fresh out of the oven, gluten-free baked oatmeal. |
I know it doesn't necessarily look pretty or sexy or anything like that, but sometimes, things are delicious and moist and so unforgettable that a picture just doesn't do it justice. I did try to make it look somewhat presentable, but the thing with baked items that are in a dish, it just doesn't turn out the way you want it to.
These are all the main ingredients you need! Amazing! |
Life has been a little intense for me this year, so I apologize for the lack of posts. I hope to start doing some more soon since I've been experimenting with dishes lately. This dish in particular requires so few ingredients, it doesn't take me more than 10 minutes to whip this dish up. All the ingredients that you need are in this picture above. Look at that. You can even eliminate the banana if you'd like, making it only be 8 ingredients. When was the last time you did baking and only needed 8 ingredients?
All the dry ingredients. |
What's nice about this dish is that I choose to only use one bowl. You put the dry ingredients first and mix them up, and then once that's done and you've added the dry ingredients to the baking dish, you can use the same bowl for the wet ingredients. It lessens the amount of dishes to clean, and it is also just easy. I am all about easy recipes these days, especially with the cold weather--I tend to want to hybernate and do less now that it's winter time.
dry ingredients on the bottom and topped with frozen fruit |
Berries are not really in season, and even if they were, I would still use frozen berries for this dish. Because they are hard, it allows for the (kind of) long cook time without them exploding or burning. Of course when you cook berries, you for sure want there to be some juicy explosions, but I also enjoy seeing the actual fruit and being able to bite into it, instead of it all being just a jellied mess.
Wet ingredients all whisked together |
The final step: pouring wet ingredients onto dry |
Fresh out of the oven |
A quick show before it's all consumed. |
Ingredients:
2 c. Gluten-free oats
.5 c. Brown sugar
1 tbs. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2 c. Milk of your choosing
1 egg
1 tbs. vanilla extract
3 tbs. butter, melted (or vegan butter)
1 package frozen fruit (I used mixed berry for variety)
1 banana (optional)
Preheat oven to 375. Spray or oil a baking dish. I used both a 9x12 and a 9x7 and I prefer the smaller one--makes the food thicker and not so thin and spread out. It also bakes a bit better.
In a medium mixing bowl, add oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Whisk thoroughly. Add this mixture to your prepared pan.
In the same bowl (I am all about using as few dishes as possible), mix together the milk, egg, vanilla, and butter. Make sure to whisk this really well to get the egg nicely incorporated into the mixture.
Put the frozen fruit on top of the oat mixture in pan, and slice the banana if using and add to this mix.
Pour the wet ingredients over the oats in an evenly fashion to make sure everything is nicely coated. Let it sit for about 30 seconds to let the wet ingredients seep into the oats.
Bake for 40 minutes and enjoy! This is a huge hit and doesn't last long.