Baked Oats ( TikTok Inspired): An interesting recipe to enjoy oats as a breakfast!
Oats is a complex carbohydrate that is famed worldwide for its impressive nutritional profile. Oats are highly nutritious and considered as one of the best options for healthy breakfast.
Benefits of eating oats as a breakfast
Eating oats in breakfast offers many health benefits. Such as:
- It is incredibly nutritious and rich source of minerals, vitamins and anti-oxidants. Oats is also high in fiber and low in calories. It is one of the nutrient dense foods that you can enjoy in breakfast.
- Because of high fiber content, oats help in keeping you full for longer, that’s why consider as a great option for those who want to lose weight.
- Oats is also considered as a best breakfast option for diabetic people. It helps in blood sugar management and Improve insulin sensitivity.
- Oats can lower the risk of heart diseases by lowering the LDL and total cholesterol level.
- Studies have shown that oats bran help in reliving constipation and good for your digestive system.
Because of these amazing health benefits, many people all across the globe prefer oats as their favorite breakfast option. Oatmeal (oats porridge) and masala vegetable oats (savory oats) are two well-known oats breakfast recipes that many people enjoy as a routine breakfast.
But when it comes to serving these traditional oats breakfast recipes to kids, then it can become a big struggle for parents. Many kids did not like taste or texture of oats and they called it “Mushy” and “tasteless”.
I had a similar story like many other parents who want to include oats in their kid’s everyday diet but could not find a way to solve the taste and texture problem that kids make while eating traditional oats recipes.
Few days ago, I was surfing YouTube for healthy breakfast recipes and randomly, an interesting (and TIkTOk viral) recipe has caught my attention. The name of that recipe is “Baked oats”. After watching few videos, I learnt the various interesting versions of “baked oats” recipe and loved the fact that it is best way to include oats in kids’ diet.
What is “baked oats”? How can you make different versions by changing some of the ingredients? And what are some reasons you should give recipe a try as kid’s breakfast? Read the post to know more!
What is baked oats?
As the name suggested it is tasty, healthy oats recipe that has a cake like texture. It is made by adding some amazing healthy ingredients like oats, eggs and banana. You can make it super healthy by adding nuts and fruits of your choice.
We can create plenty of interesting versions of baked oats recipe but so far, I had made two versions (chocolate and vanilla) for my girls. And they liked it so much.
Here is a step-by-step method to make these versions.
Baked Oats ( TikTok Inspired): An interesting recipe to enjoy oats in breakfast!
Vanilla flavor baked oats
Ingredients
This ingredient list is for making 1 serving of baked oats. Increase the quantity of ingredients accordingly, if you want to make more.
- Oats: 1 cup classic oats, (take classic oats only for this recipe. avoid using steel cut oats as they did not give a proper texture to final recipe. You can also use oats flour instead of whole oats. For making oats flour, you just need to grind the oats in a blender for 1-3 minutes.)
- Egg: 1
- Banana: 1 (optional)
- Salt: a pinch
- Baking powder: 1 TSP
- Vanilla Essence: 1 TSP
- Natural sweetener: honey, maple syrup or coconut sugar 2 TSP or as per your taste.
- Topping of your choice: Greek yogurt, peanut butter, chocolate chips etc.
Method
First take all the ingredients in blender and blend it for 1-3 minutes. Blending time may vary slightly as per speed of your blender.
Now, take a ramekins or baking tray (I had taken 8-inch tray) and grease it properly by using cooking spray.
Now, pour the mixture evenly on it. On top layer, you can add some fancy sprinkles or chocolate chips to add extra fun for kids.
Next, bake it for 15-20 minutes. Before taking out, check it by inserting a knife or toothpick. If nothing comes out, that it means your oats are baked properly.
Serve it by adding toppings of your choice.
Chocolate flavor baked oats
Ingredients
- Oats -1 cup
- Egg -1
- Banana-1 (optional)
- Sweetener of your choice- Maple syrup, honey or coconut sugar as per your taste (I had taken 3 TSP coconut sugar as sweetener)
- Baking powder- 1 TSP
- Salt- a pinch
- Cacao powder- ATBSP
- Dark chocolate chips- handful
Method
- Follow the same method as we did in Vanilla flavor baked oats. First, take all the ingredients and blend this uniformly in a blender for few minutes.
- Instead of vanilla essence, use cacao powder and do not forget to handful dark chocolate chips to give this a perfect chocolate flavor.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes. Before taking out, check it by inserting a knife or toothpick. If nothing comes out, that it means your chocolate flavor oats are baked properly.
- Add toppings of your choice and enjoy this as a healthy-tasty breakfast or snack.
Reasons why should you give this recipe a try!
- This is a healthy but tasty recipe. The ingredients are wholesome and healthy. This recipe is one of the best ways to include oats in our kid’s diet.
- The process is easy and un-complicated. Even kids can learn this recipe easily with proper adult super vision.
- You can make it ahead. You can store this in an air-tight container for up to 1 week and can serve this as a cake like breakfast for whole week.
- You can be experimental with this recipe and can make many interesting versions of your choice by adding different fruits, nuts or other flavors.
