Lately, my favorite breakfast is a giant bowl of creamy crock pot oatmeal, hot from the slow cooker.
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It brings back memories of visiting my grandparents’ house as a young girl.
Grandpa believed steel cut oats were the healthiest food you could eat, and he’d get up every morning at 5 AM to make sure that a bowl of piping hot oatmeal with melty butter and brown sugar would be waiting for us when we all awoke.
Sometimes my sister and I tried to beat Grandpa into the kitchen. But no matter how early we snuck out of our beds, he was always two steps ahead of us, bowl of oatmeal in hand.
Below is my basic crock pot oatmeal recipe. You can easily customize it for endless breakfast options.
Crock Pot Oatmeal Recipes
- Cinnamon Raisin Crock Pot Oatmeal: add raisins before cooking. Stir in ground cinnamon and sweetener of choice (and butter-type spread if desired) after cooking.
- Mounds Bar Oatmeal: add shredded coconut, sweetener, and chocolate chips after cooking. Use coconut milk when it calls for milk of choice. Slivered almonds optional.
- Apple Pie Oatmeal: peel 2 small apples, chop, and add them to the uncooked ingredients along with 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp cinnamon or apple pie spice. After cooking, stir a butter-type spread and sweetener of choice (good choices for this variation include brown sugar or Sucanat or coconut brown sugar) into hot oats.
- Peanut Butter & Jelly Oatmeal: stir 1-2 tbsp peanut butter and 1-2 tbsp jelly into each cooked serving of oatmeal. Pour some milk of choice (such as almond milk) over top just before serving. Everyone knows a pb&j is nothing without the glass of milk!
Crock Pot Oatmeal
This healthy crock pot oatmeal recipe is an easy slow cooker breakfast.
Ingredients
- 3 cups milk of choice or water
- 1 cup steel cut oats (160g)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- add-ins of choice (see above for flavor ideas)
Instructions
- Slow Cooker Oatmeal Recipe: Combine all ingredients in a slow cooker or crock pot, put on the lid, and cook on low heat for three hours. No need to stir or anything until the time is up! I use a 3-quart slow cooker for this recipe; cooking times may vary if you use a much-larger size. If you double the crock pot oatmeal recipe, cook for 5-6 hours on low. (If you don't own a slow cooker, you can of course still make steel cut oatmeal. Just follow the cooking directions on the package of oats.)View Nutrition Facts
Notes
Readers also love these Banana Oatmeal Cookies.
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This recipe sounds wonderful. It is the only one I’ve found recently that doesn’t totally overdo the carbs in the basic recipe. My husband and I are both looking forward to trying the mounds bar variation. I will have to add protein powder to up the protein – most likely chocolate for the mounds bar… Thank you for coming up with an oatmeal recipe I can actually use.
I wanted to ask u how do u get the oatmeal to NOT stick to the sides of the crockpot? Spray with PAM or what???/ Luv ur recipes by the way hehe!
try cooking spray
I love adding almond milk! I dont like using sugar-I use honey. I add 4 cloves, 1/2 tablespoon of cinnamon, 1 tablespoon vanilla (Seams like a lot, it is the perfect amount)
I used 10 cups of water, and 4 cups of old fashioned oats.
I love your website, Katie!
I tried the steel oats not to crazy about it Like the other better QUAKER OATS. Maybe I did something wrong Can I use Quaker Oats in stead of steel oats and use the slow cooker I have high or low could I use low?
Oatmeal!! Yesss!!! I wish I had time to make this 🙁
Both my grandmothers are amazing cooks! However, what kind of food they make is completely bipolar. One is american-comfort style. The other is from south Korea. (Yum)
I have done the ”apple pie” version,the recipe I started with was 2 sliced apples,1/4 cup brown sugar,2 cups of oats,2 cups of milk and 2 cups of water,I put it on low for 8 hours and it never burns 🙂 and my kids love it
Hi,
It sounds great! I do have quit a big slow cooker so I was wondering how long you can keep this in the fridge after making it. That would make it very simple to have a nice breakfast for a few days…
Now al I have to do is find steel-cut oats (for some reason here in holland there is only one company where you can buy steel-cut oats but only in 25 kilo – 55 pound- bags!
It lasts at least 4 days.
After being stored in the fridge It’s nice sliced,sprinkle brown sugar on top and grill. Apparently in my grandmothers day ( early 1900s) it was poured into a drawer lined with muslin,when needed they would slice some off and heat on top of the stove,it was their staple diet here in Scotland,I wonder what they would make of the fast food culture of today.
I am “granny McPhee”from Scotland,my grandson Euan paid me a braw compliment when he said the smell of mixed spice reminded him of me….awe
If you don’t have a crockpot,soak the oatmeal in chosen liquid overnight,it doesn’t take long to cook on stove top in the morning.
l love steel cut oatmeal but live alone and using the crockpot makes way too much for me. I found that I can make it first thing when I get up but only bring it to a boil and then put it in a wide-mouth thermos while I’m getting ready for work. After 20 to 30 minutes it is perfect!
Do you have to use steel cut oats or can you use regular oat? not quick oats
I’ve only tried it with steel cut.