Slow cooker oats: overnight breakfast recipe revealed

Want to wake up to an already cooked breakfast? Here’s a recipe for baked oats using a slow cooker overnight.

With barely any effort, you can wake up to the smell of delicious slow-cooked oats by using a slow cooker.

Add apple, yoghurt, berries and nuts and you’ll never have tasted porridge like this before.

Slow cooker oats

Calories: 217 per serve

Allergens: Recipe may contain tree nut, milk, lactose and alcohol.

Ingredients

150g (1 cup) steel cut oats

875ml (3 1/2 cups) water

1 large red apple, peeled and coarsely grated

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 cinnamon stick

Yoghurt, to serve

Sliced apple, to serve

Fresh raspberries, to serve

Toasted nuts and seeds, to serve

Maple syrup, to serve

You can make oats in a slow cooker.

Method

Step 1

Lightly grease a 3L slow cooker with oil. Add the oats, water, apple and vanilla. Stir to combine then add the cinnamon stick.

Step 2

Set the slow-cooker on low and cook for 8 hours. Remove and discard cinnamon stick and stir well. Stand uncovered for 5 minutes.

Step 3

Serve with a dollop of yoghurt, sprinkled with apple, nuts and seeds and drizzled with maple syrup.

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Originally published as Slow cooker oats: overnight breakfast recipe revealed