I was looking for Plant Strong items we could eat for breakfast on our annual family campout and this one was a hit. I placed a liner in the crockpot then all the ingredients. (OK, so we don't totally rough it when we camp out.) I turned it on when we went to bed a little after midnight. Late bedtimes are not unusual for our family. Lots of stories to tell and songs to sing often venture into the wee hours of the morning. But at 7am on the dot we have hungry little munchkins giggling outside our tent ready to be fed. This oatmeal was piping hot and ready to serve our little hungry campers.
Ingredients:
2 cups oatmeal (regular or steel cut)1 3/4 cups water (2 cups if using steel cut oats)
1 3/4 cups apple juice ( 2 cups if using steel cut oats)
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla
dash nutmeg
1 small apple, peeled and diced tiny
Directions:
I used a 4 quart slow cooker for this. It has to cook such a long time, you want the oatmeal to fill as much of the crock as possible. If it doesn’t, it will cook too hot.
Spray the crock with cooking spray so you can clean it easier the next morning. Oatmeal is sticky.
Put all the ingredients in the crock and stir to combine. Turn it on low as you’re going to bed. I turned mine on at 10pm and cooked it till about 7am. If you have a programmable slow cooker, cook it for about 5 hours on low for steel cut or 3 for regular oats.
This recipe makes 4 large servings.
I had never cooked or even seen, steel cut oats until I bought them for this recipe. They do cost more money than regular. And I thought they looked like horse food. I’ve never seen horse food either, but that’s what it should look like. Let me tell you, a horse would be very happy to be served a bowl of this apple oatmeal!
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