Banana Nut Steel-Cut Oats

A brown bowl filled with steel-cut oats, peanut butter, honey, caramelized banana, chia seeds, hemp hearts, and chopped almonds

To conclude the 6 Weeks of Oats event, I thought I’d share what I thought of as being the ultimate form of the classic bowl of oatmeal. I wanted to bring out all the best features of a bowl of oatmeal. The creaminess, the coziness, and the comfort. Truthfully, what makes oats so plain and boring most of the time is the lack of time and care that’s put into them.

A stainless steel saucepan filled with steel cut oats next to a bunch of yellow bananas on a wooden chopping board

While I know that 15 minutes of cook-time for a bowl of oatmeal is asking a lot from those of you who have gotten used to the ease of quick oats, steel-cut oats are more than worth it. What’s even better, the 15 minutes start almost as soon as you choose to make these. Throw the oats on the stove and use the rest of the time to make your coffee and prep whatever toppings you’d like to go on top of your bowl of oatmeal.

A white bowl containing mashed banana mixed with vanilla essence, salt, and peanut butter on top of a wooden chopping board

For the ultimate oatmeal recipe I had to figure out a few components: nutritional value, ease, flavor, and texture. The usual bowl of oatmeal generally consists of oats, milk or water, some fruit, and maple syrup or honey. The most common choice of oats being rolled oats, because of its lower cook-time and versatile nature. As for the fruit, people seem to generally like to top their oats with bananas, berries, or both. It’s classic, it’s good, nothing wrong with it. High fiber breakfast with lots of micronutrients from the fruit. It could be better, though. I wanted to add protein and fats to this classic and use steel-cut oats, which is better for your blood sugar.

a brown bowl of creamy oats next to a smaller blue bowl containing chopped almonds on top of a wooden chopping board, a yellow ripe banana and a handful of scattered almonds in the background

I don’t love protein powders, they’re usually very heavily sweetened and flavored and I don’t like the restriction that comes with that. So, normally, I use collagen powder as my choice of protein powder. Not for this recipe, though. Eggs are accessible, affordable, and very high in protein. Plus, you can’t taste them at all in this recipe! We’re only using egg whites in this recipe, but you can save your yolks for some fried rice, Crème Brûlée, hollandaise sauce, and you can even try out the viral salt-cured egg yolks everyone’s grating on top of their pastas.

Bowl of porridge with a caramelized banana and peanut butter

So, with the egg whites, this recipe becomes a lot more satiating and balanced. The egg whites also add to the creaminess of the oats, but they don’t do much in terms of flavor. The breakfast combo that stood out to me the most from my childhood, whether it was on top of my cereal, my pancakes, or my bread, was always bananas, nuts, and honey or maple syrup (honey for most things, maple syrup for pancakes). Nuts also have the added benefit of providing healthy fats in this recipe.

Creamy Banana-Nut Protein Oats

Creamy Banana-Nut Protein Oats

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Yield: 2
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Prep time: 2 MinCook time: 15 MinTotal time: 17 Min
These steel-cut oats are the ultimate version of a classic bowl of oatmeal, creamy, comforting, and high in protein

Ingredients

Instructions

Notes

  • To make these oats vegan, substitute the egg whites for your favorite plant-based protein powder.
  • You can make the caramelized banana with or without the coconut sugar, but it's important to use a ripe banana if you choose not to add any sugar.
  • The ripeness of your bananas will also determine how sweet the oats turn out, if needed, add in honey or maple syrup at the end to sweeten them to your liking.

Nutrition Facts

Calories

493.78

Fat

20.16

Sat. Fat

4.83

Carbs

62.32

Fiber

9.12

Net carbs

53.22

Sugar

21.13

Protein

20.59

Sodium

117.72

Cholesterol

178.32
Banana-Nut, steel-cut oats, oatmeal, porridge, cozy
breakfast
American
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