Ingredients

• 100 gm dried dates
• 1 large cooking apple
• 25 gm butter or margarine
• 25 gm bran (optional)
• 1 tbsp - soft brown sugar
• 175 gm porridge oats
• 1.1 liters water

How to Make Apple and date porridge

• Stone and roughly chop the dried dates.
• Roughly chop the apple without peeling it.
• Discard the core.
• Melt the butter in a good-sized pan, stir in the bran and brown sugar.
• Cook for two minutes stirring constantly.
• Add water to the pan and then add the porridge oats.
• Bring the mixture to the boil, stirring constantly.
• Add dates and apples.
• Allow the mixture to simmer for another five minutes. Serve hot.