Let us make our oatmeal a bit more interesting than usual. How do we do that?
Hello there! Oatmeal has been a staple in more and more kitchen now a days. Not surprisingly because it is so easy to make it. In just few minutes, you have a breakfast or snack ready for you to enjoy. You can make a sweet or a savory oatmeal depending on what you feel like. You can use any type of oats, you can add as much or less toppings. Flexibility, that’s what oatmeal gives us. No wonder a lot of people are crazy about it, including me. The proof is just right at the end of this post, you’ll see the different sweet and savory variations I made using oats.
Blogging my seem like an easy thing to do but in reality it takes a LOT of time to finish a single post. In my Take a Peek at the Behind The Scenes of Food Blogging, I shared with you my process when creating a post. Although it takes a lot of time, it gives me a lot of joy doing thing. Blogging keeps me sane 🙂 and help me balance my life between work and personal time. I love sharing recipes with you as well as my travel escapades. I had been busier lately with work and I started making my meals on the fly, you know whatever I have on hand. Something that I do not have to plan just like when creating a posts for the blog. I thought I would create a short post about this, not as elaborate as my full post but enough to give you idea on how you can make it at home. This will be easy and quick recipes that you can make in less than 30 minutes max or even 5 minutes less. We all need a short break from the kitchen, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop making delicious meals to nourish us.
Today’s Quick & Easy Recipe
So how do we make oatmeal a bit more interesting? You probably already know the answer, but I’ll say it anyway. Toppings! Toppings is the way to go if you want to turn your ordinary plain oatmeal to something fun, interesting and delicious. Toppings provides texture, lots of them. Because the oatmeal is often creamy, adding toppings with different texture and taste makes the oatmeal taste better. There’s nothing wrong with plain oatmeal if that is what you prefer, we all have our oatmeal. For me I like my oatmeal cook slowly and longer. I prefer a medium thick consistency, never a blob of thick clumps of oats. Last but not the least, I love toppings and mix-in in my oatmeal.
So today we are dressing up our oatmeal with a simple fried plantain. If you haven’t tried using plantain banana, this could be a good time to try it. Plantain banana are different from regular banana. They are harder, and they need to be cooked before serving. Unlike the tea dry to eat banana, this one requires cooking. You can boil them and snack on them, you can cook it with soup and stew and you can fry it. The hard texture of plantain makes it suitable for cooking, it can withstand higher heat and longer cooking time than ready to eat banana.
For this oatmeal, I simply coat the plantain in mixture of brown sugar, salt and cinnamon. Then I sprayed the pan with oil, you can also use butter to fry the banana. You only need a small amount of oil, just enough to touch the surface of the banana to start caramelization. I made extra caramel sauce to drizzle over the banana. You can use store night, you can make your own. I did a simple caramelized sugar. Just sugar, water and pinch of salt. Cook in low medium heat, do NOT stir it. Wait for the sugar to turn golden brown and simply tilt the pan to move it. That’s it! Drizzle on top of the oatmeal top with fried banana. Delish!
Quinoa adds texture, but not a must
One unusual addition to this oatmeal is the addition of quinoa. Yes, quinoa! I think adding quinoa makes the oatmeal more filling and amazing texture. I used a mixed of black and white quinoa you can use either one. I added uncooked quinoa because the oatmeal I used requires longer cooking time. If you only need to cook your oatmeal 10 minutes, then add cooked quinoa. I used a small amount because I want to have more oatmeal but you can make it 50/50. This is a small batch recipe for 1 or 2 so adding uncooked quinoa makes more sense, otherwise it would be weird cooking separately juts 2 tablespoons of quinoa. At the very least, cook 1/4 cup and use the rest for salad or soup.
Small Batch Fried Banana Oatmeal (Cozy 1‑Bowl Breakfast Treat)
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Pour water in a pan. Add the oatmeal and quinoa. Cook for about 15 minutes, stir from time to time. Add milk, raisins, sugar and cinnamon and continue cooking for about 15 – 20 minutes until you get the consistency that you prefer.
- Cook the Banana: Coat the banana with brown sugar. Spray the pan with oil or butter. Cook the banana until soft.
- Serve. Transfer the oatmeal in a bowl and top with the fried Banana.
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