If you are looking for recipes with oats to enjoy this cereal in a healthy way, here you will find all kinds of recipes made with oat flakes, oatmeal, oatmeal drink and oatmeal grains.
- Recipes with oatmeal for breakfast
- Oat Porridge Recipes
- Recipes with oatmeal in flakes type muesli or granola
- Oatmeal Cookie Recipes
- Oat pancake recipes
- Recipes with oatmeal of different types of doughs
- Recipes with oatmeal for dinner
- Recipes with oatmeal for dessert
- Other recipes with oatmeal
Perhaps the most popular way to enjoy oatmeal and its benefits is by preparing a muesli or porridge (porridge) at breakfast, but there are many other ways to take advantage of this healthy cereal: in cereal bars, in delicious homemade granolas, making oatmeal cookies for breakfast or snack, in all kinds of doughs made with oatmeal or directly with flakes (even pizza doughs!), in vegetable burgers, in custard…
Of all these recipes with oatmeal you will find examples here so that you do not lack ideas. You can take oatmeal for breakfast, lunch or, why not, for dinner. Let’s go:
RECIPES WITH OATMEAL FOR BREAKFAST
Oatmeal is one of the star foods of healthy breakfasts, both for its nourishing and satiating power and for how easy and practical its flakes are. Delicious sweet or savory oatmeal breakfasts can be prepared.
The most popular are, without a doubt, the porridge and the muesli, to which we will dedicate two sections later. But if you want other options besides porridge or muesli, here are other oatmeal breakfast ideas to enjoy and get inspired.
BAKED PORRIDGE WITH VEGETABLES
Balanced salty breakfasts have many benefits: in general, they tend to satiate more and provide stable energy for the whole morning avoiding sugar peaks caused by breakfasts rich in simple sugars, which make us feel low on energy and need to snack more between meals.
This type of oatmeal breakfasts are ideal to help maintain a healthy weight. They also help to have better concentration and strengthen the hormonal balance.
For the days when we are in a hurry, we can do a batch cooking and include this recipe for baked oatmeal with vegetables. In the morning we simply cut a portion, heat it and enjoy it with a little avocado or egg for a balanced breakfast. The recipe is very versatile and we can use the vegetables we have on hand.
INGREDIENTS FOR 8 SERVINGS
- 2 cups oatmeal flakes
- 2 cups vegetable broth or vegetable drink
- 1 egg (or 1 tablespoon ground flax to make flax “egg”)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1.5 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons grated Parmesan or 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds
- 2 red peppers
- 2 garlic cloves
- 200 g Swiss chard
- 1 teaspoon herbs from Provence
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- black pepper
- salt
PREPARATION (15′ + 55′ COOKING):
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Spread a baking pan with a little oil. If you are going to use the flax egg, combine in a bowl 1 tablespoon of ground flax with 3 tablespoons of water.
- Prepare the vegetables. Cut the peppers in half, remove the seeds and cut them into pieces. Peel and chop the garlic. Remove the stem from the chard and cut off the stems and leaves.
- In a frying pan, heat the oil. Add the peppers, the stems of the chard and garlic, a pinch of salt and cook about 7 minutes. Add the herbs, black pepper, chopped chard leaves and cook about 2-3 minutes more.
- While the vegetable is being made, in a bowl mix the oatmeal flakes with the baking powder and 1.5 teaspoons of salt. Add the broth or vegetable drink and an egg or flax egg. Add the parmesan or nutritional yeast and sunflower seeds and mix well.
- Once the vegetable is ready, add the vegetable and mix.
- Pour the mixture into the pan and bake for about 35-40 minutes until it is compact and begins to brown.
OTHER RECIPES WITH OATMEAL FOR BREAKFAST
- Oatmeal and yogurt granola tarts: A recipe with oatmeal that is prepared in 10 minutes, with ingredients such as oat flakes, almond flour, butter or coconut oil, Greek or coconut yogurt and fruit for the filling, among others. A granola base is made and filled with yogurt and fruits.
- Oatmeal cookies for breakfast style “muesli”: Oatmeal cookies are a classic, very practical for breakfast. Below you will find a whole section dedicated to oatmeal cookies, but here we give you a version designed especially for breakfast: some ‘muesli’ style cookies. They are made with oat flakes, peanut butter, nuts, bananas and dried fruit. A delight!
