5 Ways To Get Creative With The Cereal In Your Kitchen
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Breakfast fuels your day. Cereal is usually the cheapest and probably the most popular choice for breakfast, whether it’s hot cereal like oatmeal or cream of wheat, whole grain cereals, bran cereals or the sugary stuff.
For those times when you have an excessive amount of cereal that’s about to go stale, there are plenty of other ways you can incorporate it in the kitchen.
1. Baking
If you have a box of plain Cheerios lying around, you can incorporate them into your baking routine. Grind them or crush them up and use them as a flour substitute for a portion of the regular flour in any recipe.
Plot twist: You can also grind up Cheerios and treat them like a gluten-free flour for making matzo balls. Add any kind of whole grain cereal in place a portion of the flour in a banana bread or Dulce de Leche Apple Bread. You can also use cereal flakes with crunchy clusters for a peach or apple crisp topping.
2. Breadcrumbs
If you’ve never used Corn Flakes to bread your fish or chicken, you really haven’t lived. You can coat the meat with cereal and either fry or bake it. Martha Stewart uses the flakey cereal for a healthier version that involves the baking method.
You’re making a mixture of Corn Flakes, oil, cayenne pepper and salt. Dip the chicken in egg and then cornflakes, place them on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown and crispy. Restaurants like Queens Comfort make killer chicken fingers that have a Cap’n Crunch coating with a red chili bacon caramel sauce. You can also make cereal-crusted fish for fish tacos.
3. Pancakes
Add literally any kind of breakfast cereal to your pancake batter for a crunchy addition. You could go the healthier route and try crushing up some Kashi GOLEAN or granola. If you’re going all in, grind up Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, Reese’s Puffs or Cap’n Crunch along with fresh fruit for some super sweet pancakes.
4. Smoothies
When you don’t have time to sit down and have breakfast in the morning, smoothies are the next best thing. Superfood smoothies give you all of the energy you need to start the day off on a good note. Add some granola, fresh fruit, coconut milk, ice, chia seeds and goji berries, and you’ll be all kinds of alert.
If you’re looking for something a little more on the sweet and comforting side, you can blend up milk with your favorite sugary whole grain cereal, some peanut butter, bananas and ice, and there’s a good chance everyone will love you.
5. Ice Cream Toppings
If we learned anything from Christina Tosi — the chef, f0under and owner of Momofuku Milk Bar — it’s that Corn Flakes are a magical ingredient. If it weren’t for Milk Bar, cereal milk™ soft serve wouldn’t exist. Milk, Corn Flakes, brown sugar and a pinch of salt? Who woulda thunk it!
Martha Stewart has a recipe from Tosi for her famous cornflake crunch. You basically mix the Corn Flakes with milk powder, sugar, coarse salt and melted butter to form small clusters. Bake the flakes in an even layer on a baking sheet until they smell toasted and buttery, and then let them cool. You can use the cornflake crunch as a topping for your favorite ice cream sundae or ice cream pops.
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