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 am so into oatmeal lately.. yum!
YUM! I’m totally making this for breakfast tomorrow morning! Any suggestions for what to do if you don’t have a ramekin?
You can use ANY oven-safe dish :).
And let me know what you think if you do try it! 🙂 🙂
I just made it, and it was delicious! I am going to blog about it and send you the link for my hug-a-vegan entry!!
Pumpkin Boatmeal–love the title. BOATmeal. You are too cute!
I have an entire post on Oat Recipes, it’s linked in my sidebar and on my popular posts page.
Everything from overnight oats, brownie protein oats, Vegan GF pancakes, Vegan GF Choc Chip Cookies, Raw Choco Chip Cookie Dough Balls to Homemade Energy/Protein Bars…you name it, oats are soooo versatile! And GlutenFree which is key for me.
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I must try this! But I’m not sure where all my little ramekins are stored….in a box somewhere. Damn.
That’s basically my recipe for baked oatmeal, except I use a 1/2 cup oats & 1/2 cup pumpkin and a tsp of pumpkin spice and scramble in a pear or apple to give it volume (and tastiness). Doesn’t even need sweetener with a pear/apple in it! And plump blueberries on top are delicious. 🙂
I haven’t had a pear in so long, so I might have to try your yummy-sounding idea!! Thanks for sharing :).
Oh my goodness Katie, I just made this for a post-exam treat and I’m left with one word.
AMAZING!
I’m in spring right now so we don’t have a lot of pumpkin aroundm so I used pears instead. I’d recomend it, was naturally sweet so I reduced the maple syrup. Give it a try when you get the chance, you won’t regret it. 🙂
Yayyayyay! I’m so excited you liked it. And I think your pear addition sounds delicious. I just need to buy a pear!
I’d like to try boatmeal, but so far I haven’t had the patience to wait for the oatmeal to finish baking. When I want breakfast, I want it now!
Haha next time I’m going to make it the night before!
Not gonna lie, at first I thought you put the oatmeal in a boat shape container.. LOL. Interesting way of eating oatmeal by baking it….Maybe I’ll try it sometime if I have an extra time in the morning to make it 😀
row row row your boats 🙂
Looks amazing! I couldn’t help but think of this pun while I was reading the recipe: “I wish I could eat a boatload of boatmeal!” Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
I’ve enjoyed oats in many of the same ways you have–overnight oats, muesli, granola, etc., but I also like to use it as a binder in savory recipes (e.g., lentil loaf and black bean burgers).
I still have been meaning to try your lentil loaf!
Love the idea of baking the oatmeal 🙂 You are so brilliant!! I used to eat oatmeal and oats all the time but the last 2 or 3 years I have barely had any. Mainly because of the gluten issues and such, but really I just do not crave them as much as I used 😉 Weird I know. haha ~ Lori