- Oatmeal and vegetable omelette: This is the proposal of a breakfast with salty oatmeal. It is prepared with oat flakes, eggs and vegetable milk, although it can be made in a vegan version, mixing chickpea flour with the same amount of vegetable milk. In our recipe, the chosen vegetables are spinach, red pepper and mushrooms, but you can put others.
- Easy oatmeal bread for your toast: Making an oatmeal dough you can get an ideal bread to make you healthy breakfast toast. You only need oatmeal, plain yogurt, baking powder, psyllium, chia seeds and salt. It is prepared in 10 minutes and baked 45.
OAT PORRIDGE RECIPES
Oat porridge is the most traditional way to take this highly nutritious cereal. After having a good bowl of porridge for breakfast, we ensure a good start to the day and the necessary energy to continue with all daily tasks.
In order not to get bored of the usual oatmeal, we can play with different flavors and toppings. We can add fresh or dried fruit, compotes, nuts and different seeds, cocoa, spices such as cinnamon, ginger, vanilla or even prepare the porridge in salty version.
We leave you here a selection of oat porridge recipes so you can choose the version that you like the most or simply that you can vary:
BASIC OATMEAL PORRIDGE
You can prepare it in three different ways: making it the night before and leaving it in the fridge overnight, the same day in the morning heating little by little or in an express version in the microwave. You have the recipe according to the method you choose here.
PORRIDGE OATMEAL “CARROT CAKE”
This original and sweet porridge of oatmeal is a healthy version of the famous carrot cake. You have below the complete recipe:
INGREDIENTS FOR 1 PERSON
- half cup of oatmeal flakes (45 grams)
- half a small carrot
- 1 cup vegetable drink
- 1 tablespoon raisins
- 1 tablespoon walnuts
- 2 tablespoons coconut yogurt
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil or ghee
- half a teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon maple or honey syrup (optional)
- a pinch of salt
PREPARATION (5′ + 10′ COOKING):
- Peel and grate the carrot. In a small pot, heat the coconut oil or ghee. Add the carrot, a pinch of salt and sauté for about 5 minutes. Add the cinnamon and give it a couple of turns in the pan.
- Add the oat flakes, vegetable drink and raisins and cook over medium-low heat until thickened, about 7-10 minutes for thick flakes and about 2-3 for thin flakes. Add more vegetable drink if necessary.
- Serve with some coconut yogurt, honey or maple syrup and nuts or other toppings to your liking.
OTHER RECIPES WITH PORRIDGE-SHAPED OATS
- Different porridge recipes, with a porridge of oatmeal and peanut butter, with banana and cocoa, and an original Asian-style porrigde of oatmeal reminiscent of ramen soups, with its vegetable broth, its tofu, its mushrooms and a little miso, but with oat flakes instead of noodles.
- Porridge with grape and coconut, in which oat flakes are soaked with almond milk and supplemented with grapes and grated coconut.
RECIPES WITH OATMEAL IN FLAKES TYPE MUESLI OR GRANOLA
Next to porridge, muesli is another of the most popular oatmeal breakfasts. Although mueslis can be made with other cereals, oat flakes are the usual base.
Granolas, a baked and crispy version of muesli, are also a great breakfast option and ideal to take away in a tupperware and snack between meals or add to a yogurt.
BIRCHER MUESLI RECIPE
The classic muesli par excellence is prepared with oat flakes, freshly grated apple and nuts. The recipe was developed by a doctor and healthy eating pioneer named Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner. From the original recipe you can make infinite variations.
See this recipe with oatmeal from the original Bircher muesli here, in a version with milk and its vegan alternative.
RECIPES WITH OAT MUESLI
Muesli does not necessarily have to be enjoyed in a bowl of milk or vegetable drink. You can also use it as a base for other original recipes. Here are a few:
- Muesli cake with carrot: A soft cake based on oatmeal, raisin, almond and carrot flakes that is accompanied by a yogurt sauce.
- Crunchy muesli bars: The oatmeal flakes are combined in this recipe with apple and nuts to make delicious bars ideal for a quick breakfast or to snack between meals.
