Until yesterday, I’d never tried baked oats.
Could that really be true?
Me?? With all of the Healthy Oatmeal Recipes?
Yes, somehow, it’s true. Baked oatmeal has been on my list for a long time, but that “to make” list is kinda lengthy. Thankfully, I finally got around to it… and now I am kicking myself (hard!) for not trying baked oatmeal sooner! I see many bowls (ramekins?) of it in my chocolate-covered future.
Single Serving Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (50g)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon, and optional 1/8 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- sweetener, such as 1 1/2 to 2 tbsp maple syrup or 1 to 1 1/2 packs stevia
- 1/4 cup canned pumpkin (applesauce or banana also work)
- 1/4 cup milk of choice, or nondairy creamer, or water (scale back by a tbsp if using liquid sweetener)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- Optional: 1 to 2 tbsp oil or favorite nut butter (if oil, scale the milk back by a tbsp)
- Optional: raisins, walnuts, brown sugar to sprinkle on top, etc.
Instructions
Single Serving Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal: Preheat oven to 380 degrees. Combine raw oats, spices, pumpkin, and milk. Pour into a greased 1-cup ramekin (or two 1/2-cup ramekins) or a mini-loaf pan. Cook for 20 minutes or more, until it gets firm. Finally, set your oven to “high broil” for 3 more minutes, or until it reaches desired crispy-ness (or simply just bake longer, but broiling gives it a nice crust). You can even make this the night before. Edit: some readers told me that they like to make multiple servings at once and freeze leftovers for an instant breakfast! A few readers have had success making this in the microwave, but I haven’t tried.
So, Pumpkin Boatmeal?
It was like biting into a warm pumpkin-oatmeal cookie. Highly, highly recommended! I thought I’d miss my creamy oats, but surprisingly I didn’t miss them one bit groat. I should’ve known: oatmeal in any form is pretty much guaranteed to be a hit with me.
🙂
I actually used Happy Herbivore’s baked oatmeal recipe a couple months ago as my first foray into boatmeal. I did a pumpkin version of her recipe, too! Love it. I was on a boatmeal kick for a solid month a while back. Then I did a month plus of Oh She Glows Overnight Oats with Chia, including the banana ice cream parfait version and the pumpkin pie version.
I’m hooked on this oatmeal, currently:
http://www.KathEats.com/kaths-tribute-to-oatmeal/
Something about cooking the oats with bananas makes it SOOOO good.
I use tons of warming spices and it reminds me of rice pudding! So creamy and yummy.
I go through phases where I am ALL ABOUT one type of oatmeal for breakfast. 😉
In the past I had a raw “breakfast cookie” stage, a blended oats (from you!) stage …
Oatmeal is wonderful. Plus, I know that is a safe food for me before races. 🙂 Before my first marathon a couple weeks ago I had chia overnight oats with no tummy troubles during the race. That makes oats my BFFs!
I haven’t seen HH’s recipe. But I ADORE her, so I’ll have to look for it! 🙂
I’ve never tried baked oatmeal or even really thought about baking it?? It seems so obvious now! lol. I’ll definitely be trying this one.
Holy yum! I have tried countless variations of oatmeal but I’ve never tried to bake them. Now that I’ve seen these pictures, I just have to.
From those I’ve tried so far I love overnight oats in yogurt and stovetop oats with sauteed fruit the most. The first in the summer and the second on cold days. And then in cookies and your pb balls… It’s hard to choose. I don’t mind even eating oatmeal directly from the bag when I need a snack but I am too lazy to cook it. You said it – the more oats, the better 🙂 .
sorry, your right i shouldn’t have made that assumption! p.s. grinding up oats and adding some spices makes delicious bread crumbs to cover tofu and eggplant (and probably lots of other stuff!).
Oh no, no worries at all! P.S. I’d never feel full from such a small breakfast! 😉
hi katie!
i was just searching for your mushroom stroganoff recipe but the links don’t seem to bring me to it. Can you direct me in the right direction, i’m craving it!!! thanks
Ack! I’m so sorry… I’ve been putting off posting the stroganoff recipe because when I made it, I didn’t measure anything, so I keep meaning to make it again and measure this time (I don’t measure things when I cook for myself, but I do measure when I’m coming up with a blog recipe so that I can give people exact measurements). But I haven’t gotten around to making it again. I’m so sorry!!
Someday…
When I do get around to making it again, I’ll definitely let you know the recipe!
Do you run 8 miles-per-day on most days?
I take at least 2 rest days per week. And I am very loose about the whole running thing. I don’t have a garmin, so I can’t tell you for sure my mileage. I know (from mapmyrun) the rough estimates of some of my favorite routes, and most are around 8-10 miles. But really I don’t care about miles; I just run for fun :).
Yummy! I love oatmeal in general, and baked oatmeal is always a nice variation. The addition of pumpkin is just so wonderful… I might even try this with kabocha soon! Seriously, could anything be better (other than chocolate for you, of course, hehe)?! Oh, and if you like baked oatmeal, make sure to try adding flax seed or a flax egg to it before you bake. It makes it even creamier and delicious. Plus flax itself has such a nice nutty taste :).
Have a lovely day!
xox
Oh my gosh, Mandiee, thanks so much for the suggestion! I’ll have to try it! I’ve never worked with flax egg, and I’ve been meaning to try! 🙂
no worries at all! i’ll have to look up something else to satisfy my craving, but i’m sure it won’t compare to yours 🙂
Baked oatmeal is one of my favorites! It makes it seem more like a cookie. Drizzle a little fudge or caramel over the top and geeeeeeez just die right there!
Sometimes I make Boatmeal in my microwave. Moatmeal? The wet ingredients are applesauce and eggwhites, so it kind of nukes up like a little cake.
I’ve also made HEAB’s recipe for oatgurt, which was delicious! even though I was afraid to eat it haha. Next time I’m home I want to experiment more with that…maybe try making into bread the way she did.
I also just want to say: someday you should write a cookbook just so you can put your cute recipe names in print : D
Moatmeal?!?! Ok, that is seriously the cutest thing I’ve ever heard!