Watch this YouTube video to learn some amazing flavors of “Baked oats” recipe.
Hope you liked this recipe.
This is all for now.
Did you had tried baked oats before? What was your experience with it? Please share with me!
Read also: https://surbhiprapanna.com/2021/10/11/two-easy-navratri-vrat-recipes-for-you-your-family/
30 Comments
Harjeet Kaur
What an amazing recipe and presentation, Surbhi. It looks so tempting. I am surely going to try it out. Wish I could eat it from the picture itself actually.
Alpana Deo
Awesome Surbhi. We all eat oats except my daughter. I try to include it in the form of chillas and dosas. Thank you for these recipes. Now I know a perfect way of including oats into her diet.
Roma
I am an oats lover too buddy and this recipe looks absolutely droolworthy I am sure going to give it a try
Imagemakeover
This is such a healthy post. Never tried oats in baking but now I will. Does it change too much of taste? All the pics are really tempting especially anything chocolate makes me drool.
aditi
Easy to cook anc healthy to eat. Loved the recipes and more than that the presentation ?
Pictures are tempting me to bake oats this fun way!
Sweetannu
We all are getting more conscious to add oats to our diet. I really liked your oats recipe emmensely. Let me try and make it soon. Will post a picture on my Instagram and tag you too.
Indiacafe24
Aha what a yummy type recipe you shared dear this time. I feel like making it right away, without wasting any more time.
energeticreads
I love having oats in breakfast. You have shared an amazing recipe to enjoy them. Would definitely try the chocolate flavored one.
Sindhu Vinod Narayan
Oats is a regular breakfast option at home. We love having it for breakfast. This recipe is a must try I love the idea thay it’s like a cake
Ruchie
This really seems so tempting recipe and I really like to give a try, though I am not a fan of oats but something new and healthy always great!!
Humaira
These TikTok Baked Oats are just like eating cake for breakfast. So easy to make with a handful of healthy ingredients! Definitely try it.
Rakhi Jayashankar
Wow. i have only tried oats porridge and oats puttu. Baked oats is a new experience. Will surely try this as a snack for my kids.
Sumita Mallick
Really nice one. Oats, porridge are healthy option and cake out of that is really good for kids specially. Thanks for sharing amazing recipes
Anjali
Sometimes my kids don’t like to eat oats now after reading your post, I know how to give them …this seems a tempting recipe. The best part is that it’s so easy to make with healthy ingredients. Thanks for sharing this delicious post.
rakshanagaraj
Wow this is surely an interesting way of eating oats. Loved the way they are presented as well. I think I will try this as it is such a healthy breakfast. Thank you for letting us know about this recipe.
MeenalSonal
Baking Oats is new to me and good to know that it can be healthy breakfast option else having Oats is a task for me too leave the kids :)) So happy to the detailed viral recipe of Oats.
Jeannine
Great recipe! I’ll be trying it out this Christmas holiday with the kids. They’ll surely love it and I’ll have my peace of mind as well of making sure to give them something healthy at the same time a treat to get their sugar fix!
Rahul Prabhakar
OMG … I loved your recipe of Vanilla flavor baked oats. I am not an oats person but I’m tempted to try the recipe now. Keep sharing such recipes on a regular basis.
Sandy N Vyjay
Oats are so healthy and full of fibre. We have inculcated the use of oats in our diets. Oats are great for brakfast. I am really liking the baked oats recipes, and they promise a healthy and tasty start to the day.
momcaptureslife
Wow this is an interesting way of eating oats. I think I will try this as it is such a healthy breakfast. Thank you for letting us know about this recipe.
Indiacafe24
So Far I tried Oats dipped in milk and Oats Poha. But after reading your Oats Baking post I am keen to go for it real soon. Thank you
Meenakshi Kaur
It looks like an amazing recipe. Daily I struggle to make oats in a tasteful way. Now this is the recipe I’ll going to try. Thanks for this wonderful article.
Vaishali Sudan Sharma
I love the idea of baked oats in all. You have made the recipe look easy and the images do bribe me to make some for myself.
mahekg
The recipe looks so healthy and pleasing to the eye, I surely like the idea of having baked oats for breakfast. I am trying this recipe.
Cindy Dsilva
Luckily my kids love the normal oats porridge that i make. But you have convinced me that i should give these recipes a try at least once. The vanilla one looks interesting.
Gleefulblogger
This recipe looks quite different from the regular oats ideas, I am sure kids will love this one too. Will share with my mom too who has recently got a new oven and trying her hands at different recipes.
rakshanagaraj
Lovely recipe. A healthy and delicious one. I have still not tried this one but will do it soon so to see if I love it. Will make a very good breakfast for everyone at home.
Jhilmil D Saha
I am a huge fan of oats. I will surely try out this recipe. Sounds and looks so tasty and flavourful.
Kavita Singh
I haven’t tried this recipe before although I have been using oats in our cake batters for quite some time now. I am definitely going to try this recipe this weekend 🙂
rakhiparsai11984
Wow Surbhi this is such an interesting recipe. I have tried various oats recipes but these look really interesting and worth trying.