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Baked Oatmeal With Blueberries
This soaked baked oatmeal is a great versatile breakfast recipe. We usually have it once a week. It’s healthy, simple, and a family favorite, so I thought I’d share it with you!
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Ingredients
3 cups rolled oats (old-fashioned or quick oats). My favorite source for bulk oats and other grains is here.
1 tsp unrefined salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon (My favorite is Ceylon cinnamon, which has such a rich flavor)
1/2 cup melted coconut oil or butter (we use coconut oil, usually)
1/2 cup honey (or molasses, sorghum, maple syrup or a combination of these)
3 Tbsp. whey (if you don’t have whey, you can also use some plain yogurt, lemon juice, or other acid medium)
1 cup water
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
1/3 cup raisins (we’ve also used fresh, frozen {thawed}, or canned blueberries, which is delicious! We buy frozen blueberries in bulk here.)
The night before: Mix together the oats, sea salt, cinnamon, coconut oil, honey, whey, and water. You will add the rest of the ingredients in the morning. Cover the bowl and let it sit on the counter overnight until the next morning. This is great for convenience, and also soaks the oats for greater digestibility (if you are familiar with Nourishing Traditions this will be familiar to you! This same book will explain about the whey and how to make it.).
In the morning: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Uncover the bowl and mix in the baking soda, vanilla, eggs, and raisins or blueberries. Pour the batter into a well-buttered 9×13 pan and bake for 35 minutes.
We like to serve this with plain yogurt on the top!
Wondering if you can use milk instead of water or will that affect the outcome. I make baked oatmeal all the time and always allow it to soak for about 30 minutes but never have left it out overnight. I love Sally Fallon and Nourishing Traditions. I used to follow that principle many years ago and feel as I get older, my system could use some help with digestibility of food.
I’m sure the milk would probably work, but I haven’t tried it. Let me know how it turns out if you try it with the milk!
My family loves this, and I make it just about every weekend. In fact, I have mutiny on my hands when I don’t! Thanks for a lovely recipe.
So glad to hear that!
Hi, Is this a typo in the recipe? 3 cups oats to 1 cup water? Normally oatmeal is made with more water than oats.
THanks,
Jennifer
Hi Jennifer! This is baked oatmeal, not regular oatmeal, so it has less water. It bakes in a pan and is more solid than regular oatmeal. Hope that helps!
Great breakfast recipe, thank you! I made this this morning with raisins and we all loved it! I want to add small chunks of apple next time, I think that would be good too with the raisins!
Thank you so much for letting me know you liked it! We still eat it regularly for breakfast. I should try apples, too!
Hi Heather~
If you make this I hope you like it! 🙂 We still eat it once a week for breakfast. We all prefer it with the blueberries in it. We just take out about a cup of blueberries from the freezer and put them in a bowl in the refrigerator to thaw overnight. In the morning when you mix up the rest of the ingredients, just add the blueberries instead of the raisins.
Blessings,
Joy
Ooh this sounds yummy!! I'd like to make it soon & it's definitely going into my "home keeping" folder! 🙂
Have a blessed day!
~Heather