Instant Pot Carrot Barley Porridge Recipe
Sweet breakfast porridge with carrot cake flavors, whole food plant based.
Equipment
- 1 Instant Pot pressure cooker (4 quarts or above)
- 1 blender (preferably high speed)
Ingredients
Porridge Ingredients
- ½ cup hulled or hull-less barley
- ¼ cup raw almonds (can substitute with 1¼ cups almond milk)
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 medium carrots
- ¼ cup raisins
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground allspice
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground fennel
- ¼ tsp ground coriander
- 1 orange (should be organic to zest peel)
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Walnut Sauce
- ¼ cup raw walnuts
- 1 tsp flaxseed
- 2 dates
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Presoaking & Marinating Stage ( 8 hours prior to cooking )
- Soak barley in water in one cup of water and leave at room temperature.
- Soak almonds in one cup of water and leave at room temperature.
- Soak walnuts in one cup of water and leave at room temperature.
- Soak dates, flaxseeds and vanilla in ¾ cup of water and place in refrigerator.
- Finely grate carrots and place in a medium bowl.
- Add raisins to bowl and mix in with carrots.
- Pour spices over carrots and mix in.
- Zest whole orange peel and mix in with carrots.
- Juice orange, mix in vanilla and add enough water to equal one cup.
- Mix orange juice thoroughly with carrots and then pat down the mixture so that it marinates well.
- Cover bowl and place carrot mixture in refrigerator.
Porridge Assembly
- Drain presoaked barley and add to cooking pot.
- Add 1 cup of water and a pinch of salt to pot.
- Drain almonds and place in blender.
- Add 1 cup of water to blender and blend almonds until smooth.
- Add blended almonds to cooking pot.
- Add orange juice marinated spiced carrots to cooking pot.
- Set to 15 minutes high pressure, natural release.
- Porridge will continue to absorb water as it cools down.
Creamy Walnut Sauce
- Drain walnuts and place in blender.
- Add soaked dates, flaxseeds with vanilla and soaking water to the blender
- Blend until smooth.
To Serve Immediately
- Separate into 3 portions and top with walnut cream sauce.
- See notes in main post if saving for later use.
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