Spiced Chia Seed Porridge

Name: Spiced Chia Seed Porridge
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup chia seeds; 1/4 cup ground flax seeds ((a little over 2 tablespoons flax seeds before grinding)); 2 tablespoons finely shredded coconut; 2 1/2 cups homemade hemp milk; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger; 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract; Pinch salt; Stevia ((optional)); Blueberries; Coconut chips; Pecans, walnuts, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, or almonds

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Make this Spiced Chia Seed Porridge with ground flaxseed in just 10 minutes, a hearty keto-friendly alternative to oatmeal for breakfast.

Spiced Chia Seed Porridge in a bowl with spoon.

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If you like chia pudding, I think you're going to love this vegan Spiced Chia Seed Porridge. It's basically chia and flax seed pudding with spices.

It's a healthy breakfast that will kick-start your day.

It is a great alternative to oatmeal for people on a vegan keto or keto diet. Other options are my vegan Mexican Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding and my Chocolate Flaxseed Porridge, which are also keto-friendly.

Check out my Keto Vegan Breakfast Recipes for more ideas.

While you're making breakfast, you're going to need some coffee. Vegan Bulletproof Coffee will get you going.

A Keto Mounds Candy Bar will satisfy your sweet tooth.

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❤️ Why You'll Love It
🧾 Ingredients
📖 Variations / Additions
🔪 Instructions
🥡 Storage
♨️ Reheating
👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe FAQs
Other Vegan Keto Breakfasts
📋 Recipe
💬 Comments

❤️ Why You'll Love It

It's an easy breakfast recipe; it's made in minutes.
You can customize it to your liking with a variety of toppings. Add your favorite fresh fruit, seeds, and nuts.
It's perfect for a vegan, gluten-free, low-carb, or keto diet.

🧾 Ingredients

Whole chia seeds: Get gelatinous when liquid is added. They are a great alternative to rolled oats. They also work great in chia pudding, like my Neapolitan Chia Pudding recipe.
Ground flaxseeds: For texture, flavor, protein and fiber. You could also use more chia seeds.
Shredded coconut: Adds coconut flavor. You could leave it out.
Hemp milk: I used keto-friendly hemp milk because it is sugar-free and keto. You could use unsweetened almond milk, full-fat coconut milk, or your favorite dairy-free milk.
Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg: Adds warm spice flavors. You could use your favorite spices.
Vanilla extract: Enhances flavors.
Salt: Enhances flavors. I like to use sea salt.
Stevia: Sweetens without adding sugar. You could also use monk fruit or your favorite sugar-free sweetener or maple syrup, agave syrup, or dates.

To see the full list of ingredients with measurements and instructions, see the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

📖 Variations / Additions

Keto-friendly fresh or frozen berries: raspberries, strawberries, blackberries
Keto dairy-free milk: full-fat coconut milk, unsweetened almond milk, macadamia nut milk, flax milk, cashew milk, or soy milk. Make sure to get unsweetened.
Nut butter: almond butter, peanut butter, walnut butter, macadamia nut butter
Hemp seeds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds
Protein powder
Cacao powder (or cocoa powder)
Dark chocolate, chocolate chips, or cacao nibs

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🔪 Instructions

Ingredients in a saucepan before heating and mixing.

Step 1: Add chia seeds, ground flax seeds, homemade hemp milk, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, vanilla extract, shredded coconut, stevia, and salt to a saucepan.

Step 2: Stir and cook until heated through and thickened.

Spiced Chia Seed Porridge with a spoon and hemp milk in a pitcher.

Step 3: Pour mixture into a bowl and top with blueberries, coconut chips, and nuts or your favorite toppings.

🥡 Storage

This chia seed porridge recipe will last up to 5 days in an airtight container in the fridge, so you can meal prep a large batch for the week.

If you prefer to make overnight chia seed porridge, you can mix the ingredients and let sit overnight, then enjoy in the morning.

♨️ Reheating

You can reheat this chia seed porridge recipe in the microwave or on the stovetop. (Or you can eat it cold.)

For the microwave, add porridge to a microwave safe bowl and heat for 60 seconds or longer until heated through.

For the stovetop, add some porridge to a pan and heat on medium-low for a few minutes. If it's thick, you can add a splash or two of hemp milk to loosen it up a bit.

I know eating a vegan keto diet can be hard, so here are some more recipes to help.

I also started a Vegan Keto Category, so that you can find the vegan keto recipes altogether, and can easily see when I post new ones. There may be other vegan keto friendly recipes that I have forgotten about, so if you search by ingredient you may find some others.

👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe FAQs

How long will chia seed porridge last?

This vegan chia seed porridge recipe will last up to 5 days in an airtight container in the fridge.

Are chia seeds good in porridge?

You can add chia seeds to porridge, or use them as the main ingredients as I did here for this chia porridge recipe. Chia seeds thicken up and get gelatinous in liquid, so they are the perfect ingredient for porridge.