- Muesli muffins: This is the fluffy version of muesli, muffins with oat and corn flakes, wholemeal flour, raisins, nuts and yogurt.
See the step-by-step recipes of these muesli-based oatmeal recipes here.
GRANOLA RECIPES WITH OAT FLAKES
All these granolas are prepared with oat flakes:
- Basic granola recipe: Simply mixing thick oat flakes, raisins, maple or agave syrup, olive or coconut oil and cinnamon, you can prepare a granola that is ready in 20-22 minutes of oven.
- Oat granola with nuts: It is made the same as the previous one but adding pecans, hazelnuts and almonds and giving it more oven time.
- Oatmeal and chocolate granola: With cocoa and chocolate and vanilla aroma. The chocolate has to be melted to make the mixture before taking to the oven.
- Oat granola with orange, coconut and tahini: A granola with citrus aroma and an extra mineral thanks to the tahini, with the addition of toasted sesame seeds so that it does not lose the crunchy touch.
OATMEAL COOKIE RECIPES
Adding oatmeal to your homemade cookies, or making homemade cookies in which oatmeal is the main ingredient, is a delicious and easy way to make our cookies healthier and incorporate this cereal into our day to day.
In addition, cookies are a classic of baking. Every self-respecting cook should have at least a couple of proven recipes in their repertoire.
We leave you a selection of oatmeal cookies so you can choose the variation that you like the most:
OATMEAL AND GINGER ‘DIGESTIVE’ BISCUITS
These cookies are crunchy digestive type cookies with a hint of ginger. If ginger isn’t your thing, just skip it and make cookies without it, with a little vanilla for example. One way or another, they are delicious.
INGREDIENTS FOR 14 COOKIES
- 100 g oat flakes
- 140 g whole wheat flour
- 100 g whole cane sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ginger
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 100 g butter or coconut oil
- 4 tablespoons milk or vegetable drink
- a pinch of salt
PREPARATION (15′ + 15′ COOKING):
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
- Crush the oat flakes until you get a fine flour.
- In a bowl, combine the oatmeal, flour, sugar, salt, spices and baking powder. Mix well.
- Add the butter and vegetable drink and mix well. You should get a moldable dough. If it is too sticky, add a couple of tablespoons of flour.
- With the help of a tablespoon, take some of the dough and place in the palm of your hand. Make a ball, place on the tray, crush it and shape it into a cookie. Repeat with the rest of the dough. To decorate cookies, you can make a couple of holes with a fork.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes.
OTHER RECIPES WITH COOKIE OATMEAL
- Oatmeal and apple cookies: With oatmeal flakes you can make soft and delicious cookies, biscuit on the inside and crispy on the outside, with two ingredients that combine wonderfully: apples and nuts. These also contain whole wheat flour and cane sugar.
- Oatmeal and banana cookies: The banana allows to sweeten the cookies to reduce or avoid the use of other sweeteners. This is what we have done in these banana and oatmeal cookies in which the sweetener is optional and which only require 15 minutes of oven.
- Oatmeal cookies with chocolate and coconut: They are made with fine oat flakes and spelt flour or rice by adding cocoa powder, chocolate chips and grated coconut.
- Gluten-free oatmeal cookies “cookie” style: If you choose certified gluten-free oats you can make gluten-free cookies using chickpea flour as well. These cookies are an example and can be made with raisins or chocolate chips.
OAT PANCAKE RECIPES
Pancakes are the perfect breakfast for mornings when we are not in a hurry. There’s nothing better than savoring a plate of pancakes on a Sunday morning and a cup of tea or coffee reading a book or just chatting at the table. But they can also be very appetizing as a healthy snack.
These three oatmeal pancake recipes will delight you:
OATMEAL AND BANANA PANCAKES
Banana pancakes have become very popular in recent years. With ingredients as basic as banana, eggs, milk or vegetable drink, baking yeast, cinnamon, olive oil and salt, in addition to oat flakes, you can prepare healthy oatmeal pancakes in just 20 minutes.
See the recipe for oatmeal and banana pancakes step by step here.
