingredients of this vegan chocolate peanut butter porridge which is sugar free, dairy free, healthy and vegan.

Print Recipe

Chocolate Peanut Butter Porridge Recipe

  • Preparation time: 5 minutes
  • Servings: 1

Ingredients

Chocolate Peanut Butter Porridge

  • 1/2 cup (50g) instant or quick oats
  • 1 tsp each chia seeds, ground flax seeds, wheat bran, (optional)
  • 1 tbsp (10g) raw dark cocoa powder
  • 1 pinch cinnamon, (optional)
  • 1 tbsp (12g) syrup (vegan) or honey
  • 2 tbsp (20g) peanut butter, (100%)
  • 1/2 cup (120ml) hot water
  • 1 ripe banana
  • 1 tbsp peanuts, cacao nibs, (optional)

Method

Chocolate Peanut Butter Porridge

    1. Add the oats or oatmeal (chia seeds, ground flax seeds, wheat bran if available), raw dark cacao powder, cinnamon, syrup or honey and only 1 tbsp of peanut butter in a bowl, pour hot water over it and stir until well combined. Let it sit for 1 minute and stir again.
    2. Cut off a quarter of the ripe banana and slice it for the topping. Cut in half the remaining ¾ of the banana and then cut into slices, add them into the porridge.
    3. For the topping decorate with the remaining banana slices, 1 tbsp of peanut butter, peanuts and cocoa nibs (optional)

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