Thursday, April 16, 2009

Movenpick Inspired Yogurt Muesli


When I was a child, we used to go to the Movenpick restaurant in Toronto for brunch. My favourite thing to eat was their muesli. I have created my own version based on this childhood treat, for a healthy and delicious breakfast, made in advanced for a fast morning meal.

This version is different from every muesli recipe I could find on the Internet because it is not a dry cereal, but a wet, yogurt-based muesli. Imagine a dry oat based cereal combined with yogurt and fruit and left overnight for the flavours to meld and the oats to become soft, almost like a cooked oatmeal. The red berries give it a lovely pink colour.

You need to make this at least the night before, because it has to sit in your fridge for the oats and seeds to soak in the yogurt, and the flavours to meld. If you make extra, it is even better then next day.

I have been reading up on the advantages of soakings grains and I think this recipe could be easily adapted to soaking. Soaked grains are not refrigerated during the soaking period, and oats should be soaked for 24 hours. I have included my suggestion for soaking directions at the bottom, but I haven't tried this method yet. I will update when I try this next week.

This muesli is very filling and you won't need much. It also makes a great snack, or even desert.

Ingredients:
1 whole apple, a sweeter variety (I often use Empires)
1 1/4 cups yogurt (375 g)
about 1/8 cup honey
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
1/8 cup sesame seeds
1/8 cup raisins
1 cup frozen mixed berries

Grate the apple into a large bowl. I keep the peel on. Combine with the yogurt and honey. You want to make the yogurt sweet enough for your family's taste, using the apple and the honey. Keep in mind that their will be added raisins, which are very sweet!

Add the rolled oats, the seeds, the raisins and the frozen berries.

Put into a covered container to store. It should sit in the fridge at least 8 hours.

Makes about 3 cups, which can easily serve 4 for breakfast.

The recipe is very flexible. You can exchange the seeds for any other type of seed or nut, the raisins are optional, and the berries can be of any sort you like.

Recipe Cost: about $2.75 for 4 servings, or $0.69 per serving.

Suggestion towards a soaked method:
The morning before you want to eat the muesli, combine the oats and seeds and enough yogurt to make it moist. Cover and leave on the counter for 24 hours.

That same evening, combine the grated apple, the rest of the yogurt, and honey to your ideal sweetness. Add the raisins and frozen fruit. Keep in the fridge overnight. This will allow the raisins to plump up, the fruit to defrost, and the sweetness to melt with the yogurt.

In the morning, combine the soaked oats with the refrigerated fruit/yogurt mixture, and enjoy.

I am including this in The Nourishing Gourmet's Breakfast recipe carnival.

11 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, this sounds like something I would love for breakfast. Will definitely be trying this:)

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  2. Yum! This sounds fantastic - let us know how the soaked version turns out for you!

    Best,
    Sarah

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  3. This sounds delicious, I love that it's a wet muesli, and soaked, too!

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  4. The wet muesli is from Switzerland, where they call it Birchermüesli. I fell in love with it on a trip to Switzerland. Thanks for the recipe!

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  5. in romania, where my parents grew up (i speak romanian fluently along with english, french, dutch, and mandarin), they eat the dry muesli with a thicker buttermilk, called sana. We mix it in the bowl and add a splash of juice. Delicious!

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  6. If I want to use steel cut oats instead of rolled oats, do I need to change anything else?

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  7. I went to Movenpick in TO with my brother when he lived there and remember their muesli. So delicious! Thanks for posting, I'm going to try it out.

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  8. Thank you for posting this! I always got muesli when I went to movenpick in Toronto - I loved it so much. I added a little shredded coconut and a splash of almond milk to mine and it was scrumptious.

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  9. My favourite thing to eat at Mövenpick! I do not live in TO anymore and crave this muesli often. I tried my own version of of it but never came close to replicating the taste. Thank you so much for posting this! One question - did this have raisins in it? I don’t remember. The other thing I always assumed was that they used strawberry yogurt (or some other fruit flavoured yogurt). Was it really just regular yogurt?

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  10. Absolutely delicious! I’m making a new batch today to use up the container of yogurt. What a treat and I add a wee bit more of maple syrup as I don’t add raisins. I loved Movenpicks museli when it was here in Toronto; truly miss it. Thanks for the recipe! :-)

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