I cook the oats with water and salt on the stovetop. If I have time I use steel cut, but normally just stick with rolled oats.
My usual add-ins are honey, ground cinnamon and full cream milk.
This morning I tried peanut butter, strawberry jam and milk. Really good.
Another favourite of mine is grated fresh apple and cinnamon
Have you tried Oats from Iku Wholefoods? Its sooo good. I'm currently trying to reverse engineer it :P
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Looove oats!
1/3 cup rolled oats, dessert spoon chia seeds and dessert spoon flax meal. Cover with water and microwave until boils.
Stir in one egg and milk, microwave until boil.
Add milk and eat.
The chia seeds and flax meal totally changes the plain porridge. Egg for protein. Add some wild honey for a treat!
Quick oats, 1 tspn vegeta stock, 5-6 sliced beef rolls / prawn dumplings / fish balls, add some frozen mixed vege.
M-F breakfast and lunch. Eat whatever I want for dinner and weekends.
Are you frying this all together, similar to okonomiyaki?
I can fry it, but more often just boil in water in saucepan, depends on my chosen choice of protein. Been on it for 12 months, shed 8 KG whist still feeling full during the weekday.
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Equal parts rolled oats, water and milk.
Cook.
Put in bowl.
Sprinkle salt and add honey.
Mix.
Eat.
Digest.
Shit.
Cannot stand the texture of porridge myself. Might as well let weetbix go soggy then warm it up. This could potentially be a hang-up from childhood, but I can't get past it, even now as I'm near 40.
That's noor how you meek porridge.
Been doing it lately with a bit of drinking chocolate powder sprinkled on top and some m&m's thrown in. Makes a nice colourful mix for the kids when they stir it which they love. Makes it more of a dessert but it tastes great.
good lord
I sift the oats, removes lots of the dust.The dust canât be good for you.
the dust is the best bit!
It's oat dust, not human skin and lint from the factory
It's not? Damn, need to get my protein from somewhere else then. Thanks for the heads up.
add water and cook to a thin soup consistency, season with pepper and fish sauce
Steel cut oats with light milk and water in the instant pot, pot in pot method. Then add a splash of full cream milk and some seasonal fruit.
Tiny bit of boiling water, mix it, heat up, then I keep adding milk until it's cooked and thick.
Serve with a bit of raw sugar and cinnamon sprinkled around to taste. Add warm milk.
If in a hurry in the morning:
The night before, cover half a cup of rolled oats and a few blueberries with boiling water to 1 cm over the mixture, cover with a plate and leave overnight. Reheat, covered for 180 seconds in microwave and stir to combine. Sprinkle 1 tbsp of home msde granola over the top and a large dollop of fat free greek yoghurt on top.
If time to cook and eat, say on a Sunday, on the stove stirred with a spurtle or the wrong end of a wooden spoon, pour out,add cream or milk and sprinkle withbrown sugar.
left in the packet, off to the shop for a bacon and egg roll
Rolled oats with sultanas prepacked in serving size and cooked at work:
* Add just enough water to cover, not enough to overflow bowl when starts rising.
* 1 min in microwave, then stir, add a little more water if it's too gluggy
* Back in for 1 more minute
* Add a little skim milk or almond milk to cool it down, and honey if I remember.
I've found by providing less water, I'm able to replicate the gluggy oats that have been sitting in pot all morinni, in just 2 minutes.
… and actually like that more than the half cooked soup I was having when following instructions on the packet.
Less than $2/kg. Oats and sultanas are a bargain breakfast. 2 of my favorite foods (based on price).
oh ps OP, how does you cinimmon go? Do you need to use tablespoons per serving?? I just couldn't get enough flavour.
I've been finding that I need to adjust to taste - it's easy to make it too little or too much
Rolled oats, equal parts water and milk, microwave for 4 mins, add a fried egg on top, soy sauce.
I know I am weird.
Not too hot, not too cold. Just right.
Okay, hear me out: try out a savoury version for lunch. Poached egg, spinach, kimchi, protein of your choice (tuna, chicken, tofu), soy sauce, chilli oil etc. It's really good and healthier than a rice bowl or a congee.
Rolled oats, banana, berries, or other season fruit, add cinnamon. Pour boiled water on top, then leave it for a few minutes. Add milk and yogurt.
Rolled, Water, Microwave, Bit of honey or sugar.
Organic rolled oats slow cooked in stainless steel saucepan. Garnished with Bragg Liquid Aminos (similar to soya auce) & teaspoon of organic avocado oil. Delicious!
Hot, skim milk, brown sugar, raisins, banana/apple or berries (if no raisins).
Dry, with a spoon, straight out of the bag.
Uncooked alternative:
Let it soak (refrigerated) for 2 or 3 days. Use milk or whatever you chose.
