Coconut, Apple and Cinnamon Rice Porridge

What do you do when the granola jar is weeping with crumbs and the cereal box is deafeningly empty? You’ve rattled it twice to be sure. Of course, you forgot to pick up oats at the supermarket yesterday, so whipping up a fresh batch of freestyle granola is unquestionable. Plus, it’s Monday morning. The egg carton has been mysteriously vacated, the milk run dry and the bread stale. Quinoa porridge would be my fall-back, but we’re out of quinoa too. Oh breakfast, where art thou!

White rice! Or brown, or purple. How obvious. Heck, Nicaraguans, Ecuadorians, Indians and a myriad of other populations nosh on this dependable grain from dawn till dusk. Here’s an energy kickstart to the day – or satisfying and easy dessert!

Replace half of your water with coconut milk to make a rich, creamy, delicious batch of rice, and adorn it with your favorite toppings: honey, cinnamon, fresh fruit, maple syrup, raisins, flax seeds, hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, you name it! Make extra rice and store it in the fridge as backup for tomorrow.