Baked Steel-Cut Oats With Nut Butter

Name: Baked Steel-Cut Oats With Nut Butter
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 3 to 4 servings
Ingredients: 1/4 cup peanut butter or almond butter; 1 cup steel-cut or cracked oats; Pinch of salt; Cinnamon, nutmeg or cardamom, for sprinkling (optional); Sliced bananas, raisins or dried fruit, chopped apple, maple syrup, honey, brown sugar or heavy cream, for garnishing (optional)

By Melissa Clark

Published March 20, 2020

Baked Steel-Cut Oats With Nut Butter — Julia Gartland for The New York Times. (Photography and Styling)

Total Time: About 1 hour
Rating: 4(908)
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For a simple, filling breakfast, baked steel-cut oatmeal, enriched with almond butter and cinnamon, is a go-to recipe. This version is particularly adaptable: Use peanut butter or almond butter, steel-cut or cracked oats, or any number of warming spices that might be in your cupboard. Then, garnish as you wish.

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Ingredients

Yield:3 to 4 servings

¼cup peanut butter or almond butter
1cup steel-cut or cracked oats
Pinch of salt
Cinnamon, nutmeg or cardamom, for sprinkling (optional)
Sliced bananas, raisins or dried fruit, chopped apple, maple syrup, honey, brown sugar or heavy cream, for garnishing (optional)

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Preparation

Step 1
Heat oven to 350 degrees and bring a kettle of water to a boil.
Step 2
In a medium shallow casserole or baking dish, combine 3 cups boiling water and the nut butter and stir until smooth-ish. (Don’t worry about a few lumps.) Stir in oats. Season the mix with a big pinch of salt, and some cinnamon or nutmeg if you like.
Step 3
Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour, stirring halfway through. Taste and if the oats aren’t cooked enough, let it bake for 5 to 10 minutes longer.
Step 4
Garnish with whatever you like, and serve.

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nancy harmon jenkins5 years ago

Recipe calls for steel-cut or cracked oats. Would it work with old-fashioned (i.e., not quick cooking) rolled oats? I'm about to find out, fingers crossed and praying I don't make a mess. And if it's a mess, I guess I could turn it into a version of oatmeal cookies?

Mari5 years ago

Fun recipe. You can adjust to make it as salty or as sweet as you prefer. I used old-fashioned oats and I found that it didn't need an hour to cook, so I took it out of the oven with about 20 minutes remaining. One other fun thing about this recipe is that it yielded a much bigger dish than when I cook the same amount of oats (1 cup) on the stove top.

Kathy5 years ago

For Nancy - here's a simple/quick baked oatmeal...1/3 c. oil or melted butter, 1/2 c. sugar, 1 large egg, 3/4 c. milk: mix together. 2 cups oats - quick, old fashioned, or a mixture, 1 1/2 t. baking powder, 1/2 t. salt: mix together. Add the wet and dry together; pour into greased 9x5 loaf pan and bake at 350 for 25-30 min. Serve with milk - no sugar needed. I suppose you could sub nut butter in for the oil/butter. Courtesy of the Black Rock Retreat Auxiliary Members cookbook (1976)

Alyssa2 months ago

Timing was accurate. Added vanilla and a cut up apple.

Clifford4 months ago

Can you make this the night before ? Does this reheat?

Jen C2 months ago

@Clifford yes, I eat it leftover

cait1 year ago

Used exact measurements, except I soaked the oats overnight on the countertop and baked in the morning. Took about 50 minutes to bake. Added maple syrup on top. Was excellent.

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