Oatmeal with no oats! With a cereal-like texture, this easy low fat raw cereal bowl will remind you of your favorite breakfast but is made with only fruit!
Has someone been messing with a time turner around here? Because I feel like I just stepped back a couple of years into my blogging past with this recipe. Raw, totally fruity, just a handful of ingredients–it’s like an old school Feasting on Fruit recipe.
With all the baked this and cooked that I post much of the time you may find it hard to believe that I actually started this blog with the intent of doing entirely low fat RAW vegan recipes. But stuff happened, baked requests came, and muffins are just so dang good! I have zero regrets for bringing cooked vegan goodness into the picture, but it’s fun to throw it back to the old, extra fruity days sometimes.
Mango Strawberry Fruity Raw Cereal
I received the most specific recipe request a few weeks ago: HCLF raw vegan mango strawberry oatmeal. My first thought was “But I don’t really do raw recipes anymore.” My second thought was “Mmmm that sounds good!”
It took my brain a little while to work out how to make it happen. How to transform plain ole fruit into the chunky-meets-creamy texture of oatmeal.
But you know that point when you are making nicecream in a food processor and it sort of resembles dippin’ dots? And if you hadn’t made it thousands of time before, you’d be wondering how on earth will those fruity pebbles turn into creamy bliss?
Well STOP! Stop right there! Those fruity pebbles are exactly what you need for raw vegan fruity cereal. The texture is perfect. So perfect someone should name a cereal after it or something…?
Add in some Grain-Free Rawnola for extra texture and sweetness. Pour on some banana milk for the creamy part of the oatmeal equation. Top with fruit and maybe even a mango rose if you are feeling fancy. And you have a pretty spectacular raw, vegan, not-a-smoothie breakfast bowl!
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Mango Strawberry Fruity Raw Cereal
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
Ingredients
Cereal
- 1 1/2 cup frozen mango
- 1 1/2 cup frozen strawberries
- 1/2 cup Grain-Free Rawnola
Banana Milk
- 2 ripe bananas
- 3/4–1 cup water
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine the frozen mango and frozen strawberries. Process briefly to create pebble-sized pieces. Do not over-process or you will have nicecream.
- Transfer to a bowl and place in the freezer.
- Blend the banana and water to make the banana milk. Adjust to your desired consistency with more/less water.
- Remove the cereal from the freezer, stir in the rawnola, pour on the milk, and enjoy!
I’m seeing old school Feasting Fruit and I LOVE it! 🙂 It’s so funny to hear about your original intent for this blog. Seriously, Erik’s always bugging me to do raw recipes, and I’m like, “dude, it’s hard! And… you keep asking for BAKED cookies!!” Lol. Fruity pebbles: Bahahahahaha. I love amazingly fruity this entire bowl is. Seriously. Banana milk? Dude. Plus, mango rose? Can I have one of these raw cereal bowls entirely covered in mango roses? Because… I’m classy like that. 😉 So happy you’re back to the blogging world, my dear lady bird. xoxo
So hard, right!?! I lasted about a month with mostly raw stuff and then I was out of successful ideas 😀 Plus I don’t have a dehydrator anymore so there’s that. But I would love to see you whip out something raw every once in a while! It’s heaps easier to do in the summer though, so maybe just wait till next year at this point and keep going in the cookie direction 🙂 The actual reason there is only one rose is because it took me 3 tries to actually make one that looked decent and by then I was out of mangoes haha! But I’ll stock up on all the mangoes and make a rose garden on top of your bowl <3
Love old (and new) school Feasting on Fruit! And if you’re taking recipe requests… from my mother “I need a raw, nut-free, date sweetened chocolate ice cream cake using whole coconuts instead of canned coconut milk”. Hahahah Ideas? PS. This fruity bowl sounds de-lish. <3
That is totally doable and sounds delicious!
Just use this chocolate cake recipe (https://www.feastingonfruit.com/healthy-chocolate-cupcakes/) but decrease the non-dairy milk to 2 tbsp since you are baking it as a cake instead of cupcakes. That amount of batter in a 6 inch cake pan will give you a tall enough cake to slice into 2 layers.
Then use the same ice cream recipe from this cake (https://www.feastingonfruit.com/carrot-cake-ice-cream-cake/) but in place of the nondairy milk you can make your own coconut milk by blending the meat with the water from a whole young thai coconut.
I hope all that makes sense, let me know if not 🙂 I can also just make it and post it, but it might take me a little while so if you need it ASAP that will work!
Thank you SO much!! You are brilliant! Sounds super easy and insanely delicious – it’s actually for my sister’s birthday on the 25th so I’ll let you know how it turns out 🙂 🙂
When I think of your recipes, I just think of minimal, simple, genius, healthy and delicious! I don’t necessarily think of raw or baked. So it’s totally in keeping with your theme, from my perspective!
I’m actually not a “breakfast person” but always appreciate beautiful looking breakfasts. In fact, sometimes I have breakfast foods for lunch just so I don’t miss out. I can imagine how sweet and tasty this must be. Gorgeous as always!
Ha I do the same thing! I love breakfast foods but I’m never ready to eat as soon as I wake up (which is late anyways?), but oatmeal for lunch or pancakes for dinner are just as delish! Plus with blog recipes I end up just eating whenever all the pics are done whatever the time. Aww thank you my dear, that is very sweet <3 P.S. I've been stalking you on Pinterest lately, I always love your style?
This is definitely a Natalie type recipe, for sure! All fruit and low-fat. It’s beautiful. I sure wish I was a fruit person. I’m sooo opposite of one and when I see all these beautiful fruit bowls and smoothie bowls everywhere, I wish I had a craving for stuff like that. I do really love smoothies though and love fruit that way, mainly blueberries and strawberries and I love lemon and orange in baked goods. I can eat apples daily, but I wish I could just sit down and eat a bowl of fruit like my daughter. It’ll never happen though. I guess I should be thankful I love veggies because I absolutely love them and eat tons of them, so that keeps me healthy, haha!
I feel the exact same way when I see gorgeous buddha bowls and stir fries and pizzas and things–why can’t I crave that stuff!? It’s weird. I have to admit, sometimes I go an entire day without veggies though? Getting those in is not easy for me except in smoothies, so I’m kinda jealous of you on that one. I feel like you would do well in Oregon, apples and berries are everywhere up there. So it’s the tropical ones you aren’t into, huh? Oh well! I’m glad Olivia is embracing her fruity side though 🙂
Love this idea, Natalie! So simple and refreshing, but still different from a smoothie bowl. Such a random request, but I’m happy it happened because this beauty came out of it!!
I know right, at first I was like wait is this a serious request because it is crazy specific 😀 The longer you leave it sitting out taking pictures of it form absolutely every angle the more and more similar it gets to a smoothie bowl haha! Thanks Leah!