Peanut Porridge Recipe
Peanut porridge recipe. Creamy, smooth and delicious, Jamaican peanut porridge makes a great start to your day. Raw peanuts, fresh milk and common spices, yummy!
What Is Peanut Porridge?
Peanut porridge is a Jamaican porridge made from raw peanut, water, milk, aromatic spices and sweeten to taste with condensed milk and or sugar.
This porridge is usually eaten for breakfast. In Jamaica, the porridge often serve at outdoor events and as a street food.
What You Need
Here is what you will need for this peanut porridge recipe!
- Raw peanuts: Make sure to use raw peanuts
- Coconut milk: I use freshly squeezed coconut milk but you can use canned coconut milk. Coconut milk is not a must, you can use cows milk or any plant based milk of your choice.
- Plain flour (not in the photo): Plain flour helps to thicken the porridge. I sometimes use oats but the flour make the porridge smoother.
- Sugar and condensed milk: To sweeten the porridge. You can use one or both.
- Salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla: Essential flavour.
How To Make Peanut Porridge
Minus making your own coconut milk, in just a few steps and your peanut porridge is ready.
Blend the peanut, flour and the coconut milk together until smooth. When using other milk, I would blend the peanut and flour with water and add the milk later.
Add this blended peanut to boiling water and once the porridge thicken add the spices and sweeten.
Variations
Instead of using plain flour like I did here you can use oatmeal. This help to thicken the porridge. Even though oats is healthier the flour makes the porridge smoother.
To make the peanut porridge vegan all you have to do is use a vegan condensed milk as the sweetener.
Jamaican Peanut Porridge Recipe
Ingredients
Method
- Add the peanuts, plain flour, and milk to a blender and blend until smooth and creamy.
- Add the cup of water to a pot, the salt and the cinnamon stick or leaf (if you are using ground cinnamon, add later), and bring to a boil on medium heat.
- Pour in the blended peanut and stir (whisk) continuously until the porridge start thicken.
- Let the porridge cook for 10 to 15 minutes then add the vanilla and nutmeg
- Sweeten to taste with the sugar and condensed milk
Nutrition
Notes
- The plain flour can be replaced with oatmeal.
- Though I used both sugar and condensed milk you can use just the sugar or just the condensed milk if you rather.
- The type of milk you use is simply up to you. I used oat milk.
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I made the peanut & oatmeal porridge. I sure do enjoyed it!
The real traditional thickener for peanut porridge is grated green plantain. I image that oats would be nice too as a substitute but nothing beats the taste of green plantain in peanut porridge. That is what the street vendors use.
I love the recipe simple and easy to follow along as well as great taste. I made it for my family and everyone enjoyed it.
Glad to hear that you and your family loved the recipe Dee. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your experience
I am currently making the porridge now recipe easy☺️
I love the recipe simple and easy to follow along as well as great taste. I made it for my family and everyone enjoyed it. I love the substitution alternatives
First time making peanut porridge and it’s delicious! Thank you for sharing your recipe
First time cooking peanut porridge and this recipe is great. You made a 16 year old learned how to cook her fav porridge now. Thanks 💕
Awww, thank you Nalia, your comment made my day.
I did not know how to make peanut porridge and finding this recipe really help me to make the best peanut porridge.
Thank you.
Awsome recipe, I tried this from a street vendor last month while on holiday and I’m obsessed 😅
I found blending the peanuts first made it very smooth.
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Hi, i tried something called “almond porrdge” from a restaurant today. It was delicious. Would i be able to replace the raw peanuts for almonds to make this? thanks in advance!
I made it for the first time,I love it very tasty,but I added oatmeal instead of flour
I keep coming back to this page gurrrrl cause this peanut porridge is to live for! I’ve tried some others’ peanut porridge recipes and lemme tell you, they got nothing on your peanut porridge. LOL!!! But it’s true tho 🙂 Now, I’m going to try some of your other recipes cause if the peanut porridge is this good, there ain’t no way the others can be bad. Thanks for sharing 💕
Vegan peanut porridge is wonderful. It’s awesome to have a website with Jamaican vegan cooking from a Jamaican. Lovely website. I need to get up on this peanut porridge recipe, haven’t had any since I went vegan.
Hi Swan, glad you appreciate that website. We will continue to make more vegan friendly recipes
Well deserved a 10/10 recipe. Just wow!! My peanut porridge turned out delicious. My house smells amazing because of it. Thank you
I have peanut flour at home. Your recipe has shown me that I need to make it with actual peanuts, but will it work to use peanut flour instead of regular flour/oats to thicken it? Not sure if it will make it “too peanutty”? Thanks for sharing the recipe – can’t wait to make it!
The recipe looks good and I will try it soon.
A number of grammatical errors appear, however, which detracted from my reading pleasure.