Summer Buckwheat Porridge - A work in progress

It seemed so weird to me when I first came across a recipe for a raw buckwheat porridge on one of my favorite blogs! Then slightly different versions appeared on two more of the blogs I often read. So I figured I had to give it a try. My first attempt came out way too runny, as it's supposed to be more like a parfait-style breakfast. I'm wishing I halved the batch, because now I have to finish the rest of it somehow. The too-runny texture is kind of throwing me off, it would definitely be better with less liquid. The taste is great however, falling just short of cookie batter!

This is one of those breakfast that requires getting started the night before. You have to soak the raw buckwheat overnight in water with a tiny bit of lemon juice or vinegar. I checked out three different recipes before I made my own. Here are the inspirations:

http://www.mynewroots.org/site/2014/07/raspberry-ripple-buckwheat-porridge/

http://ohsheglows.com/2011/07/11/raw-buckwheat-breakfast-porridge/

http://www.greenkitchenstories.com/raw-buckwheat-walnut-porridge/

This isn't a perfected recipe, more of a documentation of what I did and my reflections on it!

I soaked (separately) 1 cup of raw buckwheat and 1 cup of walnuts overnight in water, adding just a squeeze of lemon juice in the buckwheat water. This morning I drained and rinsed the buckwheat and walnuts in a colander with small holes. I blended them in a standard blender with a heaping tablespoon of honey, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste, and 1 sliced ripe banana. For the liquid I used half milk-half water to cover the ingredients in the blender. Since it came out soupy, I served it in bowls with heaps of fresh blueberries and blackberries from the farmers market.

Each spoonful of the porridge with the juicy tart berries was quite heavenly, but without them this would have been difficult for me to get down. I feel it must be mentioned that I put a bowl of down in front of my boyfriend, and he just plowed right in and finished before I did. I was impressed, he's usually a good sport about eating the "strange" things I give him.

So this would have been much better with less liquid, and maybe using a food processor would have been a better way to blend? There is a lot of potential here!