Baked Oats For One | Quick And Easy
When the cold weather strikes this Baked Oats Recipe makes the perfect nourishing breakfast. It’s quick, easy and warming. It makes a quick and easy snack too that’s akin to a cheats banana bread.
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Nutritional Benefits
Oats are a nutritional powerhouse, providing a wide array of health benefits primarily due to their rich content of a soluble fibre called beta-glucan. This unique fibre works as a prebiotic helping to both increase and balance the populations of healthy gut bacteria (1). It’s also known for its ability to balance cholesterol, and to regulate blood pressure and blood sugar (1,2).
Oats are also an excellent source of B vitamins, vitamin E, and minerals like manganese, magnesium, iron and zinc too (3). Additionally, they contain powerful antioxidants called avenanthramides that help reduce inflammation (3,4). The high fibre and protein content of oats contribute to a feeling of fullness, making them a great food for promoting healthy digestion (5).
Ingredients – What You’ll Need To Make This Recipe
There are no special ingredients here, and it’s more than likely you’ll have everything you need in the pantry. Oats form the hearty base, with the other ingredients adding a blend of delicious warming flavours and a touch of sweetness. This is also a versatile dish given the endless options for add-ins, like chopped dried fruit, nuts, seeds, or spices to make each batch unique.
- Oats – the base of the recipe giving it a cake-like consistency.
- Banana – adds flavour, sweetness, and also works as an added binder to ensure everything sticks together. Ensure your banana is quite ripe or the oats will have little sweetness when cooked.
- Maple syrup – adds sweetness with added notes of caramel, toffee, and a hint of vanilla.
- Egg – ups the protein content and helps bind the other ingredients.
- Almond milk – helps to thin out the batter and can be replaced with any milk preferred.
- Baking powder – reacts with the heat when it hits the oven helping to puff up the baked oats.
- Cinnamon – adds a little extra sweetness and warmth to the flavour profile.
- Salt – Helps to enhance all the other flavours.
Experiment by adding a little cacao (½ to 1 tablespoon) and some choc chips to this recipe. That would give you chocolate baked oats and I think it would be absolutely delicious.
How To Make These Easy Baked Oats
This recipe is quick and no fuss requiring only a small blender and small baking dish to minimise the clean-up. The ingredients are few and simple and are easily customised to suit your tastes or dietary needs.
- Preheat oven and line a small baking tin with baking paper. Mine was 18 x 13.5cm (7 x 5.5 inch).
- Blend the oats into a flour using a small blender.
- Add all the remaining ingredients and blend again to make a batter. It should look like a cake batter when done. You may need to scrape the oats off the bottom if they’re stuck and blend again.
- Pour into the prepared baking tin and place in the oven. Cook for 20 minutes or until the top is golden.
Remove the oats from the oven and top with anything at all that you like. Yoghurt, honey, walnuts, berries or choc chips are all delicious additions.
Substitutions And Variations
Don’t like baked banana? Replace it with ½ a cup of apple sauce or blended stewed apple. Banana not only adds flavour, it behaves like a binder in recipes and applesauce does a similar thing.
Storing
This is a one serve recipe however, should any remain store it in an airtight container in the fridge. Re-heat briefly in the oven or microwave.
FAQ
Yes. See the nutritional benefits section at the beginning of the recipe for an overview of the nutrients oats provide.
Yes and no. The difference really is texture. Baked oat recipes like this one blend the oats before cooking. With the other ingredients added it’s more airy and cake-like. Baked oatmeal leaves the oats whole, which makes it more chewy.
Yes! I would only suggest doing this if using the banana. I would not suggest attempting it if replacing the banana with applesauce.
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Baked Oats for One
Equipment
- 1 Small blender
Ingredients
- ½ cup oats
- 1 medium ripe banana
- ¼ cup milk of choice
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup (see note below)
- 1 Egg
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- Toppings of choice – yoghurt, a drizzle of maple syrup and nuts is what I love.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC and line a small tin with baking paper. Mine was 7 x 5.5 inch/18 x 13.5cm.
- Blend oats into a flour-like consistency.
- Add remaining ingredients to your blender (except toppings) and blend again to form a batter.
- Pour into your prepared tin and bake for 20 minutes, or until golden.
- Remove from the oven, add toppings and enjoy.
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Gabby Campbell
Gabby is a degree qualified Naturopath/Nutritionist (BHSc Nat) with a love of all whole foods. She started her Naturopathic career in clinical practice before making the move to recipe development and online education – a result of wanting to combat the misinformation that abounds on the internet about food and health. Whole Natural Kitchen aims to transform the way you think about healthy eating by helping you embrace an abundance of nutritious foods while leaving the health fads behind. MORE ABOUT GABBY