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Autumn Spice Hot Cereal

Course Breakfast
Servings 5

Ingredients

  • 6 cups water
  • 1 cup steel-cut oats
  • ½ cup quinoa flakes see note
  • ½ cup buckwheat cereal chopped-up whole groats, sometimes labeled creamy buckwheat or cream of buckwheat
  • ½ cup pure maple syrup
  • ½ teaspoon fine salt
  • 3 whole cloves
  • ½ cinnamon stick
  • ½ vanilla bean see note
  • 1 slice dried ginger or a pinch of ground
  • 2 pieces of a broken star anise
  • 2 tablespoons butter or coconut oil

Instructions

  • In a greased slow-cooker, stir together water, oats, quinoa, buckwheat, maple syrup and salt. Add spices: cloves, cinnamon, vanilla, ginger and star anise.
  • Cook on low 6 to 8 hours. Remove whole spices and stir in butter or coconut oil and just before serving.

Notes

For the quinoa flakes and buckwheat cereal, look for Bob's Red Mill and Hodgson Mill brands. In place of vanilla bean, add ½ teaspoon vanilla extract after cooking.