VEGAN OATMEAL PANCAKES
If you prefer to do without ingredients of animal origin such as milk or eggs, you can prepare your oatmeal pancakes with vegetable milk and vegetable egg substitutes easily and intuitively. From a basic recipe, you can also make many variants and, why not, make gluten-free oatmeal pancakes.
See the vegan oatmeal pancake recipe here.
OATMEAL PANCAKES WITH CHIA
We can make our oatmeal pancakes even more nutritious by adding seeds, which will also give them another texture.
These oat pancakes, made with eggs, have chia seeds, rich in omega-3.
INGREDIENTS FOR 4 PEOPLE (8 PNAMETS)
- 1 1/2 cups oatmeal flakes
- 1 cup vegetable drink or milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon chia seeds
- 1.5 tablespoons coconut oil or melted butter
- 1.5 teaspoon baking powder
- a pinch of cinnamon
- a pinch of salt
- Frying oil
PREPARATION (10′ + 15′ COOKING):
- In a blender, crush the oat flakes until you get a fine flour. Add the seeds, salt, cinnamon and baking powder and mix well.
- In a bowl, beat the vegetable drink with the eggs and oil. Add the dry mixture and mix well. Let stand 5 minutes.
- In a skillet, heat a little oil. With a spoon pour a quarter cup of the dough in the center and shape it into a pancake. Cook until set, about 2 minutes and turn it over. Kitchen on the other hand. Cook until the dough is finished.
- Serve with toppings to your liking – fresh fruit, nut butter, yogurt, quark, maple syrup, jam…
RECIPES WITH OATMEAL OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOUGHS
With oatmeal you can prepare various types of dough and thus make bread, pizza, cookies, biscuits … or doughs for elaborations such as hamburgers, croquettes, falafels …
Here is a selection of oatmeal recipes in which oatmeal is the basis of the dough:
OATMEAL AND APPLE CAKE
A healthy version of the classic cake. Easy to make, with pantry ingredients, idea for weekend snacks and breakfasts.
INGREDIENTS FOR 1 CAKE
- 90 g fine oat flakes
- 175 ml milk or vegetable drink
- 200 g whole sugar
- 120 ml olive oil mild flavor
- 2 eggs or 2 tablespoons ground flax
- 140 g whole wheat flour
- 3 tablespoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- a pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons walnuts (optional)
- 2 tablespoons raisins (optional)
PREPARATION (15′ + 35′ COOKING + 20′ REST):
- Pour the oatmeal flakes into a bowl, pour the milk or vegetable drink and let it absorb for about 20 minutes.
- After this time, start with the cake. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Spread a cake pan with a little oil.
- If you are going to use the flax egg, in a small bowl mix 2 tablespoons of ground flax with 6 tablespoons of water.
- Peel the apples, cut the center and cut them into small cubes.
- In a bowl beat the sugar with the oil. Crack the eggs and add to the mixture or add the flax egg and mix well.
- In another bowl mix the flour with baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Add the oat flakes and the wet mixture, pour into the flour and mix well.
- Add the apples, nuts and raisins and pour into a mold.
- Bake for about 35 minutes.
OTHER RECIPES WITH OAT DOUGHS
- Oat bread with seeds and nuts: To make this oatmeal bread you do not need to knead or any special apparatus. It is prepared in 15 minutes, let stand and then bake for 1 hour. In addition to oat flakes it has almonds and sunflower seeds, pumpkin, flax, chia and psyllium. It’s super nutritious!
- Oatmeal cake with orange and chocolate: The baked oats are very fluffy. In this cake are used both flakes and oatmeal, olive oil, panela, orange juice and chocolate chips, among other ingredients.
- Oat and pumpkin burgers with sunflower seeds: In these vegetable burgers the proteins are put by oats and seeds. The pumpkin gives them juiciness, and the aromatic herbs and soy sauce, a lot of flavors.
- Express oatmeal pizza: With oatmeal we can prepare a pizza dough that does not require kneading or fermentation. You will only need oat flakes, golden flax, oil, water and salt.
- Oatmeal cookies: The cookie dough looks great with oatmeal. We have already included a selection of oatmeal cookie recipes before. Here we give you a recipe for base oatmeal dough so you can make all the variations you want.
