Darwin Breakfast Recipe: Easy, Healthy, & Scrumptious.
Steel cut oats with flax and chia recipe, with & without Darwin fruit
Try a Darwin breakfast recipe overnight soaked option.
Also best for Darwin breakfast recipes easy, vegetarian options.
Best Darwin breakfast recipe: easy, healthy, vegan combinations
Try a Darwin breakfast recipe: easy, healthy, vegan, or vegetarian mixes. Plus, it’s a Darwin breakfast recipe overnight soak option. With plant based milk, it’s amount my favourite Darwin breakfast recipes in easy, vegetarian style. So, see the next two pictures of my versions of steel cut oats with and without chia seeds.
It’s very different from the rolled oats porridge that you may have got tired of when you were younger.
The benefits of this breakfast include being:
- high protein and filling (for a long time)
- soothing on the stomach and mind
- quick and easy to make
- convenient to store in the fridge for 2-3 days
- yummy!
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This easy Darwin breakfast recipe can be eaten hot or cold.
In addition, I sometimes use this delicious different at different times of the day.
For instance, just yesterday, I’d been teaching yoga all day, and still had a class to go.
Luckily, Stuart had packed a container of this easy Darwin breakfast recipe with organic strawberries in our little travelling esky. It kept me powering along for the rest of the day.
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Darwin breakfast recipe easy healthy steel cut oats & chia, with low sugar strawberries.
Darwin breakfast recipe options with steel cut oats & chia
The picture immediately below is not a double up.
If you look closely, the top picture includes dark dots or spot. That’s the chia seeds that are in the top version of this steel cut oats dish.
The version of the dish immediately below is steel cut oats without chia.
Adding chia gives the dish even more protein, and a slightly different taste.
Steel cut oats Darwin breakfast without chia seeds
Steel cut oats breakfast with organic strawberries (but no chia). Notice the slightly different colour, due to no chia.
Where to find organic versions of the grains
In the recipe below, I’ve outlined how to include chia seeds, or not.
In the picture, you can see the organic steel cut oats from the breakfast cereal section of your supermarket.
It’s harder to find organic chia, but I’ve found it in either health food shops, or sometimes in the Coles supermarket.
If you check out my recent account of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), I suggest it’s worth searching for organic versions.
Steel cut oats recipes Australia ingredients from a supermarket
Steel cut oats recipes Australia ingredients are as close as Woolworths. But you can also get them in health food shops, often in bulk.
Steel cut oats & chia ingredients
See the pictures for more, but here at the main ingredients:
- One cup of steel cuts (to suit 2 people for 2-3 days)
- 2 cups of water
- A cup of plant based milk… unsweetened
- A quarter tsp of good quality salt, with no additives (eg Pink Himalayan)
- One quarter tsp of cinnamon
- one tablespoon of chia seeds (optional, depending on how much chia you want).
By the way, I’ve been using the Macro steel cuts oats for a long time. Although they are not sold as gluten free, I’ve have never had any issues with around gluten, even though I don’t normally eat anything but gluten free.
Macro does not rate their version as gluten free because it can’t be guarantee in the packing plants.
You can of course buy gluten free steel cut oats at some specialist shops, but they are quite expensive.
Oats in my past
I’d had rolled oats porridge as a kid. But, until I found this Darwin breakfast recipe, I never knew about the steel cut version of oats (or chia).
In this version, the oats grain is simply chopped into small pieces with steel blades. Then, before it’s cooked or soaked it looks like what you see in the picture below.
So, because it’s a hard grain, overnight soaking is important.
I presume it’s also why plenty of people search for things like overnight steel cut oats with chia seeds, or Darwin breakfast recipe overnight.
Once you’ve soaked it, only a small amount of cooking is needed.
Steel cut oats before soaking overnight
Overnight steel cut oats before soaking or cooking
How to make your Darwin breakfast recipe with oats & chia
To make this healthy Darwin breakfast recipe, follow these steps.
- Bring water to boil
- Stir in the oats and salt
- Add half a cup of milk and cinnamon
- Stir regularly on a low heat for 5 minutes
- Take off stove, and put in container with lid.
- Add in dry chia seeds, and mix in well with a whisk
- Add up to half a cup of water (but do it slowly so as to get the consistency you prefer)
- Leave to soak over night
- For a particular meal, take out what you want, and heat with a little milk
- Get it to a consistency you’re happy with
- Serve with fruit and / or nuts of your choice.
By the way, if you wish, you can experiment with the steps above. There are various ways to get a delicious, healthy outcome.
Organic strawberries for your Darwin breakfast recipe vegan delight
Organic, low sugar strawberries are one delicious fruit option for your Darwin breakfast recipe vegan style. As I’ve mentioned, organic is a good way to avoid IBS issues from pesticides in the food chain.
A Darwin breakfast recipe you’d like to share?
Please contact me with any other dishes you’d like to share with me, especially any you may have done using your local fruits or vegetables.
Plus, I’m especially interested in recipes with any of the more exotic, or tropical, fruits or vegetables… especially those that are lower in sugar.
Darwin breakfast recipes are also something that I’ve found people are looking for.
Oats & chia when preparing your healthy vegan recipe Darwin delight.
Oats after soaking and cooking, before serving with fruit and / or plant based milk. Try a nutritious Darwin breakfast recipe overnight option.
My misperceptions about sugar, & learning mindful eating
If you’re unsure about the level of sugar in common fruits, then check out the table I put in a recent email.
For instance, some of the lower sugar fruits are strawberries, avocado, grapefruit, honey dew melon, blackberries, and blue berries.
The bigger issue is keeping tabs on the approximate, total number of grams of sugar in your daily intake.
Personally, even though I (Chris), am thinnish, I find that my weight quickly increases if I overconsume sugar.
The World Health Organisation says to have no more than 25-50 grams a day, but it varies for gender and age. See more from an Australian Government site on sugar.
Last, here is another version of my yogic Klesha (misperception) slides… more applied to my own story of sugar and mindful eating issues.
But, note that the newest research on fructose suggests it’s no worse than sucrose… but that’s bad enough!
A Darwin breakfast recipe from our Flametree retreats
By the way, there are several upcoming Flametree retreats in Bali in 2024/2025, including over the Easter 2025, and the August holiday periods.
(In fact, both are filling quickly, and the August one is nearly full.)
The owner of the Bali resort we use, shares my views about sugar, and healthy, nutritious eating.
So, over many years of our successful retreats at the venue, we’ve worked together to give you a delicious, healthy, low sugar experience.
In fact, a lot of Flametree’s recipes come from the Bali retreat free cooking classes, or the variations of their recipes that I’ve created.
For instance, I first learned about some of my best Darwin breakfast recipes in Bali!
Plant based eating experience at a retreat
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