Oatmeal Recipe + Healthy Baked Steel Cut Oatmeal

Breakfasts have always been a challenge for me, so I created this recipe as a quick and portable way to have healthy breakfasts all week. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Feel free to experiment with different dried fruits and flavorings to your taste. I imagine that adding quinoa, hemp protein, flax seed or other nutritional supplements would taste great.

Ingredients

• 4 cups 1% milk
• 2 cups steel-cut oats
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 2 eggs, beaten
• ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup raisins, or more to taste

Cooking Directions

1. Bring milk to a boil in a saucepan; immediately reduce heat to medium-low. Stir oats and vanilla into the milk. Stirring occasionally, cook at a simmer until the oats are soft, about 20 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly.
2. Mix bananas, eggs, and applesauce in a large bowl. Mix baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a small bowl; stir into the banana mixture. Add oats mixture to the bowl; stir. Fold raisins through the oat mixture; pour into a 9x13-inch baking dish. Cover dish with plastic wrap; refrigerate 8 hours to overnight.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
4. Remove plastic wrap from baking dish and bake in preheated oven until golden brown, 45 to 60 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories229.4
• carbohydrateContent40.6 g
• cholesterolContent36.7 mg
• fatContent4 g
• fiberContent4.5 g
• proteinContent9.1 g
• saturatedFatContent1.3 g
• sodiumContent395.3 mg
• sugarContent10 g