There’s always time for a delicious breakfast – Semolina tahini porridge with chocolate and passion fruit

Hey there!

It’s Thursday afternoon already. I can’t believe how fast those weeks have gone by. It feels like it’s been just last week when I was sitting in my first seminar lesson on a sunny Monday morning in the beginning of September. But no, it is already November, nearly December. Ten weeks have passed already and only a few more and my first semester at university will already be history. Sometimes time is strange, at times it feels like you’ve got way too much of it and it seems like you’re standing still. However, there are those times, when time just flicks by. Minutes feel like seconds, hours like minutes and days like hours. It’s seems like I just flick my fingers and suddenly another month has gone by.

I guess one of the reasons the weeks have gone by so quickly is the fact that I am finally getting to do things I enjoy. I enjoy university, I enjoy blogging a lot and I enjoy inventing numerous new recipes a week. Not just one, not two, a few!

One of those recent inventions was a rather coincidental creation. I wanted to use some kind of nut butter yet I was so over the usual peanut/almond/cashew butter, which I have been having way too often recently. I was going trough my cupboard and I spotted a half empty jar of tahini. Tahini, something I usually mix into my hummus, sometimes I even add it to a ratatouille or as a plain topping for baked veggies. Yet, I have never spent a thought on adding it to something sweet. Why? I don’t know, I really don’t.

But to my surprise tahini mixed into a sweet semolina porridge tastes just divine, especially with a few chunks of extra dark chocolate. That combination, heaven on earth!

Believe me guys, you’ll love this, I can’t even describe how amazing this tasted. I mean I always love my breakfasts but I was literally sitting there eating this and questioning myself, how I could have gone without this for so long. Mouthgasm guaranteed!

You might have spent a few minutes of your precious time reading this, maybe you just scanned through it or you might have even skipped the whole part of me rambling it to head straight to the recipe. Whatever you did, I’m sharing the recipe anyway.

Serves 2

• 50g spelt semolina
• 350ml water
• ¼ cup soy yogurt
• 2 tsp tahini
• ½ vanilla bean

toppings:

• 2 dried figs, sliced
• 1 passion fruit
• 2 squares of 99% chocolate
• sesame seeds

optional:

• 2 tbs chia pudding (recipe for my basic chia pudding will follow)

1. Add semolina, water, soy yogurt, tahini and the seeds of the vanilla bean as well as the rest of the bean into a saucepan. Let it come to a bubble while stirring continuously.
2. Let the mixture thicken then pour into two bowls and top with passion fruit pulp, dried figs, chocolate and sesame seeds. I also had some chia pudding in my fridge so I added a spoonful of it as well, yet this is absolutely not necessary.

Voila, a delicious, warming yet super quick breakfast for those times you want a warming breakfast yet time is running and you need to get out of the house quickly. The fact that this is prepared in such a short time will actually extend the time frame you’ve got available for the best and most precious time of the day, breakfast! I absolutely adore breakfast time. I love taking time to prepare a beautiful breakfast bowl and I love having lots of time to enjoy my prepared delicacy.

Anyways. It’s Thursday night, I’m off to get some unis stuff done, tomorrow’s Friday already and just another two finger flicks and the weekend will be over already. So enjoy, have fun!

Bisous