Have it cold in summer, microwaved to warm up for winter.
Quick and simple.
Microwave half a cup of oats with soy milk and banana for two minutes, add cinnamon once warmed up, let sit for a 5 minutes then eat.
Rolled oats, 30g chocolate protein powder mixed with water & a teaspoon of psyllium husk, combine and eat (cold). Good mix of carbs, protein and fibre and super quick & easy.
With my mouth.
Steel cut oats, milk and water, puréed pumpkin, maple syrup, flaxseed meal, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, vanilla in a slow cooker overnight. Top with toasted pecans. Sounds busy but not that hard to throw together and so delicious. Also without the pumpkin and lots of medjool dates.
For quick oats, my go to is brown sugar.
Eat it with a Century egg will do for me.
@beltdrive where do you get your steel cut oats?
I've only just tried it recently. I got the Woolworths Macro brand, I think it was on sale
Uncle Tobys Quick Oats (bought when on sale at half price) cooked in the microwave for 1œ minutes with water and milk. Then cut up a pear or banana or whatever other soft fruit I have on hand and add to the bowl. As much as I hate buying Nestle, Uncle Tobys is much better texture than the home brand stuff from Aldi or Colesworth.
The Coles brand one is ok and pretty cheap, but agree Uncle Toby's is better.
Why the uncle hate?
Itâs not Uncle Tobys specifically that I hate, but theyâve been owned by Nestle since 2006 and Iâm sure youâve heard why Nestle is not a good company?
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90 seconds in microwave with skim milk, sprinkle on some berries.
My oldest kid loves his oats.
His go to is brown sugar, little bit of vanilla and frozen blueberries.
The frozen blueberries defrost in the super hot oats and cool it down to a better temp for him to eat it.
I mix it with of 50/50 milk & water, as well as a half a scoop of protein powder and drop in some frozen berries & nuts.
(If I'm not adding protein powder, I'd drizzle some honey)
One of my go to meals for breakfast.
Bon Appétit
childhood memories of trying to scrub burnt porridge from the base of huge pots that served 100 at youth camps put me off porridge forever
these daze I put 35gm of Coles organic oats (a little softer than the cheapest Colesworths rolled oats - I avoid 'Quick' - that's instant sludge IMHO) into a small bowl, top level with boiling water while I swirl the bowl, until all the oats move, then cover and walk away for 3-4 mins, then top with yoghurt, walnuts or dried fruit/seeds whatever, a splash of milk
takes 2 minutes effort to make, 2 minutes to eat, and I'm not hungry for 5 hours - high fibre, anti-inflammatory superfood, it prevents my hypoglycemia and keeps me regular, costs cents per serve - I eat it every day unless travel prevents - YMMV.
In order for successful weightloss ive been having with water and cinnamon.
Microwave ti 1m10 or 1m20 till it becomes a cake texture.
pop a cup of oats in a pot with milk and place in the fridge over night.
Add extra milk in the morning if required.
Heat slowly on the stove for a while until it starts to bubble and then add sultana & chopped banana.
Heat for a little longer.
Add a little brown sugar if it needs to be sweeter.
Delicious.
Rolled oats, always milk, blast in it in the microwave for 90 seconds or so, balance out with more milk if needed. Then I add honey or a banana if I have it. I'll add granola mix if I'm being really fancy.
I'm lazy and use the microwave one, brown sugar and cinnamon flavour. Chopped banana is the go.
Soak rolled oats with water and a couple of sultanas (+ cinnamon if I remember). Nuke for a couple of minutes. Add milk and sliced banana. Devour.
2:1 ratio of oats (rolled, Coles brand) to water in the microwave for 2-3 minutes then some peanut butter, honey, cinnamon and a tiny pinch of salt. Delicious.
Milk with a quick oats sachet plus some extra rolled oats. Microwave then add some brown sugar. Warms you up and its quick to make.
I live for Bob's Red Mill 'Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal' it's like a steel cut mix of brown rice, corn meal, buckwheat and sorghum. I cook it the night before (takes about six mins in the microwave) with salt and water, and in the morning reheat with chopped banana, almond milk and top with maple syrup or brown sugar.
Water and salt, wow. Thatâs exactly what I imagine the âgruelâ is in Oliver Twist.
Waiting for the bears to comment.
Add some warm water and salt with my oats in a bowl when I make first breakfast and let it stand for about an hour and a half until it's time for second breakfast, a.k.a breakfast dessert. Then in the microwave for 3 min, add sugar, butter and cinnamon.
For the easiest and creamiest porridge…
I used rolled oats, water, butter and a pinch of salt in the pressure cooker for a couple of minutes.
Do you add toppings? Have never had a savoury porridge before…
Itâs not at all savoury cooking it like this.
