Slow Cooker Steel Cut Oatmeal
You’ll love this Slow Cooker Steel Cut Oats with Apples and Dates for a filling breakfast that you can prepare the night before. Make your mornings easier and tastier!
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 281kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup steel cut oats
- 7 cups water divided
- 1 large tart apple cored and diced (like Granny Smith)
- 6 Medjool dates pitted and diced
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch kosher salt
- Optional toppings chopped nuts, raisins, maple syrup, butter, or your favorite oatmeal toppings
Instructions
- In the basin of a slow cooker, combine steel cut oats and 4 cups of water. Close the lid and let the oats soak at room temperature for at least 12 hours.
- When soaking time is up, drain the oats, discard the soaking water, and return the oats to the slow cooker. Add in the remaining 3 cups water, plus all the remaining ingredients (except your toppings). Cook on low for 8-10 hours.
- Serve topped with your favorite oatmeal toppings.
Notes
- To time this right, I recommend starting to soak your oatmeal in the morning, then putting it to cook overnight—that way you'll wake up the next morning to a hot breakfast. Your house will smell amazing!
- This recipe won't work with "regular" old-fashioned oats or quick cook oats. You're looking for steel cut oats—which should be sold in a can next to all the other oatmeal in your grocery store. These are a less-processed form of the oat seed, and result in a pleasantly chewy oatmeal!
- Check the label of your oats to make sure they are gluten-free if you or someone you are serving this too are sensitive to gluten.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 281kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 0.4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.003g | Sodium: 22mg | Potassium: 302mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 79IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 61mg | Iron: 2mg
