Quinoa For Breakfast: The 5 Best Recipes to Start The Day

Vegan quinoa recipe for breakfast with coconut

For our vegan breakfast you need the following ingredients:
2 cups quinoa, 1 cup water, 1 cup coconut milk, 1 tablespoon coconut flakes, 1 pinch of salt, and coconut sugar for sweetener.

1. The ingredients are enough for a total of 4 servings.
2. Put the quinoa in a saucepan with water, coconut milk, and some salt.
3. Bring everything to a slow boil. Continue to simmer the mixture over medium-high heat for about 15 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, toast the coconut flakes in a small pan. Roast until the flakes turn a light brown color.
5. Once the quinoa has absorbed the liquid, remove the pot from the heat.
6. Add sweetener if you like and serve the quinoa coconut warm.
7. Alternatively, you can let it cool and eat it cold.

Quinoa with apple and cinnamon mixture: recipes for breakfast

For the quinoa with apple and cinnamon you need the following ingredients:
1 cup quinoa, 1 cup water, 1 cup apple juice, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 2-4 apples, 2 tablespoons honey

• The recipe is enough for 4 servings.
• Put the quinoa in a saucepan. Add the water and apple juice.
• Bring the entire mixture to a boil and let it simmer for 10 minutes on a low flame.
• Cut the apples into small pieces. If you want, you can peel them first.
• Put the apples in the pot. Let the whole thing simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Once the liquid has been absorbed, take everything off the stove and divide the breakfast into bowls.
• Before serving, sprinkle some honey on the quinoa.

Breakfast Recipe: Quinoa Pancakes

Another variation is to turn the quinoa into a delicious pancake. You will need the following ingredients:
1 cup quinoa flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup milk, 1 egg, 2½ teaspoons butter, and 2½ teaspoons honey.

• This recipe is enough for 4 servings.
• Mix quinoa, flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
• Add an egg and the measured milk.
• In a pan, melt the butter.
• Put some batter in the pan. Swirl the pan to distribute the batter over the entire surface.
• If a brown crust forms on the edge of the pancake, carefully turn it over.
• Put the finished pancake on a plate.
• As the last step, put some honey on the pancake. Alternatively, use chocolate cream or jam.

Plum and quinoa porridge for breakfast

The most well-known use of quinoa is for porridge. For our plum variant you need the following ingredients:
2 cups water, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 cup quinoa, a few prunes (pitted), 2 teaspoons peanut butter, 1 cup almond milk, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.

• The recipe is enough for 4 servings of porridge.
• Place the quinoa in a saucepan with the porridge, salt, and water. Boil everything together.
• Put a lid on the pot and simmer for about 12 minutes.
• Cut the plums into pieces.
• Add the cinnamon, peanut butter, almond milk, and prunes to the quinoa.
• Porridge tastes best warm. But it can also be eaten cold the next day.

Muffins for breakfast: recipe for chocolate banana quinoa muffins

For the delicious breakfast muffins you need the following ingredients:
150g quinoa, 3 ripe bananas, 150ml milk, 40g coconut oil or butter, 50g maple syrup (as a sweetener), 70g flaxseed, 80g ground almonds, 30g baking cocoa, 2 teaspoons baking powder, a quarter teaspoon vanilla powder, 50g chocolate chips

• Soak the quinoa in water overnight or for about eight hours. Then drain the swollen quinoa with a sieve.
• Mash the bananas in a bowl.
• Add the milk, coconut oil (or melted butter), maple syrup, and flaxseeds to the bowl with the bananas.
• Let the mixture stand for 10 minutes.
• Add the quinoa to the mixture.
• Mix the almonds, cocoa, baking powder, salt, vanilla powder, and chocolate chips into the quinoa mixture.
• Divide the batter into muffin tins.
• Bake everything at 200 degrees top/bottom heat for about 30 minutes.