{"id":50429,"date":"2023-03-19T16:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T20:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/?p=50429"},"modified":"2024-02-05T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T00:43:37","slug":"venezuelan-oatmeal-with-milk-and-cinnamon-recipe-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/en\/2023\/03\/19\/venezuelan-oatmeal-with-milk-and-cinnamon-recipe-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan Oatmeal with Milk and Cinnamon Recipe + VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Raise your hand if you love a good bowl of oatmeal with milk and cinnamon for breakfast, as I do. If you are like my children and me, you came to the right place because my Venezuelan oatmeal with milk recipe is, in addition to being creamy and delicious, infallible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: This recipe is part of a collaboration with Milk Life. As a member of the Amazon Associates Program and other affiliate programs, I receive compensation for products sold through the affiliate links in this post at no cost to the buyer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oatmeal with milk & cinnamon Caracas-style<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today’s recipe has been passed down through generations, and I promise it will warm you up. This is how oatmeal is served for breakfast in Venezuela, my home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my house, we are all oatmeal eaters. I like my oatmeal with fresh fruit and spices<\/a> or nuts and dried fruit. And not to mention my favorite, \u201crefresco de avena<\/em>,\u201d  as my Venezuelan grandma used to call a cold beverage made of soaked in water oats, with sugar and vanilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, my children prefer their porridge “the way of Caracas.” The phrase “the Caracas way” was adopted by us caraque\u00f1os<\/em>, after Don Armando Scannone published Mi Cocina, a la Manera de Caracas<\/a><\/em>, a compendium of recipes from the city where I was born and raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So oatmeal with milk and cinnamon, \u201ca la manera de Caracas<\/em>,\u201d is a thick, creamy, not-so-sweet porridge with a pinch of salt and the right amount of vanilla and cinnamon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A family recipe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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We came to live in the United States for good when Tom\u00e1s Eugenio was almost 4 years old, and Andr\u00e9s Ignacio had just turned 6. But my children treasure that oatmeal’s flavor, consistency, and aroma from their early Caracas childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This porridge is the same one I made for them, so they went to school well-fed when we lived there. And to this day, it is still one of his favorite breakfasts. This is the same oatmeal with water and milk my mother prepared for my siblings and me. So did my grandma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The milk superpowers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In addition to oat flakes, rich in fiber, carbohydrates, and Omega 3 fatty acids (which help fight bad cholesterol), the fundamental ingredient of this oatmeal recipe is milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you and I know that, at least for raising our children, milk has superpowers. Look at this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n