Caribbean Porridge

Name: Caribbean Porridge
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 400 ml can coconut milk; large pinch of salt; 175 g (6 oz) rolled (porridge) oats; milk or cream; ½ cinnamon stick; good grating of nutmeg; 5 cloves; 1 bay leaf; 50 g (1¾ oz) pecans, roughly chopped; muscovado or demerara sugar, to taste; allspice berries, to serve; 50 g (1¾ oz) ready-to-eat mixed tropical; fruits, chopped, or 2 bananas; 10 allspice berries; 720 ml (1 pint 6 fl oz) water

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

This is the national breakfast of Jamaican school kids. It fills everyone up and takes you through the morning. Choose any of the suggested toppings here, but stir it up and start the day!

Ingredients

720 ml (1 pint 6 fl oz) water
10

Americas
Dinner
Pescatarian
Spicy
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Put the water in the pan in which you want to cook the porridge. Add the spices and bay leaf. Put a lid on and simmer for 5 minutes. Now you can fish out the allspice berries and cloves with a slotted spoon if you don’t want them in the final porridge. Stir in the coconut milk and salt.
Add the porridge oats to the fragrant spiced liquid. Bring to the boil, then t