Saturday 18 January 2020

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Oat Groats Oatmeal Combi Breakfast


Serves 4

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup rolled oats
2. 1/2 cup oat groats
3. 2 cups of water
4. 2 cups of fresh milk
5. A pinch of salt

Directions:

1. Cook oatmeal according to the instructions here. When done, add a pinch of salt and mix well.
2. Cook oat groats according to the instructions here. When done, add a pinch of salt and mix well.
3. In a individual serving bowl, add 2 spoonful of oatmeal.
4. Add 2 spoonful of cooked oat groats.
5. Pour some fresh milk into it.
6. It's ready to be eaten or you can top it with goji berries, chopped nuts or raisins as desired.

Additional Information:

We are back from Singapore. The kids ate many unhealthy food in Singapore. I was worried that they would have developed some unhealthy eating habit. Back in Denmark, Baby FECS said, "Mommy, I would like to eat the oatmeal that you cook. Mommy, may I have one more bowl?" Phew, looks like the good habit that I tried to instill in the kids do have some effects. They will still return to the healthy and nutritious food eventually, even if they deviate from it during holidays abroad :-)

This way of eating oats adds variety. It breaks the boredom of eating oatmeal and at the same time it is very delicious. You get to taste the creaminess of oatmeal and the chewiness of oat groats. It makes eating oats very satisfying. You will be asking for more helpings. Try it :-)

Add two spoonful of oatmeal, topped with two spoonful of oat groats.

Pour some fresh milk into it.

Stir and mix well and it's ready to be eaten :-)

You can also sprinkle some goji berries, chopped nuts or raisins as desired, or just eat it on its own :-)

15 January 2020 (3Y7M30D): Baby FECS said, "Mommy, I would like to eat the oatmeal that you cook. Mommy, may I have one more bowl?"
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How to Cook Rolled Oats?


Serves 4

Ingredients:
1. 1/2 cup rolled oats
2. 2 cups fresh milk
3. 1 pinch salt

Directions:
1. In a pot, add rolled oats and milk, and bring to boil.

2. Simmer for 20 minutes or until cooked (no. 3.5 or 4 on my stove).

2. Add a pinch of salt and mix well.

Additional Information:

I prefer to cook it with milk, as it gives a richer creamier taste, but you can also cook it with water. A friend of mine add an egg into her oatmeal. It's up to personal preference.



Nutritional Value:
Oats are an excellent source of soluble fibre, protein and the B vitamins thiamin, riboflavin, B6 and vitamin E. They also provide iron, calcium, magnesium, selenium, phosphorus and zinc.

References:
http://www.eatmoreoats.com/

http://www.great-workout.com/nutrition/vegetables
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Chinese Red Bean Soup

Nutritious Adzuki bean dessert - apology for the picture. It doesn't look very good, but it is actually very tasty
Ingredients:
1. 1 cup (200 g) dried adzuki beans
2. 4 cups (1 L) water for cooking the beans
Sweet milk:
3. 1 cup (250 ml) fresh low fat 0.1% milk
4. 3 dried dates pitted
Directions:
1. Rinse the adzuki beans and add 2 cups of water into a pot.
2. Bring to boil, lower hear and simmer under medium heat (no. 4 on my stove) for 45 minutes.
3. Let cool.
4. Blend 1 cup milk with the dried dates for 30 seconds to a minute to make a sweet milk.
5. Ladle separately into 4 bowls and add sweet milk and serve :-)
Additional Information:
I love this dessert. Growing up in Singapore, my mum would make this dessert for us. Translated from Chinese 绿豆汤 [Lǜdòu tāng], it actually means "mung bean soup." My mum would add a bit of sago i.e. small tapioca pearls (which our son likes today). And during the durian season, she would add durian slices into it too - absolutely heavenly. My mum would cook it and add sugar during the cooking and we usually eat with a drizzle of condensed milk. But condensed milk isn't healthy. Thus, I don't wish to pass this down this habit to our kids. I made a sweet milk mixture using fresh milk and dates instead as a healthier option for the condensed milk.
I served this yesterday after Baby FECS got back from the kindergarten and Little FECS too. They loved it. So I am very happy :-) Baby FECS is currently tired of the breakfast I give her (usually oatmeal or smoothie), thus this morning, I served this for her as breakfast. She liked it very much.
I tried to sweeten the mung beans during cooking with dates, but our Little FECS feel that it wasn't as nice as the one I made yesterday - which was simply just cooking the mung bean with water. Thus, I will stop doing that. They love the sweet milk.
This morning, I had a little bit of homemade strawberry milk left. Baby FECS asked for more sweet milk for her mung bean dessert. I poured some strawberry milk in it instead, and she liked it too :-)
Our Little FECS likes the mung beans cooked unsweetened. If you prefer it to be sweeter, you can add coconut sugar or just sugar while cooking the mung beans (but don't add the sugar at the beginning of the cooking before the beans are softened).
References:
https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/mung-bean-soup/

You will need natural dried dates. It cost 25 DKK for a pack of 600 g at Netto or Lidl supermarket at the vegetable section.

Rinse the adzuki beans. Add to a pot with 2 litres of water. Bring to boil, lower heat to medium (no. 4 on my stove) and simmer for an hour, or until beans are soft enough that you can easily mash them with a fork. Watch occasionally and add more water as needed.


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How to Make Sweet Milk as a Natural Sweetener


Ingredients:
3. 1 cup (250 ml) fresh low fat 0.1% milk
4. 3 dried dates pitted

Directions:
4. Blend 1 cup milk with the dried dates for 30 seconds to a minute to make a sweet milk.
5. Ladle separately into 4 bowls and add sweet milk and serve :-)

Additional Information:
This is a healthy substitute to condensed milk. I use it on many things - to sweeten oatmeal, as coconut milk substitute for Chinese black glutinous rice dessert, as sweetener or red bean dessert and mung bean dessert.

References:

https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/mung-bean-soup/



As sweet milk for red bean dessert
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