Another recipe that uses the blender/food-processor/hand-blender technique:
Creamy & Cozy Oatmeal
1/2 cup rolled oats (or one serving of your grain of choice; the photo is of whole-grain Cream of Wheat)
1 container applesauce (the little 113gram containers, not one entire jar!)
½ tsp cinnamon
milk of choice (I use almond milk)
dash salt
Other optional ingredients that might be nice:
raisins, dates, nuts, chocolate… oops, how’d that last one sneak onto the list?!
Cook up a serving of oatmeal, using milk of choice in place of the water. Add the applesauce and cinnamon to the cooked oatmeal, and mix together. You could stop here, and it’d taste delicious… BUT if you *really* want to experience oatmeal nirvana, take this next step: Using a hand-blender (or transferring the mixture to a regular blender or food processor), blend all the ingredients together. The resulting oatmeal is so super-creamy it’s amazing!
I need to try blending my cereals, mmm this recipe looks delish!
Mmmmm! Btw, thanks so much for revealing your secret to creamy grains. My host family actually has one and now I’ve got so many new things to use it for! I hope they don’t mind 😉
wow, this looks SO GOOD! Add a handful of walnuts and a spoonful of peanut butter and I’m sold!
Yummy! That sounds awesome and perfect for the fall weather!
i’ve never tried applesauce in my oatmeal but paired with cinnamon and creamy almond milk sounds so freakin good!!! 😀
i love the word ‘cozy’ too!! and i love that chocolate just crept its way onto the list 😉 that happens to me far too often lol
i’ve never tried applesauce in my oatmeal but paired with cinnamon and creamy almond milk sounds so freakin good!!! 😀
i love the word ‘cozy’ too!! and i love that chocolate just crept its way onto the list 😉 that happens to me far too often lol
Katie, you will become addicted to GG! It is so girly and mindlessly fun to watch!
I’m going to try your harvest oatmeal (only with oat bran) for breakfst tomorrow. It sounds so perfect for fall! I can’t wait to make it with homemade applesauce, but that will have to wait until I pick apples 🙂
Cream of wheat is my favorite as well and recently I have switched from dairy to rice milk. Your bowl of goodness is beckoning me to prepare it! I have a hand held blender so all I need is the whole wheat COW and I shall set your plan into motion!!!
I gotta get one of these hand gadgets again! I had one when we were living in Scotland because I used to puree all my soups like that. I think your idea to use it with oatmeal is brilliant! Yummy…and coming into cooler weather (hopefully)..I will be eating a lot more hot breakfasts.
Another great way to enjoy my favorite breakfast cereal! 🙂