Our go-to winter recipe for porridge is based on a classic British breakfast dish. It tastes amazing when we add cinnamon, bananas, and sultanas.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups water
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 bananas, sliced
- 1 pinch ground cinnamon
- ½ cup cold milk (Optional)
Instructions
- Combine water, oats, sugar, and salt in a saucepan. Add bananas and cinnamon. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low, and simmer until the liquid has been absorbed, stirring frequently.
- Pour into bowls, and top each with a splash of cold milk.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 157 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| Cholesterol | 2 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 600 mg |
| Sugars | 12 g |
| Fat | 2 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I changed substituted the water wth milk, used brown sugar instead of white, and used apples instead of bananas. I didn’t add any salt and put a large knob of butter at the bottom of the bowl and the hot porridge on top. For a twist you can grate an inch of ginger into it as well.
It was better than expected! I thought it would be way too salty, so I just added a bit of brown sugar and it was amazing. I was freaking out that it wouldn’t work without bananas because I realized I didn’t have them, but any fruit works just fine (I used apples). It was warm and ooey-gooey and just altogether delicious! My mom, sister and me ate it gladly. 10/10 would recommend, I’ll be making it again soon!!!
This is a nice hot breakfast cereal. I think the bananas would have been better mashed before they were cooked. I thought the recipe called for too much salt, so I used just a dash. I used a whole teaspoon of cinnamon. I added the golden raisins/sultanas as the submitter suggested, and they were a nice addition. I topped with almond milk.
Amazing Porridge, but I recommend heating the milk up.
Too salty. I do not recommend this recipe.
The porridge was much too salty. I recommend adding just a pinch or none at all. Next time I will not cook the bananas with the porridge but add after cooking. Otherwise it was lovely
I used brown instead of white sugar and apples instead of bananas for an apple cinnamon flavoured porridge. It turned out pretty well but I have to say this: do NOT put salt in this!!! Nix the salt completely unless you’re going for a savoury dish. The salt very nearly RUINED my porridge but I managed to make it palatable by adding heaps more sugar. In short, this recipe should be: 1 part oats to 2.5 parts water plus any flavouring you want. Heat and mix.
I made it and it was sooooo good! Instead of white sugar, however, I used stevia. Stevia is not only healthier, but more powerful, so it really gave it the bang it was missing. I’ll def make this dish again.
Turned out so well! 🙂 thank you for sharing!
I loved the smell but it tasted awful! To much banana flavor even after reducing the amount of bananas to 1 banana.
too much salt. needs more flavour
I enjoy this recipe but I leave off the sugar and salt and let the banana reduce completely and then add a handful of blueberries and a sliced strawberry (single serving) to top it off once I put in a bowl – excellent!
This is a great starting point recipe. I modified it quite a bit (no bananas, brown sugar instead of white, pinch of salt instead of full amount) and it turned out great. It was my first time making porridge, and it was a huge success. Thank you!
Very easy to put together and a nice hearty breakfast on a cold day. I added a little brown sugar to the top because I thought it needed to be slightly sweeter. I did not care for the texture of the bananas cooked into the porridge. They were a little too mushy for my personal preference. I would make this again, but, add some dried fruit and nuts instead next time.
Simple, fast and delicious recipe! Instead of sugar, I used honey. The taste of cooked banana combined with cinnamon makes the trick of this recipe. I really enjoyed this porridge and will make it again as long as I have bananas in my fruit basket!
This was really weird. I cut the amount of salt in half and it was still way too salty. The whole thing tasted like salty bananas, very strange. Next time I will leave the salt out all together.
Great recipe — easy, quick, delicious and versatile. It’s great as is, but sometimes I leave out the bananas and add apples, dates, peaches, apricots, walnuts and/or berries –whatever I have on hand.
This porridge is great, I love the Cinnomon in it, I did add about 2 tabs. Heavy whipping cream per serving to it to add extra flavor to it, and then it was great. My kids also liked it with a little more Cinnomon and some rasins in it, but the recipe was easy and quick to make, a must in my house!
I thought this was pretty bland until I added a ton of brown sugar. Maybe next time I’ll add some more spices to it. My toddler ate a whole bowl of it though!
I didn’t try it with bananas, as I find cooked bananas too mushy. Instead, I added dried raisins, dried and chopped appricots, and chopped almonds. I upped the cinnamon, added cloves, nutmeg, and allspice, and Voila! Christmas cookies for breakfast.
I didn’t like this recipe much. But I didn’t make it for nothing because my mum ate it. I think I didn’t enjoy it much because I dont like the hot banana taste. I added some brown sugar and that made a bit of difference but it still needed something. I dont think it tasted like porridge just bananas. Over all this recipe would be good for people that like the hot banana taste.