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Looking for naturally sweetened breakfast ideas? This creamy, rich and sugar-free Chocolate Fig Oatmeal will tickle your taste buds!
When I was a kid, my family would often spend summers in our country side house by the Caspian Sea. We had good amount of land to grow our fruit trees such as apples, grapes and figs.
In the late summer and early fall, the figs were everywhere! My grandma used to send me and my brother with buckets to gather the figs off the ground that were so ripe that they had fallen off the tree. I remember my hands would get sticky from all that fig pulp and the juice that was overflowing.
We always had more figs that we could possibly eat. And we only had maybe 5 or 6 trees! They were big trees and each tree produced a lot of figs! We would give them away to neighbors and even my teachers at school. I still remember my mom and I taking a bucket of figs to my teacher’s house – everyone was simply obsessed with figs!
This maybe the reason why I hated figs. I love figs now, but back when I was a kid – I couldn’t stand them! I think the reason was that because we had so many of them around and my grandparents managed to squeeze them into every meal. Fig jam for breakfast, fig and cheese for lunch, figs as a snack throughout the day, adding figs to a salad for dinner and the list goes on.
Things changed when I moved the to States and found out that figs were a delicacy to many. It was a few years until I tried figs again. When I tried them again after 5 or 6 years of not having them – wow! That flavor! It brought sweet memories of my childhood and a piece of home.
So now, I absolutely love figs!
When they’re in season, the ripe figs are smooth, creamy and soft – which make an amazing addition to breakfast. This quick 10-minute Chocolate Fig Oatmeal recipe combines almond butter for extra creaminess and cocoa powder for chocolate kick without any sugar. Coconut milk and coconut chips add delicious aroma and subtle tropical notes to the oatmeal. All in all, it’s a delicious combination of flavors that is super easy to make!
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Heart-warming Chocolate and Fig Oatmeal with subtle notes of decadent coconut.
- 1/2 cup gluten free oats
- 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk or nut milk of choice
- 1 tbsp tbsp almond butter
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cacao powder
- 1 tsp chia seeds
- pinch of sea salt
- 3-4 figs
- 1 tsp coconut chips
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Mix all the ingredients together (except for figs and coconut chips) in a small pot and cook over medium heat until most of the moisture is absorbed by the oats.
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Serve with fresh cut figs and coconut chips.
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Optional: add 1 tbsp of nut milk into your bowl if your oatmeal is a bit dense.
Nutritional Information: Calories: 359 Fat: 16.8 g Saturated fat: 3 g Carbohydrates: 51 g Dietary Fiber: 12.2 g Sugar: 22.3 g Sodium: 327 mg Protein: 10.7 g
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My brand new cookbook is out on Amazon! It’s called “30-Minute Plant-Based Recipes” and it’s perfect for busy vegans. Grab it now!
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