Recipe for a healthy breakfast: How to make Lifehouse Spa’s Bircher muesli

The old adage dictates that breakfast is the most important meal of the day - the feast after the overnight fast that sets you up for the day. Whether breakfast is your thing or not, Lifehouse Spa's bircher muesli is a beautiful way to get going. Here's their recipe for a twist on the Swiss classic.

How to make bircher muesli

Bircher muesli ingredients

• Four large handfuls of organic rolled oats
• Four large handfuls of quinoa flakes
• Two large handfuls ground bran
• One handful chopped dried apricots or fruit of your choice
• One handful chopped dried dates
• One handful crumbled walnuts
• One handful crushed almonds, hazelnuts or brazil nuts
• Coconut/soya/almond/oat/rice milk or pressed apple juice to cover
• Two apples washed and unpeeled
• One pear washed and unpeeled
• One banana
• Nutmeg and cinnamon to taste

Method for making bircher muesli

• Combine all ingredients except the banana, apple and pear in a bowl, and cover the ingredients with the nut milk or apple juice.
• Grate in apple and pear and stir immediately to keep apple from discolouring.
• Add nutmeg and cinnamon.
• Place in the fridge overnight.
• In the morning slice or mash banana into mixture together with some honey, coconut cream and fresh mixed berries.
• Keeps for about five days in fridge.