Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Steel cut oats in the rice cooker!

I've been hearing about this method of cooking your steel cut oats in the rice cooker for a while now and I finally remembered to try it last night! I say that because even though this recipe is super, super easy ... you do have to remember to put your oatmeal and water into the rice cooker the night before so the oats can soak. If you can remember to do that, you'll enjoy this so-simple-it's-crazy breakfast TOMORROW!


Night before:
Add one cup of oats (this recipe is specifically for steel cut Irish oats. If you are trying another kind, please google ANOTHER recipe, ha ha!) and 2 cups plus 3 oz. water to your rice cooker.

Morning of:
Plug in/turn on your rice cooker. Foil the baby in her attempts to climb the bookcase and pound on your Macbook.

15 minutes later ... EAT!

I topped my oats with a tablespoon of brown sugar, a handful of blueberries, a few sliced almonds, and some fat free half-and-half. And I have leftovers to microwave for tomorrow! This recipe is going into heavy rotation at our house. It's a lot better than eating leftover Halloween candy for breakfast!

4 comments:

Morgan S. said...

This sounds great! We will give it a try.

Holly said...

I'm kind of rediscovering our rice cooker...I'll have to try this because right now my can of steel cut oats is collecting dust.

Swistle said...

That DOES look good.

kelli said...

long-time lurker on your other blog...

When my husband picked up a can of steel-cut oats at the store last week, i thought i remembered seeing this recipe somewhere on your blog... So last night, we pulled out the rice cooker before bed. This morning, all I had to do was press the button, and we had an absolutely delicious breakfast! I can't believe how freakin' easy it is - i'm not sure instant would have been any simpler, and this tasted tons better. Thanks for the recipe!!