Holiday Baked Oatmeal
As I’m writing this blog, I’m listening to my most favorite modern reality show, Top Chef. Watching these chefs stress over there every ingredient that’s added to there dishes & all the drama of the show is for some reason very entertaining to me.
Anyhows back to the task at hand. This holiday version of my baked oatmeal was born out of a necessity. I made one cranberry apple pie, but I sliced way to many apples. I didn’t want to make another pie, something healthy that we could eat for breakfast or as a healthy side dish. The first thing I thought of was baked oatmeal since it’s a nice alternative to eggs for breakfast. If I’m eating the baked oatmeal for breakfast, I usually add a tablespoon of nut butter to add some protein. As always make sure that your nut butter does not have any added sugar or oil, both are completely unnecessary for a great flavored nut butter.
Cranberry-Ginger Apple Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 3 Cups Quick Oatmeal
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 Cup Maple Syrup
- 2 Eggs Lightly Beaten
- 1 Cup Coconut or Almond Milk
- 1/2 Cup Coconut Oil melted If you don't have coconut oil, butter will work well
- 2 Cups Apples sliced
- 4 OZ Fresh Cranberries
- 1 tsp Freshly Grated Ginger Root (see recipe notes) Best Substitution is 1/4 tsp ground ginger
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix oatmeal, salt & baking soda in a medium bowl. In a separate bowl mix the wet ingredients: maples syrup, eggs, milk & melted coconut oil. Mix wet and dry ingredients.
- In a food processor mix grated ginger with the cranberries and very loosely chop the cranberries. Use the pulse button & pulse it no more than 5 times.
- Mix apples & cranberry mixture with the oatmeal mixture. Use any nine inch baking pan to bake the oatmeal, if you want it to look more fancy use a nice pie pan. Spray pan with baking oil. Place mixture into any 9 inch baking pan & bake for 45 minutes. I like the top of the oatmeal to be a medium brown.
- I like to eat my baked oatmeal with my homemade coconut or almond milk. If you want to make your own nondairy milk, I do have a blog post with ingredients needed & instructions.
Notes
- Most stores have ginger root & it's found with the fresh produce. In my area I've found it at Georgetown market, Whole Foods, Meijer and Kroger. Freshly grated ginger adds some amazing depth of flavor, but in a pinch used ground ginger.