Millet Fruit Bowl
Millet is super tasty ancient grain. It is filling and has a nice nutty flavor. We love to have millet with veggies, sometimes we have it with melted coconut oil or butter and a sprinkle of salt. Millet is easy to make into a savory or sweet dish and works really well into breads and as a filler for dishes (more on that in other recipes).
Often times whole grain cooked millet is served as a breakfast dish at our house. Because this grain is so easy to adapt to recipes it can taste so good with seasonings and veggies or fruit and cinnamon.
I wanted to add to the flavor and aroma with this breakfast bowl so I added pure vanilla extract as I was fluffing it with a fork after it cooked. Adding the vanilla really makes the blend of the coconut cream and fruit turn it into a more dessert like taste, but sweetened only with the fruit- its a great breakfast!
One thing you will learn about me is I am obsessed with hemp seeds! I love these earthy little power foods! I add them to meals all the time. (So much that once my son asked if I planed on adding hemp seeds to his mac and cheese…oops..).
When I was searching out the health benefits of hemp seeds and millet, both had many sources rave about the heart health benefits of these two foods. Top it off with some coconut oil and cinnamon which is good for blood flow- sounds like this is a great heart chakra healing meal.
Millet Fruit Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 cup millet
- 2 cup filtered water
- 1/2 TBSP pure vanilla extract
- 1 can coconut milk, chilled
- 1/2 lb. strawberries
- 1 large banana
- 2 cups wild blueberries
- 4 TBSP hemp seeds
- sprinkle of cinnamon
Instructions
- Rinse millet until water comes off clear.
- Add millet and filtered water in a medium sized pot. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce to a simmer. Cook millet for 20 minutes.
- Fluff mixture with a fork as you drizzle and carefully mix in the vanilla.
- Place lid on the millet and set aside as you prepare toppings.
- Open coconut cream can and scrape out the thickened coconut cream "fat" from the can. Place the fat in a small bowl. Use the liquid of the coconut milk later for another recipe such as a smoothie.
- Whisk the coconut cream until smooth.
- Cut up strawberries and slice banana.
- Scoop out 3/4 cup portions of cooked millet into 4 serving bowls.
- Top the millet bowls with equal portions of strawberries, sliced banana and wild blueberries.
- Drizzle on coconut, sprinkle on 1 TBSP of hemp seeds per bowl and sprinkle with desired amount of cinnamon. And serve.
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