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Creamy, warmly-spiced Apple Cinnamon Crock Pot Steel Cut Oatmeal is a marvelous make-ahead breakfast to share with family. Set it up the night before and have delicious oatmeal in the morning!
Have you ever made steel cut oatmeal in your crock pot?
If you’ve made steel cut oats, you know it can be time-consuming to prepare it on the stove top. It requires 30 to 40 minutes of cook time, and because it can boil over easily, it needs to be monitored. My solution to this? Preparing steel cut oats in the crock pot!
The major benefit to this recipe is you simply put all the ingredients in a crock pot, give it a stir, and let it sit on low heat. You’ll end up with plenty of oatmeal that you can bring to work for breakfast throughout the week, or you can make this for friends and/or family when you’re entertaining overnight guests.
Recipe Notes:
- I will say, you’ll definitely want to use full-fat canned coconut milk in this recipe to ensure the oatmeal doesn’t stick to the sides of your crock pot. The coconut milk will make the steel cut oatmeal super thick and creamy and delicious!
- While you can serve the steel cut oatmeal with almond milk, I don’t recommend using almond milk for the cooking portion of this recipe, as it has a tendency to separate.
- You can replace the pure maple syrup with honey or brown sugar if that’s your preference over pure maple syrup.
- If you’re looking to serve more than 4 people, simply double the recipe!
Enjoy your morning porridge!
Apple Cinnamon Crock Pot Steel Cut Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1 cup steel cut oats, see note*
- 4 cups water
- 1 cup full-fat canned coconut milk*
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup, to taste
- 3 Tbsp unsalted butter, see note**
- 1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped
- 1/3 cup raisins
- ½ cup raw walnuts, chopped
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt, to taste
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a crock pot and stir well.
- Place crock pot on the low setting for 7 to 9 hours, until the liquid has been absorbed. If possible, stir the oatmeal part of the way through.
- Serve generous portions of oatmeal with your sweetener of choice (honey or pure maple syrup recommended), almond milk, coconut milk, or regular milk, plus additional raisins and walnuts.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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can I use quick cook steel cut oatmeal…it’s all i have in the pantry?
Hi there! I’ve never tested the recipe using quick cook. My guess is you’d be better off making the recipe on the stove top with the quick cook versus the crock pot. Let me know if you try either method!
Um, I need those boot cuffs. How adorb. Also, I need a bowl of oats for breakfast. Going over to visit Stephie.
This looks AMAZING. I just found your blog today and I’m hooked! I adore oatmeal, so of course, checked out your oatmeal recipes first:) I just adore your style of blogging and your tastes in food.I can’t wait to see what’s up next! You’re very talented:)
Ok. Here’s a real question. I’m planning on this for our breakfast Sunday. We’ll get up around 7:30 for church, but I’m a light weight as far as staying up late, so it’s 10:30 PM when we turn out the light (at the latest). That’s right at 9 hours. If it goes a little over, is that a big deal, or should I make it the day before and then re-heat it? Thoughts??
You should be fine, but maybe add a little extra liquid. Mine came out pretty thick, so I’d go liberal on the liquid and you’ll be good to go. Yaaay, I’m glad you’re making this! 🙂
Perfect!! Thank you. I’ll need it with this insane -15 degree crap that’s coming.
Brrrrr! Hope you’ve got your boot cuffs ready! 😉
I didn’t get any. 🙁
Oh geez.
In my defense, she does have quite the variety of scarves that I’ve made. Also a pretty blanket. So there’s that.
This looks amazing!!!
Those boot cuffs are too cute! She’s crafty, that one.
Steel cut oats are my favorite! I’ll have to go take a little look-see at your delicious recipe…
Stephie is one amazing gal. I tried crocheting once and didn’t last but 10 minutes. The cuffs are all adorable and super cozy. You’ll love the oatmeal! Let me know if you try it! 🙂
Happy New Year! I want those boot cuffs!!! Heading over to check out the recipe for this delicious breakfast.
I have a bag of steel cut oats just begging to be used in this!
Dooooo it! 🙂
it looks yummy!
Happy New Year Julia! If this oatmeal will do my work outs for me, I’m gonna eat it every day!
One resolution was to clean out the pantry—it is always a mess. I found some steel cut oats in the bottom. Another resolution? Use them! Happy New Year!
I love how crock pot recipes are perfect for pantry clean-out! You’ll love this! 🙂
I actually woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed after New Years eve – I think a week of festivities caught up with me so I was quite well behaved NYE! Even without the hangover though Im always in the mood for oats, so heading over now to check out your recipe 🙂 Happy New Year!
This looks awesome. Cook have used some of this healthy stuff to nurse my holiday hangover ;D
This is our Sunday breakfast this weekend, for sure! I just love you. Aren’t Stephie’s boot cuffs cute? She amazes me, and I made her. 🙂 Miracles do happen for sure! Here’s to hoping that I get to make you breakfast in person in 2014. Have a fabulous rest of your week, my dear.