RECIPES WITH OATMEAL FOR DINNER
Oatmeal is attributed relaxing properties, making it an ideal ingredient to use at dinner. Porridges are a great option, but oatmeal can be included in many other dinner recipes.
BAKED BROCCOLI AND OATMEAL CROQUETTES
A light and comforting dinner at the same time. These croquettes are prepared with a balanced mixture of oatmeal, eggs and vegetables instead of béchamel and, in addition, they are made in the oven, to make them lighter. Children like them very much.
INGREDIENTS FOR 4 PEOPLE
- 60 g fine oat flakes
- 350 g broccoli sprigs (can be frozen)
- 1 egg or 1 tablespoon ground flax
- 75 g mozzarella or other well-melted cheese or grated vegan cheese
- 2 tablespoons almond flour
- half a teaspoon oregano or Italian herbal blend
- half a teaspoon garlic powder
- half a teaspoon onion powder
- half a teaspoon of salt
PREPARATION (15′ + 25′ COOKING):
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and line a baking sheet with vegetable paper or spread with a little oil.
- If you are going to use the flax egg, in a small bowl mix the flax with 3 tablespoons of water.
- Take a pot of water, add salt and cook the broccoli for about 3 minutes. Drain and pass through cold water. Dry thoroughly. You can also steam broccoli.
- Chop the broccoli and pour into a bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
- Place about 1.5 tablespoons of the dough in your hands, shape it into kibble and place on the tray.
- Bake for about 20 minutes until crispy.
OTHER OATMEAL RECIPES FOR DINNER
- Sautéed vegetables with oatmeal and vinaigrette: You can make yourself a delicious dinner with oatmeal grains, sautéed seasonal vegetables and a cashew vinaigrette. You have the recipe in this selection of light dinners that favor digestion.
- Zucchini, oatmeal and bean burgers: Zucchini helps you give juiciness to veggie burgers. In these it is combined with a base of beans and oatmeal flakes and will serve you to make a light but satiating dinner. You will find the recipe in this selection of dinners with zucchini.
- Oatmeal baskets au gratin: With oat flakes and oat milk you can prepare a baking base in a muffin pan and make some tasty vegetable baskets. You will find the recipe in this selection of dinners to sleep well.
- Oatmeal and romanesco cream with green mango: Vegetable creams, if completed with cereal or legume, can be an almost complete dinner. In this selection of vegetable creams, we propose a vegetable cream such as romanesco cabbage and carrot with oat flakes and the exotic touch of green mango.
RECIPES WITH OATMEAL FOR DESSERT
Oats, both in flakes and in the form of flour, or oat milk, give a lot of play when making desserts. We have already seen some desserts with oatmeal in the section of doughs with oatmeal, but here you will find other options:
- Oat custard and coconut sugar: To make these custards is used oat drink, which is thickened with kuzu and sweetened with coconut sugar. You can see the recipe here. They are suitable for vegans.
- Apple and blueberry crumble: With oatmeal flakes and almost any fruit you can make a delicious crumble. Apple is a classic. We propose one that combines apple with blueberries. You have the recipe in this selection of dessert recipes with fruit.
- Apricot crumble: Another example of crumble, this time with apricots, and is prepared in less than 15 minutes. Check the recipe in this selection of healthy and fast dessert recipes.
- Oat-based pumpkin cheesecake: We can make the cookie base of our cheesecakes with oatmeal. We propose this cheesecake recipe, suitable for vegans, which is also made with a pumpkin cream. You will find it in this selection of desserts with vegetables.
- Protein-rich Blondie: With beans and oatmeal flakes you can prepare a blonde version of the protein-rich, vegan brownie. You have the recipe in this selection of sweet recipes with legumes.
OTHER RECIPES WITH OATMEAL
Here are some other oatmeal recipe ideas to include on your weekly menu:
- Overnight oats with golden flax, peanut butter and fruit: Oatmeal flakes are left to soak in the fridge overnight (hence the name “overnight”) and taken softly in the morning for breakfast.
- Oatmeal bars with chia: Some bars with oatmeal, chia and almond to have on hand when you need to snack between meals.
- Vegan oat-based béchamel: A healthy alternative to the traditional béchamel and very easy to make that will serve you to make croquettes, cannelloni, lasagna and vegetables au gratin.
