Vegetarian Week: Merchant Gourmet's Quinoa Porridge

Its Vegetarian Week, so all week we're sharing the very best in Vegetarian Food with you with recipes from top chefs cooking Vegetarian food that will make your mouth water and your tummy rumble.

Our friends at Merchant Gourmet have shared this amazing recipe for Quinoa Porridge with us today. Merchant Gourmet's own chef Sophie Michell has designed this recipe, and the best bit is it takes just minutes to make for a tasty breakfast treat.

Sophie Michell's Quinoa Porridge

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 250g pouch of Merchant Gourmet Ready to Eat Quinoa

• 400ml almond milk

• 2 tablespoons ground almonds

• 2 tablespoons goji berries

• 2 tablespoons agave syrup

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

• 100g blackberries

• 2 tablespoons pistachios, to serve

Method:

1. Place all the ingredients (except the pistachios ) in a saucepan and stir to combine.

2. Place over a medium heat and bring to the boil for approximately 8/10 minutes.

3. Divide the porridge between 4 bowls and serve sprinkled with the chopped pistachios.

Recipe by Sophie Michell at Merchant Gourmet

About Merchant Gourmet

Think of speciality ingredients and you think of Merchant Gourmet. The brand was launched in 1994 inspired by the nation’s growing appetite for discovering new and exciting, good quality cooks’ ingredients. Merchant Gourmet was instrumental in bringing ingredients such as dried porcini mushrooms, cooked and peeled chestnuts and sun dried tomatoes to the masses.

Since then Merchant Gourmet has been keeping a close eye on both food and lifestyle trends, which has resulted in evolving and branching out into convenient products which fit into our increasingly busy lifestyles. Through our innovative range, we enable consumers to create gourmet quality meals in a fraction of the time, without compromising on quality or flavour.

They are committed to continuing to make pulses and grains more exciting and accessible by growing the market and developing clean, tasty, ready to eat products for our healthy living and food loving nation.

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