Oat porridge with cottage cheese, apple and lingonberries
15 min · 26 g protein · 396 cals / serving
Everyday Swedish oat porridge the way it is made at home: rolled oats simmered in lightly salted water until thick, cottage cheese stirred in off the heat so the porridge turns creamy and filling, then warm cinnamon apples, tart lingonberries, blueberries and a pour of cold milk round the edge. Warming, fruity and ready in ten minutes.
Ingredients
Cinnamon apples
- 2 small apples, cored and diced, skin on
- 1 tsp butter
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Porridge
- 1 2/3 cups water
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 1/3 cups cottage cheese 1.5%, light, 1.5 %
To serve
- 1/2 cup lingonberries, thawed if frozen
- 2/3 cup wild blueberries, fresh or thawed
- 1/3 cup + 1 tbsp skimmed milk, 0.5% fat, fortified, cold
Steps
- Start with the apples. Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat and fry the diced apple for 4–5 minutes, stirring now and then, until it is soft at the edges and lightly golden. Sprinkle over the cinnamon, stir and pull the pan off the heat.
- Bring the water and salt to the boil in a saucepan, stir in the oats and let the porridge simmer on low heat for 3–5 minutes, stirring often, until thick and creamy. (Or cook it in a large bowl in the microwave, 3–4 minutes on full power, stirring halfway.)
- Take the pan off the heat and stir in the cottage cheese. It warms through in the hot porridge within a minute and makes it creamy and rich; do not let it boil again, or the curds turn rubbery and let out whey.
- Spoon the porridge into two deep plates, top with the warm cinnamon apples, the lingonberries and the blueberries, and pour the cold milk round the edge, the way porridge is eaten at a Swedish breakfast table.
Good to know
Why stir in the cottage cheese off the heat?
Boiled, the curds tighten and squeak and the whey runs out into the porridge. Stirred into hot porridge off the heat, they warm through and soften into creamy pockets. For a completely smooth porridge, blend the cottage cheese with the milk first and stir that in instead of pouring the milk on top.
Lingonsylt instead of lingonberries?
A spoonful of lättsockrad lingonsylt is the classic and a little sweeter, at about the same score. Thawed frozen lingonberries keep the fresh, sharp taste against the sweet apple; crush them lightly with a few drops of sweetener if you find them too tart.
Make it ahead?
The porridge keeps 3 days in the fridge. Reheat it with a splash of water, stirring, and add the cottage cheese once it is hot again; the apples warm up in the microwave in 30 seconds.
Per
- Calories
- 64
- Protein
- (26%)
- 4 g
- Fat
- (18%)
- 1 g
- Carbohydrates
- (56%)
- 10 g
- of which sugar
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 141 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
As written, 792 kcal goes into the pot and 1267 g of ingredients comes out as about 1230 g of food: 64 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.