Spiced Apple Baked Oatmeal
Published June 30, 2025

- Total Time
- 35 minutes
- Prep Time
- 5 minutes
- Cook Time
- 30 minutes
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Ingredients
- 3medium honeycrisp, Fuji or gala apples
- 2large eggs
- 1(13½-ounce) can full-fat coconut milk, plus more if desired
- ½teaspoon kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal) or ¼ teaspoon fine salt
- 2cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1½ teaspoons ground ginger
- 1teaspoon ground turmeric
- ¼teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 to 4tablespoons turbinado or demerara sugar, to taste
- Milk, buttermilk or more coconut milk, to serve
Preparation
- Step 1
Set a rack in the middle of the oven and heat to 350 degrees.
- Step 2
Coarsely grate the apples (no need to peel) into a large bowl, working your way around the cores. Discard the cores. Whisk in the eggs, coconut milk and salt until thoroughly combined.
- Step 3
Add the oats to a large, high-sided, broiler-safe skillet and cook on medium-low, stirring frequently, until they smell toasty, 4 to 6 minutes. Remove from heat, then stir in the cinnamon, ginger, turmeric and pepper to gently toast in the residual heat.
- Step 4
Add the apple mixture to the skillet and stir to combine with the oats, then transfer to the oven to bake until set, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Step 5
Remove from the oven and heat the broiler to high. Evenly sprinkle the sugar on top, then broil until caramelized, 2 to 3 minutes. Divide among bowls and serve with milk, buttermilk or more coconut milk. Leftover baked oatmeal can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 5 days. To reheat, cover and microwave individual portions before adding milk, buttermilk or coconut milk.
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Comments
The warming spice blend in this is an absolute winner. A few things I’d do differently next time: - I didn’t have turbinado sugar and the apples alone weren’t enough sweetener. Next time I’m going to add some maple syrup into the mix before baking - I also think the mixture could use a bit more salt to keep the oats from tasting bland and really enhance the spice flavors - I’ll probably add a chopped nut for texture variation!
Halve the tumeric and consider cardamom.
This was pretty good and a nice variation on baked oatmeal. I only had 2 apples so I substituted slices from 2 bananas instead which really added some much needed texture and variation in flavour. I also used soy milk instead of coconut milk and I think any kind of milk would work here. Next time I will reduce the turmeric and completely eliminate the black pepper.
This has a delicious flavor! Especially with the broiled sugar on top. Here are a few changes I made that elevated it further: -when toasting oats, add about 1/2 cup pecans and toast them too -add raisins -serve with a dollop of Greek yogurt on the side -3 minutes was too long under the broiler; do 2 minutes and turn around after 1 minute
Made this exactly as written. No substitutions or modifications. Absolutely delicious. I would eat this for dessert!
Tried to half sugar so did 1 T sugar in the raw and 1 T and used sweetened coconut with sugar. This recipe did not taste sweet to me but adding slivered almonds and raisins to dry pudding seemed great
