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Nectarine & Avocado Breakfast Barley

September 18, 2012 · By Monica Shaw

Super barley breakfast bowl

Sounds weird, right? But hey, I’m into these sweet-savoury breakfast bowl concepts lately that combine fruit and grains. Today’s was made of this:

  • 1 apricot, diced
  • 1/8 large avocado (from Mexico!), diced
  • 50g cooked barley
  • 8g tamari-toasted sunflower seeds
  • a good handful of coriander, mint and chives, chopped
  • a squeeze of lime juice
  • 1 tsp olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • a few slices of green chilli
  • a bit of finely sliced romaine lettuce (for crunch)
  • a bit of Tracklements apricot ginger chutney

The chutney was an afterthought – the apricot was a bit tart and I felt like this needed some sweetness. Not sure if lime was the right citrus here. But all in all it was very satisfying. Fruit and avocado are really nice together, especially when paired with a little texture and crunch from toasted sunflower seeds.

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Veg lover, dog owner, hill walker, wild camper, avocado addict, nerd. I write about how to be awesome through a "smarter fitter" approach to eating, drinking, living and working.
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  1. offmotorway says

    September 19, 2012 at 10:23 am

    That looks really good and I agree about fruit and avocado. Interesting idea for breakfast!

    Reply
    • Monica says

      September 19, 2012 at 10:25 am

      Thanks! Nice to hear from you, btw. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Rose says

    September 19, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    I can’t wait to try this. I really love your blog, btw — your posts have single-handedly made breakfast even healthier and tastier for me, and I already have high standards for breakfast!

    Reply
    • Monica says

      September 20, 2012 at 6:54 am

      Thanks for the kind words, Rose! So what’s for breakfast this week? 😉

      Reply
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