Honey or sugar is fine.
Use rolled oats. Steel cut are better but take longer to cook properly. Never ever ever use quick oats.
Frozen berries topped with oats and water (previously used dairy milk) and leave it in the fridge overnight.
Microwave in the morning with soy milk.
base: 1/2 cup oats, 1/2 cup milk, 1 cup water, butter (optional), salt. sometimes 1/4 cup combined: Barley, buckwheat
flavour additions: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, vanilla, peanut butter, almond spread, maple syrup, honey, jam sometimes with peanut butter.
fruits/nuts/seeds: almonds, walnuts, banana, blueberries, sultanas/raisins, chia seeds, linseeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds
favourite combos:
Peanut butter: + jam, or banana, nuts/seeds
cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, vanilla, blueberries, walnuts, choice of seeds
Woolies quick oats, honey, water, zapped in the microwave.
Proper fast gruel.
I usually lean towards the sweet site, I like to mix in fruit:
- berries
- bananas
- apples
- pears
- dried mango
- dried salted coconut
and nuts
- pecans
- walnuts
- almonds
And some maple syrup. Microwave in milk for 2min 30secs in a 2:1 ratio to the whole oats. Overnight oats are better texturally imo but I rarely can be bothered to prep in advanced. Nice and warm brekky when it's cold af right now.
Some solid ideas in here - will try adding egg, peanut butter and jam!
i add a pitch of salt while cooking, once cooked I put a dab of butter in the middle and it melts, with a small amout of milk you can also add some sugar but i normally dont these days.
Hmmm
I guess with
Marinated cabbage, anchovies, salted eggs, peanuts, spring onions, sardines, fried oily sticks, and etc
Plus we use rice to make porridge
With Mi Goreng, but hold the porridge.
Quick oats with cold water, eaten fast before it goes soggy đ
1 cup oats
1 cup coconut
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
150g butter
4tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp baking soda
combine dry ingredients.
melt butter and golden syrup till almost boiling.
add baking soda to froth mixture, add to dry ingredients and mix.
spoon onto baking sheet and bake at 160C until golden.
Uncle tobys oats
Bega or Pics Natrual Peanut butter
Vanlilla extract
Skim milk
Optional pinch of salt.
Making porridge with water should be a crime against humanity. Cows milk only.
Equal parts quick oats and full cream milk.
3 chopped dates.
Microwave 2 min.
Sprinkle Cinnamon
8 Chopped Cashews
4 halves Walnuts chopped
2 teaspoons pepita seeds
2 teaspoons sunflower seeds
No added sugar or salt.
May add raisins sometimes.
Occasionally I would add some more milk and protein powder and mixie/hand blend it
Can eat anytime. Salivating now đ
Ive been experimenting this winter, as oats are riding out inflation pretty well and pretty filling.
I've liked:
Chocolate Porrige:
Just boiling rolled oats and water til nicely soft, then add 1x choc coated cranberry (from the crazy nuts about life black friday deal which I regretted and have been trying to use up, impulse buy…) to each bowl which melts as it cools. Makes a nice chocolate porridge.
Fruity Porridge:
Adding some random herbal fruit tea to the cooking oats to make flavoured oats, the aging herbal tea stockpile is high from a lack of hosting events during covid.
Regular nostalgic Porridge:
A sprinkling of brown sugar and a lil milk after bowling up
If you want to live long (and prosper), have it twice a day
https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/eating-out/porridge-proves-tâŠ.
Overnight oats. Soak rolled oats with milk and honey and cinnamon and yoghurt. Add banana/fruit/nuts when serving in the morning. Easy, no need to cook. Has a nice bitey texture, not just sludge.
savoury porridge with century eggs*, ginger slices, pepper absolutely divine
*duck eggs marinated in ammonia and salt plus sand for a total of 150 days
50g rolled oats, add in milk to just cover it, chuck in some chia seeds and raisins, microwave for 1:20 mins, let it cool for like 5 mins, and it's the perfect consistency
Steel Cut Oats soaked in water with a pinch of salt, in the rice cooker on a timer to be ready for the morning. Add milk and banana, sometimes a chopped up medjool date or some honey.
Kids make quick oats. 1 cup oats 2 cups full cream milk 4 minutes microwave. Add stewed apples or canned apples or some honey.
Add quick oats and water to bowl
Microwave
Add powdered milk
If I'm feeling fancy i add Milo or honey or milk
The powdered milk is a game changer for me now nothing gets the porridge thicker and gives it a nice creamy taste
Once you start adding butter, there's no going back. Defeats the whole point of me eating it to be 'healthy' haha
Quick oats, add some craisins, water to cover, in microwave for 90 secs, stir in a spoon/scoop vanilla protein powder and oat milk.
Overnight with milk and 1 banana