This recipe makes me look forward to eating oatmeal for breakfast, rather than dreading my bowl of slop. It is like eating an oatmeal raisin cookie for breakfast and has become a family favorite. The original recipe is from Allrecipes, but I have changed it enough that I'll just post what I do.
3 cups rolled oats
1/3 to 1/2 cup brown sugar
2 t baking powder
2 t cinnamon
1 t salt
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1/4 cup melted butter
1/4 cup applesauce (or use all butter or all applesauce, or even pumpkin)
2 t vanilla
3/4 cup raisins (you could switch these up with any dried fruit or even chocolate chips)
Mix the dry ingredients, then add in the mixed wet ingredients and raisins, plop it all into a 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 for 40 minutes.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Red Berry Risotto Oatmeal
Aka, pink oatmeal.
This recipe has rice (suprise!). But it's not brown rice (gasp), it does not have beans and it is for breakfast. Also, it's delicious.
Recipe from Mel's Kitchen Cafe
Red Berry Risotto Oatmeal
1/2 cup steel cut oats
1 cup Arborio rice*
1/2 cup cream, half and half, or milk
6 cups water
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 t salt
1 cup ripe raspberries and 1 cup strawberries, quartered OR
1 bag frozen raspberries, thawed and slightly drained
Combine everything but the berries in a saucepan. Bring to a quick boil, then reduce heat and cook, stirring occasionally, 25-30 minutes until thickened. Stir in berries, breaking apart a bit to turn the oatmeal pink. You can also cook it in a rice cooker and stir in the berries at the end.
*You could try making this with regular white rice, but arborio rice is designed to be creamy, so the texture might not be quite as nice. Let me know if you try it out.
Update 4/2019: I altered this to increase the oatmeal to rice ratio, be dairy free, and use the Instant Pot. Directions below:
1 cup steel cut oats
1 cup Arborio rice (I often use plain white rice)
1 can coconut milk
Enough water to total 5.5 cups liquid
1 T vanilla extract
5/8 cup sugar (somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 bag frozen raspberries
Spray pot with cooking spray. Add all ingredients except raspberries. Cook on high pressure for 8 minutes. Let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes, then release remaining pressure. Stir in raspberries. It will thicken up as it rests.
This recipe has rice (suprise!). But it's not brown rice (gasp), it does not have beans and it is for breakfast. Also, it's delicious.
Recipe from Mel's Kitchen Cafe
Red Berry Risotto Oatmeal
1/2 cup steel cut oats
1 cup Arborio rice*
1/2 cup cream, half and half, or milk
6 cups water
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 t salt
1 cup ripe raspberries and 1 cup strawberries, quartered OR
1 bag frozen raspberries, thawed and slightly drained
Combine everything but the berries in a saucepan. Bring to a quick boil, then reduce heat and cook, stirring occasionally, 25-30 minutes until thickened. Stir in berries, breaking apart a bit to turn the oatmeal pink. You can also cook it in a rice cooker and stir in the berries at the end.
*You could try making this with regular white rice, but arborio rice is designed to be creamy, so the texture might not be quite as nice. Let me know if you try it out.
Update 4/2019: I altered this to increase the oatmeal to rice ratio, be dairy free, and use the Instant Pot. Directions below:
1 cup steel cut oats
1 cup Arborio rice (I often use plain white rice)
1 can coconut milk
Enough water to total 5.5 cups liquid
1 T vanilla extract
5/8 cup sugar (somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 bag frozen raspberries
Spray pot with cooking spray. Add all ingredients except raspberries. Cook on high pressure for 8 minutes. Let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes, then release remaining pressure. Stir in raspberries. It will thicken up as it rests.
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