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For this delicious pineapple coconut porridge recipe you’ll need less than five minutes to make it! Caramelized pineapples in a creamy coconut milk porridge – and it is all healthy, sugar free, dairy free and vegan! There is no need to cook this pineapple coconut porridge in a sauce pan or whatsoever. There are two simple methods of making this oatmeal porridge pina colada style either in the microwave or just pouring hot water over it and it’ll be ready within a minute. The combination of the caramelized pineapple in syrup or honey and creamy coconut milk make it truly taste like a tropical porridge or pina colada porridge.
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Healthy Tropical Porridge
This healthy pineapple porridge tropical style with creamy coconut milk is completely vegan, so easy to make, super healthy and full of proteins! What is important to keep this pineapple 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, chia seeds, flax seeds and coconut milk
- 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 creamy coconut milk, important to use the full fat version for the best taste
Vegan Pineapple and Coconut Milk Porridge
How to make this pineapple coconut porridge vegan? Very simple, in order to make this vegan porridge coconut milk recipe, we just don’t use any milk and instead use hot water. This will make the pineapple and coconut porridge oats low calorie. Some may wonder whether this will influence the taste, but coconut milk porridge adds the amazing taste to the tropical porridge recipe. And together with the caramelized pineapples it is so rich in flavor, sweet, creamy and still has a super fresh and tropical taste.
In order to caramelize the pineapple pieces for this pineapple coconut porridge recipe, I am heating up syrup or honey in a sauce pan and then add the pineapple pieces to it. Cinnamon porridge is another great addition to the amazing flavor, cinnamon enhances the sweetness of the entire creamy coconut milk porridge! It does not take much to make porridge healthy, especially with the ingredients of this vegan pineapple coconut porridge recipe which is sugar free, dairy free, healthy and vegan.
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.
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.
