Creamy Cracked Wheat Cereal

Cracked wheat cereal is a nice alternative to oatmeal for breakfast, and wheat has lots of health benefits.  This recipe is made with some nice, tasty additions to plain old wheat, too.

I had never cracked wheat before I tried this recipe.  It was easier than I thought!  You can buy cracked wheat, but if you have wheat berries, you can make your own cracked wheat.  It's easy.  I'll tell you how.  "Cracked" wheat is just broken down wheat berries.

I suggest cracking the wheat for this recipe ahead of time.  Maybe that's just because I'm not a morning person.  Especially a loudness-in-the-morning person.

Here's how to crack wheat.  Just put 1/4 c. wheat berries in a blender and process using the ice crush setting.  It's pretty loud, but it only takes about 15 seconds.  The wheat berries will get cut up in pieces.  The only trick is that if you do more than about 1/4 c. at a time it doesn't work very well, so you need to just repeat the process.  But that's pretty easy!

CREAMY CRACKED WHEAT CEREAL

PREP TIME:  5 minutes
COOK TIME:  25 minutes

INGREDIENTS

• 2  1/4 c. water
• 1 c. cracked wheat
• 3 Tbsp. powdered milk
• 2 Tbsp. brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp. white sugar
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• optional:  fruit and/or nuts

DIRECTIONS
In a medium saucepan, bring the water to a boil.  Stir in the remaining ingredients.  Turn heat to low and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.  Stir every 6-7 minutes.  Serve with fruit or nuts if desired.  Serves about 4-6. 

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