Bran Flakes: A Power breakfast Cereal

My ever overthinking mind was at it again – I made my own power breakfast cereal!

 

 

Running a mini milling company called Domestic grains Mill which powers Domestic Grains Initiative has enabled us encourage backward integration – finding food ingredients from the source of their value chain.

Using different components of our heritage wheat berries to make food on the breakfast table for my family is priceless!

 

You know that feeling – how you wake up one morning craving a healthy breakfast, and you ask your brain how do I walk my talk of eating healthy? Bingo! The idea dropped – after sieving my milled wheat berries, I became spoilt for choice – bran, whole wheat flour, unbleached All-Purpose Flour were beckoning me to go on a power breakfast adventure and oh, I powered it all up with our now popular millet flour, I set out to make something simple – yet powerful.

Somewhere between mixing and overthinking, I accidentally created a high-fibre breakfast cereal that could put big-brand boxes to shame.

I baked the mix into crunchy little flakes, tasted one, and GBAM! My taste buds danced deliciously. Not only was it delicious, but my stomach said “thank you ma” and I’ve never looked back. Now my mornings start with a bowl of crunchy, nutty, naturally sweet cereal that keeps me full till lunch—and gives me a smug sense of domestic accomplishment.

 

Lesson: When life gives you flour, make cereal… and maybe name it “FitFam Flakes” or “Juls’ Crunchy Mistake.” Either way, your gut (and your grocery bill) will thank you!

 

 

Here’s the recipe:

Power Breakfast: Bran Flakes

Ingredients:

Wheat Bran 500g

Whole Wheat Flour 500g

Finger Millet flour 250g

Chia seeds 100g (optional)

Flax seeds 200g (optional)

Raisins (optional)

Salt 20g

Vegetable Oil 50

Honey 150g

Water 500g

 

Instructions:

In a deep bowl, add all the dry ingredient, mix thoughly and then add all the wet ingredients

Mix well into a stiff dough

Mold large ball of stiff dough on to a greased baking tray and spread using a rolling pin.

Make sure it’s paper thinly spread and bake in your oven for 25min at 180C

Then bring out of the oven  and break it up into shards or flakes and put back into the oven to bake for another 15-20 mins

Bring out of oven and let it cool and tada! Your power breakfast cereal is ready!