Amaranth is a savory dish that is used in many cuisines. It is actually a seed, with a slightly earthy flavor. Many of you don’t know how to cook amaranth for breakfast
It is a nutritious, gluten-free grain. It provides plenty of fiber, protein, and micronutrients. Now, let’s get to know some amaranth recipes.
1) How To Cook Amaranth For Breakfast: Amaranth Porridge with Roasted Pears
Ingredients
½ cup of uncooked amaranth
1/2 cup of water
1 cup of 2% milk
¼ teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of maple syrup
1 large pear
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon of ginger
1/8 teaspoon of nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon of ground clove
Pecan/Pear Topping
2 tablespoons of pecan pieces
1 teaspoon of pure maple syrup
Method:
The first thing you have to do is to drain and rinse amaranth. Then you have to combine it with one cup of milk, water, and salt.
Bring to a boil and reduce it all the way to low. Now, cover it with a lid and let it be aside for 25 minutes.
Then amaranth becomes soft but still, some liquid might be left in the bowl. Now, to thicken amaranth, remove it from heat and put it aside for 5 to 10 more minutes.
To thin the texture out, add a bit more milk to the mixture. Take 1 teaspoon maple syrup with the pecan pieces, mix them together.
Until the pecans are toasted and the maple syrup has dried, roast the mixture thoroughly for 10 to 15 minutes.
Dice the pears and toss with the remaining 1 teaspoon of maple syrup and spices, along with the pecans.
And roast it in a roasting pan for 20 minutes. Now, stir it in 3/4 of the roasted pears in the porridge.
Serve it into two bowls and top with porridge, roasted pecans, and the remaining pear pieces.
Here is your yummy dish. Get Ready to eat. This is one of the methods to know how to cook amaranth for breakfast.
2)How To Cook Amaranth For Breakfast: Amaranth Pea Fritters
Ingredients
1 cup taste of Amaranth seeds
2 cups of vegetable stock
1/2 cup of peas
1 large boiled potato
1 teaspoon of cumin seeds
1/4 cup of roasted peanuts
1/2 cup of coriander leaves
2 green chilies
2 tablespoon of ghee
Pinch of Salt and pepper
Method:
Boil the vegetable stock and add the amaranth and peas to it. Add the required amount of salt to the mixture. Cover it with a lid and cook it for 20 minutes until the water is absorbed.
Then, boil the potato until it becomes soft and chewable. Meanwhile, remove the skin and mash it.
Now, roughly throb the coriander leaves, roasted peanuts, and green chilies. No need to make a paste. Just chop them off gently. Mix it with the amaranth mixture, peas, and potatoes.
Add a little salt, pepper, and cumin seeds. Roll the mixture into equal size balls and slightly make them soft and flat.
Take a Pan and heat the ghee until it’s very hot. Then add the fritter to the pan. Fry it for few minutes and crisp up on one side.
Then fry on the other side too. They take about a minute to get fried on each side.
Serve the dish with green chutney, garlic, and lemon juice dip. Enjoy the delicious taste. I hope you got an idea about how to cook the amaranth for breakfast.
3) How To Cook Amaranth For Breakfast: Coriander Cauliflower Amaranth Salad
Ingredients
2 cups of cauliflower florets
2 teaspoons of olive oil
1 teaspoon coriander
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup of uncooked amaranth
2 to 3 cups of chopped lettuce
¼ cup of pure lemon vinaigrette
Red Pepper Flakes of the required amount
Method
Firstly, you must heat the oven to 400˚F temperature. Then gently stir the cauliflower florets with olive oil, coriander, and salt. Spread into a roasting pan. Roast the mixture until the cauliflower is fried well and lightly charring.
While the cauliflower is cooking, add 1 ½ cups of water. Let it boil for a while, reduce to a boiling point, cover with a lid, and cook until the amaranth is fried well. Once the amaranth is cooked, place it in a nut-milk bag. Rinse the mixture and remove as much of the water as you can.
Take the rinsed amaranth in a bowl and combine with the cauliflower and lettuce. Pour slowly over the salad and stir until well combined. Serve the dish with a sprinkle of red pepper flakes.
4) How To Cook Amaranth For Breakfast: Popped Amaranth
Let’s know another recipe on how to cook amaranth for breakfast.
Ingredients
1/2 cup of Amaranth seeds
Method
Take a pot and put it on medium heat.
Add about 1 Tablespoon of seeds from an amaranth cup to the bottom of the hot pot. Wait for few seconds and let the seeds pop in the pot.
Make sure that the pot is hot enough to pop the seeds in the pot. Otherwise, the seeds won’t pop, and they burn. Repeat the same as evenly as possible.
Shake the pot to ensure all seeds pop, once the popping starts. Make sure that the seeds won’t burn.
When the popped amaranth is replaced by puffed amaranth, put it into a filter to remove the popped seeds.
5) How To Cook Amaranth For Breakfast: Amazing Amaranth Candy
It is a Mexican candy made from seeds of amaranth and honey. It is also called alegría. It is high in saturated fat.
Ingredients
½ cup of amaranth
¼ cup of pumpkin seeds
½ cup of sugar
1 tablespoon of blackstrap molasses
Method
Take a wide-bottomed pan and put it on medium heat. Put one tablespoon of amaranth into the pan. Cover it with a lid. Cook it over medium-high heat until all the grains have popped.
After the grains have popped, take them in another bowl. Repeat this process with the remaining quantity of amaranth.
Then, add pumpkin seeds to the popped amaranth in the bowl. Now, take a little quantity of sugar on a pan and heat it over a medium temperature. When these sugar crystals start melting, add molasses.
Now, molasses begins to boil. Then, stir the mixture so that the sugar is incorporated with it.
Immediately add popped and pumpkin seeds. Stir well. This is one of the methods to know how to cook amaranth for breakfast.
These are the best recipes cooked using amaranth. Now, you might have known how to cook amaranth for breakfast.
