Baked Steel-Cut Oats With Nut Butter

By Melissa Clark

Published March 20, 2020

Baked Steel-Cut Oats With Nut Butter
Julia Gartland for The New York Times. (Photography and Styling)
Total Time
About 1 hour
Rating
4(1,084)
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For a simple, filling breakfast, baked steel-cut oatmeal, enriched with almond butter and cinnamon, is a go-to recipe. This version is particularly adaptable: Use peanut butter or almond butter, steel-cut or cracked oats, or any number of warming spices that might be in your cupboard. Then, garnish as you wish.

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Ingredients

Yield:3 to 4 servings
  • ¼cup peanut butter or almond butter
  • 1cup steel-cut or cracked oats
  • Pinch of salt
  • Cinnamon, nutmeg or cardamom, for sprinkling (optional)
  • Sliced bananas, raisins or dried fruit, chopped apple, maple syrup, honey, brown sugar or heavy cream, for garnishing (optional)
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Nutritional analysis per serving (4 servings)

275 calories; 11 grams fat; 2 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 5 grams monounsaturated fat; 3 grams polyunsaturated fat; 36 grams carbohydrates; 6 grams dietary fiber; 5 grams sugars; 10 grams protein; 41 milligrams sodium

Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Heat oven to 350 degrees and bring a kettle of water to a boil.

  2. Step 2

    In a medium shallow casserole or baking dish, combine 3 cups boiling water and the nut butter and stir until smooth-ish. (Don’t worry about a few lumps.) Stir in oats. Season the mix with a big pinch of salt, and some cinnamon or nutmeg if you like.

  3. Step 3

    Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour, stirring halfway through. Taste and if the oats aren’t cooked enough, let it bake for 5 to 10 minutes longer.

  4. Step 4

    Garnish with whatever you like, and serve.

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nancy harmon jenkins

Recipe calls for steel-cut or cracked oats. Would it work with old-fashioned (i.e., not quick cooking) rolled oats? I'm about to find out, fingers crossed and praying I don't make a mess. And if it's a mess, I guess I could turn it into a version of oatmeal cookies?

Christina

I JUST did this and noticed it required only half the cooking time.

Mari

Fun recipe. You can adjust to make it as salty or as sweet as you prefer. I used old-fashioned oats and I found that it didn't need an hour to cook, so I took it out of the oven with about 20 minutes remaining. One other fun thing about this recipe is that it yielded a much bigger dish than when I cook the same amount of oats (1 cup) on the stove top.

Christa

My Bob's Red Mill steel-cut oats also seemed done in only 30 minutes when I went to stir it: perhaps the hour allows for cracked oats. Hadn't made this recipe for a while but grateful I remembered it on a foggy morning, and appreciate the protein from the Justin's peanut butter. Ridiculously easy to make: I always appreciate Melissa's recipes. Her pumpkin-spiced steel-cut oatmeal and chocolate steel-cut oatmeal are great as well: I love steel-cut oatmeal and appreciate these recipes.

becaru

I can't justify keeping my oven heated for an hour to bake this, when I can cook it on the stove top in 20 minutes. Is there really a difference in flavor?

Andy Homer

Delicious!! We added apples that were baked with the oats and it was ‘awesome’ according to my 8 year old son. Will definitely make again

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