Overnight Oatmeal

From EatingWell: Winter 2004, The EatingWell Diabetes Cookbook (2005)

Here is an easy way to serve a crowd a hearty breakfast before facing the elements for a day of winter sports. You can assemble it in the slow cooker in the evening and wake up to a bowl of hot, nourishing oatmeal. The slow cooker eliminates the need for constant stirring and ensures an exceptionally creamy consistency. It is important to use steel-cut oats; old-fashioned oats become too soft during slow-cooking.

READER'S COMMENT:

"I made this exactly as the recipe calls for, but I added a bit of vanilla and some cinnamon. It was great, but my 4 year old and 22 month old didn't like it. It made way too much for just me to eat (because my husband wouldn't try it! lol...

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58 Reviews for Overnight Oatmeal

04/12/2013

Anonymous

Pumpkin oatmeal

I add a can of canned pumpkins to my slowcooker steel cut oatmeal recipe. I also sprinkle in some pumpkin pie spice. It turns out delicious!!

If I don't have pumpkins, I add chopped apples and some vanilla to the recipe.
Both ideas turn out great.

Pros: Delicious

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01/07/2013

Kim_514

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Perfect Oatmeal in 4 hours

I agree with other reviewers that 8hrs will overcook/burn the oatmeal. Instead, it usually only takes about 4 hrs. I don't like traditional oatmeal (never have - it's too mushy), but these steel cut oats are great. I normally get a nice chewy consistency. I typically add flaxseed meal and a touch of syrup when I heat a bowl up....delicious!

Pros: simple, easy, healthy, eat for a week

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01/03/2013

Anonymous

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Wonderful brunch item

Wonderful recipe - our family doesn't like appricots so we modified it to include 1/3 cup of each of the following dried fruits - cranberries, tart cherries, peaches, and apples, then added slivered almonds for a nutty crunch. All the ingredients fit in a large canning jar allowing me to give a recipe's worth as a Christmas gift, very similar to the cookie mixes in the jar. The dried fruit made it fun to layer the colors so it was festive.

Pros: Easy to prepare, customizable (variety of dried fruit), very tasty, healthy

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Anonymous wrote 7 weeks 3 days ago

Where do you get dried

Where do you get dried peaches? I've looked "everywhere" but all I can find are sulphered...yuck

10/25/2012

Anonymous

owernight oats

I had too much oatmeal the last time I cooked this also. I pulled out some 2 cup containers and tried freezing (extra space is for heating in the microwave the next day.) Was just fine. I sit one in the fridge at night, micro it in the morning adding almond milk and banana. Was just fine. Also added some leftover Quinoa. Really good.

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10/25/2012

Anonymous

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Great, but not Awesome!

I am a confirmed rolled oats oatmeal hater. It has to do with the slime factor. But TEEL CUT - ah, that's another story! I don't add any sweetener, salt or cinnamon to the oatmeal, just raisins, and before eating, a T. of chopped walnuts, and sometimes, maple syrup. The best recipe I have calls for toasting 1 cup of steel cut oats in a T. butter for a few minutes, then adding the boiling water, NO STIRRING, and raisins and put in the crock pot for 5-6 hours or gently cook at a bubble for 25 minutes on the stovetop, then add 3/4 c. milk/buttermilk combo, and cook an additional 10 minutes. I don't know if it's the butter or the not stirring, but there is NO slime factor at all...just a nice chewiness...it si snowing here today, so I think I'll make some for supper RIGHT NOW!

Pros: not slimy, no waiting for it to cook for 35 minutes on the stove top.

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